ALL WEEKEND
Scarium of the Pacific - Long Beach
Aquarium of the Pacific puts an aquatic spin on Halloween fun, with a costume contest, magic shows, and underwater pumpkin carving.

Descanso Gardens Harvest Festival - LaCanada-Flintridge
The beautiful Descanso Gardens provide a backdrop to this fall festival, with costume contests, crafts, interactive storytime, and live performances.

Western Heritage Weekend at Underwood Farms - Moorpark
Get out your bullwhip! The Wild West meets Halloween as the Underwood Family Farms Harvest Festival continues.

Calabasas Pumpkin Festival - Calabasas
Rides and activities are included in the admission price to this Festival at Juan Bautista de Anza Park, featuring music, carnival games, crafts, rides, a pumpkin patch, a car show, and nature shows.

Halloween Enchanted Fairytale Interactive Theater - Santa Monica
Parents, you’re getting in on the act, too, at this interactive storytelling, sing-a-long-ing, crafting, face-painting, theater games-ing workshop, that culminates with the enactment of a fairytale.

Fall Festival - Fairfax
It’s a farm fair smack in the middle of the city! Head on over to the Farmers' Market for a petting zoo, carnival games, Kit's Treehouse Workshop (with American Girl Place), a pumpkin patch, and a strolling scarecrow.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 20

Kinetic Sculpture Race - Ventura
Part mechanical, part artistic, 100% creative, these people-powered vehicles are ingenious and just plain fun to watch.

Tiny Tot Trek - Newbury Park
Here’s one for the littles! Families can join a ranger for a fun-filled hike with toddlers (ages 4 years and under) while learning about nature.

Mar Vista Community Fall Festival - Mar Vista
In addition to the requisite crafts, bouncers, and activities, Mar Vista Recreation Center’s Community Fall Festival features a Green Zone with info on sustainable living, games, recycling and compost bins, a reusable bag share station, and a water refill station.

Stories & Songs with Uncle Ruthie  - West LA
Radio show host Uncle Ruthie brings songs and storytelling fun to Children's Book World.

Skateboard Art Workshop - Pasadena
MakeSpace ARTS helps kids use their own ideas to design custom skateboards.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 21

Autumn Sea Fair - San Pedro
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium celebrates the sea with ocean-related activities for every age, including face-painting, a marine-life puppet show, and a giant origami demonstration. Everyone can join in the fun searching for buried treasure or competing in a sand sculpture competition.

Sherman Oaks Street Fair - Sherman Oaks
The “Biggest Block Party in LA” runs along Ventura Boulevard. The fun includes include interactive exhibits, games, live music and community performers, a pet expo, and a fashion show.

Three Tales by Hans Christian Andersen - Topanga
This week's presentation is a mash-up of three Hans Christian Andersen stories: The Swineherd, The Princess and the Pea, and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Kidspace Halloween Hunt - Pasadena
Kidspace gives a nod to Easter this Halloween, sending kids scrambling throughout the museum in search of Halloween eggs and mini pumpkins.

Western Heritage Family Day: California's Designing Women - Griffith Park
The Autry pays tribute to female greats in the field of design, and gives kids a chance to do some designing of their own.

Pacific Palisades Village Fair - Pacific Palisades
The whole town turns out for the Village Fair, which features mini train rides, carnival games, colossal slide, face painting, rock climbing wall, petting zoo, live performances, a pie baking contest, and a pie eating contest.

The Jewish County Fair - Malibu
The Shalom Institute's Fall Harvest Festival - aka the Jewish County Fair - brings together musicians, a petting zoo, carnival games, a zip line, climbing wall, archery, moonbounces, hatchet throwing, cider making, outdoor cooking, nature crafts, arts and crafts, pita making, tree planting, nature hikes, and face painting.

Free Family Festival - Pasadena
They say before you can know a man you have to walk a mile in his shoes. I don’t know about the walking part, but you can take a look at the shoes (and the clothes and maybe the hats) of Asian Culture in  this free festival at the Pacific Asia Museum.

Super Hero Cape Craft Workshop - Multiple Locations
Kids can make their own personalized super hero capes at this workshop at Pottery Barn Kids. Hmm, did someone say “Halloween costume"?

Now as to that giveaway…

Everybody’s favorite bear is back! Winnie the Pooh stars with his friends from the Hundred Acre Woods in a few delightful new shorts you can view online. Just like there are times when all you need is a smackerel of honey, sometimes a bite-sized video tells the story best. These sweet little tidbits bring to life familiar Poohisms. (My favorite is 'It's so much friendlier with two!')

 To celebrate, Disney is giving one lucky Mommy Poppins reader a collection of products featuring Pooh and his friends. The prize package includes a Bounce Bounce Tigger bouncing plush toy, The Tigger Movie Bounce-A-Rrrific Special Edition Blu-ray/DVD, the Winnie the Pooh Storybook Collection, Pooh and Friends Cotton Swabs and a downloadable Puzzle Book App: Winnie the Pooh: What's a Bear to do?  The ARV of the prize pack is $90.

The only mandatory entry is that you be a Facebook follower. (You know you wanna. All the cool kids are doing it. All 500 of them). Simply fill out the Rafflecopter form below. Giveaway ends at 9pm PST on Monday, October 22.

As always, there are many more activities listed on our daily events calendar. Whatever you choose to do this weekend, we hope you have a wonderful time! (And good luck on the giveaway!)

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