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Halloween Harbor

  • Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden 1000 Richmond Terrace Staten Island, NY, 10301 United States (map)
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Get your fill of trick-or-treating, spooky movies, arts & crafts, mad science, and a costume contest at this year’s Halloween Harbor! Tickets allow access to all activities, museums, and attractions for the entire day. Visit the ticketing link for more information and the schedule of events. Meet us in Shinbone Alley for a family-friendly, bone-rattling great time!

This event is a partnership among Art Lab, the Noble Maritime Collection, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, the Staten Island Children’s Museum, and the Staten Island Museum.  We are grateful to NYS Assemblymember Matthew Titone for his generous support of this event.

Admission: $8 in advance | $10 at the door
Buy tickets here: halloweenharbor18.bpt.me

Halloween Harbor Activities

INDOOR ACTIVITIES  (Must have event wristband to participate in listed activities.)

SUPER SCIENCE: THE WORMS CRAWL IN…
11 AM-1 PM, Staten Island Museum, Building A, classroom.  For families with children ages 7-13. Space is limited, first come, first served.
Explore the anatomy and lifecycles of flatworms, roundworms and segmented worms. Come equipped with some courage and curiosity as participants meet tapeworms, nematodes, leeches, sandworms, and earthworms.

CREATE YOUR MONSTER WORKSHOP
12-2 PM, Art Lab, Room B, for all ages.
Let your inner witches and goblins out to play Make Your Monster creative workshop for children of all ages.

MOVIE MASH
12-5 PM, Art Lab Gallery, for all ages.
Stop by Art Lab to enjoy some not so scary Halloween movies for the whole family.

HALLOWEEN ART WORKSHOP
1-4 PM, Staten Island Children’s Museum, 2nd Floor, for ages 0-10.

TRICKS AND TREATS AT THE STATEN ISLAND MUSEUM
1-4 PM, Staten Island Museum, Bldg A, Classroom and Auditorium, for families of all ages.
Come to the museum for drop-in workshops and activities throughout the building featuring Tricks and Treats! Get silly with make-and-take gag gifts and Impractical Jokers related props sure to get a laugh. Work up an appetite and stimulate your imagination with edible crafts tasty (and safe) enough to eat!

HALLOWEEN MURAL
1:30-4 PM, Art Lab Hallway, for all ages.
Turn our hallway into a Halloween mural. We’ll supply lots of fun materials to create a Halloween scene on our hallway walls. Designated areas only.

SPOOKY SCIENCE
2-2:30 PM, Staten Island Children’s Museum, for ages 2-10.

DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR
3-4PM, Staten Island Children’s Museum, 1st Floor Portia’s Playhouse, Ages 0-12.
Come listen to spooky stories, make a craft, and then dance with your friends with a real life Drag Queen.

DRACULA’S VOYAGE
4-5 PM, Noble Maritime Collection, Bldg D, for all ages.
Featuring Staten Island OutLOUD and marionettes by Going Up Productions to enact Dracula’s arrival in England by ship.

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES (Located at Shinbone Alley. Must have event wristband to participate in listed activities.)

PUMPKIN PAINTING
11-5 PM or while supplies last, for families of all ages.
Celebrate the harvest in this fun, creative activity. Get yourself a pumpkin and decorate it with paints and your imagination.

HALLOWEEN FACE PAINTING
11-5 PM or while supplies last, for all ages.

PHOTO BOOTH
11-5 PM, for individuals and groups of all ages.
Get your photo taken in the depths of Shinbone Alley by local professional photographer Kris Johnson. The ambiance is just spooky enough to make this a Halloween to remember.

PERFORMANCE and COSTUME CONTEST WITH THE FLESH JUNKIES
2:30-4 PM, for individuals and groups of all ages.
Join us at the Shinbone Alley stage to hear the Flesh Junkies, Staten Island’s very own “Zombie Punk Cabaret.” Dare to participate in the Halloween Harbor costume contest as part of their set.

Visit Shinbone Alley between 11-5 PM for additional activities, crafts, food vendors, music with DJ Channels and Winds, and more!

Earlier Event: October 26
Gilberto Santa Rosa