Abbey House Museum: Head to Abbey House Museum for a spooky session this half term. The Victorian streets will be decorated with skeletons, spooks and siders and there will be lots to scare and spot! Pre-booking required. Kirkstall, Leeds.
Beetle Bank Farm Spooktacular: Fearsome festive fun as well as the usual farm adverntures! Murton, York.
Bolton Abbey’s Pumpkin Trail: Follow our trail of over-sized pumpkins through Strid Wood and discover the mystery boxes hidden among the trees. Bolton Abbey, Wharfedale.
Brimham Rocks Adventure Farm: Pick your own pumpkins from our forbidden garden, before you get creative as you carve it with us! See if you’re brave enough to enter out haunted house.
Carnegie Great Outdoors: Join our friendly qualified instructors for daily outdoor activities at Ilkley, Otley and Leeds. Children can take part in Bushcraft, Rock Climbing and Mountain Biking. Ages 7+
Circus Mondeo: Circus Mondao is only one of a handful of true traditional family circuses touring the towns and villages of Great Britain today, and this October it is coming to Horsforth. With us we bring our large family of animals and human performers. Our aim is for our family to entertain your family.
Creepiest Creatures at Tropical World: Let us take you on a trail of discovery through the different habitat zones searching for our most dangerous and feared inhabitants! Be sure to tick on your trail sheet once spotted and make sure you note a fun fact along the way. Roundhay, Leeds.
Diggerland Yorkshire: Diggerland is the Ultimate Adventure UK Theme Park Experience where children and adults alike can ride, drive and operate REAL diggers, dumpers and other full- size construction machinery.
Fountain’s Abbey: Soak up the autumn light on a stroll from Fountains Abbey to Studley Royal Water Garden. The dramatic abbey ruins at Fountains are the largest monastic ruins in the country. Step back into a rich and dramatic past and imagine what life would have been like for the monks who first came here all those years ago.
Go Ape at Temple Newsam: Go Ape’s first high-ropes experience in West Yorkshire, set within 1500 acres of parkland, the aerial adventures at Temple Newsam can be found in the heart of Menagerie Wood featuring challenging obstacles as increasing heights, a free-fall Tarzan Swing, four tree-to-tree zips and a 46ft sheer drop called The Plummet. Read about a previous Mumbler experience here.
Grass Hoppers at Tong Garden Centre: Grass Hoppers is a safe and secure play space for families set in the grounds of Tong Garden Centre. You’ll find a huge outdoor adventure playground and a large indoor play area where children up to the age of 10 years old can enjoy proper playtime!
Harrogate BID Free Halloween Trail: Harrogate Mumbler are working with Harrogate BID to bring you a free SPOOKtacular Half Term Halloween Trail around the centre of Harrogate.
Hesketh Farm Park: Then head to Hesketh Fram Park this October for pumpkin carving (included in your ticket), a spooky quiz and the usual farmyard adventures.
Kirklees Light Railway: Junior witches and wizards in the making are invited to step aboard our spectacular steam train exoress which will transport them to Wizarding Class at Shelley Station.
Kirkstall Abbey: This Halloween we are encouraging you to get arty in the abbey with a free art pack to take around with you on your visit. Doodle, draw or sketch your way around the ruins, turn yourself into a sculpture and take inspiration from nature. Pick up a free pack from the Visitor Centre (shop).
Leeds City Museum: Discover the joy of small things at the Museum and at home! Be inspired by tiny creatures of the natural world and follow the scavenger hunt around the Museum. Download and print out the scavenger hunt sheet before you arrive or pick one up in the shop.
Leeds Industrial Museum workshops: Discover the real stories behind Halloween with 21st-century witches from the Leodis Pagan Circle. Family craft sessions include willow wand making and the chance to make your own luxury oat milk bath bomb, using herbs from the autumn harvest
Left Bank’s Half Term Heroes: Join in with our family art workshops, hip hop sessions, street dance classes and fun ping pong lessons at Left Bank, Leeds.
Lightwater Valley: Rides, attractions and spooktacular activities, this event is perfect for families with under 10 years. Tick or treat, a spooky walk through the Abandoned Theatre, a Ghost Spotter Trail, daily Fancy Dress competitions, ride on the Freaky Fairground and meet and greet some creepy characters.
Lotherton: Visit Lotherton this October half term and follow the spooky skeletons trail around the estate and into the haunted house! Dress up in your best Halloween costume and prepare to be scared as you explore the woods and seek out all of the skeletons who have made Lotherton their home. For our list of top things to do here read this blog.
Mother Shipton’s Halloween: Suitable for all ages, explore the spooky forest and Halloween Haunted Village, but watch out for witches, ghosts and creepy skeletons around every corner! There’s lots of ghoulish fun to be had with photo opportunities and fancy dress competitions. See the incredible Petrifying Well and the birthplace of a real witch at Mother Shipton’s Cave!
Piglet’s Pumpkin Festival: Explore the Pumpkin Patch, with over 10,000 home grown pumpkins to choose from in all shapes and sizes, then get stuck in carving. Run wild in the Mysterious Maize Maze, challenge your friends & family on the Corn Cannon, meet adorable piglets (you might even see one being born!) and their farm yard friends in the undercover animal barn, plus explore acres of outdoor adventure including The Beach, Barrel Train Ride, Fairy Tale Trail and so much more!
Ponderosa Zoo: Head to Ponderosa this haunted half term and experience our Spook-tacular Halloween event! Includes insect encounters, animal talks, a spooky broomstick trail, fancy dress competition and more! For more information and to pre-book your visit head to our website.
RHS Garden Harlow Carr :Enjoy the glorious colours and fresh autumn air, kicking up the leaves and collecting conkers in the Woodland and exploring our new sculpture trail. Harrogate.
The Royal Armouries have launched aspooky trail. Can your little monsters find all 10 creepy creatures and ghoulish ghosts hidden in the galleries? Download your free trail from the website.
Spilman’s Farm Pumpkin Festival: The Spilmans Festival is on a real authentic farm where you can pick your pumpkin from the field it was grown in – plus there are loads of other fun things to do to make this a very Autumnal, Halloween experience! Sessay, nr Thirsk
Temple Newsam: Take a trip to Temple Newsam during Halloween half term and meet the ghosts of Temple Newsams past in the haunted house. Hear tales of the darkened tunnels that run below the house and meet past residents who creep through the corridors in the dead of night! The historic mansion is also home to a whole host of beastly bugs who have booked their staycation in the house for Halloween.
The Deep: With over 5000 animals, including spectacular sharks and rays, the UK’s only Green sawfish, hundreds of tropical fish, Loggerhead sea turtles and a colony of Gentoo penguins, there’s something for everyone. Hull.
Thorp Perrow Arbetorum Wildlife Park: The trail takes you and your family around the Arboretum in search of spooky creatures. You’ll stumble across tombs and skeletons and many more Halloween frights! There will also be hourly flying displays at the bird of prey and mammal centre, along with the chance to see the baby meerkats.
Thwaite Watermill: Head to Thwaite Watermill for the half term holidays and hit the nature trail by the canal. The Watermill is set on a tiny island by the Aire and Calder navigation which provides a beautiful backdrop for a autumnal stroll during the spooky season. To keep the little ones entertained there’s a Halloween themed trail through the Victorian house, mill buildings and grounds.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park: Take a walk through the enormous Mushroom Forest and a visit to an evil Queens Castle, if you dare! Experience the magical realm of unicorns and roam the colourful Rainbow Woods. Braver adventurers can take a trip to the Evil Dungeon. Don’t forget we also have all the excitement of a walk-round safari where you might see Lions, Tigers, Polar Bears, mischievous Lemurs plus spotted Hyenas and our very own Red Panda princesses, Ariel, Alice and Aurora.
