Pumpkintown USA

3 years old and 3 feet tall!

One of our favorite fall traditions is taking a trip to Pumpkintown USA. If you live in Connecticut and you have small kids, Pumpkintown is a must! Pumpkintown USA is a kid-friendly fall attraction open from the end of September through Halloween each year. It features a “town” filled with little buildings and pumpkin people that kids can run around and interact with. There are games, food (the best cider donuts!), a hay bale maze, a pumpkin moon bounce, etc.

There are even pumpkin animals!

The cost is very affordable: $4 per person on the weekends, and only $1 on weekdays! There is an additional fee for a great mile-long hay ride through the woods. The hay ride features really creative displays of pumpkin people, and there are pumpkin animals and birds placed in the woods along the way for kids to spot. Pumpkintown donates part of your admission fee to a breast cancer charity.

If you want to visit the Pumpkintown website, click here.

Val and Brooklyn take aim at a pumpkin man in the pond. They missed 😦 Rich and Alex tried next. They missed too 😦

Brooklyn sat really still while a lady painted a spider web on her face.

While Brooklyn was getting her face painted, Alex made faces at herself in the mirror.

Brooklyn picked out mini painted pumpkins for her and her sister. She decided on a cookie monster pumpkin for herself, and a Doc McStuffins pumpkin for Alex.

So many choices!!

When it was time to eat, Alex tried to get her hands on a chili dog! The rest of us ate cider donuts. They are the best cider donuts around! They also sell apple fritters, but I’m always so tempted by the donuts that I don’t end up getting one. Maybe next year…

Look at this dude eyeballing Brooklyn’s cider donut!! She does NOT look too happy about it. She gets her love of sweets from her grandmother and her auntie (that’d be me), so I know that she will put a hurtin on this guy if he touches that donut…

We ended the day with the hay ride through the woods. Brooklyn spotted each pumpkin critter and turkey planted in the woods. We were really impressed at how many creative pumpkin people displays they set up for the hay ride. One of our favorites was a pumpkin man who we got a peek of as he was sitting in an outhouse! We also liked all the displays that had moving features, like a gold mine with a sluice box with real running water through it, or the blacksmith shop with a real fire burning. It was definitely entertaining for the whole family.

If you live in CT, get to Pumpkintown before the season is over!

~Sharon