Wicker Park Boo-Palooza Guide

(Photo Credit: wickerpark.org)

Bring the family and your pooch out to Wicker Park for a little Halloween fun. Boo-Palooza, on October 25th, will transform Wicker Park Garden on Damen Avenue in to a Halloween Festival ground.

Wicker Park Garden
1425 N Damen
www.wickerpark.org
Saturday, October 25, 2014 – 10:00am to 2:00pm
No Admission Charge

Boo-Palooza 2014 will feature nearly 60 organizations working together to present a memorable event for all ages in Wicker Park. Some of the numerous activities include costume parades with prizes and games for children, families, adults and dogs. You can also check out performances, a pumpkin patch and pumpkin decorating, dancing, a maze, midway of games and hooping. There will also be fun old-fashioned activities like find the needle in the straw stack and Bobbing for Apples and Ghost Bingo. Activity tables will also be displayed throughout presented by community organizations and businesses from all over Chicagoland.

Prizes Include
• Children's Costume Contest
• Children's Dentistry – Bucktown Wicker Park
• Kind – Healthy Snacks

Family Costume Contest
• Carhartt
• Sitter City/Date Night Now
• Kind – Healthy Snacks

Adult Costume Contest
• Chicago Christmas Crawl
• Kind – Healthy Snacks
• Umami Restaurant Group

Dog Costume Contest
• Doggie Style Pet Shop

Performances & Activities:
• 9:45 am – 10:30 Magic Boat Puppet Theater
• 10:30am – 11:00am JLC Mad Hatters
• 11:00am – 1pm Cirques Experience (Performance and Audience Participation)
• 11:45am – 12:30pm Magic Boat Puppet Theater
• 1:30pm– A.N. Pritzker Dancers choreographed by Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble
• Collaboration On Going Theatrical Experience – Dance Battles 10am – 2pm
• Bingo inside the field house – 12Noon – 1pm
• On-Going Activity Area: 10am – 2pm

Special Activity Area: – 10am – 2pm
• Pumpkin Patch and Pumpkin Decorating or until Pumpkins Run out
• Apple Bobbing and Apple on a String
• Find the Needle in the Straw Stack
• Midway of Games
• Navigate the Maze
• Dog Game Area