List of Family Events in Manchester That You Can Take Children to From October 21st to December 31st
That chilling time of year is creeping up on the states one time once again.
If you lot're looking for a Halloween themed consequence to have the kids to there are enough to cull from.
With many events cancelled last year, it seems families are chomping at the bit to celebrate the upshot while they have the hazard.
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Have a look at what's happening in and around Greater Manchester this Halloween
Halloween in the City
Manchester will exist overrun past monsters over again this Halloween as the city prepares to welcome a frightful number of fearsome (but friendly) beasts to the urban center's streets.
At present established as one of the biggest Halloween celebrations in the UK, this year's Halloween in the City festival, organised past Manchester Business Comeback Commune, aims to be the nearly monstrous yet.
A monster line-up of new activities and experiences over the Halloween weekend - October 30 and 31 - include a welcome procession of roaming monsters, a monster carnival, top monster bands, monsters DJs, and a monstrous photo trail across the city.
Children can find out mind-bending facts virtually monsters, get close to them and experiment in The Monster Lab at Exchange Square, or explore the eerie ruins of Dr Mancenstien'southward Castle and Gardens in St Ann's Foursquare - where the gardens and family cemetery are home to dragons, crows, creepy groundskeepers and human being-eating plants.
The event will also see the render of the city's popular giant rooftop monsters created by creative person Filthy Luker. These will be on evidence from October 25 until Halloween.
For specific times and updates of the events follow @HalloweenMcr on Twitter, see the Facebook folio here.
Scare Skate, Manchester
A monster ice rink is also coming to Manchester metropolis eye as role of Halloween in the City.
Cathedral Gardens will host Scare Skate - an invasion of water ice-skating spooks on its biggest ever outdoor ice rink.
The spooktacular rink volition be complete with Halloween-themed music and lighting, while a band of ghoulish skating monsters will join skaters on the ice every 60 minutes. With fancy wearing apparel encouraged, the make-new event promises to bring 'frightfully skilful fun to half term festivities'.
The venue volition be virtually double the size of previous Christmas rinks at the site, which means fifty-fifty more space to perfect those skating moves - or falls!
Running from October 22 to 31, families will be able to skate by starlight but stay sheltered from the rain every bit information technology'south all secret.
It's office of the wider Halloween in the Urban center events, which sees behemothic monsters take over Manchester's rooftops and buildings.
Prices starting at £13 for adults and £eleven for children, with discounted family and season tickets also available. Visit skatemanchester.com to book.
Spookfest, Trafford Center
There's lots of spooky fun at the Trafford Centre this Halloween.
A Spookfest result is running outside The Orient with children's rides, a hay bale maze and more.
There are some smaller rides for younger ones, like the hot air balloon ride and the tea cups, where adults can accompany them.
And for thrill seekers at that place's the Jump North Smile, the Scream Coaster - which spins you lot circular like a waltzer while riding a roller coaster at the same time - and the Rock Rage, which sends you upside down.
At that place's an archway fee of £three.50 - £3 if y'all pay in accelerate online - which includes the hay bale maze, where you might find some spooky characters lurking.
Rides operate via a token system, costing between 2 to 5 tokens. Each token costs a pound, or if you book online you can go 25 tokens for the toll of xx.
The event'due south running from now until Halloween. Opening hours (from October 23) are to Haloween, it'south open up 11am to 9pm Monday to Friday, 11am to 9pm Sabbatum and 12pm to 9pm Sunday.
For more information and advance booking, visit the website hither. For circus tickets, from £nine.99, visit the site here.
Halloween at Inflata Nation, Trafford
Inflata Nation is hosting a Heroes and Villains themed Halloween caricature and families tin can get a discount.
From October 25 to 31, bouncers at the Manchester site tin get fifteen% off by booking in advance.
Whether it'south a comic book favourite or a movie scoundrel, children are encouraged to dress every bit their favourite goodie or baddie for even more fun on inflatable activities including accident-up slides, assault grade and climbing wall.
Inflata Nation founder Matt Ball said: "Nosotros always try to get into the spirit of Halloween and this year is no different. Every bit well equally inviting people to come up dressed upward as their favourite hero or villain, nosotros want to offer bouncers a discount on our popular sessions as a way of proverb thanks for their support."
Forth with the site being kitted out in full 'Heroes and Villains' garb, there's all the usual fun including a Gladiators-mode duel, assail course, bouncy bubbles, giant brawl pool and thrilling driblet slide.
There is also a dedicated area for nether-fours with a slide and ball puddle.
Inflata Nation is open from 10am to 7pm Monday to Friday during one-half term, and 10am to 7pm on Sabbatum and Sundays.
One-hour bounciness sessions cost £5.95 for under-fours and £9.95 for everyone else. Use the code SUPERMAN for 15% off jumps when y'all volume online.
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Victorian street Distraction Hill Identify has been given a spooky makeover for Halloween.
You can pay a visit and find some spooky things to spot from at present until October 31, free of accuse, although donations welcome. Bookings are required via the website here.
Visitors can also pre-book a Halloween family unit afternoon tea in the cafe.
Bookings are bachelor from Saturday 23 to Lord's day 31 October (except Mondays) between 12.xxx pm and 2.30pm.
For more than details see the website here.
Brick or Treat, Legoland, Trafford
Little monsters are invited to get into the Halloween spirit at Legoland'due south Brick or Treat outcome.
Activities include pumpkin building, a 'scarevenger' hunt, a spooky cycle of fortune and lots more.
There's the gamble to meet character mascots Scarecrow and Vampyre and join them for a Halloween trip the light fantastic political party, likewise as joining the master model builder and playmakers to assist create a behemothic Lego vampire.
The event's running at weekends during October and over half term and is included in the standard admission price. Tickets, from £15.25 for children and £nineteen.75 for adults, tin can exist booked online.
Big Top Halloween Spooktacular, Trafford
Gandeys Circus is bringing a brand-new 'action-packed legendary' Halloween Spooktacular Big Top show for all the family.
As part of the wider Spookfest event outside The Great Hall at the Trafford Center, the circus is running from October xv to 31.
From the thrill acts to the big production numbers Gandeys are famous for, it promises to have families 'on the edge of your seat with excitement, rolling in the aisles with laughter, and hiding under your coats from the spooky thrills'.
For tickets, from £xiv, visit the website, or come across the Facebook page here for more details.
I'm A Glory Jungle Challenge, Salford Quays
There'south even more reason to visit the I'grand A Celebrity Jungle Challenge this Halloween after the place was given a spooky makeover.
Families are invited to face their fears as they 'enter the eerie depth of the Jungle'.
'Fang-tastic mood lighting and spook-tacular decorations' are promised as participants face a series of nerve-racking trials equally they compete to collect stars and be crowned King or Queen of the Jungle.
Don't look down as you scale over 8m of vertical rock in The Ascent and reach 'spine-tingling' heights racing across the suspended Treetop Trail. Have the ultimate leap of organized religion on Get a Grip, residual on beams and consummate the Jungle run collecting stars as you race against each other.
Tickets, from £xx, can be booked online.
Cockfields Farm, Ashton
There'due south always plenty of Halloween fun on the cards at Cockfields Farm.
Families can grab a wheelbarrow and caput out to the Pumpkin Patch, earlier taking information technology to the Carving Cave to create the spookiest or funniest face up they can.
There are creepy crawlies, snakes and lizards to see in the Reptile Cavern, or if y'all don't fancy that the bunnies and guinea pigs will be out in Cuddle Corner.
Get your dancing shoes on for the Monster Mash Bash Disco, enjoy a tractor ride and have unlimited rides on the fairground carousel.
If that'southward not enough in that location'south a jumping pillow, a behemothic indoor sandpit, swings, slides, climbing frames and lots more.
The consequence'due south running from Oct 2 to 31 and tickets, costing £20 each (pumpkin included), tin can exist booked online.
Trafford Treetops Halloween Spooktacular
If you lot fancy making Trafford Treetops even scarier then why not tackle the obstacles with the added horror of a ghoul or ii.
For ii nights - on Oct xxx and 31 - visitors tin book on for the attraction'southward Halloween Spooktacular.
There is a dedicated children's session each day at 5pm and an adults session at 7pm.
Minimum age for the course is six years old and any participant under one.4m (4ft7) must be accompanied by an adult.
For tickets, costing £9.97 each, book online.
Smithills Open Farm, Bolton
The farm is hosting its ain Halloween Special over half term.
The outcome, from Oct 23 to 31, will characteristic a spooky woodland walk, fancy wearing apparel, arts and crafts and lots more.
Usual farm activities are running as well and the event is included in the usual subcontract admission - £seven.50 for children, £eight.l for adults, or £30 for a family of four. Book online.
A divide Pumpkin picking outcome is running beyond the same dates, for which separate tickets are needed. Tickets - £5 per pumpkin - tin be booked here.
Ascarium, Body of water Life, Trafford
Sea Life is taking on a spooky twist over again as the venue is transformed into Ascarium.
Families tin can follow the immersive trail to discover the Sea Witch's missing potion ingredients subconscious throughout the depths of the tanks, where yous will also discover some of the spookiest creatures of the body of water and you might as well receive a treat (or trick)!
The event is running from October ii to 31 and tickets, from £xvi.95 for children and £21.95 for adults, can be booked online.
Halloween Trail at Ordsall Hall
Families tin can head to Ordsall Hall this Halloween for a special trail.
Search for the escaped pumpkins in the grounds of the hall - some of them don't desire to be constitute and may be in disguise.
The result is running during opening hours - 10am to 4pm Mon to Th and 1pm to 4pm Lord's day - from Oct 24 to 31.
It costs £2 per kid and no booking is required so you lot can only turn up and get involved.
There are also Halloween pumpkin painting workshops to enjoy on October 25 and ii, costing £v a ticket.
Visit the website here for more details.
Reddish Vale Farm, Stockport
There's lots of Halloween fun at Reddish Vale this year.
As well as the run a risk to pick and carve a pumpkin, activities include vampire archery, witches hat hoopla and the chance to ride the Spooky Express.
All the usual fun of the farm is available including small animate being treatment and the outdoor adventure play with zippo wires.
The outcome's running from October 2 to 31 and tickets - costing £eleven.fifty for adults and £16 for children - can exist booked online.
I pumpkin included per paying kid, actress pumpkins £5 each.
ScareCity Bulldoze-In Picture palace, Trafford
ScareCity is back this Halloween, promising 'a spellbindingly satanic experience consummate with horrifying live actors, drive through scare tunnel, your favourite horror movies and much more than'.
The attraction has now moved from its former EventCity site to the nearby Soccer Dome, close to Chill Factore, off Trafford Manner.
Films, showing from September 29 to October 31, include everything from children's favourites Hocus Pocus, The Witches, Monster House and Coraline, to films for teenagers such every bit A Quiet Place, Annabelle, The Ring and The Exorcist.
Family films added over one-half term week include Into the Woods at 3pm on October 27, Monsters Inc at 3pm on October 28 and Monsters University at 3pm on October 29.
Tickets toll £forty per car and tin can be booked online.
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Totally Gruesome, Salford
Totally Gruesome is back this Halloween with dinosaurs, Dracula and more.
The event, from the team backside Totally Roarsome, was a big hit with families last year and has now moved from Ashton, Tameside, to the shopping centre in Walkden Town Centre, Salford.
Described as 'a kids' version of interruption-out rooms crossed with the Crystal Maze', the 10 themed rooms include Gru's House, Pumpkin Party, Shark Attack, Dino Domain and Ghost Transport.
Aimed at master aged children, the allure gives families five minutes to crevice the code in each of the x mini escape rooms.
Organisers say 'it'southward chilling, not scary' - they 'don't use scare actors and the whole concept is based around fun, rather than scaring the whits out of your kids'.
Totally Gruesome is running from now until Halloween, with time slots available betwixt 9am and 9pm.
Tickets cost £7.95 per person and tin can be booked online. Children under two go free.
Access is via steps so you can't have pushchairs or wheelchairs along. Visit the website or Facebook page for more than details.
Ghost Trains at East Lancashire Railway, Coffin
The popular Ghost Trains are back at Due east Lancashire Railway this Halloween, but you'll need to exist quick to become your hands on the remaining tickets.
In that location will be tricks, treats and fun for all the family only be warned, there might be a few surprises along the way… like the horrible heroes, Count Brian the vampire, Veronica the witch and Zombie Bob, all there to assist y'all avoid those terrible curses.
Ghoulish Ghosts will be there, ready to sing some spine-spooky songs to you, create magic spells and play a joke on y'all into joining in the fun and the scares with them.
Fancy wearing apparel is of form encouraged and there promises to be lots of terrifying treats on offer at the station buffet.
Ghost Trains are running from Oct 28 to 30 and tickets, from £12.90, can be booked online.
Halloween On The Farm, Lancaster Park and Animal Farm, Oldham
At that place's loads of fun to enjoy at Lancaster Park and Animal Farm this Halloween.
Too as its own pumpkin patch to pick from, and space to carve your creation, there's a haunted house and spooky tales with the wicked witch.
The event is running over the weekends of October 9/10 and 16/17 and then daily from October 22 to 31.
Families tin can pet and feed the animals, ride the caterpillar barrel ride, drive the mini quads, dig in the sand pit at digger corner and loads more.
For ticket - £eight.50 adults, £11.50 children - book online.
Things that get crash-land in the night, The Hive, Bolton
A special Halloween upshot is running at The Hive in Bolton'due south Moss Bank Park.
Aimed at children anile four to seven, they can complete the specially designed chilling woodland trail, make magic potions and go in search of real pumpkins.
All participating children volition accept home a pumpkin, a certificate and their own crafted nature wand.
Sessions are bachelor on various dates starting from October 23 and tickets, costing £vi.50, tin can be booked online.
Pumpkin Festival, Grange Farm, Lowton
The farm has become a popular haunt for pumpkin picking over contempo years and at present there'southward a total Pumpkin Festival taking place - with its very own haunted barn.
As well as that there's carving, animal feeding, face painting, fairground rides and lots more than.
In that location'due south pumpkin picking merely from October i and and then the festival runs from Oct 16 to Halloween.
Entry fee is £iii per auto and pumpkins are available to buy from £ii each. Tickets can be booked online.
Kenyon Hall Farm, Warrington
Pumpkin picking is back at Kenyon Hall Farm this Halloween.
The event will run every day throughout October - with carving available over half term from October 23.
Tickets are £2 per person for adults and children - infants under 18 months go free - and tin can be booked online.
The entry ticket does not include a pumpkin. These are bachelor to buy and are priced from £2 depending on size.
Halloween Special, Brookside Miniature Railway, Poynton
Information technology's Spookside at Brookside Miniature Railway over half term.
The Halloween Special volition be running between 10.30am and 4pm from October 28 to 31.
On the Saturday and Sunday, Keeling's Vintage Funfair volition also be open up at the garden centre, 11am to 4pm, with their Ghost Spooktacular.
Spooky World, Warrington
Spooky World is a walk-through scare allure with different events aimed at unlike historic period groups.
For younger children, aged 4 to eleven, at that place's Fun past Day, where families can savor all the farm has to offer while meeting costumed characters along the fashion.
In that location's everything from inflatable drop slides and archery, to a corn cannon, nix lines and trailer rides.
Chilling at Night is an after dark experience for x to 14-year-olds, while for older ones, fourteen plus, in that location's Scary at Nighttime, which it'due south warned is 'not for the faint of heart'.
Tickets for the Chilling and Scary events, from £21.50, can be booked online. Fun by Solar day tickets volition be on sale presently.
Source: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/halloween-events-kids-manchester-2021-21574835
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