Although the weather may not always feel like it, fall is certainly on the way. While your kids are getting a fresh start to a new school year, we are setting up our home-grown mums, getting ready to harvest our pumpkins, and setting up for our fall weekends, along with our weekday school group field trips! This is among one of our favorite times of the year here on our grounds!
Our 2026 story for the weekday tours, for sale in the store, and theme for our scarecrow scavenger hunt is “Otis and the Scarecrow,” by Loren Long! It is a wonderful story that teaches about being a friend and thinking about how others feel.
Besides this as a theme story, we are always excited to have our wagon rides for you to pick out your favorite pumpkin, corn maze, train ride, fun games, and welcome back the animals in Kid’s Village!
Our fall kickoff weekend is September 26/27th and runs through the end of October!
We can’t wait to see all the kids and families visit soon!
All Your Friends at Ebert’s Greenhouse Village
Here are some fun no-carve ideas to do this fall with your kids at home! Get creative and try a hand at your favorite idea!
NO CARVE PUMPKIN FUN
*Use items you have in your art box such as stickers, buttons, pipe cleaners, felt, construction paper or fabric scraps, raffia, yarn, or any other items that you can get creative with to use with craft glue. Your kids will have fun with any idea that they come up with, creating animals, cute monsters, scarecrows, little bugs, a pumpkin person, etc.
*Use colorful craft paint to paint patterns such as checkers, stripes, their favorite color pumpkin, or a primary color/complimentary color theme. For an extra special pumpkin, add glitter while the paint is still wet, and when dried, spray with a clear acrylic coat to help their design last longer!
*Use Mod Podge and tissue paper to make shape-designed pumpkins. Cut squares, circles, hearts, diamonds, etc. out of various colored tissue paper to glue on with Mod Podge! This is a fun way to learn more about shapes, as well as to make the pumpkins turn out super cute! Check out this blog we found for pictures: https://www.younghouselove.com/another-hands-on-pumpkin-project/
