
Registration Deadline: September 30, 2025 Craft & Conservation Festival: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Apply Today! Apply Today! If you are participating in more than 1 activity, please fill out a separate form for each. See details below before signing up.
VENDOR FEE links for 10x10 Space & 10x20 Space
Friday October 24, Saturday October 25, and Sunday October 26 is Menokin's first ever Pumpkins Illuminated event! The weekend will include:
-A Saturday afternoon Conservation and Craft festival, 1-5 pm
-Three nights (Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 5-9 pm) of pumpkin activities, an illuminated pumpkin display, a lantern parade, music, food & fun!
We are inviting you to participate as either a Maker-Demonstrator (Oct 25), a Maker-Vendor* (Oct 25), or a Pumpkin Display Builder. Please apply below!
*Maker-Vendors pay a $25 fee for a 10x10 space or $50 for a 10x20 space.
THE CHESAPEAKE TO CAT POINT CREEK: WATERWAYS CONSERVATION FESTIVAL
Schedule
Saturday, Oct 25
1PM - 5PM: Daytime Demonstrators, Maker-Vendors. Pumpkin carving & painting, lantern making, scarecrow making.
5PM - 9PM: Evening Pumpkins Illuminated Trail open to explore. Food vendors & music.
6PM: Lantern Parade!
Pumpkin Display Builders

Pumpkin display builders, we invite you to sponsor one pumpkin design for folks to be charmed as they travel the paths and view your fanciful creations! Select from a limited number of Menokin themes to create a pumpkin/Jack-o-lantern station along the way:
Menokin Wildlife: eagles, rabbits, turkeys, ducks, deer, foxes, oh my!
Menokin House Preservationists: Masons, Carpenters, Architects
Menokin Landscape: Birding, Kayaking, Hiking, Fishing
Menokin Farm Scarecrows
Menokin Illumination Welcome Archway
Pitch an idea to Menokin!
Pumpkin Display Guidelines
Pumpkin Display Registration Deadline: September 30, 2025 (We’ll need you to commit early so we can order enough pumpkins!). It is free to apply as a Pumpkin Display Builder!
Pumpkins will be provided —— you do the rest: build and install by Thursday October 23, 2025.
Pumpkin displays should be all-ages friendly!
All installations must be completed by Oct. 23, 2025.
Reclaimed items may be retrieved Oct. 30 - Nov. 1. Unclaimed items will be disposed of or recycled.
Leftover pumpkins will be donated or composted.
Apply Today!
If you are participating in more than 1 activity, please fill out a separate form for each.
VENDOR FEE links for 10x10 Space & 10x20 Space
