2025 Pumpkinfest Decorating Contest
Check out the winners below, and thanks to all our participants!
Businesses
Daytime Residential
Night Non-Animated
Night – Animated
Prize categories
Business – Daytime only
Plaques will be awarded for:
- First Place
- Second Place
- Third Place
Residential – Daytime
- First Place: $200.00
- Second Place: $150.00
- Third Place: $100.00
Residential – Nighttime – Animated
- First Place: $200.00
- Second Place: $150.00
- Third Place: $100.00
Residential – Nighttime – Non-Animated
- First Place: $200.00
- Second Place: $150.00
- Third Place: $100.00
Decorating Contest Rules
Be aware that by entering the contest, you are accepting the following:
- Businesses and Residences in the Waterford area are eligible to participate in the contest.
- Concession 6 Townsend (Swamp Rd) on both sides, plus Halyk Cres between Hwy 24 and Cockshutt Rd to Concession 11 Townsend (Rockford Rd) on both sides between Hwy 24 and Cockshutt Rd.
- The deadline for entry is 4:00 pm on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.
- To receive prize money, the display must remain in place until noon on Sunday, October 19, 2025.
- Entrants are considered to have provided permission for photographs of their business/residence to be published as determined by the Waterford Lions Pumpkinfest committee.
- The winners will be announced on Friday on the festival’s Main Stage at 5:00 p.m., and plaques will be distributed to the winners then.
Categories:
- Business
- Residential Daytime
- Residential Nighttime – Animated
- Animated is considered an exhibit that utilizes any or all of the following: mechanical or electronic devices that create movement within the exhibit; computer graphics or special effects that create the illusion of any type of movement, including characters singing.
- Residential – Non-Animated
- Non-animated is considered an exhibit without the use of mechanical or electronic devices, including the use of computer-assisted graphics or visual effects. The use of lighting will be allowed.
Judging will be based on:
- Pumpkinfest, Halloween or Fall Harvest theme
- Creativity
- Originality
Judging times:
- Daytime Judging: Thursday, October 16 and Friday, October 17, between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm.
- Nightime Judging: Wednesday, October 15 and Thursday, October 16, between 7:00 and 11:00 pm.
Please ensure that your house number is clearly visible.
Questions?
Please email pumpkinfest@pumpkinfest.com for questions.