Children’s Art Expert Offers Pumpkin Decorating and Drawing Ideas That Kids Will Love

If spending hours scooping out seeds and stringy pumpkin isn’t on your list of fun things to do this Halloween, decorating a pumpkin without carving is a fun option.  Forget the knives and break out the permanent markers along with some other household craft items to decorate your pumpkins. “Decorating pumpkins without carving is a [...]

Help support the Barrington, NH recreation department

Barrington, New Hampshire is a small, bedroom community nestled between the seacoast and capitol city. There are no shopping malls. There are rolling green hills (white this time of year), friendly neighbors and fresh air. These are the things that attracted us to this town. Barrington is perhaps famous for Calef’s, an old fashioned country store [...]

Trunk-or-treat on Halloween

The town of Barrington, New Hampshire has a great recreation department. For the last several years, they have coordinated a trunk-or-treat event for kids in the community on Halloween. People bring their cars to the recreation department, decorate their trunks and pass out candy. The kids dress up and safely trick-or-treat from trunk to trunk. [...]

Get lost in a corn maze this Fall

On Columbus Day, we visited the Coppal House Farm & Corn Maze. This is the 3rd year that we have visited this 78-acre, family-owned, working farm in Lee, New Hampshire. This year, the maze was professionally cut into the shape of two dragonflies. There were 11 mailboxes within the maze and each contained a card [...]