So with all
this excitement, why not draw out your family’s Halloween celebration to more
than just Sunday afternoon? To help you pack in all the Halloween fun you
can fit in the rest of the month, we’ve compiled all the great events happening
around the city from now until Halloween weekend, from spine-tingling ghost
tours to costume parades in the park to Halloween-themed concerts. Plus, for
more All Hallows Eve inspiration, check out our 13 blog posts of Halloween!
*October
22-31
Halloween Hoorah
Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, New York Botanic Garden
Head to the
New York Botanical Garden to see over 500 carved pumpkins,
including three of the largest pumpkins in the U.S. that weigh over 1,500 pounds. On
weekdays from 1:30-5:30 p.m., kids can come dressed up in
costumes apple-sauce making, creepy critter exploring with magnifying glasses,
performances by Alice Farley Dance Theater, and more. The weekends are extra
special with cider pressing and tasting demonstrations and Halloween parades at
12 p.m. and 2
p.m. For more
information, click here.
*Weekends Throughout October
Boo at the Zoo
The Bronx Zoo
Throughout
the month of October, The Bronx Zoo hosted Boo at The Zoo, boasting great,
slightly spooky, animal-themed Halloween fun each weekend. Kids can enjoy a
haunted 3D Safari, an extinct animal graveyard to learn more about the animals,
hay mazes, costume parades, magic shows, craft workshops, and yummy treats. This
Saturday, October 24th, kids can take in carving demonstrations of a
150-pound pumpkin from noon to three, and can even meet members
of the Broadway cast of The Addams Family. For more info, click here.
*October 28th
Spooky Strand Family Hour
Strand Books
Listen to a
spooky reading and make an art project before entering a costume contest!
Author George Bates will read from his new book “On a Windy Night,”
before kids of all ages make a coloring project and vie for prizes in a costume
contest. For more info, click here.
*October 28th
FEAR Author Panel
Books of Wonder
Reading is
Fundamental hosts a panel of authors who have contributed to the spooky
anthology of horror tales. FEAR Fans will have a chance to ask questions and
have their books signed by R.L. Stine (Goosebumps), Suzanne Weyn (The Barcode
Tattoo), Jennifer Allison (Gilda Joyce and the Ladies of the Lake) and Ryan
Brown (Play Dead). For more info, click here.
*October 28& 30
Candlelight Ghost Tours
Merchant’s House Museum
Older kids
will love taking a half-hour tour of one of the most haunted houses in Manhattan by candlelight at the Merchant’s House Museum near Washington Square. The house is draped in dark fabric
to add to the suspenseful and strange stories of spirits that still haunt the
house. Make sure to get your tickets in advance because the event sells out. Every
half hour from 6 p.m. to 10
p.m. For more information, click here.
*October 29th to November
7th
Nevermore
New Victory Theatre
This highly
stylized imagination of Edgar Allen Poe’s life is a perfect addition to the
Halloween season. This seven-person cast uses original music to celebrate the
somber work of the gifted artist in a production fit for children 11 and up. This
two-hour-long production includes ONE intermission. For more info, click
here.
*October 29th
Halloween Magic Lantern Show
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
Take in a little history this holiday at the Mount
Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden. A live showman will be presenting spooky
tales like Poe’s The Raven as well as animated comedies and songs. All will be
projected on a full sized screen as entertainment done back in the 1890s before
television! 6:30 p.m.; 8:00 p.m. For more info, click here.
*October 29th
Halloween Carnival
The Vanderbilt YMCA
Kids of all ages can get into spooky spirits with a free Halloween Carnival at the Vanderbilt YMCA on the Upper East Side. For more info, click here.
*October
29th
Spooky Storytime Yoga
Karma Kids
Listen to
your favorite Halloween stories while doing fun and easy yoga poses–in costume!
Tony Award nominee John Tartaglia will read from his favorite Halloween books
while his fishy friends from ImaginOcean guide participants in yoga poses. For
more information, click here.
*October 29th
Halloween Playspace
Brooklyn Art Exchange
Come enjoy Halloween Playspace with Storyteller/Guitarist Robin Bady on Friday, October
29th from 9:30-11:30 a.m.! Parents, caregivers and children are encouraged to come in
costume. For more info, click here.
*October 30th
Halloween Cooking Class
Taste Buds
Taste Buds (formerly
Cupcake Kids!), the only kitchen in NYC dedicated entirely to kids,
hosts a Halloween-themed cooking class. Kids ages 5-8 will bake spooky
treats like Graveyard Dirt Cake and Creepy Crawly Spider Pretzels.
Don’t forget your costume! For more info, click here.
*October 30th
Tricks And Treats at Le Carousel
Bryant Park
Storytelling amphibian Flaubert Frog spins tales of ghouls and goblins
at this annual Bryant Park event. The creeptastic activities don’t stop
there! Children can also participate in crafts, paint pumpkins and
watch the eerie illusions of magician Ben Nemzer. For more information, click here.
*October 30th
Wonderween
The Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Practice being a mad scientist this Halloween at the Sony Wonder
Technology Lab. Children can participate in ghoulishly fun experiments
or take in some Halloween themed programming from Dora the Explorer,
Go, Diego Go! to Elmo Says Boo. For more information, click here.
*October 30th
Pumpkin Chucking
The New York Hall of Science
October is Catapult Month at the New York Hall of Science. So, is there
a better way to spend Halloween than watching a 20-foot-tall catapult
make a jack-o-lantern go SPLAT!?! Since the Hall of Science is
administering this demonstration, it is educational. Children (ages 5 and up) will see
how changes to the settings on the catapult will change the trajectory
and distance a pumpkin will fly. For more info, click here.
*October 30th
The Annual Halloween Party And Costume Parade
Washington Market Park
At the Annual
Halloween Party and Costume Parade in the gorgeous Washington Market
Park, kids can jam to a performance from New York based rockers
Princess Katie and Racer Steve, take a pony ride, play games, and of
course, trick or treat! 1 p.m.–4p.m.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Greenwich
Street and Chambers
Street. For more information, click here.
*October 30th
Halloween Weekend
Limelight Marketplace
Stop by the
Limelight Marketplace this weekend for Halloween fun including treats, a costume
conga line, storytelling and a meet-and-greet with characters like Madeline and
Curious George. For more info, click here.
*October 30th
Lincoln Park Kids’ Halloween Party and Concert
Lincoln Park Tavern
Bring the
family to Lincoln Park Tavern for a costume parade, dance party and benefit
concert and spend only $5 a person (over 1 year old) for photo booth fun, food,
and specialty brews for every age. Help raise money for Kids Need a Melody,
which provides music classes, instruments, and books to children in the shelter
system. Just take the Q/B/S train to Prospect Park and have a great Halloween
experience! For more info, click here.
*October
30th
Pumpkin Festival
Central Park
It’s time
for NYC Parks and HUB TV’s annual Pumpkin Festival in Central Park. Enjoy the fall colors and autumn
holiday by taking hay rides, being spooked in the haunted house, getting
festive with face painting and decorating pumpkins. The event is free and
there’s a scarecrow competition with the chance to win $200. For more info, click here.
*October
30th
Hound-O-Ween Charity Party
PetCo, Upper East Side
Want to
have some Halloween fun with your pets and your family? Then head to PetCo’s
Hound-O-Ween Charity Party on the Upper East Side! Please come and share food, candy,
cake, toys, gift baskets for you and your pooch, raffles, dog petting, photo
with your pup booth & a Best in Costume show! For more info, click here.
*October
30th
Galli’s Halloween Spooktacular
National Comedy Theatre
Galli
Theater performs a spooky version of Little Red Riding Hood this Halloween
weekend. Children are welcome to
celebrate the Halloween spirit in costume and enter to win prizes. For more
info, click here.
*October
30th
A Walk in the Park’s Third Annual
Halloween Parade
Central Park
Don’t let
your pooch miss out on the Halloween festivities! Costume your canine and take
a stroll with other Halloween-loving pups. All the action will begin on Fifth Avenue and 67th street. Rain date is October 31st. For more info, click here.
*October 30th-31st
Halloween Weekend Screenings: “Wallace
and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit”
Symphony
Space
In honor of Halloween weekend, Symphony Space will be showing the fun, not-so-spooky
movie “Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit” at Leonard Nimoy
Thalia Theater. For more info, click here.
*October 31st
Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin: A Halloween Tale
The Shadowbox Theatre
The
Shadow Box Theatre brings an original Halloween tale to 45 Bleeker Street. Children will laugh and root for the Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin as they take in this story reminiscent of “The Ugly Duckling.” The production runs from Oct. 13-29 as well as 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 24 and on Halloween, Sunday, October 31. For more info, click here.
*October 31st
The 15th Annual Halloween Celebration
The American Museum of Natural History
This
costume extravaganza lets kids trick or treat amongst the museum halls, carve
their own pumpkins and see live performances by David Grover and the Big Bear
Band. Kid friendly characters such as The Cat in the Hat, Curious George, Toot
and Puddle, Maisy and more will be making appearances at this extravaganza. For more info, click here.
*October 31st
Halloween Festival & Parade
City Treehouse
At this fun-filled Halloween fiesta, kids can play games, win prizes, dance and more! Be sure to
put a costume on your tots as they will be able to get their faces painted and
walk in the parade! For more info, click here.
*October 31st
The Wizard of Oz Halloween Event
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
Want
to meet Dorothy and her gang? Head to this Halloween event where
children can make masks of their favorite OZ characters, create delicious
healthy treats with cooking expert Cricket Azima and follow the Yellow Brick Road parade. 6:00 p.m.-8:00p.m. For more info, click here.
October
31st
Trick or Treat
The Empire Hotel
Halloween
night, make The Empire Hotel a stop on your Trick or Treat route! Located at 44 West 63rd St & Broadway, the friendly
neighborhood hotel will have fun treats for kids of all ages between 1-5 p.m. For more info, click here.
October
31st
Grand Avenue Halloween Block Party
And Music Festival
Still Hip Brooklyn
Still Hip,
the funky Clinton Hill children’s resale boutique recently voted Best Used
Children’s Gear Store in Brooklyn by The New York Daily News, will be hosting
it’s third annual Grand Avenue Halloween Block Party on Sunday, October 31st. For more info, click here.
October
31st
Jumpin Juniper Presents
“Ghostly Tales and Sickening, Silly Songs”
Brooklyn Art Exchange
JUMPIN’
JUNIPER presents “GHOSTLY TALES AND SICKENING (silly) SONGS” with
Storyteller/Guitarist Robin Bady. For more info, click here.
October 31st
Scribble Press’ Spooktacular Halloween
Party
Scribble Press
Calling all
boys and ghouls! You’re invited to the Scribble Press Spooktacular Halloween
party! They’ll have tons of creative and fun projects to celebrate Halloween. For more info, click here.
— Tiffanie Green, Katie Garton, Amy Spiro, Amanda Ferris
