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Scarecrow Making
Sundays, October 2 & 9, 2 - 4 pm
Session I: 2 - 3 pm & Session II: 3 - 4 pm
Bring your family to our 7th annual scarecrow making program and create a life-sized scarecrow! Your creation will be exhibited and entered in our scarecrow contest
at Harvest Festival, October 15 & 16. You can then take your scarecrow home to decorate the lawn for Halloween. Although some materials are provided, families are encouraged to bring clothing or accessories to help with their creation. One scarecrow per family. Supplies are limited to 12 families per session, pre-registration
is recommended due to popularity. Participating families must agree to leave the scarecrow for the Harvest Festival and pick it up the week after the Festival.
Members: $5/family | Non-Members: $5/family plus gate admission |
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Fall Break Out Day: Fabulous Fibers
Monday, October 3, 11 am - 3 pm
No school? No problem! Join us for a day of special programs and self-guided activities for all ages. Get wild about wool and fawn over flax as we celebrate National Wool Week. Learn about the farm animals that we can get fibers from as you meet our goats, sheep, alpacas and llamas. Try your hand at washing and carding wool, practice dying wool, and create other crafts. Trek a llama and meet other animals that have body coverings other than fur. We'll celebrate the end of the day with our favorite treat over the campfire, S'mores!
Members: Free | Non-Members: Free with gate admission |
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Astronomy Nights: Passport to Space: Capturing Space: The OSIRIS-Rex Mission
Friday, October 14, 7 pm
Head to the Observatory to explore the night sky, planets, stars, and more! Start by enjoying a presentation on Passport to Space: Capturing Space: The OSIRIS-Rex Mission, followed by a visit to view the night sky through our 22-inch research telescope. The presentation portion of the program will be held rain or shine. Viewing hours are weather permitting. Please call 203-977-6537 for weather updates in regards to telescope viewing. This program is suitable for ages 5 and over. Location: Behind the Heckscher Farm, enter from Scofieldtown Road. GPS users enter - 151 Scofieldtown Road.
Members: Free | Non-Members: Adults $5, Children (5-17) $3 |
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Outdoor Adventures: Slimy, Scaly,
Creepy, Crawly
Friday, October 28, 6 - 7:30 pm
Get into the Halloween spirit by meeting some super slimy, scaly, and crawly critters! We'll discover if animals such as snakes, spiders, toads, and cockroaches are truly creepy and icky, or if they just look different! Meet some of our live teaching animals up close, touch Connecticut's longest snake, and even hold one of our tarantulas, if you dare!
We'll end our evening adventure with a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach race, where the winner will take home a fun prize!
Limited enrollment. Recommended for ages 5 and up. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required. Please call 203.977.6521 to register. All programs meet at the Overbrook Nature Center building.
Members: $5/person | Non-Members: $8/person |
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Astronomy Nights: Fall Constellations Friday, October 28, 7 pm
Head to the Observatory to explore the night sky, planets, stars, and more! Start by enjoying a presentation on Fall Constellations, followed by a visit to view the night sky through our 22-inch research telescope. The presentation portion of the program will be held rain or shine. Viewing hours are weather permitting. Please call 203-977-6537 for weather updates in regards to telescope viewing. This program is suitable for ages 5 and over. Location: Behind the Heckscher Farm, enter from Scofieldtown Road. GPS users enter - 151 Scofieldtown Road.
Members: Free | Non-Members: Adults $5, Children (5-17) $3 |
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Trick or Treat on Heckscher Farm
Sunday, October 30, 1 - 3 pm
Don your Halloween costume and head up to Heckscher Farm to trick-or-treat with your favorite farm friends! Make your first stop at the otter pond to get your first clue. Follow the clues to find all six trick-or-treat stations. Then, stop by Heckscher WILD! for Ick Fest to get slimy with our slime table, visit live reptiles and bugs, and create crafts around some of our favorite Halloween critters.
Members: Free | Non-Members: Free with gate admission |
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Ick Fest
Sunday, October 30, 1 - 4 pm
Celebrate all things creepy and crawly at our annual Ick Fest. After trick-or-treating on the Farm, stop by Heckscher WILD! to visit our snakes, tarantulas, lizards, worms, and other animals! Explore our slime table, make crafts featuring bats and spiders and more!
Members: Free | Non-Members: Free with gate admission |
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Fall Break Out Day: Election on the Farm
Tuesday, November 8, 11 am - 3 pm
Vote for your favorite farm animal during our annual Election on the Farm! Will our guinea hogs take the vote or be edged out by Dakota the Clydesdale? Perhaps our new baby goats? The ballot box is open until 3 pm, so make your vote count! Have a chance to meet and shake "hooves" with some of the candidates, try self-guided crafts, scavenger hunts, and more. Join us for hayrides from 11 am - 1 pm (weather permitting). You'll also get
a chance to "Vote Local" with a local ice cream tasting from 2:30 - 3 pm. A complete schedule of events will be available on our website closer to the event.
Members: Free | Non-Members: Free with gate admission
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Astronomy Nights: Billions & Billions & Billions: an Explanation of Stars
Friday, November 18, 7 pm
Head to the Observatory to explore the night sky, planets, stars, and more! Start by enjoying a presentation on Billions & Billions & Billions: an Explanation of Stars, followed by a visit to view the night sky through our 22-inch research telescope. The presentation portion of the program will be held rain or shine. Viewing hours are weather permitting. Please call 203-977-6537 for weather updates in regards to telescope viewing. This program is suitable for ages 5 and over. Location: Behind the Heckscher Farm, enter from Scofieldtown Road. GPS users enter - 151 Scofieldtown Road.
Members: Free | Non-Members: Adults $5, Children (5-17) $3 |
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A BILLION BRICKS 4: LEGO® Super Heroes in Gotham November 19 - February 5
Skylines and superheroes! Bring the whole family to our popular annual "A Billion Bricks" exhibition and be awed by five famous architectural landmarks made completely out of LEGO® bricks. The team from ILUGNY will recreate a fantasy Gotham City — featuring some of the most iconic buildings in New York City. LEGO® trains, trams, and subways will travel over, under and around a totally new LEGO landscape where superheroes will save the day!
LEGO® is a trademark belonging to LEGO Systems A/S and is used throughout the exhibition with this understanding. We thank them for allowing the use of the term within our educational context. |
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