Enormous thanks to everyone that made it out to Spooky Town at Steve Cox Memorial Park on Saturday, October 25th from 2-5pm!

White Center Teen Program staff and volunteers had a blast bringing the 2025 Halloween Carnival back to the community. Families played carnival games, made arts and crafts, took the “Spooky Town Underground Tour” in the basement of the Historic WC Fieldhouse, enjoyed concessions (Courtesy of Dub Sea Fish Sticks), picked up pumpkins (Courtesy of KCP Greenhouse) trunk or treated with Eazy Duz it Car Club Seattle, and snapped photos at several step and repeat displays.

The 2025 fall programs and events leading up to the Carnival were also a smashing (pumpkin) success! Favorite activities included:

• Paint with Paz
• Glow in the Dark Volleyball
• Batty Bingo
• Halloween Jeopardy with your host, Ridwan
• Pumpkin Carving
• Spooky Saturday Sack Lunch
• Fieldtrip to the King County Greenhouse to harvest Pumpkins
• Spooky Town Slime Factory
• 20+ Volunteer events to build and paint Spooky Town!

PUMPKIN CONTEST WINNERS

Thank you to each and every one of you that contributed your artistic talents to the 2025 Spooky Town patch! You all demonstrated great creativity and vision, and we were blown away by all the clever entries. Thank you also to everyone that helped out with the judging!

2025 Spooky Town Pumpkin Adult Winners

1st – Brandy

2nd – Ridwan

3rd – Allison

2025 Spooky Town Pumpkin Teen Winners

1st -Cayden

2nd – Sarah

3rd – Ramsey

2025 SPOOKY TOWN COLORING SHEETS

Thank you also to the 75+ WCTP Teen Volunteers for all the hard work running carnival games, decorating Spooky Town, mixing dozens of batches of slime, and creating the Official 2025 Spooky Town color sheets:

ENORMOUS GRATITUDE TO EVERYONE THAT MADE SPOOKY TOWN POSSIBLE

• White Center’s own favorite Mural Artist, Paz hosted a family friendly painting workshops!
• Parks own Greenhouse Program provided pumpkins this year (with several grown by the teens from starts in the WCTP Learning Garden.)
• WCCDA tabled all event to provide resources.
• The Dub Sea Fish Sticks once again provided in kind FREE hotdogs, popcorn, water, coffee and cider to attendees.  
• Thanks to the WC Blog for sharing all the Spooky Town News fit to print.
• The Crafts Crew and Sunset Crew graciously provided support once again; we could not build Spooky Town without both teams.
• King County Parks teammates including Parks Patrol, Restoration Crew, Archeology Team, Marymoor District, Newaukum District, KCAC, Volunteer Program, Directors Office, and Communications Team.
• The entire WCTP crew dedicated the month of October to bringing the carnival back to the park.
• The WCTP Rec Aides created craft tutorial videos, packed grab and go crafts, and built the Haunted Crypt.
• And ENORMOUS THANKS to all of the volunteers that brought Spooky Town back to Steve Cox Memorial Park!