Looking for kid-friendly Halloween events around Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter? We’ve scared up the best Halloween fun for families with a massive list of Halloween events!
We’ve got you covered from costume workshops, trick or treating to spooky Halloween discos and fun Halloween events, there’s something for every little ghoul and ghost!
This year, Halloween falls on Friday 31 October 2025, and the fun kicks off the weekend before with loads of fang-tastic family events across the region.
Check out our roundup of local Halloween happenings below. And if you’re planning some at-home fun too, don’t miss our guide – 20 Ways to Celebrate Halloween as well as Trick-or-Treating.
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Skeleton Shirt Bleach Dyeing
Head over to AMS Art Studio these holidays to create your own bleach dyed T-Shirts. This one is for the adults as much as its for the younger Halloween lovers. All children must be supervised by an accompanying adult who is also welcome to create their own bleach dye design. Taking inspiration from Halloween imagery like skeletons, bats, pumpkins and ghouls, you will learn how to safely hand paint with bleach creating your own one of a kind designs.
Date: Saturday 25 October 2025
Time: 10am – 12pm
Location: AMS Art Studio
Age Group: Young people 7 years and up, with an accompanying adult. (Parents are required to stay and invited to create their own T-shirt)
Cost: Tickets $40 for child and accompanying adult. Bookings essential
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Halloween Costume Making
Unleash your imagination and bring spooky creatures to life with captivating costume-making workshops at Wallsend Library. Join a crew of mischief-makers to conjure up your spooky outfits -whether you’re crafting the finishing touch for your monstrous disguise, creating eerie accessories, or building your whole look from scratch, this workshop will help your Halloween alter ego rise from the shadows.
Date: Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 October 2025
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Location: Wallsend Library
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Tickets $5. Bookings essential
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Charlestown Square Spooktacular Trick or Treat Scavenger Hunt
Join an interactive scavenger hunt across 16 participating retailers at Charlestown Square! Collect stamps, uncover spooky surprises, and claim your Halloween lolly bag at the finish line.
Date: Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 October 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm
Location: Charlestown Square, Charlestown
Age Group: For children aged 4-12 years
Cost: Tickets $10
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Trick or Treat! at Glendale City Centre
Come dressed as your favourite character as Glendale City Centre celebrates the eeriest time of the year! Fun for the whole family including tasty treat hunting, fearsome face painting and amazing magic tricks. Snap and share a photo of your family trick or treating experience for your chance to win a family night out, valued at $300!
Date: Saturday 25 October 2025
Time: 10am – 2pm
Location: Glendale City Centre, Glendale
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free
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Kids Halloween Disco at Club Kotara
Get spooky at Club Kotara! Join Bop Til You Drop for a kids disco. There’ll also be a jumping castle, face painting, a haunted house and games and prizes for the best costumes on the day!
Date: Saturday 25 October 2025
Time: 3 – 7pm
Location: Club Kotara
Age Group: All ages
Cost: $5 unlimited entry wristband
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Kids Halloween Disco at Mayfield West Bowling Club
Dress in your spookiest, silliest, or sparkliest costume and hit the dance floor for a night of wicked fun at Mayfield West Bowling Club. The bistro opens from 5pm with dinner specials perfect for the whole family! They will also have a fund-raising BBQ for Mayfield Scout Group.
Date: Saturday 25 October 2025
Time: 5 – 9pm
Location: Mayfield West Bowling Club
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free entry
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Minmi Hotel Kids Halloween Disco
Enjoy a great afternoon with plenty of dancing, games, prizes and lollies for the kids. Wear your favourite spooky costume.
Date: Sunday 26 October 2025
Time: From 2pm
Location: Minmi Hotel
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free entry
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Halloween at Bunnings Singleton
Head to Bunnings Singleton for a kids’ disco, entertainment, activities, and treats!
Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 4.30 – 6.30pm
Location: Bunnings Singleton
Age Group: TBC
Cost: Free entry
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Halloween at the Library – Singleton Library
Singleton Library are putting on a delightfully spooky afternoon full of decorations to get the Halloween atmosphere just right! Aimed at all ages, there is plenty to do for everyone. Feel free to get dressed up and embrace the spirit of the holiday. Get your monster mash moves ready with our disco room. Frightfully transform at the face painting station with our expert painters. Do your best during the Library scavenger hunt, as well as themed games and Halloween craft. Remember the night with a trip to the photo booth room and try your luck with the lucky door prizes.
Date: Friday 31 October 2025
Time: 3 – 5pm
Location: Singleton Library
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free entry, but bookings required
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Halloween at Club Singleton
Celebrate Halloween at Club Singleton. Horror Maze & Trick or Treat Station from 4.30 – 7pm. Raffle drawn at 6pm with meat trays and Halloween prizes. Costumes encouraged.
Date: Friday 31 October 2025
Time: 4.30 – 7pm
Location: Club Singleton, 50 Pitt Street, Singleton
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free entry
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Halloween at PCYC Singleton
Celebrate Halloween at the PCYC Singleton with a Halloween disco with prizes for the best costume!
Date: Friday 31 October 2025
Time: 6 – 8.30pm
Location: PCYC Singleton
Age Group: TBC
Cost: Free entry
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Wallsend Frights: A Hallow Evening
Join Curious Legends and Newy with Kids for frighteningly fun Halloween festivities on Friday 31 October in Wallsend. This free family-friendly event promises to be a night you won’t forget. A home to ghosts and ghouls alike, this year’s Hallow Evening will feature a mixture of old and new highlights, including spooky activity passbooks, craft tables, costume crafting, giant puppets, impromptu dancing, Haunted House space, Weeping Forest and the Boneyard.
Date: Friday 31 October 2025
Time: 4.30pm – 8.30pm
Location: Wallsend Park (near Wallsend Village)
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free tickets but need to register.
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Central Leagues Club Halloween Disco
Grab your costumes and your little monsters — Central Leagues Club are throwing a Halloween Disco. 5-7pm in the kids area. Prizes for best dressed. Music Bingo at 7pm.
Date: Friday 31 October 2025
Time: 5 – 7pm
Location: Central Leagues Club, Charlestown
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free entry
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Halloween at Fort Scratchley
Celebrate Halloween with family and friends at Fort Scratchley. Doors open at 5pm, access to the tunnels from 6pm. Groups of 10 will be given access to the tunnels every 10 minutes, with last entry at 8.30pm. Visitors asked to leave and gates close at 9pm. All children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Dress for the occasion and bring extra lollies to share with the little ghouls, goblins, witches, and warlocks that you may meet. Limited tickets available online.
Date: Friday 31 October 2025
Time: 5 – 9pm
Location: Fort Scratchley, Newcastle
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Family $30 (2A+2C), Additional adults $10 each, $5 for each extra child
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Huntlee Halloween
Let the GHOUL times roll! Wear your most SPOOK-tacular costumes and join Huntlee if you dare, for a FANG-tastic evening. GHOULS & BOO-ys will just want to have fun at our kids disco by Vesta Entertainment. Courtesy of Hunter Valley Smiles Dental Clinic, there’ll be prizes for ‘Best Costume’, ‘Best Dance Moves’ & more! First 100 kids receive a free Halloween treat. Trick or treat yourself to dinner to die for at a fabulous line up of food trucks. It’s going to be a night to BOO-gie and have a SKELE-ton of fun!
Date: Friday 31 October 2025
Time: 5.30 – 7.30pm
Location: Katherine’s Landing District Park, Huntlee
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free entry
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Abermain Bowling Club Kids Halloween Disco
Take your little goblins and spooks along to the Abermain Bowling Club for a night of fun and dancing.
Date: Friday 31 October 2025
Time: From 6pm
Location: Abermain Bowling Club
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free entry
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Kids Adventure Playland & Cafe Spooktacular Halloween Disco
Join Kids Adventure Playland & Cafe at Stockland Green Hills on Friday 31st October or Saturday 1 November for their annual Halloween Spooktacular. There’ll be a disco, dance games and prizes for best dressed. For hygiene, all adults and children MUST wear grip-free socks in all play areas. Remember adult entry is always FREE!
Date: Friday 31 October & Saturday 1 November 2025
Time: 5pm – 8.30pm
Location: Kids Adventure Playland & Café, Green Hills
Age Group: for kids under 11 and their parents/carers
Cost: $18 + booking fee per child for entry only or $25 + booking fee for entry plus meal deal
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Newcastle Alternative Halloween Extravaganza
Newcastle Alternative Halloween Extravaganza isn’t just a market—it’s a full day of spooky fun for the whole family. With over 50 vendors and counting, plus interactive experiences around every corner, this is THE Halloween event Newcastle has been waiting for.
What’s happening:
Pumpkin Carving Station – Create your masterpiece and take it home
Instant Photo Booth – Capture your best costumes and spooky moments
Scare Actors – Thrills and chills throughout the day (friendly frights!)
Trick or Treat Trail – Wind through 50+ vendors for sweet surprises
50+ Unique Vendors – Halloween décor, costumes, handmade treasures, gothic fashion, mystical goods, vintage finds, and so much more
Perfect for:
- Families looking for a full day of Halloween fun
- Collectors seeking one-of-a-kind pieces
- The alternative community celebrating our favourite season
- EVERYONE who loves Halloween magic
Date: Saturday 1 November 2025
Time: 12pm – 7pm
Location: Newcastle Exhibition Centre @ Newcastle Showground
Age Group: All ages
Cost: $10 for adults, $5 for kids aged 5 – 17, under 5s free. Tickets available at the door.
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Dullboy’s Saturday Scaries
Experience the Saturday Scaries at Dullboy’s this Halloween! Daylight Frights from 9am: $13pp games of bowling or mini golf all day, cosmic bowling with spooky tunes, free face painting from 11am-4pm, spot prizes for best dressed at 11am & 3pm. Sppoky Outdoor Cinema from 8pm: Creep out to the mini golf area to watch a night-time screening of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit! Cursed food and drink specials available. Free entry for the whole fam!
Date: Saturday 1 November 2025
Time: From 9am
Location: Dullboy’s Warners Bay
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free entry, mix of free and paid activities
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The Mall Monster Mash – Hunter Street Mall
Head to the Hunter Street Mall for a free, all ages fun day. Eerie Alley, In-store offers, games, photo booth, music, best dressed, cosplay, petal party and spooky treats.
Date: Saturday 1 November 2025
Time: 10am – 1pm
Location: Hunter Street Mall
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free
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All-Abilities Family Friendly Halloween Celebration at The Place
An all-abilities, family-friendly Halloween Disco with a twist. There will be a live DJ, sweets and treats and lots of fun! Guests of all ages and abilities welcome. The disco will be sensory and accessibility friendly with noise cancelling headphones available for those who need them.
Dress up in your favourite spooky outfit and get ready to have a frightfully fun time in a friendly, welcoming space. Remember, everyone needs a ticket, even parents and carers. This event is also a no-alcohol zone, so bring the whole family! Register via the website or call The Place on (02) 4032 5500.
Date: Saturday 1 November 2025
Time: 5 – 7pm
Location: The Place, Charlestown Community Centre
Age Group: All ages
Cost: Free entry
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