Pru Boo! Indoor Trick-Or-Treat, Sunday 10-27

Pru Boo! A Fantastic Boston Event

This family fun event supports The Home for Little Wanderers.  

The Shops at Prudential Center’s Annual Pru Boo Trick-or-Treat for Charity

The Shops at Prudential Center, Boston, will host its annual Pru Boo indoor trick-or-treating and family fun event to benefit The Home for Little Wanderers on Sunday, October 27. 

With a $4 donation to The Home for Little Wanderers, participants receive a trick-or-treat bag that provides access to trick-or-treating at more than 50 stores and restaurants at the Prudential Center, along with other fun family-friendly activities.

Trick-or-treat bags can be purchased at The Shops at Prudential Center’s Customer Service Desk starting October 1, and at check-in stations located in the Food Court and Center Court starting at 9am the day of the event.

Parking for the day is $16. Parking passes can be picked up at Pru Boo check-in stations.

For the nineteenth year, the Prudential Center will open its doors to hundreds of families from Greater Boston to enjoy “store-to-store” trick-or-treating, a performance by Vanessa Trien and The Jumping Monkeys as well as a variety of activities including:

• Blue Man Group – Coloring activity
• Boston Ballet – Nutcracker costume/photo opportunity
• Boston Duck Tours – Appearance by BDT official mascot, Kilroy
• Magic Beans – Elmo character appearance (11-11:30AM and 12-12:30PM)
• Museum of Science –Dinosaur activities, including Dino Size Me, a dinosaur math activity; dino facts; and make your own Dino puzzles or bookmarks
• NECCO – Various craft activities using Necco candy
• New England Aquarium –Tide Pool Open House! This program allows children to handle and observe a wide range of live tidal pool animals from local waters. Also, an appearance by one of NEAQ’s aquatic characters.
• The Freedom Trail Foundation – Have your picture taken in the stocks! Learn more about The Freedom Trail.
• As well as a number of other activities by Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, Mary Baker Eddy Library, Microsoft, and Zipcar.

Schedule of Events

11:00am – 1:00pm: Trick-or-treat and children’s activities

2:00pm: Vanessa Trien and the Jumping Monkeys

 Presenting sponsor, NECCO, The New England Confectionery Company, will provide all candy.

Halloween Costume Photo Costume Contest Details:

Submit a photo of your little one in costume

Between October 1 – 23, 2013

Chance to win a prize pack from The Shops at Prudential Center valued at $100. 

Share your photo on our Facebook Page, Twitter and/or Instagram.  For details visit their webpage.

 

About The Shops at Prudential Center

Located in the heart of Boston's historic Back Bay, The Shops at Prudential Center, the retail component of the Prudential Center complex, is anchored by Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor and consists of 75 stores and restaurants. Major retailers include Ann Taylor, Barnes & Noble (Boston’s largest bookstore), The Cheesecake Factory, Club Monaco, Lacoste, Sephora and Microsoft. With over 60,000 visitors a day, The Shops at Prudential Center was ranked among the top 5 shopping centers in the nation by Women’s Wear Daily. The Prudential Center is home to Boston Duck Tours, the Prudential Center Skywalk (Boston’s only observatory) and features New England’s largest enclosed parking garage with over 3,800 spaces and direct access to all office buildings as well as The Shops at Prudential Center.

About The Home for Little Wanderers

The Home for Little Wanderers is the nation’s oldest, and one of New England’s largest, non-profit child and family service agencies. The mission of The Home for Little Wanderers is to ensure the healthy behavioral, emotional, social and educational development and physical well-being of children and families living in at-risk circumstances. We do this through a series of integrated programs that include early childhood services, special education, therapeutic residential treatment, adoption, intensive foster care, clinical and family support in homes, schools, hospitals and clinics, and college and independent living preparation for youth who have aged out of state care. For more information, visit www.thehome.org.

Special Note:

Mom's Lifesavers loves the story of Charley, by Donna Marie Seim, set in 1910, it is about a young boy who finds himself in the The Home for Little Wanderers - a must read!