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Halloween Events for Kids
in Los Angeles 2025
Halloween Events at Zoos and Aquariums
Spider Pavilion
Exposition Park
Daily, September 14 - November 30, 2025
The spiders return to The Natural History Museum, in the improved Spider Pavilion that debuted a few years ago. Guests have the rare opportunity to immerse themselves in the spiders’ habitat and witness the day-to-day lives of these often misunderstood, but uniquely talented creatures. Visit the website here.
Scarium Family Night
Long Beach
Friday, October 17, 2025
Scarium, the Aquarium of the Pacific's annual Halloween celebration is once again presented as a nighttime event. Guests can don costumes to explore the Aquarium’s animal exhibits at night, including the shark, ray, and sea jelly touch tanks, and go trick-or-treating with provided goodie bags. Event highlights include a costume contest, a vampire magician, a DJ spinning tunes, photo booths, and kids activity booths. Visit the website here.
Sea Scare at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
San Pedro
Saturday, October 18, 2025
The siren's song is calling you to Cabrillo Marine Aquarium for Sea Scare, its annual Halloween event. A family friendly night of thrills, chills, and gills awaits. Visit the website here.
Boo at the LA Zoo
Griffith Park
Saturday & Sunday, October 18 - 26, 2025
A trip to the LA Zoo is always a treat, but the last two weekends of October are especially sweet: this year's Boo at the Zoo includes trick-or-treat stations with wildlife-friendly candies made with sustainable ingredients. Visit the website here.
Boo at the Moorpark Teaching Zoo
Moorpark
Saturday & Sunday, October 18 - 26, 2025
The Teaching Zoo's annual Halloween festivities are quite the treat, with two weekends of family fun. Highlights include interactive trick-or-treating and family photo ops, plus wildlife programs and meet & greets. Visit the website here.
Boo at the Zoo (Santa Ana Zoo)
Santa Ana
Saturday & Sunday, October 18 - 26, 2025
The zoo presents a "merry not scary" Halloween event with a decorated trail along the animal enclosures. Kids follow a fun Halloween trail through the zoo during extended admission hours, taking home goodies from 10 toy/treat stations. Family-friendly costumes encouraged. Visit the website here.
Halloween Zoo-tacular
Irvine
Saturday, October 25, 2025
The Orange County Zoo throws a party to get the animals in the mood for Halloween. Activities include trick-or-treating, spooky crafts, and a scavenger hunt for kids under the age of 12. The animals, meanwhile, get to munch on treat-filled pumpkins throughout the day. Visit the website here.
Boo at the Bay: Family Halloween Party
Newport Beach
Saturday, October 25, 2025
The Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center hosts a fun family Halloween party featuring spooky stories, creepy crafts, weird science experiments, bizarre animals, and hair-raising games. Costumes encouraged. Visit the website here.
Halloween Walk-thrus and Immersive Experiences
Magic of the Jack O'Lanterns
Palos Verdes
Select dates, September 19 - November 2, 2025
The pumpkins are on the move! In 2025, Magic of the Jack O'Lanterns is held in a new location: South Coast Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes. As before, guests are treated to a larger-than-life pumpkin experience. This year’s event is reimagined as Enchanted Hollow: a place where nature glows, jack-o’-lanterns shimmer, and wonder lives around every bend. Visit the website here.
Nights of the Jack
King Gillette Ranch, Calabasas
Select dates, September 26 - November 1, 2025
Nights of the Jack is a family-friendly, Halloween-themed show situated on a mile-long nature trail filled with thousands of hand-carved jack-o'-lanterns and endless photographable moments. Through the magic of light projection mapping, ordinary buildings are transformed into hauntingly fantastic wonders. This year a reimagined illuminated field debuts, promising a thrilling and chilling display. Also new, the "Almost Dark" trail allows guests to explore the experience as day becomes night, just as the sun is setting, as the lights are first coming on. Visit the website here.
Carved
Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge
Daily, October 3 - 30, 2025
Carved is a family-friendly Halloween event for all ages; visitors can enjoy a mile-long walk through Descanso's beautiful gardens and woods, viewing hundreds of jack-o’-lanterns carved from real pumpkins along the trail. 2025's event features a new route. Visit the website here.
Kid-Friendly Halloween Festivals & Celebrations
Kidspace Halloween
Pasadena
Tuesday - Sunday, September 19 - October 31, 2025
Halloween season at Kidspace starts September 19 this year. Kiddos can strut their stuff in the daily Halloween Parades - costumes encouraged! Visit the website here.
Pumpkin Palooza at Discovery Cube OC
Santa Ana
Saturdays & Sundays, October 4 - 26, 2025
Discovery Cube OC has a real treat for us this Halloween: Pumpkin Palooza, a seasonal festival of science fun. Kids can come in costume to enjoy two floors of freaky fun, an interactive dance party, bumper cars, life-size corn mazes, and trick or treating. New this year: the Pumpkin Paths maze. Guests can journey through interactive spaces with a special pumpkin device to learn about composting and more. Visit the website here.
Enchanted Halloweekends at Discovery Cube LA
Sylmar
Saturdays & Sundays, October 4 - November 1, 2025
This enchanting evening event at the Discovery Cube is full of spooky science, trick or treating, magic, a costume contest, and plenty of happy Halloween fun. Kids are encouraged to come in costume. New this year: "Mystery at the Cube," a family-friendly escape room, as well as a new corn maze. Visit the website here.
A Faery Hunt Show and Fairy Halloween Party
Tarzana
Sunday, October 12, 2025
The faery folke lead a fun and gentle immersive quest for the fairy royalty at this interactive, musical performance. Kids are invited to come in costume for this special Halloween performance. Following the show the fun continues with a fairy fun Halloween party, that includes one-on-one time with the fairies, dancing, games, storytelling, fairy unicorn readings, frolic, & fun! Visit the website here.
Spooky Science Night
Downey
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Columbia Memorial Space Center hosts a spooky-themed night of science! A variety of hands-on activities, such as a spooky robotics lab and super slime, are available for all ages. Visit the website here.
Battleship IOWA Halloween STEMebration
San Pedro - FREE
Saturday, October 18, 2025
This Halloween season, Battleship IOWA welcomes guests on board to enjoy STEM stations, craft stations, a spooky reading corner, and games. Treats can be gathered at six candy stations and Trunk-Or-Treating with first responders. Visit the website here.
Pumpkin Race Festival
Manhattan Beach - FREE
Sunday, October 19, 2025
The city of Manhattan Beach holds its annual Pumpkin Race on the pier. Families are encouraged to attend in costume and create their own crazy pumpkin race cars at the pier's colorful Pumpkin Race Land. Visit the website here.
Halloween Spooktacular Boo Crew Workshop at the Unicorn Store at One Colorado
Pasadena
Saturday, October 18, 2025
It paints a spooky picture: the Unicorn Store at One Colorado hosts a Halloween-themed craft event. Each child ticket includes all the supplies needed to paint a ghostly masterpiece in a shimmering gold frame. Visit the website here.
Halloween Bu Bash Carnival
Malibu
Friday, October 24, 2025
This special celebration in Malibu is catered to younger children. For $10, families can enjoy bounce houses, carnival games, art activities, and a trick-or-treat street. Kids can show off their costumes on the costume catwalk. Visit the website here.
37th Annual Halloween Carnival in Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach
Saturday, October 25, 2025
This local festival in Manhattan Beach scares up the Halloween fun, with carnival games, a costume contest and parade, a haunted house, and a cupcake walk. This non-spooky boo bash is free to attend, though some activities may cost money. Carnival bracelets are available for $20 per person. Visit the website here.
Marina Spooktacular
Marina del Rey - FREE
Saturday & Sunday, October 25 & 26, 2025
Marina del Rey's Halloween Spooktacular is appropriate for all ages, but the scares get scarier as darkness falls. Celebrants can experience thrills and chills navigating the kids giant grid maze, embarking on graveyard treasure hunts, playing carnival games and braving the giant slide, buccaneer pirate ship, fun house obstacle course, and inflatable maze. Visit the website here.
Haute Dog Howl'oween Parade
Long Beach
Sunday, October 26, 2025
The parade for animal charities features more than 500 dogs in colorful costumes. Even for folks who don't normally venture down Long Beach way, some of these canine costumes really are worth the drive. The Haute Dog Howl'oween Parade claims to be the "World's Largest Halloween Pet Event." The event is held at the former Belmont Pool grassy area and paths. Visit the website here.
Halloween DTLA Festival for Kids
DTLA
Friday, October 31, 2025
Downtown families can celebrate Halloween at this fun kid-friendly party right in their own backyard. Activities include a trick-or-treat trail, character meet-and-greets, hands-on arts & crafts, a dance party, yummy snacks, and puppet and magic shows. Visit the website here.
Lakewood Halloween Carnivals
Lakewood - FREE
Friday, October 31, 2025
Lakewood's traditional Halloween Carnivals offer fun and safety for youngsters on the year's spookiest night. Each park has a special theme, such as Minecraft. Phineas and Ferb, or Stranger Things. Visit the website here.
Halloween Events at Theme Parks
Oogie Boogie Bash – A Disney Halloween Party
Anaheim
Select dates through October 31, 2025
Trick-or-treating at Disneyland - what could be better? This year's spooooookiest Halloween celebration is a villainous bash at Disney California Adventure Park. Visit the website here.
Brick or Treat
Carlsbad
Select dates, September 20 - November 1, 2025
Legoland offers a festive kid-centric Halloween celebration on select weekends this fall. The fun includes tons of candy, an all-new show lineup, never-before-seen exclusive Lego characters, and more. New features for 2025: the Coast Cruise transforms into the Ghost Cruise, complete with ghostly surprises and giggles, the Driving Schools become a haunted highway full of silly scares and boo-levard detours, and the the Park entrance comes alive with Halloween mischief in the Monster Halloween Hub, where guests can meet and greet with favorites like Mummy, Monster. Visit the website here.
Knott's Spooky Farm
Buena Park
Thursday - Sunday, September 25 - October 31, 2025
Knott's Berry Farm invites kids to a daytime non-scare Halloween celebration that's about cheer, not fear. Kids can dress in all their Halloween finery to go trick-or-treating around the town of Calico’s shops and buildings, plus enjoy additional Halloween activities. Visit the website here.
Tricks and Treats at Magic Mountain
Valencia
Friday - Sunday, September 26 - November 2, 2025
The fun is spooky, not scary, at Six Flags Magic Mountain's daytime Halloween festivities. At the all-new daytime fall festival "Tricks and Treats" scares up family-friendly activities, a trick-or-treat trail, and access to Magic Mountain's world-class rides. Visit the website here.
Halloween 2025 Movies & Shows
Bob Baker’s Hallowe'en Spooktacular
Highland Park
Select dates, September 6 - November 9, 2025
A beloved Bob Baker tradition returns! The Bob Baker Marionettes presents Hallowe'en Spooktacular, a family-friendly musical revue, set to haunting and jazzy holiday-themed tunes celebrating nearly every decade. Visit the website here.
Coco at the El Capitan
Hollywood
Daily, September 26 - October 2, 2025
Remember Coco? The El Capitan brings back the award-winning Disney-Pixar feature for a limited run. Mariachi Divas and the Ballet Folklorico de Los Angeles perform live on stage as guests enter the theatre. The audience is then treated to the Fiesta of Lights featuring music from the movie. Visit the website here.
Absolutely Halloween
Santa Monica
Saturday & Sunday, October 4 - 26, 2025
Santa Monica Playhouse presents the tale of a sweet young girl named Candy, who learns some surprising lessons about life, love, laughter, and sugar. A colorful array of characters takes her on a magical All Hallows Eve adventure, and the audience must help Candy save Halloween. Visit the website here.
Halloween Historical Cemetery Tour
Long Beach
Saturday, October 25, 2025
The Historical Society of Long Beach conducts its annual living history tour at the city’s two oldest cemeteries, which are located adjacent to each other on Willow Street between Orange and California. Visit the website here.
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas In Concert with Danny Elfman
Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Hills
Saturday & Sunday, October 25 & 26, 2025
What's this? What's this? There's people singing songs... Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas screens at the Hollywood Bowl with the music performed live to screen, with special guests sure to give you chills. Visit the website here.
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