For a classic take on Halloween festivities, Village at Black Creek hosts some hair-raising happenings at their Halloween at the Village event, including trick-or-treating among the village’s beautiful heritage buildings. There’s entertaining and educational shows and activities for kids, like grisly experiments, messy medicine, monster crafts and creepy carnival games.
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Go wild at the Toronto Zoo for Halloween with “Boo at the Zoo”, featuring half-off admission for kids 12 & under that are in costume and accompanied by an adult paying regular admission. Explore the Discovery Zone and collect goodies, meet some new wild friends with the special animal encounters, boogie
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Creep over to the Bata Shoe Museum this Halloween where they will be celebrating with free admission (during their ongoing Free Sunday program) and a trick-or-treating scavenger hunt throughout the museum, as well as hands-on crafts for the whole family, iSpy game cards and a try-on station. Plus, kids dressed
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Immerse yourself in history and have a one-of-a-kind Halloween experience at Pickering Museum Village with their Halloween Fest! At this open-air museum, families can spend time outside in nature, sample sweets, enjoy fun-filled activities, create boo-tiful crafts and learn about Halloween celebrations of the past. Pickering Museum Village: Halloween Fest
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Join the Markham Museum with their 25-acre site transformed into a ghoulishly grand Halloween town at ScaryFest, where you and your little ghouls and goblins can enjoy crafts, games, trackless train, live science shows, and more! A family event perfect for kids 10 and under, feel free to come in costume
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👻 ooooOOOOOoooh, it’s time for October! It’s time to prepare for Thanksgiving and Halloween, plus Ontario’s comfortable temperatures and brightly-coloured foliage are a sight to behold: you can go for a nice walk in nature (check out our list of Toronto’s hiking trails), go apple picking, and of course, go
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Have a safe and fun Halloween this year at free Treat Accessibly Halloween Villages, where all kids and parents, with and without disabilities, can enjoy an accessible and inclusive trick-or-treating experience that makes inclusion the sweetest part. This year, they are hosting Halloween events across Canada for all kids, including
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Riverdale Farm offers a free weekend of fun with pumpkin carving, crafts, face painting and exploring the spooky “Boo Barn”, with donations of non-perishable food item suggested. Families can carve pumpkins on-site (suggested donation is $5 per pumpkin, tools are provided), collect the pumpkin seeds and then take them home.
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City of Toronto’s History Museums are hosting family-friendly Halloween events again this year, including crafts, musical performances, historical tours and ghost stories! While some special events incur a fee, some activities are free or with a suggested donation. Plus, remember that all Toronto History Museums offer free general admission all
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Go back in time this Halloween at Fort York National Historic Site for their After Dark lantern tours to hear chilling and eerie tales of the historic buildings and surrounding grounds. Learn about the bloody Battle of York, explore the military burial ground and find out more about the fort’s
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