Pumpkins to bring town to life in harvest festival

A table full of bright orange pumpkins decorated with an array of different coloured crafts. These include feathers, spots, googly eyes and drawings. Around the table are several children drawing on the pumpkins.South Holland District Council

Pumpkin crafts will take place during the Spalding festival as well as face painting and balloon twisting

Eleanor Maslin
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Visitors will be invited to take part in a harvest-themed fancy dress competition to celebrate a town's horticultural links.

Spalding's Pumpkin Festival, which will take place in the town centre on 4 October from 11:00 to 15:00 BST, will also include live music, pumpkin crafts and sculptures.

Additional stalls with seasonal items will add to the town's usual Saturday market and local shops will join in the autumnal celebrations in a shop window display competition.

Hall Place in Spalding town centre will be closed to traffic from 07:00 until 17:00 during the event.

A stage with a woman dressed as Cinderella in a long blue gown and blonde wig with a bob singing into a microphone. Behind her is a orange and yellow sign saying Spalding Pumpkin Festival with decorations of autumn leaves. Children are stood at the front of the stage watching her perform and you can see a few high street shops to the side.South Holland District Council

Spalding Pumpkin Festival includes live music

Councillor Gary Taylor, portfolio holder for community development, said: "As we all know the event is a highlight in Spalding's calendar and I'm really pleased we are able to celebrate our long history of horticulture and harvest, whilst bringing our local businesses and the wider community together for a day of food, fun and festivity."

Spalding Pumpkin Festival activities

  • Live music on the Pumpkin Stage, alongside a special performance from the Polka Dots Pantomime

  • Harvest-themed fancy dress competition, with prizes on offer for the best costumes

  • Appearances from woodland fairy stilt walker and Princess Anna

  • Pumpkin crafts and decorating, face painting, balloon modelling and the inflatable autumn globe and shadow box

  • Pumpkin sculptures

  • Additional stalls at Spalding's Saturday market

  • Shop window display competition

  • Spalding library crafts and activities from 10:00 until 12:00 and Broad Street Methodist Church 10:00 to 13:00 and coffee morning 10:00 until 12:00

  • Witch and Spiritual Market at Polka Dot Studios

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