Not-so scary sights

Check out some of KidsPost's favorite Halloween-themed images of costumes, enormous pumpkins, pets and more.

Powder participates in the annual Halloween dog parade in the Belle Meade neighborhood of Miami, Fla. Powder wore a homemade python costume.

Carlos Barria-Reuters

An elephant tramples a pumpkin at Basel Zoo.

Georgios Kefalas-AP

A 650-pound pumpkin dropped from a height of nearly 200 feet falls on a police cruiser during the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest in Damariscotta, Maine.

Robert F. Bukaty-AP

Six-month-old Airelle McDonald sits in a pumpkin costume, surrounded by pumpkins at Saunders Farm in Munster, Ontario.

Pawel Dwulit-AP

During the first weekend of fall, many families visit local pumpkin patches. Three-year-old Romey Aschbrenner of Clarksburg, Md., curls up in a wagon with his picks.

Sarah L. Voisin-The Washington Post

Buzz Pinkham shouts during the motorized competition at the fourth annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest. Pinkham and a friend came up with the idea for a race while looking for something to do with a 700-pound pumpkin they'd shown at a county fair. They hollowed it out, attached a motor and launched what has become a wacky race that now attracts more than a thousand people to town.

Robert F. Bukaty-AP

Pugs Mochi, left, and Olive, both age 4, pose for a photo dressed as surfers on a styrofoam wave at their home in Huntington Beach, Calif. The pooches have been dressed as geisha girls, surfer girls, and even sushi over the years.

Richard Vogel-AP

Logan Veitz, 4, dressed as a dinosaur, gestures as a walrus comes close to the glass wall decorated for Halloween at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash.

Janet Jensen-AP

A gorilla eats treats from a pumpkin carved to resemble a bat at the Cincinnati Zoo in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Al Behrman-AP

Reuben Frias poses with his giant 1,467.5-pound pumpkin at the Cosumnes Community Services District giant pumpkin festival in Elk Grove, Calif. Frias took home a first-place prize of $6 a pound, which brought him $8,805.

Kevin Ma-AP

Mochi, a 4-year-old Pug from Huntington Beach, Calif., is dressed as a geisha girl.

Richard Vogel-AP

Pugs Mochi, left, and Olive soak up the sun dressed in flower costumes.

Richard Vogel-AP

Charly, a 1,150-pound polar bear, gets in the Halloween spirit with a jack-o'-lantern at SeaWorld San Diego's Wild Arctic attraction.

Mike Aguilera-AP

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Families prep for Halloween festivities
Photos | With Halloween just around the corner, a stream of families visited the pumpkin patch at Wegmeyer Farms in Hamilton, Va.

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