Don't see the images? Be sure to add newsletters@parenthood.com to your address book or your safe senders list. This will ensure that you will continue to receive relevant email communications from Parenthood.com. Click here to unsubscribe.   Home  |   Digital Magazines   |   Directories   |   Calendar   |   Community   |   Contact Us   |   Advertising   |   Shop Happy Halloween! It’s that giddy, ghoulish holiday full of wicked, sugar-high fun. Because of that, it’s also one of those weeks that’s absolutely packed with activities. You can find more Halloween and harvest-themed activities on our website at www.coloradoparent.com. Just click on a date on the calendar in the left-hand corner. Before planning all this week’s fun, take a moment to enter the contest below for a special screening of DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL. After that, check online (and at your newsstand) for the November issue of Colorado Parent magazine with some great articles to keep you informed and entertained all month long. - Courtney Drake-McDonough, Associate Editor Did You Know? You can connect with local parents! Join our FREE online community. Do you Facebook? Click on the Facebook logo to join our group or just become a fan! We Twitter, too! Click on the Twitter logo and let's get talking! E-newsletter exclusive: Win a family four-pack to see DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL As a Colorado Parent e-newsletter subscriber, you have a special opportunity to win tickets to the advance screening of DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL, starring Jim Carrey, in 3D! The classic Charles Dickens story has been re-envisioned by Disney into a multi-sensory, 3D thrill ride. With Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge, Gary Oldman as the faithful clerk and Colin Firth as Scrooge’s cheery nephew, you know the movie is going to be something special. WHEN: Enter to win by October 29 at midnight. You will be notified by October 30 if you are a winner. The screening is on November 2. WHERE: A local area theater (winners will be notified of the time and place). COST: Free to enter and free to attend the screening if you are a winner. CONTACT: To enter to win four tickets, text the word PARENT plus your ZIP CODE to 43549 (example: PARENT 80246). Visit Disney.com/ChristmasCarol for more information about the film. Witch way is witch Have fun getting completely lost in the last days of Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield’s CornMaze. The dinosaur-themed maze features winding pathways created by 12-foot-tall stalks of corn, two 15-foot-tall illuminated bridges overlooking the maze and a mini-maze for younger kids. Dig for fossils in the dinosaur discovery area, take a horse or pony ride and see a display of carved pumpkins. WHEN: Through Saturday, October 31. Friday, 4-10pm; Saturday, 10am-10pm and Sunday, 12pm-10pm. WHERE: Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, 8500 Deer Creek Canyon Rd., Littleton. COST: $10 adults ($8 members, students and seniors). $5 ages 4-12 ($4 member children). Free under 3. Some activities are an additional charge. CONTACT: 303-973-3705. www.botanicgardens.org. Down on the farm It’s a true seasonal experience to pick out the perfect pumpkin right off the farm it was grown on. You can still do just that plus a lot more at the Anderson Farms Fall Fest 2009. In addition to wagon rides to the pumpkin patch, there’s also a 30-acre corn maze, mine car and barrel train rides, gem stone mining and animals to see. On November 1 ONLY, get one free pumpkin or squash with Fall Fest admission. WHEN: Through November 1st, open daily at 10am. Select weekends open at 9am (check website for details). WHERE: Anderson Farms, 6728 County Road 3¼, Erie. COST: Children 3 and under, free. Ages 4-12, $8.00. Ages 13-59, $10.00. Seniors 60+, $8.00. CONTACT: 303-828-5210. www.andersonfarms.com. Trick-or-Treat for the wee ones Get your little goblins, superheroes and fairies ready to travel through Pumpkin Hill and down Cider Lane. Trick or Treat Street at the Children’s Museum provides an adventure full of yummy treats and fun surprises. Try your luck at the monster carnival, hear stories about little critters, make arts and crafts projects to take home, see theater, music and dance performances and meet roaming costumed characters. WHEN: Thursday and Friday, October 29-30, 9am-8pm. Saturday, October 31, 10am-8pm. WHERE: The Children’s Museum of Denver, I-25 and 23rd Ave. COST: Outside activities are free. General admission prices for inside activities ($7.50 ages 2-59, $5.50 age 1, free under age 1). $5 parking for non-members. CONTACT: 303-433-7444. www.mychildsmuseum.org. At least you’ll be warm Join one of the most unique races in town at the 6th annual Denver Gorilla Run, hosted by The Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund. The 5.6k fun run, walk, ride, rollerblade or skateboard race around the City of Denver raises funds for the international charity working in central Africa for the protection of the highly endangered mountain gorilla. Everyone who takes part wears a full gorilla costume (provided by the event)! The event is also hoping to break the Guinness World Record for most people in one place wearing gorilla suits. WHEN: Saturday, October 31, 8am registration opens. Race starts at 11am. WHERE: Start and finish line is at Wynkoop Brewing Company, 18th and Wynkoop, Denver. COST: $99.95 adult gorilla, $50.00 little gorilla (includes gorilla suit which you can keep). $50.00 returning adult gorilla, $35.00 returning little gorilla. Hurry to register: when they run out of suits, they cap the number of runners. Donations will be accepted instead. CONTACT: www.denvergorillarun.com.   ››› Send to Friend .:. Our Directory :. All Categories :. Arts & Entertainment :. Camps & Summer Programs :. Childcare :. Education & Instruction :. Health & Wellness :. Jobs & Careers :. Maternity & Newborn :. Parties & Entertainers Time to get wild You don’t even have to go door-to-door for some Halloween Fun at Trick-or-Treat Off the Street at The Wildlife Experience. There’ll be candy stations, scary stories, creepy crawly crafts and lots of other ghoulish surprises. WHEN: Saturday, October 31, 9am-7pm. WHERE: The Wildlife Experience, 10035 S. Peoria, Parker. COST: Included with general admission, $9 adult, $6 ages 3-12, $8 age 65+, free under age 3. CONTACT: 720-488-3300. www.thewildlifeexperience.org. A murder mystery: what fun! Here’s a clever way to introduce kids to the instruments that make up an orchestra. The Littleton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jurgen de Lemos, music director, presents a Children’s Halloween Concert, inspired by the book, The Composer is Dead, written by Nathaniel Stookey, based on the book by well known children’s author, Lemony Snicket. The perpetrator is probably somewhere in the orchestra and the story takes this unique opportunity to spotlight different instruments, using Snicket’s wry humor. Also featured on the program will be some young violin-playing witches performing spooky music along with the orchestra. The orchestra musicians will all be in costume too. WHEN: Saturday, October 31, 2:30pm. WHERE: Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. COST: Free. CONTACT: www.littletonsymphony.org.   ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER: You are receiving this newsletter because you have subscribed on Parenthood.com. If this issue was forwarded to you and you would like to begin receiving a copy of your own, click here to subscribe online. Click here to unsubscribe. About Parenthood  | Contact Us  |  Privacy Notice  |  Advertiser Agreement  |  Terms of Use  |  Contests & Promotions  |  Baby Names Copyright © 2008 Dominion Enterprises. All Rights Reserved.