The animals will be celebrating Halloween too at area zoos and aquarium (photo by Julie Larsen Maher © WCS)
Bronx Zoo, $12-$16
New York Aquarium, $6-$17
Prospect Park Zoo, $5-$8
Queens Zoo, $5-$8
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The Wildlife Conservation Society’s annual Boo at the Zoo promotion continues through this weekend with a full slate of family-friendly activities. At the Prospect Park Zoo, children can engage in bat arts and crafts, keeper chats focusing on nocturnal animals and pumpkin treats for baboons, haunted attractions, a costume parade, face painting, the spook-tacular Discovery Center, and Wildlife Witch Shows. At the Queens Zoo, children can go trick-or-treating, get their face painted, visit the Haunted Habitat, decorate their own pumpkin (first two hundred zoogoers only), and watch pumas and Andean bears get pumpkin treats. Up at the Bronx Zoo, the Halloween celebration features a haunted safari, live music by Gigi and the Lend Me a Hand Band, a hay maze and hay ride, treat stations, craft workshops, pumpkin-carving demonstrations, animal-themed magic shows, puppet shows, animal enrichment activities, a costume parade, and an extinct animal graveyard. And the New York Aquarium in Coney Island will be hosting Halloween at the A-Scarium, with a haunted sea-fari, magic shows, spooky storytelling by LuAnn Adams, live music from Annie and the Natural Wonder Band, pumpkin-carving demonstrations with Janelle Iglesias, arts and crafts with Robin Waschberger, treat stations, alien stingers, and THE CURSE OF SKULL ROCK 4-D movie screening.