![]() This year’s design will feature our very own Alice the Elephant! Can’t draw? Don’t worry, the pumpkin comes prepared with the carving design pre-drawn for you!Ĭlass includes your pumpkin, carving tool kit, an LED Bulb, light refreshments and front-of-line VIP access to the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular!ĬELEBRATJNG 7' '? ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOOįrighteningly fun activities await you at Spooky Zoo! This year enjoy TWO fun-filled days of trick-or-treating on Saturday, Join a master pumpkin carver for an all-inclusive carving experience. ![]() Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular: Carving with the Masters Class Join us for an evening of fun for scouts, prospective scouts, friends, and family! Not a scout? Come join us anyway! Visit the zoo after hours for animal encounters, keeper chats and a Halloween dance party! Admission includes access to Faces of the Rainforest and other specially illuminated zoo exhibits PLUS skip the line with V.I.P. Scout Family Fun Night at the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular All tickets must be purchased online in advance. Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular is open rain or shine. Ed to The Walking Dead, this year's Spectacular has something for everyone! Presented by Citizens, share in the nostalgia of your favorite tv shows, artistically carved on thousands of pumpkins. From Mr. Put down the remote, shut off the streaming and bask in the glow of over 5,000 illuminated pumpkins at the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular, celebrating 75 years of television. Members just show your digital membership card and a form of ID to enter.Īll activities are weather permitting and while supplies last. This event is included with your daytime Zoo admission and FREE for RWPZoo members. Kids and adults alike can enjoy a day at the Zoo along with free trick-or-treat bags, fun fall animal enrichments and more! The whole thing takes about 30 minutes.**ZOO HOURS: Our daily hours change starting October 11th to 10am - 4pm, Thursday through Monday (Closed Tuesday & Wednesday).įrighteningly fun activities await you at Spooky Zoo! This year enjoy TWO fun-filled days of trick-or-treating on Saturday, October 22 & October 29 (rain dates: Sunday, October 23 & 30). It would be nice if you could do it again, and switch up drivers, but this is an in-and-out affair. There are foam pumpkins hanging from the trees, and pumpkin vignettes loaded with dozens of real pumpkins on both sides of the car, so you can’t possibly see everything - you’d have to turn the car around and retrace your route for that. You’ll have your headlights off and drive no faster than 3 miles per hour as you wind past the pumpkin displays. The one downside about a drive-by pumpkin peek is that it goes by too fast. All the pumpkins used are from New England farms, he notes, including “the biggest pumpkins in New England, from the Topsfield Fair.” For a full-time pumpkin carver, that’s like doing a concert with Beyoncé. “People see us carving up a 1,600-pound pumpkin, and they just love it,” Curll says. ![]() You can walk through the path and see the artists doing their work, and get a closer, unhurried look at the crazy coterie of jack-o’-lanterns. “Our show is free during the day (with zoo admission) when you come through the zoo,” Ignagni says. Barry Chin/Globe StaffĪnd here’s another tip: If you want to see the carvers at work, come to the zoo during the day. “Start to finish, it took about 26 hours,” she says.Ī tribute to Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna at the Jack-o'-Lantern Spectacular. “This year, I carved a 500-pound pumpkin, featuring Norman Rockwell’s painting ‘Do Unto Others.’” Her version features 22 faces from the original image, and an additional face, that of John Reckner, the “Lord of the Gourd,” who launched the Jack-o’-Lantern Spectacular in 1988. “That’s what we call pumpkins carved for the love of pumpkin carving, or a pumpkin that we’ve spent a crazy amount of time perfecting,” Koutsoukounis explains. That doesn’t stop the carvers from pouring the love into their “show stoppers,” however. (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Metro, Reporter: Dan McGowan, Topic: 01RIPUMPKINS Barry Chin/Globe Staff Because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, visitors must remain in their cars. ![]() ![]() Spectators take in the scene during a drive-thru only viewing of the annual Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular at Roger Williams Park. Providence, RI - Pictured are the likeness of Rock N' Roll Hall of Famers Bruce Springsteen and Bono of U2. ![]()
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