Where Are the Best-Priced Pumpkins to Sculpt, Celebrate, Trick and Treat?

Pumpkin Patches

#1 Rombach Farm Chesterfield, Olive Street Road, by Chesterfield airport.
When: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Every day until Halloween
Activities: This place is HUGE. You'll never find another one like this. And the enormous barn is haunted and decorated for fun. Happier scenes are set up on the outside for the younger set, and young at heart. There's also plenty of foods to snack on, and the Rombach family joins in the fun.
There is pumpkin picking, hay rides, pony rides and barrel rides. During weekdays, activities include a free wooden maze, wooden fort and animals. Rombach's builds a giant pumpkin pyramid as tall as a house, cooks barbecue and stocks a country store with their own jellies and jams.
Pricing: Free, all free. Parking is free. Pumpkins start at $4, from tiny to gigantic.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Manchester at Hwy. 141
When: The patch is open daily from 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays, and noon to 6 p.m. Sundays. In addition, there will be a special Fall Festival on Oct. 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with storytime, kids crafts, face painting, games, snacks, bake sale, crafts sale and free popcorn and Halloween tattoos. These special activities will only be available during the festival.
Activities: Pumpkin picking benefiting Joplin, MO and other church programs.
Pricing: There are no admission fees, parking is free and pumpkins range from $2-$25. Small gourds and mini-pumpkins are available for 50 cents and 75 cents, respectively.
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Just the Pumpkins

Trader Joe's Chesterfield and Des Peres
Pumpkin Pricing: Cinderella pumpkins are $6.99, carving pumpkins are $3.49, pie pumpkins are $1.99, and mini-pumpkins and gourds are 69 cents.

Whole Foods Market Town and Country, Clayton Rd. at Woods Mill
Pumpkin Pricing: Jumbo pumpkins are $9.99, large pumpkins are $6.99, ornamental pumpkins are $4.99.
Whole Foods
Your Budding Chef: Wicked Witch Cupcake
When: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 22
Activities: Come to the bakery department and let Diane show you how to make delicious ghoulish-looking cupcakes. They are a wickedly easy treat for the kids to make for Halloween.
Whole Foods
Halloween Costume Contest and Trick-or-Treating
When: noon-3 p.m. Oct. 29
Activities: Dress the kids up in their spookiest or snazziest Halloween costumes for the Whole Foods Costume Contest. Three winners will receive a bag full of Halloween prizes. There will also be plenty of treats for the kids from every department.
Whole Foods
Your Budding Chef: Jack O’Lantern Punch
When: 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Oct. 30
Activities: Stop by the Grocery Department and let your little ghosts and goblins have some Jack O’Lantern Punch.

Walmart Manchester, Chesterfield
Pumpkin Pricing: Carving pumpkins are $3.88, and a small pack of three is $2.98.

Schnucks Chesterfield, Manchester, Town and Country
Pumpkin Pricing: Carving pumpkins are $5.

Dierbergs Manchester and Chesterfield Market Place
Pumpkin Pricing: Locally grown, carving pumpkins are $4.97.

Aldi Ballwin, Chesterfield Valley opens soon
Pumpkin Pricing: Carving pumpkins are $2.49.
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Crafty Pumpkins

Michaels Chesterfield Valley and Ballwin
Pumpkin Pricing: Six-and-a-half-inch pumpkins are $18.99, 9-inch pumpkins are $ 22.99; and 13-inch Celebrate It craft pumpkins in orange, black and cream are $31.99. Pumpkins are an additional 50 percent off until Saturday.

Big Lots Chesterfield
Pumpkin Pricing: $8 to $15 Assorted indoor and outdoor light-up pumpkins in 9 inches and 16 inches are $8-$15. Mini pumpkins are $1.