This weekend promises to be an especially fun one with lots of Halloween activities to keep the kids entertained!
Below is a list of child-friendly events in and around Bristol but before you check out what’s on, please do pop over to the Bristol Mum Facebook page to give it a like and keep up with even more family-friendly events and activities coming up soon.
SATURDAY 31st OCTOBER
Mexican Day of the Dead: Bristol Museum
- 10am – 5pm
- FREE (donations welcome)
- More details
Celebrate this traditional Mexican festival with face painting, puppetry and real Mexican artefacts.
Create Day of the Dead crafts, add your memories of loved ones to the museum’s colourful shrine and enjoy the vibrant sounds of a Mexican band.
Family Film Screening: Arnolfini
- 11am – 1pm
- FREE (donations welcome)
- More details
A special U-rated film screening just for families with children of all ages. Doors open 10.45am to collect tickets and choose your seat.
Bristol Family Arts Festival Finale of ‘My Green City’: Arnolfini
- 1 – 5pm
- FREE (donations welcome)
- More details
An afternoon of Green-themed activities for families. Make a spooky plant costume or prop, create giant drawings, take a storytelling boat trip or help design ways to feed the future city. Most suitable for children aged 5+ but children of all ages welcome to have a go.
Arthur’s Dream Boat: Tobacco Factory Theatres
- Tue 27 October – Sun 01 November 11am & 2pm
- Age suitability: Ages 3 – 8 and their families
- Tickets £7
- Visit http://www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/detail/arthurs_dream_boat/
Perfect for half term, Long Nose Puppets present a magical, playful children’s show which is so enchanting that everyone will want to sail away with Arthur in his dream boat!
Bristol Zombie Walk: College Green
- 12 noon
- More details
Come and watch (or even join in) this amazing annual Zombie Walk starting from College Green!
MyMiniDisco Bristol Candy Rave: The Old Fire Station, Silver Street
- 2pm – 4.30pm
- Tickets: Available from www.myminidisco.co.uk £6 kids, £8 adults or family ticket £25 (4), no more than 3 kids per adult
- For information, email bristol@myminidisco.co.uk
To celebrate Halloween MyMiniDisco are throwing an ultraviolet fancy dress disco special, “Candy Rave” (think Day of the Dead, candy skulls and fluorescent costumes).
Ramping up the rave anthems DJ Soul of Man (Finger Lickin’) will be playing from the super sized ghetto blaster and starring local legend and Shambala sensation Annabelle Holland (Frenetic Engineering). Prizes for best costumes, FREE face painting, complimentary snack bags and lots of crazy dancing. For children aged 0-10.
- 11am – 5pm
- Free (usual admission charge applies)
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Fearsome fun for all at Tyntesfield including a spooky Hallowe’en trail, eerie arts and crafts, a torchlight tour and pumpkin carving. Fearsome fancy dress is a must!
Pumpkin Carving Workshop: Tyntesfield
- 2 – 4pm
- £3 per pumpkin (plus normal admission charge)
- Buy tickets
- More details
Come and have a go at carving your own pumpkin!
The Giant Pumpkin Chase: Eastville Park
- 11am – 3pm
- FREE
- Eastville park
A family treasure hunt around Eastville Park with activities along the route. It’s free, fun and fancy dress is encouraged!
Chaos by Lords of Strutt: Tobacco Factory Theatres
- Thu 29 – Sat 31 October 7.30pm / Matinee Fri & Sat 2.30pm
- Age suitability: 8+ (partial nudity, though nothing you wouldn’t see at the beach, and one curse word might slip through).
- Tickets Full £12 / Concession £8. Family ticket £34 (2 adults & 2 children or 1 adult & 3 children)
- Visit http://www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/detail/chaos_lords_of_strut/
Ireland’s most emotional dancers are here to change the world with dance and share their “idiot proof” secret to life and happiness! In this motivational, roller-coaster of a show, watch Famous Séamus and Seántastic hold it together as they dance and bicker through a hilarious hour of physical and “meta-physical” comedy.
Halloween Party: The Ardagh, Horfield Common
- 4 – 6.30pm
- FREE
A fancy dress party at the cafe, with Halloween fun, games & spooky goings-on for all ages – all welcome! Halloween-themed BBQ and goodies & a great fancy dress prize for the best costume.
Spellbinding Hallowe’en Trail: Dyrham Park
Help solve the riddles for the witches spells and collect things in the parkland for their magical potion in order for you to win your prize!
- 10am – 4pm
- £1 per trail (plus normal admission charge applies)
- More details
Autumn Posy Making: Dyrham Park
- 11.30am
- FREE (normal admission charge applies)
- More details
Forage in the park and allotment for colourful Autumn leaves, feathers and more to create a little Autumnal posy to take a piece of Autumnal Dyrham Park home with you.
Family Halloween Storytelling Boat Trip: Arnolfini
- 2.30 – 4pm
- £5/£3 concessions and children under 12; free for under-5s
- More details
A family friendly boat tour to the Ballast Seed Garden. Dress up as your favourite ghost or ghoul and enjoy some spooky storytelling.
Day of the Dead Halloween Disco: Zion Bristol
- 2 – 4pm
- Entry £3 per child adults & under 2s free entry)
- More details
Bring the kids along for a Halloween party with a difference, join us to celebrate with the Mexican ‘Day of the Dead’ Halloween disco!
We’ll have face-painting, ‘zombie statues’ and Mexican dance-off with spooky prizes to be won. Cafe open all day.
Entry includes squash & a biscuit.
SUNDAY 1st NOVEMBER
Monthly cookery club for age 6-8. Make a different recipe every month (no need to sign up for a term, just book the dates/recipes you’d like to come to).
All the classes take place at Meals for Squeals cookery school in Coalpit Heath, Bristol. Award-winning cookery school, DBS (CRB) checked, food hygiene certification, accredited by Kallikids.
Today’s class will be making fruity flapjacks.
- 10.30-11.30am
- £10 (includes all ingredients and equipment, take home everything you cook)
- To book please visit http://sunday-morning-cookery-club.eventrbrite.co.uk
Arthur’s Dream Boat: Tobacco Factory Theatres
- Tue 27 October – Sun 01 November 11am & 2pm
- Age suitability: Ages 3 – 8 and their families
- Tickets £7
- Visit http://www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/detail/arthurs_dream_boat/
Perfect for half term, Long Nose Puppets present a magical, playful children’s show which is so enchanting that everyone will want to sail away with Arthur in his dream boat!
- 11am – 5pm
- Free (usual admission charge applies)
- More details
Fearsome fun for all at Tyntesfield including a spooky Hallowe’en trail, eerie arts and crafts, a torchlight tour and pumpkin carving. Fearsome fancy dress is a must!
- 11am – 5pm
- £3 (normal admission charge applies)
- Booking essential – buy tickets
- More details
Tyntesfield House was one of the first properties to have electricity installed. To celebrate this, the team will be making paper lanterns on every other day of this half-term.
Retroville: Tobacco Factory Market
- 10am – 2.30pm
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A fabulous vintage & retro market – takes place on the first Sunday of every month, with vintage and retro clothing, homeware, jewellery, furniture and records.
Scary Pumpkin Decorating: Dyrham Park
- 11.30am
- FREE (normal admission charge applies)
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Cut a pumpkin and gather Autumnal materials to decorate it and turn it into a scary Halloween monster face!
- 12pm
- FREE (normal admission charge applies)
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The Harvest season is drawing to a close but come and have a go at the tricky art of apple bobbing!
Spellbinding Hallowe’en Trail: Dyrham Park
Help solve the riddles for the witches spells and collect things in the parkland for their magical potion in order for you to win your prize!
- 10am – 4pm
- £1 per trail (plus normal admission charge applies)
- More details
Free Fireworks Party: Trinity Centre
- 6 – 10pm
- More details
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