FLORIDA PUBLIC UTILITIES OOGA BOOGA KIDS AREA FEATURING:

Mummies & Ghouls (Parents)

Florida Public Utilities has treat for you. Enjoy the wonder and delight in your child?s eyes as they encounter Cheif Gas Alot and try to take his stash of candy. While in the village stop by the FPU tent and find out how to conserve energy at the village gathering. Learn how to conserve energy by fighting the energy vampires that drain your energy. FPU?S Cheif Gas ALOT has tips and treats to help you conserve energy and lower bills. Representatives will be available to talk about conservation rebates that will meet your needs. Be sure to visit www.FPUC.com to get even more information on our efficiency rebates.

Friday 10/29

Kids Workshop With Resource Depot

4pm to 6pm Cultural Plaza
Bring the kids down to get their faces painted and make masks, hats & wings with Resource Depot before the Kids Parade at 6:30 pm. $5 donation includes, face painting, mask, hat, or wings to decorate and entrance in the Kids Parade. All proceeds benefit Resource Depot. For more info on Resource Depot please visit www.ResourceDepot.net

Click here to fill out Kids Workshop / Parade Application

Kids & Pet Parade

6:30 pm
Parade Route starts just east of Federal Hwy. The parade heads west on Lake Avenue turns on "J" Street and ends at Lucerne and "M" Street. For all kids participating in the parade once we receive you application we will send you detailed information regarding, registration check in route, times, etc.

Saturday 10/30

Kids Halloween Workshop With Resource Depot

Noon to 4pm Cultural Plaza

Musical Performance By Suzuki School of Music

Theatrics of Lake Worth Kids Costume Contest

3pm Cultural Plaza
Lake Worth?s 2010 Halloween Street Scene Sponsored by Theatrics of Lake Worth will be held at 3:30pm at the Cultural Plaza Stage. Entry is $5.00 per contestant with proceeds to benefit the Lake Worth Playhouse. There will be prizes for the top two winners in the following categories:

  • Best baby costume under age 1
  • Best costume ages 1-3
  • Best costume ages 4-6
  • Best costume ages 7-9
  • Best costume ages 10-12
  • Best teen costume ages 13-16

Please Click Below For Kids Costume Contest Application or visit Theatrics Lake Worth at 705 Lake Avenue. www.theatricslakeworth.com

Trick or Treat at the Street w/t Downtown Merchants

5pm to 9pm Merchant Stores on Lake & Lucerne Ave

Also all day there will be:

  • Pumpkin Painting w/t Whole Foods!
  • Bounce House
  • Spooktacular Storytelling
  • Facepainting
  • And More!

PARENTS PLEASE READ!

The all-inclusive nature of the parade, combined with the creativity Halloween inspires, results in an event like no other in South Florida. Part holiday celebration, part artistic revel, part cabaret, part platform for free speech, it conjures an alchemy that has confounded some who wish it was geared just toward children.

However, the Soul Parade is for everyone who would enjoy it. The entire community is invited. There is no jurying process to weed out potentially offensive costumes. What can offend one, can wildly amuse another, so such an enterprise is futile.
As with movies, books and events of all kinds, it is the parents’ responsibility to, well, parent. They know their children. They know their comfort level. They know what delights and frightens them. Like animated programs, not all parades suit all kids.

The two day event aims to be family friendly.  We also want to get the word out that the parade is “PG.” The “P” isn’t for the participants, the politicians or the parade organizers. The guidance the rating refers to is from parents.

We hope parents will prepare their children, and, if needed help them with perspective – teach them to see the wonder, instead of the terror, in a cardboard box transformed into a giant puppet. Or to appreciate the simple wisp of imagination it takes to turn a sheet into a ghost. Let children know it’s OK to be bothered or scared by a costume and that they are safe with their parents. Reinforce that the parade is a chain dance of costumes, make-believe and people who aren’t all alike. A child with a highly developed sense of fantasy will not have difficulty relating to that scene. If kids are sensitive or easily scared, bring them when they are older.
Off color costumes may showup at the parade. Some parents may balk. Other parents may tell their children that was part of the culture in some countries, and not make big deal of it -- their kids see more skin on a daily basis at the beach. Often kids gauge their reactions on their parents’.
Showing tolerance teaches tolerance.

In difficult times, parents have the option to teach a child how to cope or to shield him or her from the situation. Either way, potentially traumatic moments can be transformed by a parent who reacts with a calming sense of grace, sensitivity and awareness.

If you take a young child to the parade, it can be a risk. It can be a growing opportunity. It can be a night of magic and wonder. The outcome does not depend on all parade participants dressing with children in mind. It depends on the decisions their parents make.

 

- The Halloween Street Scene Staff