Halloween Activities for Kids in Houston 2025

Top Halloween Events In Houston and Nearby

Zoo Boo at the Houston Zoo
Museum District
Friday, September 26 - Friday, October 31, 2025
The Houston Zoo invites families to celebrate the spooky season with its beloved, month-long Zoo Boo event, running from September 26 through October 31. Little ghouls and goblins are encouraged to dress in their best costumes and enjoy a host of autumn-themed activities perfect for all ages. Visit the website here.

Halloween at the BOOseum at Children's Museum Houston
Museum District
Saturday, September 27 - Friday, October 31, 2025
This Halloween season, Children’s Museum Houston is brewing up a cauldron of frightful fun as it transforms into the BOOseum! Packed with spine-tingling excitement and eerie surprises, the museum offers a playful mix of spooky science, ghostly games, and creepy crawlers—perfect for young witches, wizards, and thrill-seekers of all ages. Visit the website here.

Boo on the Boardwalk in Kemah
Kemah Boardwalk – FREE
281-535-8100
215 Kipp Ave., Kemah, TX, 77565
Friday, October 3 - Friday, October 31, 2025 (Weekends)
Repeating every week — Sundays, Fridays, and Saturdays through October 31, 2025.
Age: 5+
The FREE spooktacular event includes creepy crafts, trick or treating, costume contests, special performances, and more ghoulish fun on Freaky Fridays, Spooky Saturdays & Scary Sundays. Visit the website here.

Spooktacular at the Depot at Tomball Depot Plaza
Tomball – FREE
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Guests can enjoy Ghostbusters-themed games, bounce houses, face painting, crafts, local vendors, and more. Visit the website here.

ArBOOretum at the Houston Arboretum
Memorial Park
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Grab your costumes and get the kids together for the Arboretum’s biggest family event of the year! ArBOOretum features fun fall activities for all ages including live animals, pumpkin decorating, and Houston’s only Trick-or-Treat Nature Trail. Enjoy these fall classics and so much more! Visit the website here.

Galaxy Frights at Space Center Houston
Southeast Houston
Saturday, October 18 - Sunday, October 26, 2025 (Weekends)
Transport the whole family to explore the wonders of space–with a spooky twist! Show off your Halloween costumes, enjoy special activities and more. Visit the website here.

Hocus Pocus Pops at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
The Woodlands – FREE
Friday, October 24, 2025
Get ready to kick the Halloween season off in style! Enjoy a haunting evening of plaza trick-or-treating, ghoulish games, spooky songs and a cacophony of costumes! It’s all the fun you’ve come to expect from a Pavilion performing arts show, with a creepy twist that’s just the right amount of scary for any family. Visit the website here.

Halloween in the Hangar at Lone Star Flight Museum
Southeast Houston
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Bring your Boo Crew for a Halloween adventure like no other! The hangars transform into a fright plan packed with trick-or-treating and spooky, family-friendly fun inside 130,000 square feet of air-conditioned space. Visit the website here.

Scream on the Green at Discovery Green
Downtown – FREE
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Scream on the Green returns with a costume contest, living sculptures, palm readers and psychics, games, music, and more. Plus, enjoy a screening of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Visit the website here.

Boo on the Bayou: Celebrating the Port in Your Backyard at the Houston Maritime Center and Museum
East River – FREE
Sunday, October 26, 2025
This special event invites families from across Houston to enjoy a unique blend of Halloween fun and maritime discovery. The event will feature a variety of hands-on activities and entertainment for kids of all ages. Visit the website here.

Haunted Houses in Houston for Scarier Halloween Fun

Houston Terror Dome
Channelview
Friday, September 19 - Sunday, November 2, 2025 (Select dates)
Head to Channelview for a fully air-conditioned complex of horrors at The Houston Terror Dome. Don't let the AC fool you—these terrors will have you sweating long after you leave. Visit the website here.

Creepy Hollow Haunted House in Rosharon
Rosharon
Friday, September 26 - Saturday, Nov 1, 2025 (Fridays & Saturdays)
Located only minutes from Downtown Houston, Creepy Haunted Hollow House features three haunted attractions, multiple shows, amazing food, and games. Visit the website here.

REDRUM Fear Park in Richmond
Richmond
Saturday, September 27 - Friday, October 31, 2025 (Select dates)
REDRUM Haunted House features spooky attractions accompanied by live music, which include Cinegore, Twisted Circus 3D, Redrum Lazer Fury, and the Deadwood Asylum. Visit the website here.

Phobia Haunted House Kemah
Kemah
Saturday, September 27 - Saturday, November 1, 2025 - (Select dates)
Head to Phobia Haunted House for an evening of horrors that will have you screaming for more. Visit the website here.

Phobia Haunted House BW 8
South Houston
Saturday, September 27 - Saturday, November 1, 2025 - (Select dates)
Head to Phobia Haunted House for an evening of horrors that will have you screaming for more. Visit the website here.

Haunted Drive
Chain-O-Lakes Resort, Cleveland
Saturday, October 4 - Saturday, November 1, 2025 (Weekends)
Get ready for some spooky fun! This 1.5-mile drive through a haunted house is fun for all ages. There is also a kid's haunted house, a trick-or-treat area, a haunted maze, and an adult haunted house. Visit the website here.

Houston Scream Fest
Southeast Houston
Friday, October 3 - Saturday, November 8, 2025 (Fridays & Saturdays)
Get ready to run for your lives at Houston Scream Fest. This is more than just your average haunted house, it's a festival in the scary sense. Visit the website here.

Haunted Trails in Old Town Spring
Cypress
Friday, October 3 - Saturday, November 1, 2025 (Select Dates)
Come out to the Haunted Trails and board a hay wagon to the edge of the dark woods. There you will be left to walk a trail that is full of mortifying scenes, frightening creatures, and the spirits that haunt this town! Theres no better time to face your fears than this Halloween season! Visit the website here.

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