Halloween Happenings for Kids in Southern California (2026)
Halloween Happenings for Kids in Southern California (2026)
Updated: October 2026
Halloween season in Southern California is packed this year! We rounded up 90+ kid-friendly events across Los Angeles, Orange County, and beyond, so you can plan the whole month in one place.
You’ll find trunk-or-treats, zoo and aquarium nights, pumpkin patches, costume parades, and a few spooky splash parties at local pools. Plenty of them are free.
Events are listed by date, starting with the ones already underway and ending on Halloween night. Details can change, so check each event’s website for current times, tickets, and registration before you go.
🎥 Movie Nights at Downtown Disney
📍 Downtown Disney, Anaheim
🗓️ October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2026 • 7pm
Enjoy movies under the stars on select nights at the Downtown Disney LIVE! Stage & Lawn. Check back weekly and follow @downtowndisney for showtimes and movie announcements.
🧙 Halloween at Kidspace
📍 Kidspace Children’s Museum, Pasadena
🗓️ September 18 – October 31, 2026
March in daily costume parades, pedal a trike through a spooky house, mix magical potions in the Witch’s Kitchen, and create your own monster to take home. Kids can also go “boo-ling” at the Pumpkin Bowling Alley. Included with admission.
👻 Boo-tastic Halloween Party
📍 Adventure City, Anaheim
🗓️ October 2–30, 2026 • 5:30-9:30pm
Enjoy 11 rides after dark, trick-or-treating, a Halloween-themed train ride, scavenger hunt, Cosmic Vortex Tunnel, light show, and Spooktacular Dance Party. Admission also includes Halloween candy and glow accessories, with costumes encouraged.
⛳️ Fall Fest & Halloween Fair
📍 Golf N’ Stuff, Norwalk
🗓️ Saturdays in October • 2-6pm
Visit Golf N’ Stuff on Saturdays in October for free balloon art and free face painting for kids (12 years and under). Don’t miss the Halloween Fair on October 31 for costume contest, karaoke, and carved pumpkin contest.
🌾 Scarecrow Festival
📍 Lions Park, Costa Mesa
🗓️ October 10, 2026 • 2-6pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat, join a kids’ costume parade, enter the scarecrow contest, and enjoy live entertainment, music, photo ops, arm painting, and more. Admission is free.
🚗 Trunk or Treat
📍 YMCA Orange County
🗓️ October 10, 2026: Fullerton
🗓️ October 16, 2026: Newport Beach
🗓️ October 23, 2026: Mission Viejo
🗓️ October 24, 2026: Laguna Niguel
🗓️ October 30, 2026: Huntington Beach
✅ FREE!
Dress up and trick-or-treat from decorated car trunks, plus enjoy games, music, family activities, and costume and trunk-decorating contests.
🌽 Harvest Festival
📍 Green Hills, Rancho Palos Verdes
🗓️ October 11, 2026 • 12-3pm
✅ FREE!
Pick a free pumpkin, take a hayride, explore a maze, and enjoy arts and crafts, face painting, caricature artists, and food trucks. The afternoon also features professional pumpkin-carving demonstrations, live music, a DJ, and line dancing.
🏚️ Museum of Mayhem Haunted House
📍 Whittier Museum
🗓️ October 11, 2026: Chicken Night • 12-5pm
🗓️ October 16, 24, 25, 2026: Haunted Nights
Brave a haunted museum and expanded outdoor maze filled with scare actors, jump scares, fog, flashing lights, special effects, and unsettling sounds, plus an appearance by the LA Ghostbusters. Younger or more cautious visitors can try Chicken Night on October 11, when the haunt opens without scare actors.
🍂 Fall-o-ween
📍 Heritage Hill Historical Park, Lake Forest
🗓️ October 16-18 & 23-25, 2026 • 4:30-8:30pm
✅ FREE!
Wander through decorated historic grounds filled with Halloween and fall photo ops, navigate a straw maze, and complete a scavenger hunt for ghoulish goodies. Costumes are encouraged, and leashed pets are welcome.
🎉 Halloween Party
📍 Play & Parties, Orange
🗓️ October 16, 2026 • 6-7:30pm
Halloween Costume Party with Minnie Mouse, games, pizza and costumes at the costume parade.
🚗 Trunk or Treat
📍 Santiago Canyon College, Orange
🗓️ October 16, 2026 • 6-9pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat among creatively decorated trunks and booths while celebrating with the campus and local community. Costumes are encouraged, and the event is free to attend.
🔬 Spooky Science Night
📍 Columbia Space Night, Downey
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 4-9pm
🎟️ $5 per person (children 3 and under free)
Celebrate a spooky-themed night of science at the Columbia Memorial Space Center! A spooky robotics lab and super slim are just a few of the stations you and your family will be able to enjoy during this four-hour special event. From young explorers to seasoned scientists, there’s something for everyone with a range of hands-on activities to spark your curiosity. Costumes are strongly encouraged, so come dressed to impress.
🦉 Boo at the Oaks
📍 Santiago Oaks Park, Orange
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 5-9pm
✅ FREE!
Visit Santiago Oaks Regional Park after dark to discover which critters call this canyon home. The night will include fun activities like nature stations, creative crafts, a scavenger hunt for prizes and guided night hikes throughout the evening. Registration required.
🐙 Sea Scare! Monsters of Myth
📍 Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, San Pedro
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 7pm
Set out on a Halloween quest through the aquarium with trick-or-treating, games, crafts, a live DJ, costume contest, and family-friendly haunted house. This year’s adventure sends guests through dangerous waters to encounter legendary sea monsters and help recover Poseidon’s stolen trident.
🐺 Howl-o-ween Festival
📍 El Dorado Nature Center, Long Beach
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 2-6pm
Trick-or-treat along the nature trails, visit the animal education village, bounce in the Opossum Patch, and enjoy storytelling, face painting, crafts, and food trucks. Costumes encouraged; $5 donation suggested.
🤠 Halloween Party: Night at the Autry Museum
📍 The Autry Museum, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 5:30-8:30pm
Enjoy an evening of trick-or-treating, carnival games, Halloween crafts, a spooky maze, scavenger hunt, and live DJ. Special entertainment includes a Halloween puppet show by Bob Baker Marionette Theatre and creepy-crawler animal shows from Critter Squad.
🧟 Zombie Walk & Halloween Party
📍 Shoreline Village, Long Beach
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 6-10pm
✅ FREE!
Dress in your best zombie makeup and join the annual Zombie Walk, followed by a Halloween party at Shoreline Village. The community event is free to attend, and participants are encouraged to come dressed as zombies and join the walk.
🎺 Halloween Parade
📍 Norwalk Blvd. & Excelsior Drive, Norwalk
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 11am
✅ FREE!
Dress up and join the community parade featuring marching bands from across Southern California, costumed participants, and local organizations. Enter the free costume contest before the parade or grab a spot along the route to watch the festivities.
🏊 Pumpkin Splash at San Clemente Aquatics Center
📍 San Clemente Aquatics Center, San Clemente
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 12-4pm
Swim in the pool, play on the activity structure, dive in to find the perfect pumpkin, play on floating inflatables, enjoy Halloween-themed activities in and out of the pool.
🚂 Ghost-Hill Junction
📍 Orange County Model Engineers, Costa Mesa
🗓️ October 17–18, 2026 • 10-3:30pm
Hop aboard for a free 12–15 minute train ride through Fairview Nature Park, decked out with Halloween decorations for the weekend. Costumes are encouraged, and riders must be at least 31 inches tall.
🦁 Boo at the Zoo
📍 The Teaching Zoo, Moorpark
🗓️ October 24-25 & 31-1, 2026 • 11am – 4:30pm
Two weekends of family fun with interactive trick or treating, pumpkin bingo, photo opportunities, wildlife programs & meet & greets.
🔦 Boo at the Zoo
📍 Wild Wonders, Bonsall
🗓️ October 17, 24, 25 & 30, 2026 • 6pm
Explore the animal sanctuary after dark on a flashlight tour featuring nocturnal animals and plenty of spooky sounds along the way. The hour-long experience also includes candy stations and apple cider.
🎃 Pumpkins in the Park
📍 Perry Park, Redondo Beach
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 3-6pm
✅ FREE!
Enjoy games, prizes, treats, a costume parade, and a festive photo booth at this free community event.
🛹 Night of the Living Shred
📍 Etnies Skatepark, Lake Forest
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 7-10pm
✅ FREE!
Join a free Halloween-themed skate night with a haunted maze and Chaos Carnival, Death Race competition, best trick contests, game truck, and a best costume prize. Pizza and drinks are provided, and costumes are encouraged. Fun for all ages; waiver, day pass, and helmet required.
🎪 The Great Halloween
📍 TRADE Marketplace, Irvine
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 12-3pm
✅ FREE!
Step right up to a circus-themed Halloween carnival with trick-or-treating, a magic show, photo moment, free cotton candy, and a craft station. Make a day of it by exploring the food vendors for lunch and the retail spaces. Costumes encouraged.
🚗 Trunk or Treat at Watersafe
📍 Watersafe, Long Beach
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 6pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat in the parking lot of Watersafe’s Long Beach location with movies, games, raffles, baked goods, and food. The Chick-fil-A cow and van will also be on hand handing out goodies. Free and open to everyone.
🔍 I-Spy Halloween Train Ride & Festival
📍 Griffith Park Train Rides, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 17 – November 1, 2026
Weekends in October, enjoy a fun I Spy Halloween train ride around a family-friendly, seasonally decorated, mile-long track. There’s also games, activities, and photo ops.
🧌 Monster Mash
📍 Lincoln Park, Long Beach
🗓️ October 17, 2026 • 11am – 2pm
✅ FREE!
Play carnival games, make Halloween crafts, get a balloon animal, join a cake walk, and show off costumes during a parade. Kids can also head inside the Billie Jean King Main Library for a trick-or-treat hunt from 11 a.m.–1 p.m., plus complete a Monster Mash passport for chances to win prizes.
🏁 Pumpkin Race
📍 Manhattan Beach Pier, Manhattan Beach
🗓️ October 18, 2026 • 12pm
Watch homemade pumpkin racers speed down Manhattan Beach Boulevard during this quirky Halloween tradition, or build a racer and join the competition yourself. The free festival also features costumes, family activities, and plenty of Halloween fun near the Manhattan Beach Pier.
🍁 50th Annual Fall Faire & Pumpkin Patch
📍 Environmental Nature Center, Newport Beach
🗓️ October 18, 2026 • 10am – 3pm
Celebrate the 50th annual Fall Faire with nature games, a five-stop Craft Crawl, live music, animal presentations, family fitness, and food from local restaurants. Explore the trails while making crafts and playing games, with additional activities available throughout the day. Admission is free; activity purchases support environmental education.
🏨 Halloween Event
📍 The Inn at the Mission, San Juan Capistrano
🗓️ October 18, 2026 • 4-8pm
✅ FREE!
Enjoy trick-or-treating, pumpkin decorating, local makers, live music by Backdraft Firemen, Spookeasy Bar, and a costume contest with a chance to win a complimentary one-night stay at the Inn.
🪩 Family Rave: Haunted by the Beats
📍 ALTAR Brewing Society, Long Beach
🗓️ October 18, 2026 • 2-4:30pm
No tricks! Only beats! Bring the whole family to rave and party with a multi-sensory dance floor, crafting area, plus food and a full bar (for grown-ups).
🎬 Spook-a-Nanny
📍 Heritage Square Museum, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 18, 2026 • 6pm
Spread out a picnic blanket under the moonlight for a family-friendly outdoor screening of vintage Halloween clips, animation, puppetry, and classic Bob Baker Marionette Theater puppet numbers. Food, churros, popcorn, and coffee will be available for purchase.
🐠 Scarium Family Night
📍 Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach
🗓️ October 23, 2026 • 6:30-9pm
Trick-or-treat throughout the Aquarium, follow a spooky scavenger hunt, dance to monster mash-ups with a DJ, and catch vampire magician shows. Kids can also enjoy activity booths and Halloween photo stations. Costumes encouraged.
✨ Halloween Aglow
📍 Birch Aquarium, La Jolla
🗓️ October 23–24, 2026 • 6-8:30pm
Trick-or-treat around the aquarium after dark, visit the Boo and Goo Lab to see and touch slimy sea creatures, and watch divers carve pumpkins underwater. Come in costume and explore pop-up science stations, hands-on ocean activities, classic arcade games, and more.
🌿 Trick or Treat in the Garden
📍 LA Arboretum, Arcadia
🗓️ October 23, 2026 • 4-8pm
Follow a trick-or-treat trail through the garden with nature-based treats and hands-on Discovery Tables along the way. Meet hissing cockroaches, spiders, snakes, and earthworms, examine bones and skulls, and discover the fascinating side of some of nature’s creepiest creatures.
🔒 Haunted Jail
📍 Sheriff Station, Lakewood
🗓️ October 23, 2026 • 5-9pm
Explore the Haunted Jail for adults and older kids, or take little ones ages 6 and under through a spooky maze. The event also features trunk-or-treating, games, food, and displays of first responder vehicles and public safety equipment.
⛺ Spooky Campover
📍 Lions Tigers and Bears, Alpine
🗓️ October 23, 2026
Camp overnight alongside rescued wildlife with pumpkin carving, campfire songs, s’mores, a costume contest, and an all-ages haunted house. The next morning, watch the animals receive Halloween treats tucked inside pumpkins carved by campers.
💦 Spooky Splash!
📍 Santa Monica Swim Center
🗓️ October 23, 2026 • 5-8pm
Dive into a floating pumpkin patch, tackle a floating obstacle course, and brave the Sharks Haunted House. The evening also features recreational swimming, spooky movies, arts and crafts, treats, and food trucks.
🎃 25th Annual Halloween Spooktacular
📍 My Gym, Long Beach
🗓️ October 23-25, 2026
🎟️ $39 per child
For one enchanted weekend, My Gym LB is transformed into an immersive Halloween wonderland filled with spooky, silly, and glowing fun.
Journey through a child-friendly glow-in-the-dark maze, where every twist leads to a different themed room with larger-than-life scenes, glowing adventures, music, and special effects. Show off your costume at the Big Red circle while singing Halloween songs and playing Halloween games. Enjoy arts and crafts station, cookie decorating, and then trick-and-treat through mini neighborhood stoops and goody bag filling station.
Perfect for kiddos 7 months–13 years. Spaces are limited, so don’t miss out!
🎪 Anaheim Fall Festival & Halloween Parade
📍 Center Greens, Anaheim
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 10am – 7pm
✅ FREE!
Celebrate Halloween with a full day of family fun featuring a classic car show, costume contests, kids crafts, live entertainment, local artists, food, treats, and a scavenger hunt. The festivities continue into the evening with the annual Halloween Parade through Downtown Anaheim.
🚗 Trunk or Treat
📍 Little Cottonwood Park, Los Alamitos
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 5-7:30pm
✅ FREE!
Trunk or treat from local businesses and enjoy a costume contest and free pumpkin patch.
🐘 Boo at the Zoo
📍 LA Zoo, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 24 – November 1, 2026
Trick-or-treat through the zoo, hear special keeper talks, enjoy animal pumpkin enrichment sessions, live performances, and more.
🐯 Pumpkin Bash
📍 Lions Tigers and Bears, Alpine
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 10am
Watch rescued big cats and bears pounce, play with, and devour pumpkins stuffed with special treats during this fall enrichment event. Costumes are encouraged, and space is limited.
🗺️ Haunted Little Tokyo Scavenger Hunt
📍 Terasaki Budokan, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 11am-2pm
✅ FREE!
Follow a family-friendly Halloween scavenger hunt throughout Little Tokyo and collect all the stamps for a special treat. Families are encouraged to dress up, and there are activities for kids and parents at Budokan after you claim your prize. Bring your own bag, as the supply of hunt bags is limited.
🦅 Boo @ Bolsa
📍 Bolsa Chica Wetlands, Huntington Beach
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 1-3pm
Bring your little ghoul to the “haunted” Interpretive Center for hands-on spooky science experiments, creepy wildlife facts, and games. Kids can also trick-or-treat a little early.
🦆 Boo at the Bay: Family Halloween Party
📍 Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve, Newport Beach
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 11am – 3pm
✅ FREE!
Hear spooky stories, make creepy crafts, try wacky science experiments, meet bizarre animals, and play hair-raising games at this family Halloween party. Community wildlife and nature organizations will also host special booths and exhibits. Costumes encouraged.
🐆 Halloween Zoo-tacular
📍 OC Parks – OC Zoo, Orange
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 10am – 4pm
Kids can trick-or-treat, complete a scavenger hunt, and make spooky crafts while visiting the zoo. Watch the animals get in on the fun with treat-filled pumpkins throughout the day; activities are included with $2 zoo admission.
🚢 Spooky Seas
📍 Ocean Institute, Dana Point
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 5:30-9:30pm
Explore the Ocean Institute after dark with bioluminescence laser tag, a mad scientist lab, haunted ship tours, aquarium access, and a costume contest. Add a 45-minute Harbor Hayride aboard the R/V Sea Explorer with apple cider, trick-or-treating, and temporary tattoos; Spooky Seas admission is included with the hayride ticket.
🌿 Enchanted Trail
📍 Shipley Nature Center, Huntington Beach
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 3-5pm
Explore the trails in costume with Trick-or-Seed, nature activities, and a costumed animal scavenger hunt. This family-friendly afternoon is open to all ages with a $5 suggested donation per person.
✈️ Midway’s Fright Deck: Halloween Party & Movie Night
📍 USS Midway, San Diego
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 6pm
Board the USS Midway for a costume contest, live DJ, skeleton scavenger hunt, treats, and spooky photo ops on the flight deck. Stay after dark for an outdoor screening of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl surrounded by historic aircraft and views of the San Diego skyline.
⛵ Harbor Hayrides
📍 Ocean Institute, Dana Point
🗓️ October 24, 2026
Enjoy live music, apple cider, temporary tattoos, and activities all while cruising the beautiful Dana Point Harbor on the R/V Sea Explorer! Cruises are 45 minutes long. Harbor Hayride tickets also include access to Spooky Seas in the evening.
🚓 Sheriff’s Station Haunted Boo-tique
📍 Sheriff’s Station, Cerritos
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 1am – 6pm
Shop local vendors and enjoy a car show, food, music, and Halloween activities throughout the day. Brave the Haunted Jail, tackle an inflatable obstacle course, or visit the Kidz Scare Free Zone for younger children.
🧪 Spooky Science Lab (STEM Explorers)
📍 OCC Planetarium, Costa Mesa
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 9am-12pm
Young scientists ages 8–11 can explore the spooky side of STEM with hands-on experiments, from making ooey-gooey slime to discovering the shocking science of static electricity and building electrical circuits. Kids should bring a refillable water bottle and a snack.
🛟 Floating Pumpkin Patch
📍 Splash! La Mirada Regional Aquatics Center
🗓️ October 24, 2026
Visit Splash! La Mirada Regional Aquatics Center for a floating pumpkin patch. Jump into the pool, decorate your pumpkin, and enjoy crafts. Registration required.
🌊 Monster Splash
📍 William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center, Irvine
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 1-4pm
Dress in your spooky best and visit the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center for trick-or-treating, rec swim, inflating obstacle course, and face painting. Registration required.
⛳️ Spooky Mini Golf
📍 Camelot Golfland, Anaheim
🗓️ October 1 – November 1, 2026
Camelot Golfland’s mini golf course undergoes a spooky transformation for Halloween! Play 18 haunted holes filled with family-friendly frights all october. Included with standard admission.
🎃 Jack O’ Lantern Jamboree
📍 Atlantis Play Center, Garden Grove
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 1-4pm
🎟️ $12 (ages 2-10), $3 (ages 11+), Free for 1 and under
Kids can enjoy a pumpkin patch, carnival games, crafts, face painting, and a live reptile show. Costumes encouraged, with each child taking home a pumpkin and sweet treats available for purchase. Reservations required, no tickets sold at the door.
🕸️ Halloween Spooktacular
📍 Mariners Park, Newport Beach
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 3-6pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat, explore a haunted walkthrough, and enjoy carnival games, bounce houses, pumpkin decorating, music, and a spooky seek-and-find. Come in costume to enter the afternoon costume contest, with categories for kids, duos, and families.
🏃 Monster Dash 5K & Creepy Crawl Fun Run
📍 Community Center, San Clemente
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 7:30-11am
With tricks and treats for all ages, all runners, joggers, walkers, zombies, skeletons, and crawlers are invited to come dressed in their best Halloween costumes.
🚓 Halloween Spooktacular & Trunk or Treat
📍 Community Center, Dana Point
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 2-6pm
✅ FREE!
Enjoy trunk-or-treating with Dana Point Police Services, a haunted maze, giant slide, inflatable sports zone, arcade games, crafts, live entertainment, and a costume contest. Free trolley service runs between RH Dana and the Community Center during the event.
🎶 The Boo Bop Bash
📍 Mini Bop Music, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 2-6pm
Dance along to a live kids music show featuring new Minibop songs, then explore a trick-or-treat village, bounce house, and soft play area. As the sun goes down, grab a glow stick for a family dance party, plus enjoy food trucks, vendors, raffles, and prizes.
🧌 Mini Monsters Bash
📍 Children’s Museum at La Habra
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 5-8pm
Trick-or-treat through the museum galleries, make spooky crafts, and play Halloween games and activities. Catch a live Mad Science Show featuring bubbling reactions, cryogenic effects, interactive experiments, and audience participation.
🧛 Monster Mash
📍 Academy Museum, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 11am
✅ Free for 17 and under
Explore the world of movie monsters with special-effects makeup demonstrations, a hands-on vampire blood workshop, and meet-and-greets with Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and the Bride of Frankenstein. The day also includes Hotel Transylvania, horror-themed museum tours, a dance-along, and additional vampire film screenings. Free with museum admission; youth 17 and under receive free museum admission.
🍭 Halloween Treat Street
📍 Anaheim Plaza, Anaheim
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 11am – 1pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat along with a DJ playing popular Halloween tunes, enjoy a balloon artist, face painting, photo ops, prize, and goodie bags for the first 100 kids ages 12 and under dressed in costume.
🐕 Corgi Beach Day – Howl-o-ween Beach Pawty
📍 Across from Pacific City, Huntington Beach
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 10am – 3pm
✅ FREE!
Watch hundreds of corgis take over the beach in Halloween costumes, with contests for best costume, Corgi Limbo, Best Corgi Butt, and even a Pumpkin Pie Chomp eating contest. Snap photos at themed installations, meet CelebreCorgs, visit the Corgi Kissing Booth, shop 45+ pet vendors, catch training demos, and grab food from 10+ food trucks. All dogs (and humans) are welcome, and admission is free.
😱 Festival of Frights
📍 Historic Downtown, West Covina
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 4-9pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat through downtown, brave the scare zones, and come dressed to enter the costume contest. The evening also features entertainment, food, vendors, and more Halloween fun.
🌙 Marina Spooktacular
📍 Burton Chace Park, Marina del Rey
🗓️ October 24–25, 2026 • 4-10pm
✅ FREE!
Celebrate Halloween by the harbor at Burton Chace Park. Enjoy face painting stations, spooky photo ops, graveyard treasure hunt, carnival games, inflatables, and arts and crafts. There’s fun and scares for all ages, but the frights intensify as night falls over.
🎈 Halloween Spooktacular
📍 Cerritos Towne Center, Cerritos
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 11am – 1pm
✅ FREE!
Celebrate with trick-or-treat stations, character meet and greets, balloon twisters, crafts, and live DJ.
🛍️ Halloween at Stonewood
📍 Stonewood Center, Downey
🗓️ October 24, 2026 • 12-6pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat for free while browsing local crafters and vendors, with a live DJ, face painting, and plenty of costumes. Kids can also paint mini pumpkins, while families shop everything from vintage apparel and handmade goods to plenty of squishies.
🍬 Halloween at Lomita Park
📍 City of Lomita
🗓️ October 24, 2026
Join in on this annual event for games, treats, food, costume contest, and more.
💀 Day of the Dead Festival
📍 Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach
🗓️ October 25, 2026 • 11am-5pm
✅ FREE! (Parking $15)
Celebrate MOLAA’s 30th anniversary at its annual Day of the Dead family festival, with Ballet Folklorico, DJ sets, a Catrina/Catrin contest, and live music by La Nueva Diligencia.
🌅 Fall Festival
📍 Paséa Hotel & Spa, Huntington Beach
🗓️ October 25, 2026 • 3-7pm
✅ FREE!
Decorate pumpkins, play lawn games like pumpkin bowling, dance to a live DJ, and enjoy seasonal bites and oceanfront photo ops. Kids can come in costume for a chance to win a prize, while four-legged family members can dress up for the Pet Costume Parade. Admission is free.
🧚♀️ A Faery Hunt Show & Halloween Party
📍 Community & Cultural Center, Tarzana
🗓️ October 25, 2026 • 10:30am – 12:30pm
Dress in costume and join the faeries on a gentle outdoor quest filled with interactive storytelling, music, and imaginative play. After the show, stay for a Fairy Halloween Party with dancing, games, snacks, storytelling, and one-on-one time with the fairies.
🍔 Spookysburg & KCRW Family Day
📍 Row DTLA, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 25, 2026 • 10am – 4pm
✅ FREE!
Come in costume for a parade and contest, go trick-or-treating through Smorgasburg, and settle in for storytime with Holy Pepperoni. Make accessories at the Costume BOO-tique, swap gently used costumes, get creative with hands-on art, groove to KCRW DJs, and choose from more than 60 food and drink vendors.
🕷️ Kids Club: Spooktacular Halloween
📍 Bella Terra, Huntington Beach
🗓️ October 26, 2026 • 11am – 12:30pm
✅ FREE!
Come in costume for a parade, live creepy crawlers, a character meet-and-greet, Halloween storytime, crafts, treats, and giveaways. The free event also includes activities and special offers from participating Bella Terra businesses.
👮 Cops ‘N’ Goblins
📍 Civic Center, Buena Park
🗓️ October 28, 2026 • 2-6pm
✅ FREE!
Bring your little goblins out for a trunk-or-treat experience, pumpkin patch, carnival games, costume contest, arts & crafts, and food trucks.
🍫 Treats in the Streets
📍 Plaza Park, Old Towne Orange
🗓️ October 29, 2026 • 4-7pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat through the traffic-free streets surrounding the historic Orange Plaza, with Halloween activities and family fun throughout Old Towne.
🎬 Halloween Fun with Treats + Movie Night
📍 Pacific City, Huntington Beach
🗓️ October 29, 2026 • 4:30-7:30pm
Collect treats around Pacific City, then join the costume contest, dance party, giveaways, and Halloween character meet-and-greets, with face painting until 7 p.m. After sunset, settle in for a screening of Coco with complimentary popcorn. Bring your own chairs and blankets; seating is first-come, first-served. RSVP on Eventbrite.
👻 OktoBOOfest
📍 Downtown Fullerton Plaza, Fullerton
🗓️ October 29, 2026 • 4:30-8:30pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat through downtown and enjoy a bounce house, face painting, live entertainment, and a mini art walk. The evening also features the farmers market and food vendors.
🏙️ Halloween’s Eve
📍 Pretend City, Irvine
🗓️ October 30, 2026 • 10am – 2pm
Trick-or-treat throughout this pint-sized city, dance to Halloween music, catch a puppet show, and enjoy imaginative play. Costumes encouraged.
🛒 Friday Night Market
📍 Anaheim GardenWalk
🗓️ October 30, 2026 • 5-10pm
✅ FREE!
Shop local vendors at a Halloween-themed night market with trick-or-treating through Vendor Village and spooky fun for all ages. Costumes are encouraged.
🎧 Special Edition: Spooky Silent Disco
📍 Irvine Spectrum Center, Irvine
🗓️ October 30, 2026 • 6-9pm
✅ FREE!
Dance the night away at this complimentary silent disco, choosing your favorite DJ through headphones. Open to all ages, weather permitting; headphones are first-come, first-served and limited.
🎡 Halloween at Redondo Pier
📍 Redondo Pier, Redondo Beach
🗓️ October 30, 2026 • 5-8pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat along the pier and boardwalk, then enjoy a magic show, music, Halloween arts and crafts, and a festive photo station. Trick-or-treating takes place from 5–6 PM.
🧙♀️ Seaside Trick or Treat
📍 Ventura Harbor Village
🗓️ October 30, 2026
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat along the waterfront while costumed witches and warlocks paddle through the harbor, then explore the new Witches Night Market. Enjoy spooky music, magic, live pumpkin carving, crafts, seaside skeletons, photo ops, witches paddle,and more.
🚔 Trunk or Treat
📍 Fullerton Police Department
🗓️ October 30, 2026 5-8pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat with local police officers at decorated trunks while showing off your Halloween costume. Bring a treat bag and enter the event from Commonwealth and Highland.
👻 Ghouls Night Out
📍 2ND & PCH, Long Beach
🗓️ October 30, 2026 • 5-8pm
✅ FREE!
Come in costume for a Halloween night filled with music, entertainment, and contests for toddlers, kids, tweens and teens, adults, pets, and groups. Costume contest winners can take home prizes, with more Halloween activities and surprises planned throughout the evening.
🌳 Halloween Festivals at Norwalk Parks
📍 Norwalk Park, Norwalk
🗓️ October 30, 2026 • 6-9pm
✅ FREE!
Join in for a spooky good time with games, costume contests, music, food trucks, arts & crafts, and more.
♻️ Organics Recycling Doesn’t Have to be Scary!
This Halloween, the only scary thing should be your decorations. Before you toss that jack-o’-lantern or clean up after trick-or-treating, remember: pumpkins and other food scraps belong in the organics bin, but plastic decorations and candy wrappers don’t! Visit ggcity.org/organics to learn more about what belongs in the organics bin.
Plus, Garden Grove residents receive free access to the Scrapp App, a mobile and web app that identifies exactly where a household item belongs. All you have to do is scan or search your Halloween items, and Scrapp will tell you where each one belongs.
Make this Halloween a happy one for our community and our planet. Thank you, Garden Grove, for doing your part!
Brought to you by the City of Garden Grove Organics Recycling Program. Funded by CalRecycle.
🏄 Spooktacular
📍 Downtown Huntington Beach
🗓️ October 31, 2026
A spook-tacular celebration where Main Street transforms into a Halloween extravaganza.
🎠 Halloween Carnivals
📍 Lakewood Parks
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 6-8:30pm
✅ FREE!
Celebrate Halloween at eight Lakewood parks, each transformed with its own theme and filled with carnival activities for kids. Select locations also feature haunted houses, with inflatable attractions available at Mayfair Park for an additional fee. Carnival activities at Biscailuz, Bloomfield, Bolivar, Boyar, Del Valle, Mayfair, Palms, and San Martin parks.
🕸️ Trick or Treat & Spider Fang Mines Haunted House
📍 The Promenade PV, Palos Verde
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 3-6pm
Trick-or-treat with a costume contest, face painting, games, treats, and Halloween activities. Brave the Spiderfang Mine haunted house from 3–6 p.m., plus enjoy carnival rides throughout Halloween weekend.
🪦 Historical Cemetery Tour
📍 Sunnyside & Municipal Cemeteries, Long Beach
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 9am – 3pm
Enjoy graveside performances by community theater actors portraying the life of the person lying at rest. Actors perform in period-appropriate costumes. The tour is self-guided. First-person performances last 10 minutes and are repeated every 20 minutes. Tours are for families and all ages.
🚉 Boonion Station
📍 Union Station, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 11:30am – 3:30pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat along Treats-on-Track, enter the costume contest, and enjoy face painting, balloon artists, crafts, dancing, and family-friendly music. The free event also features stilt walkers, photo ops, a Make a Monster activity, and Monster Poetry Booth.
⚓ Halloween STEMebration
📍 Battleship USS Iowa, San Pedro
🗓️ October 31, 2026
✅ FREE!
Halloween STEMebration combines Halloween excitement with engaging Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) experiences aboard a real battleship. Families can enjoy trick-or-treating aboard the ship, interactive STEM experiences, Halloween-themed games and activities, and plenty of surprises. Come dressed in your favorite costume and enjoy a unique Halloween celebration filled with candy, costumes, science, and maritime adventure on the LA Waterfront!
🐶 Haute Dog Howl’oween Parade
📍 Marina Vista Park, Long Beach
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 2:30pm
✅ FREE!
See 400+ costumed dogs as they parade in front of a few thousand gawkers and panel of judges. Plus, vendor fair and food trucks too.
🏛️ Old Pasadena Halloween Celebration
📍 Old Pasadena
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 4-8pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat store-to-store throughout Old Pasadena, with participating businesses along Colorado Boulevard and nearby streets handing out treats to costumed kids. Look for orange Treat Stop signs on Halloween from 4–8 p.m., while supplies last.
🎃 Trick-or-Treat on 2nd Street
📍 Belmont Shore, Long Beach
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 4-6pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat at participating businesses along 2nd Street, marked with jack-o’-lantern signs in their windows. Stop by the Halloween photo op to snap a costume picture and enter the Instagram photo contest.
🍬 Halloween Spooktacular & Trunk or Treat
📍 Artesia Park, Artesia
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 8-9pm
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat from decorated vehicles, play laser tag, and enjoy music, food trucks, and plenty of candy. Come dressed for costume contests for babies, kids, teens, adults, families, and pets, plus see which decorated vehicles win the trunk contest.
🎃 Pumpkin Patch Halloween Event
📍 Downey Adult School, Downey
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 5-8:30pm
✅ FREE!
Carnival games, photo booth, costume parade, face painting, food trucks, creepy crawl maze (no scare zone from 5-5:30pm), inflatables, and more. Located at the Downey Adult School.
👻 Celebrate Halloween
📍 Lakewood Mall, Lakewood
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 1-3pm
Dress up for trick-or-treating throughout the center, plus a live DJ, balloon twisting, face painting, and a costume contest. Available while supplies last.
🏰 Halloweenfest at Neff Estate
📍 Neff Estate, La Mirada
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 4:30-8pm
Visit the historic Neff Estate for an all-ages spooktacular time with a haunted maze, costume contest, games, crafts, trick-or-treat area, and more.
🦉 Halloween Boo-Nanza
📍 Anaheim Hills Festival, Anaheim
🗓️ October 31, 2026
✅ FREE!
Trick-or-treat throughout the shopping center and enjoy a live DJ, face painting, balloon twisting, photo ops, and more.
🏴☠️ Halloween Spooktacular: A Pirate’s Adventure
📍 C. Robert Lee Activity Center, Hawaiian Gardens
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 6-8pm
Set sail for a pirate-themed Halloween with games, activities, treats, and spooky scare zones. Come in costume to compete for prizes in categories including funniest, scariest, DIY, and best pirate.
✈️ Halloween Celebration at Proud Bird
📍 The Proud Bird, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 12-4pm
✅ FREE!
Dress up for a family Halloween celebration with a costume contest in three categories (Cutest, Scariest, and Most Creative), plus Halloween and fall coloring activities and photo moments. Mini foam pumpkin painting is available for $7. Free admission; please RSVP for each person in your party.
🎃 Trick-or-Treat at Carved
📍 Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 6-10pm
Spend a festive Halloween evening at Carved, an immersive world of light installations and hand-carved pumpkins. From 6–8pm, forage for treats on the Mushroom Trick-or-Treat hunt, pick a mini pumpkin, and decorate a trick-or-treat bag, then dance at the DJ party from 8–10pm. Included with Carved admission; space is limited, so buy tickets in advance.
🦸 Indoor Trick-or-Treating at L.A. Comic Con
📍 Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles
🗓️ October 31, 2026 • 12pm
Kids can trick-or-treat at participating exhibitor booths on the show floor, starting at noon and continuing while candy supplies last. Costumes are encouraged, from superheroes and anime characters to Jedi, witches, and original creations. Included with Comic Con admission.
More Fun:
-
12 Ways to Save Money at the Pumpkin Patch
We’ve got some savvy tips to help you save money at the patch while still having a gourd time. From free admission days to bringing your own snacks, we’ve rounded up all the tricks to enjoy the patch without breaking the bank.
-
Southern California Pumpkin Patches (2026)
The ultimate list of pumpkin patches in Long Beach, Orange County, Los Angeles County, and beyond! Get lost in a corn maze, feed the farm animals, play games, go on rides, and hunt down the perfect pumpkin.
-
Skipping the Spooky? Non-Halloween Events for SoCal Families (2026)
Skip the spooky with dozens of non-Halloween events for SoCal families in October, from cultural festivals to star parties and car shows. See the full list.
-
Fun Things To Do This Weekend in Southern California — October 9-11, 2026
Got weekend plans? We do! Whether you’re looking for a family adventure, a budget-friendly outing, or just something fun to do, we’ve rounded up the best events happening this weekend.
-
Don’t Miss These Limited-Time Events & Experiences for Families in Southern California
Don’t miss these traveling exhibits, immersive pop-ups, and seasonal attractions. This list highlights the best limited-time events happening now.
Categories: Blog, Blog Latest
This post was written by Kidsguide
Comments are closed here.