Halloween events Liverpool for families 2025
There’s plenty going on for kids this Halloween in Liverpool. Below you’ll find all the Halloween events Liverpool for families in 2025. There are family-friendly shows, farm events featuring pumpkin carving, Halloween discos and so much more. This post is part of a series of posts on Halloween events North West.
I’ve done my best to add the details of all these events accurately and keep them up to date but I strongly advise you to click through and check on the organiser’s website to ensure the dates, locations times are correct. Events maybe changed or cancelled and I will not necessarily be aware of this. Links are providers so you can confirm all details for yourself before travelling or booking. Some of these events require pre-booking so I’d recommend you do that as soon as you decide you want to in order to avoid disappointment.
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Ottersghoul, Otterspool adventure, – book now for 2025
When: 25th to 31st October 2025
Where: Otterspool adventure, Liverpool, L19 2PA
Cost: £21 for children, £10.50 per adult
Summary: Ottersghoul event includes Ottersghoul Spooktacular live show, fortune teller, unlimited rides, the haunted trail, pumpkin parade, ghostly characters and flash mobs.
Book here – Ottersghoul
Spooky Welly walk, Roy Castle, Lung Cancer foundation – book now for 2025
Where: Sefton park, Liverpool
When: 25th October 2025
Cost: £8 per ticket, under 2s free, £30 for a family of 4
Summary: creepy crafts, a freaky funfair, Halloween themed walking route.
Book here – Spooky Welly Walk – Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
Raver tots Halloween party, Liverpool – 2025 tickets on sale
Where: Invisible wind factory, Liverpool
When: 2nd November 2025, 2pm
Cost: £14 per child, £16 per adult, plus booking fees
Summary: Huge effects show throughout the event with dancers, performers, cold pyro, bubbles, festival sized confetti blasts, multi coloured lasers and lighting, parachute games, giant balloons, licensed bar and face painting!
Book here – Raver Tots Halloween Party Liverpool
Happy Halloween Event – Air Nation, St Helens – 2025 tickets on sale now
Where: Lowe street, Saint Helens, Merseyside, WA10 2QS
When: 30th & 31st October 2025
Cost: £16.99 per child
Summary: 1 hour 30 minute session
Book here – Halloween at Air Nation
Sorceress of Speke Hall, National Trust – details for 2025
Where: Speke, Liverpool, L24 1XD
When: 25th October – 2nd November 2025
Cost: included in admission
Summary: visit the house this spooky season to see how the Sorceress of Speke, along with her Monster Mice, have redecorated the Library, taken one of the bedrooms for her own and turned the Kitchen into a spell making zone!
Book here – Sorceress of Speke Hall | National Trust
Brilliant bats trail, Speke Hall – details for 2025
Where: The Walk, Speke, Liverpool, L24 1XD
When: 25th October – 23rd November 2025
Cost: included in admission costs
Summary: On this self-led trail through the Clough Woodland, learn which bat is so small it can fit inside a matchbox, how bats shout and guess some of our bats favourite smells!
Full details here – Brilliant Bats Trail | National Trust
The Canterville Ghost, Speke Hall – book now for 2025
Where: The Walk, Speke, Liverpool, L24 1XD
When: 28th October 2025
Cost: £13 a ticket
Summary: Family theatre show. Enjoy comedy and chills in this original adaptation of the charming Oscar Wilde tale, written especially for children and young families.
Book here – The Canterville Ghost | National Trust
Halloween day at Acorn Farm, details for 2025
Where: Acorn Farm, Depot Road, Kirkby, Knowsley, L33 3AR
When: 31st October 2025.
Cost: £1.50 plus normal admission prices
Lots of fun games & prizes, a fancy dress competition and our spooky haunted house! Normal admission prices apply. Tickets for the haunted house and games will be available to purchase on the day.
Find out more here – Acorn Farm
Little scarelings at Dobbies Garden Centre, Liverpool & Southport, book now for 2025
Where: Dobbies Southport, Benthams Way, Birkdale, Southport , PR8 4HX and
Dobbies Liverpool, 1a Speke Hall Avenue, Liverpool , L24 1UX
When: 18th, 19th, 25th, 26th and 31st October & 1st November 2025
Cost: £15 per child & £7.50 per adult
Summary: Fun and interactive with just the right amount of spookiness, this event provides the perfect opportunity to celebrate Halloween in a relaxed setting whilst enjoying some tasty food. What’s included:
- A spooktacular Halloween-themed afternoon tea
- Potion commotion: Stir, bubble and brew your own magical potion to take home
- Wizard’s slime lab: Where things get delightfully gooey
- Wand workshop: Sculpt your own magic wand
- Plus wickedly fun magical games
Book here – Events | Dobbies Garden Centres
Halloween at the Storybarn – book now for 2025
Where: The Storybarn, Calderstones park
When: 27th – 31st October 2025
Cost: £6 per child, £5 per adult
Summary: Show off your frightful fancy dress, play ghostly games, and create a spooktacular craft to take home at our Storybarn specials.
Perfect for kids aged 4-9 years, lasts 1 hour 30 minutes
Book here – Halloween at The Storybarn
The monster’s balls – sold out
Where: Mansion house, Calderstones park
When: 31st October 2025
Cost: £10 per child, Under 1s, adults £5
Summary: Family-friendly Halloween party with live DJ, ghostly games, dancing, and frightful fun. Storyhunters will be sharing terrific tales for you to cosy up in a quieter space.
Pre-order pizza and hot dogs. Expect more ice cream than you can throw a pumpkin at.
Suitable for children aged 1-9 years
Book here – Monster’s Ball
Pumpkin carving party, The Storybarn – sold out
Where: The Storybarn, Calderstone park
When: 25th & 26th October 2025
Cost: £10 per child (pumpkin included), £5 per adult (no pumpkin)
Summary: Session starts inside the Storybarn with a spooktacular story. Then we’ll head outside to pick our very own pumpkin to carve and take home.
Perfect for 4-9yr olds
Book here – Pumpkin Picking Party
Spooky Incy Wincy rhymers, The Storybarn – book now for 2025
Where: The Storybarn, Calderstone park
When: 25th and 26th October 2025
Cost:
Summary: Celebrate your little pumpkin’s first Halloween with sweetly spooky stories, gigglishly ghoulish rhymes, and craft a special canvas with your little one’s footprint to take home and keep.
Book here – Baby’s First Halloween
Halloween Party For Under 5s – Sefton Palm house – book now for 2025
Where: Palm house, Sefton Park
When: 30th October 2025
Cost: adults, babies and children older than 5 £4.40, children aged 1-5 years £13.20
Summary: Join Jumping Jacks for a not-so-scary Halloween with mini beast themed nursery rhymes, action songs, sing-a-longs, dancing, fun sensory props, bubbles and more!
Book here – Tickets for Palm House Sefton Park Halloween
Halloween party for school aged children, Sefton Palm house – book now for 2025
Where: Palm house, Sefton Park
When: 30th October 2025
Cost: Adults and under 4s £4.40, children aged 4+ £14.30
Summary: School aged children Halloween party with ghoulish games, eye-popping entertainment, a monster dance party, trick or treat challenges & more.
Book here – Tickets for Palm House Sefton Park Halloween
Halloween Story Time, Sefton Palm house – details for 2025
Where: Palm house, Sefton Park
When: 29th October 2025
Cost: free
Summary: Join the Palm House team for a spooktacular session of stories, rhymes, and seasonal fun!
Full details here – Halloween story time
Day of the dead festival, Southport adventure coast – book now for 2025
Where: Adventure Coast Southport
When: 1st, 7th, 8th November 2025
Cost: from £15 for spectators and £20 for riders.
Summary: Step into a world of colour and celebration inspired by Mexico’s vibrant Día de los Muertos. Expect dazzling performances, live drummers, flame-throwing spectacles, and a breathtaking fireworks finale.
Book here – Day Of The Dead Festival | Adventure Coast Southport
Halloween at knowsley Safari – Book now for 2025
When: 25th October – 2nd November 2025
Cost: Included in normal admission costs
Wander through the Foot Safari, where mischievous characters are waiting to surprise you at our spooky conservation stations. From creepy crafts to trick-or-treat surprises, every corner is packed with Halloween fun and wild learning.
Book here – Halloween event
Family Halloween Party, The Old library – book now for 2025
Where: Lister Steps at The Old Library, Green Lane Old Swan L13 7EB
When: 31st October 2025
Summary: A fun, family-friendly Halloween party at The Old Library — with games, crafts, dancing, costume catwalk, sweet treats, and more!
Book here – Family Halloween Party
Halloween Party at Liverpool ONE – Details for 2025
Where: Liverpool ONE
When: 26th October 2025, 11am – 5pm
Includes a children’s fancy dress competition, drumming workshop, zombie dancers, free kids fun and spooky entertainment.
Full details here – Halloween Party 2025 – Liverpool ONE
Halloween trail at Ness Botanic gardens – Details for 2025
Where: Neston Road, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, CH64 4AY
When: 25th October – 3rd November 2025
Cost: free trail with standard entry fee.
Summary: There is plenty for all the family to see & a conundrum for 5-12 year olds to solve. The trail will take approximately 40 minutes to complete.
Find out more here – Halloween at Ness
Halloween biscuit decorating at Ness Botanic gardens – book now for 2025
Where: Neston Road, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, CH64 4AY
When: 30th October 2025. various time. Booking required
Cost: £6 per child
Summary: Each child will get to decorate 3 Halloween themed biscuits and create a Halloween craft to take home with them. Come dressed up and get in the Halloween spirit! Activities suitable for children 3 years and up.
Book here – Family activities – Ness Botanic Gardens
Mortimous spook’s museum of curiosities – Ness botanic gardens – Book now for 2025
Where: Neston Road, Ness, Neston, Cheshire, CH64 4AY
When: 30th October 2025
Cost: £5 per ticket, suitable for 3+
Summary: Join Mortomus Spook as he conjures up curious creatures, tells hilarious stories, and makes ghostly giggles echo through the autumn leaves. Magic and storytelling show. Lasts approx 30 minutes.
Book here – Mortimous Spook’s Museum of Curiosities
Halloween family rave, Big fish little fish, Hangar 34 – book now for 2025
Where: Hangar 34, 34 Greenland Street Liverpool L1 0BS
When: 19th October 2025
Cost: Adults £12.91, child £9.75
Summary: Embark on a journey through the haunted dancefloor and groove the afternoon away amidst swirling bubbles, eerie fog machines, colossal pumpkin balloons, a chilling confetti blast, and a spellbinding parachute dance finale – all within the heart of a real rave venue, now transformed into a haunted house of dance.
Book here – LIVERPOOL – Halloween Spooktacular Family Rave
Trick or truth, Eureka science + discovery – Book now for 2025
Where: Eureka! Science + Discovery, Victoria Place, Wallasey, CH44 6QY
When: 25th October – 2nd November 2025
Cost: Included in admission cost
This Halloween, science meets sorcery! Enjoy Dr Ken’s spellbinding shows, craft mind-bending illusions, and be amazed by roaming magicians
Full details here – October Half Term: Trick or Truth? – Eureka! Science + Discovery
Free Spooky Sudley, Sudley House – Details for 2025
Where: Sudley House, Mossley Hill Road, Liverpool, L18 8BX
When: 31st October 2025
Summary: Family friendly Halloween celebrations
Full details – Spooky Sudley | National Museums Liverpool
Free craft and create Halloween, Walker Art Gallery – no details yet for 2025
Where – William Brown St, Liverpool, L3 8EL
When – 31st October – 1st November 2024
Expect spooktacular Halloween crafting fun.
Full details here – Craft and Create: Halloween
Who is Mavis Davis? whodunnit trail at Rainford farm – book now for 2025
Where: Rainfords Farm, Catchdale Moss Ln, Eccleston, Saint Helens WA10 5QG
When: Every day in October 2025 (interactive trail with actors and a different suspect and demises 28th-30th)
Cost: £5.75 Per adult or child
Put your wellies on for a spooky welly walk with a difference! Head out amongst the trees to meet our scarecrows and help us solve a mystery like no other. Follow your trail guide and solve the clues to work out the identity of Mavis Davis.
Suitable for the whole family, however it will be especially enjoyed by ages 5+
The trail should take approximately 45 mins to complete but you are welcome to take as long as you need.
No dogs.
Book here – Who is Mavis Davis? A Whodunnit Trail – Rainfords Farm Ltd
Day of the dead family festival, Floral Pavilion, New Brighton – book now for 2025
Where: Floral Pavilion, Marine Promenade, New Brighton, Wirral, CH45 2JS
When: 1st November 2025
Cost: from £5 a ticket
This enchanting celebration will bring together colourful altars, traditional music, arts and crafts, delicious food, and captivating performances. Immerse yourself in a joyful tribute to loved ones, with activities for all ages, from sugar skull decorations, face painting to storytelling and retail stalls.
Book here – Day of the Dead Family Festival – Floral Pavilion
Halloween half term at Port Sunlight Village, book now for 2025
Where: Port Sunlight village
When: 30th October – 1st November 2025
Cost: see individual events
Halloween wand and broom decorating – 30th October, £6.50 per child
Halloween themed crafts – 31st October, £5 per child
Spooktacular tour – 31st October, £6-£15 per person
Autumn self-led trail – 1st November, £6 per ticket
Book here – What’s on | Port Sunlight Village
Halloween with the friendly witch, Inglenook Farm – book now for 2025
Where: Rainford, Moss Nook Ln, Rainford, Saint Helens WA11 8AE
When: 29th – 31st October 2025
Enjoy a fun, kid-friendly walk through the sunflower field, meet Inglenooks friendliest witch, and get creative with our fun-filled Halloween craft activities!
Book here – Halloween with the friendly witch
Little Liverpool Halloween special – book now for 2025
When: 21st – 25th, 28th – 31st October 2025
Where: Museum of Liverpool
Join Winnie the spider and some of her friends for a spooktacular special in the Little Liverpool gallery at the Museum of Liverpool. Come and explore our dedicated children’s gallery with some added Halloween themed fun.
Little Liverpool spooky specials are for visitors aged up to age 6 and their parents/carers.
Book here – Little Liverpool Halloween special
Spooky Science & soft play, Activities for all – book now for 2025
Where: Activity for All, Arrowe Commercial Park, Arrowe Brook Rd, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH49 1AB
When: 28th October 2025
cost: £12.95
The event lasts around two-hours and starts with Spooky Science, followed by free play fun in The Fun Forest Soft Play.
Suitable for 4 years upwards
Book here – Spooky Science & soft play
Baddies Ball with Maleficien and the Evil Queen, Activities for all – book now for 2025
Where: Activity for All, Arrowe Commercial Park, Arrowe Brook Rd, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH49 1AB
When: 25th October 2025
cost: £14.95
Hosted by two of the most iconic villains; Maleficent and Snow White’s Evil Queen — the night will be filled with soft play, live performances of famous villain songs, dancing and interactive Halloween games.
Book here – Baddies Ball
Rice lane city farm farm pumpkin patch – Details for 2025
When: From 4th October 2025
Where: Rice Lane City Farm is at the end of Rawcliffe Road, Walton L9 1AW
Fairground, pumpkins and food. Cash only.
Full details here – Rice Lane City farm
Halloween Acres spooky walk, Rice lane city farm farm – book now for 2025
When: 25th & 26th October 2025, 6pm
Where: Rice Lane City Farm is at the end of Rawcliffe Road, Walton L9 1AW
Fancy dress encouraged. Fear filled night walk through the woodland graveyard
Full details here – Rice Lane City farm
Free Southport AR Halloween trail – details for 2025
Where: Southport
When: 25th October – 2nd November 2025
Two free AR trails around Southport.
Full details here – AR Halloween trails
Fear by the pier, Southport – 2025 details
Where: Silcocks Funland, Southport
When: 31st Oct-2nd Nov available 12-5pm
£10 per child. No need to book
Includes a kids meal, spooky plushie drink, ride on the carousel, games of scary crazy golf and a treat goodie bag.
Plus special appearance by Willow the witch! & there’s the free spooky hall of mirrors & lots to do inside Silcocks Funland!
Full details here – Fear by the pier
Free The skeleton storywalk, Liverpool – details for 2025
When:
Where: Liverpool city centre
Hidden in windows throughout the city centre are the skeletons in a new bone-tingling trail. Walk through town and discover the spooky skeletons created by artists.
Full details here – Halloween in Liverpool
Spooky story time with Art Groupies – Details for 2025
Where/When: Liverpool Library, William Brown street on 30th October and Museum of Liverpool on 31st October 2025
Fancy dress encouraged
Full details here – Halloween in Liverpool
Katumba Halloween Carnival Parade – details for 2025
Where: Liverpool city Centre
When: 31st October 2025 at 7pm
Feel the drums. Honour the ancestors. Celebrate the spirits.
Full details here – Kaumba Halloween Carnival Parade
Free Make it! craft workshop. The Atkinson – details for 2025
When – 30th October 2025
Drop-in any time between 11am – 3pm and get creative.
Halloween arts and crafts.
Full details here – Make It! Craft Workshop – The Atkinson
Grimm-Stage, Halloween at Brimstage farm – book now for 2025
When: 25th – 31st October 2025
Where: Brimstage Farm, Brimstage Road, Brimstage, Wirral, CH63 6JA
Suitable for primary school and younger kids.
Tickets include meet Wednesday Adams, Cinderella Pumpkin Ball, spooky arts and crafts, Grimm fairytale trail, trick or treat with the friendly wolf, corn blaster and ghoul school.
Book here – Grimm-stage
October half term activities Liverpool 2025
Find all the family events without a Halloween theme in Liverpool this October half term here – October half term activities Liverpool.
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