198. Kringle's Inventionasium

Located in Tower City Center (right next to the Higbee building)

Opens for the 2010 season on Friday, November 25 at 10am

This fun filled hands on experience is perfect for young children.

Children are invited by Kris Kringle himself to visit the inner workings of his Inventionasium, assist his personal team of inventors in the testing and development of future toy creations ; even meet the Master Toy Maker himself!  Each child gets a lab coat to wear while working in the Inventionasium. As honored guests kids are given hands-on access to 4 of Mr. Kringle’s Inventionasium Departments.  Kids have a chance to explore each area and engage in interactive hands-on activities, including the opportunity to invent their own toy!

More Info!

Location:

Tower City Center

230 W. Huron Road 

Cleveland, OH 44113

197. Nela Park Christmas Lights

A tradition since 1925 is the fabulous Nela Park holiday lighting display in December through New Year's Day. Since 1970, the Nela Park holiday lighting extravaganza has stretched several blocks along Noble Road. In earlier years, the public could enter Nela Park to view the display, which was at that time, featured inside the grounds.

Location:
Nela Park

East Cleveland, OH 44112

195. The Polar Express

November 17 – December 20, 2011

7 – 9 p.m.

**There will be 2 Matinees offered this year!**

December 17 & 18th

10:00 am to 12 pm

Tickets to CVSR Members will go on sale at 6 am on September 7^th.

Tickets will then be released to the General Public on October 3rd at 6 a.m.

Tickets are sold on-line ONLY.  See information below on how to make your purchase.

HURRY Dates are already sold out!

Tickets start at $38.

Location:

Boston Mills Boarding Station

7100 Riverview Road
Brecksville, OH 44141

196. Hello Holidays at the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center

FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AGES 1 AND UP

Friday, November 25
10 - 11:30 a.m.

Avoid the “Black Friday” buying frenzy and kick off the winter holiday season with us! Enjoy some of the Center’s favorite animals and seasonal activities.

Instructors: Christine Barnett & Maggie Watson

Fee: $5 per person ages 1 and up


More Info!

Location:
28728 Wolf Road
Cleveland, OH 44140

194. Light Up Lakewood

Holiday Lighting Ceremony and Holiday Kickoff on closed Detroit Avenue.  Enjoy the holiday parade, followed by music, trolley rides, ice carver, jugglers, holiday characters, Santa, Kids crafts, Twigby-Style Kids Shop, Gingerbread House Tour and other activities.  5:30-8 p.m.  Cost:  FREE. See downtownlakewood for more info!

Location  Downtown Lakewood (14701 Detroit Avenue)

191. Pumpkin Patch in the Pool

Splash your way around the pool to find your pumpkin floating in the water!  There will also be pool games, contests and treats, so register early!

Saturday, October 15
3:30pm-5:30pm

$6/pre-registration
$8/registration at the door


Pumpkins may be limited so register early!


More Info!

Location:
Lakewood High School

14100 Franklin Boulevard Lakewood, OH 44107

156. Underwater Egg Hunt

Saturday, April 23, 2011
11:00am-1:00pm

$4

Join us for our second annual underwater egg hunt!  Bring your swimsuits, towels, goggles, and baskets, and see how many eggs you can round up!  Eggs can be redeemed for prizes after the hunt.  We will also have other great games, including water basketball shoot out, inner tube races, cannonball contest and more!  Pre-registration is strongly encouraged! 


 More Info and REGISTRATION!


Location:
Lakewood High School

14100 Franklin Boulevard

Lakewood, OH 44107

139. Trains of Puritas Nursery

Free and Open to Public Viewing!!
November 26 - December 31, 2010

Puritas Nursery is proud to present, for the eighth consecutive year, truly unique holiday model train displays that capture the spirit of the season and bring out the kid in all of us.

Date: November 26 through December 31, 2010
Time: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. • Weekends, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Note! We will close at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.

MORE INFO!

Location:
Puritas Nursery
19201 Puritas Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44135.

137. Holiday CircleFest

Sunday Dec 5th
The Rink at Wade Oval: 1:00-7:00 p.m.
Free horse-drawn carriage rides (Wade Oval): 1:00-5:00 p.m.

Activities: 1:00-5:30 p.m.

Winter Lights Lantern Procession on Wade Oval: 5:30 p.m.

Start off the holiday season with a trip to the 17th Annual Holiday CircleFest. It’s the perfect way to experience University Circle, free of charge. From 1:00-5:30 p.m., more than 20 of University Circle’s renowned museums, gardens, galleries, churches, and schools open their doors and offer an afternoon of activities, food, and shopping.

Visitors can look forward to a gingerbread house competition, live music performances, trees with themed decorations, a singing Santa, and even live reindeer. This year, Wade Oval becomes Cleveland’s Central Park with free horse-drawn carriage rides. Or, for a slightly warmer mode of transportation, UCI will provide free shuttle buses to escort guests to the different activity sites. From 5:30-6:00 p.m., the activities conclude with The Cleveland Museum of Art’s dramatic Winter Lights Lantern Procession on Wade Oval.

Perhaps the most highly anticipated activity of Holiday CircleFest is The Rink at Wade Oval. Admission to The Rink is free, and skate rentals are only $3. The Rink will be open from 1:00-7:00 p.m. After visitors have finished skating, they can warm up with a cup of coffee or hot chocolate from the newly opened Wade Oval Information Center.


TONS of INFO!

Location:
Wade Oval, University Circle
Cleveland, Ohio

136. Christmas at Stearns Homestead

Christmas at the Farm is December 4 and 5 from 12 to 4pm. Santa will be here and you can have your picture taken with him for a fee. Come and see the horses and rabbits inside the barn. Animal feed will also be for sale. We will be having chili, bakery and Christmas items for sale. The houses will be decorated for ...the Christmas season. There will be free punch and cookies inside the Gibbs house.

Check out their website HERE!

Location:
6975 Ridge Rd
Parma, OH 44134
440-845-9770

Image Provided By:  Stearns Farm

 

132. Winterfest - The Lighting of the Tree in Public Square

On November 27^th the annual lighting of the Christmas tree is going to take place so bring your kiddos down to Public Square to partake in the festivities.  It’s a free event with music and hot chocolate.  It starts at 6 PM so don’t be late because it can get packed.

Directions 
Public Square Cleveland Ohio

131. Candy Cane Christmas

 Every Friday and Saturday December 1-236-9pm Candy Cane Christmas is an ALL INDOOR Activity! For $4.00 you can make a toy with Santa and take it home!Live animal nativity scene! with Reindeer!Model Trains and Miniature Towns! 

$4.00 per child (Ages 1 - 10 years) $3.00 per child (Ages 11 - 99 years) Activities - 50 cents - $1.00

 MORE INFO!

Spring Mist Farm 

691 Pearl Road

Brunswick, Ohio 44212

128. The Polar Express

2010 The Polar Express

Polar Express will be offered November 17 – December 19, 2010

7 – 9 p.m.

Departures will be available from CVSR's Rockside Station in Independence, Akron Northside Station, and the Canton Lincoln Highway Station (though dates from Canton are limited)

Tickets are $35 per person, ages 1 and up. If your child is under 1, and can be held on your lap, you do not need to purchase a ticket for them.

Departure Times
Boarding starts at 6:00 p.m. All trains leave promptly at 7:00 p.m. and the ride is about a 2-hour roundtrip. Trains will return around 9:00 p.m.

Dress
Children are encouraged to wear their pajamas – many adults choose to wear theirs, too!


MORE INFO!

Location:
Boston Mills Boarding Station
7100 Riverview Road
Brecksville, OH 44141

127. Berea Holiday Walk Schedule

The Downtown Berea Business Network welcomes you to Berea's historic shopping area for its annual Holiday Walk. Bring the kids and grandkids for a fun filled afternoon with activities in each store. Enjoy a ride on "Lolly the Trolley", visit with Snow White and Cinderella, hear holiday stories, talk with Santa Claus, plus much, much more.  Share the Joy of Giving, donate a new unwrapped toy or non-perishable food.


Saturday, November 13 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm

More Info

Location:
Downtown Berea

124. Fall Fun Fest.

10-6 Monday- Saturday 11-5 Sunday Oct 17, 23-24, 30-31 Fall Fun Fest.
FUN FEST EXTENDED! OPEN DAILY (weather permitting ) THRU OCT. 31st

Enjoy inflatable's, a straw maze, a hay maze, a hay ride, pumpkins by the ton, cornstalks. Pay once and play all day!

 More Info!

Dean's Greenhouse 
3984 Porter Road
Westlake, OH

121. Halloween Trick or Treat Times

Akron - October 30, 5pm - 7pm


Amherst Township - October 31, 6pm - 730pm


Ashtabula - October 31, 5pm - 7pm


Avon - October 31, 6pm - 730pm


Avon Lake - October 31, 6pm - 730pm


Bay Village - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Beachwood - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Bedford - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Bedford Heights - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Bentleyville - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Berea - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Bratenahl - October 30, 3pm-5pm, Kid's Halloween celebration at the Community Center for residents and guests


Brecksville - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Brooklyn - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Brooklyn Heights - TBA


Brook Park - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Brunswick - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Chagrin Falls- October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Chardon - October 30 - 530pm - 730pm


Cleveland - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Cleveland Heights - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Cuyahoga Heights - October 31, 6pm - 730pm


East Cleveland - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Eastlake - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Elyria - October 29, 6pm - 730pm


Euclid - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Fairview Park - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Garfield Heights - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Geneva - October 31, 4pm - 6pm


Grafton - October 31, 6pm - 730pm


Highland Heights - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Hudson - no citywide time; times are set by individual neighborhoods


Independence - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Lakewood - October 31 - 6pm - 8pm


Linndale - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Lorain - October 31, 6pm - 730pm


Lyndhurst - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Macedonia - October 31, 3-8pm


Madison - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Maple Heights - October 31, 6pm - 9pm


Mayfield Village - October 31, 6pm - 830pm


Medina - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Mentor - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Mentor-on-the-Lake - October 29, Halloween party 630pm-8pm at Lake Elementary School by resident children up to grade 5 accompanied by an adult. Tickets avl in advance at Lake Elem. and Mentor-on-Lake City Hall.


Moreland Hills - TBA


New Philadelphia - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


North Olmsted - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


North Ridgeville - October 31, 6pm - 730pm


Oakwood - October 30, 6pm - 8pm


Oberlin - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Orange Village - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Painesville - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Parma - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Parma Heights - TBA


Pepper Pike - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Richmond Heights - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Rocky River - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Sagamore Hills - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Seven Hills - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Shaker Heights - October 31, 6pm - 730pm


Sheffield Village - October 31, 530pm - 7pm


Solon - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


South Euclid - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


South Russell - TBA


Strongsville - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Twinsburg - TBA


University Heights - TBA


Valley View - TBA


Vermilion - TBA


Wadsworth - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Walton Hills - no trick or treating


Westlake - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Wickliffe - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Willoughby - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Willoughby Hills - October 31, 6pm - 8pm


Willowick - TBA


Woodmere - No trick or treating

119. Corn & Pumpkin Harvest Weekend at Lake Farmpark

Experience the harvest season at the annual Corn & Pumpkin Harvest Weekend.

October 9 & 10, 2010
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

The festival will be filled with activities that highlight the sights, smells, and tastes of various corn and pumpkin harvest activities!

• Harvest and decorate a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch
• Three-acre corn maze
• Hay maze
• Cornhusk dolls
• Antique harvest demonstrations
• Apple cider and apple butter sampling
• Swifty's Farm (Nation's largest indoor life-size balloon art exhibit!)
• Roping with Cowboy Ben
• Pony rides ($3)
• More!

Admission:

• General, $6
• Ages 60+, $5
• Youth 2 - 11, $4
• Younger than 2, Free
• Farmpark members, Free 

ALL THE INFO!

Location:
8800 Euclid Chardon Rd.
Kirtland, OH 44094
440-256-2122 

118. Fall Hayrides at Chalet Recreation Area

* full disclosure, picture is of my son on a hayride last year :) darn it he's cute!

Fall Hayrides (cost includes hayride and entertainment)
Adults $7.50
Children (ages 3 - 11) $5.50
Children (2 and under) Free - must sit on an adult lap for the hayrides.
Saturdays throughout October
Saturday Nights (October 3, 10, 17, 24) • 6 – 10 p.m.
Sundays throughout October
Sunday Afternoons (October 4, 11, 18, 25) • Noon – 4 p.m.


The public, tractor-drawn hayrides are offered on a first-come, first
–served basis, and leave approximately every half hour.  All hayrides are ADA accessible.
Enjoy hayrides, square dancing for all ages, a hay maze, and a face-painting & balloon-twisting clown. And, square dancing can be enjoyed by all, too!  On Sundays, bonus activities include pumpkin carving demonstrations and additional entertainment. 


MORE INFO!


Location:
16200 Valley Pkwy.
Strongsville, OH‎  44136
(440) 572-9990‎

110. Boo at the Zoo

Boo at the Zoo 
October 21-24 & 28-31, 2010  6 - 9 p.m

Ticket Prices

• Ages 2 and up:
  
  
  • $6 in August
  • $7 in September
  • $8 in October
• Children under age 2 are free and do not require a ticket.

Designed for a younger audience, Boo offers eight nights of scare-free fun.
Boo at the Zoo is a neighborhood of safe Halloween entertainment, with a spooky delight on every corner including animals on exhibit each evening. Happy haunts include: The Creepy Crawly Critter Animal Show, the Monster Mash Dance Party, the Not-So-Haunted Greenhouse, the Jack-O-Lantern Express Train Ride, the Halloween Hay Maze, magic shows, jugglers, stiltwalkers, musical entertainment and much more. Each child receives a complimentary treat bag. Kids and adults are encouraged to wear fun (not scary) costumes. The only scary part of this event is missing out... buy your tickets today!

Get tickets early this event sells OUT!!!

MORE INFO

Location:

3900 Wildlife Way

Cleveland, OH 44109

Get Directions

(216) 661-6500

 

7. Underwater Egg Hunt

This sounds like fun!

1st Annual
Underwater Egg Hunt
Saturday, April 3 11:30am-1:00pm

Join Lakewood Recreation for our 1st Annual Underwater Egg Hunt! Bring your suits, towels, goggles, and baskets and see how many eggs you can round up! Eggs can be redeemed for prizes!
Children will be broken up into age groups for hunt. Other activities to be offered including cannon ball competition, water basketball free throw challenge, and more!
Cost is only $3.50, and preregistration is encouraged by calling 529-4081.
Location: LHS Pool
www.lakewoodrecreation.com
 

More Info Here!

Location:
Lakewood High School

14100 Franklin Boulevard

Lakewood, OH 44107

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