Halloween in Melbourne is always a fun time to dress up and party – and this year is no different. Get ready for all the fun Melbourne has in store for Halloween in 2024!

To help you plan your spookiest festivities here’s a list of Halloween ideas and events Melbourne-wide that are suitable for kids and families. Also check your local library and community centre for Halloween activities such as story-time, craft workshops and more.

If you’re looking for Halloween costumes and decorations, you can source fun stuff from Amazon Australia or DIY with craft materials at home.

Halloween Melbourne – CBD

• Candlelight Concerts: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics (Sat 26 Oct) – Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Melbourne.
• GodzillaFest: Halloween Monster Bash (Thu 31 Oct) – Crash our Halloween party! Join us for a night of music, games, food, popups and more, and celebrate all things Godzilla.
• Arriba Melbourne Mexican Festival (Fri 22 Nov – Sun 24 Nov) – This year will feature performances by various artists, live music, dance, and a DJ. For food expect everything from delicious salsa and guacamole to tacos, enchiladas, burritos, and more!

Halloween Melbourne – North

• Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics (Sat 19 Oct) – Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Melbourne. Get your tickets now to discover music inspired by Halloween at Fitzroy Town Hall under the gentle glow of candlelight.
• Halloween Storytime at Fairfield Library (Mon 28 Oct) – Dress up in your favourite costume and join in for a special Halloween Storytime!
• Halloween Storytime at Reservoir Library (Fri 25 Oct) – Dress up in your favourite costume and join in for a special Halloween Storytime!
• Halloween Crafternoon at Preston Library (Mon 28 Oct) – Join a creative Halloween crafternoon. Craft BOO-tiful decorations for your home. Supplies provided; bring your imagination!
• Halloween Crafternoon at Reservoir Library (Thu 24 Oct) – Join a creative Halloween crafternoon. Craft BOO-tiful decorations for your home. Supplies provided; bring your imagination!

• Halloween at the Museum (Thu 31 Oct) – Dress up or come as you are to the all ages Halloween event of the year as Melbourne Museum transforms into a super natural den of delight, filled with terrifying treats, bone-chilling beats and frightening feats.
• T.REX 3D (Fri 21 Jun – Sat 21 Dec)- Narrated by Sam Neill, experience the iconic T. rex come to life on the world’s biggest, best screen in this thrilling IMAX 3D documentary!
• Halloween at Pentridge (Thu 31 Oct) -Mark your calendars for Tuesday, October 31st and prepare for an afternoon of fun
• BOUNCE (Thu 31 Oct) – Get spookay at BOUNCE for a Trick AND Treat Halloween night! Visit any BOUNCE venue from 4pm onwards
• Madame A’s Exhibits: Halloween Special (Fri 25 Oct) – Get ready for a wickedly fun, shopping experience with entertainment that’ll leave you Hypnotized!
• Who’s Haunting Heide? (Thu 31 Oct) – This Halloween, join Head Gardener David Murphy for a twilight talk and walking tour of the Heide gardens and cottage, the original home of museum founders John and Sunday Reed. Learn about the spookier aspects of Heide’s history as Dave shares some lesser-known stories and even some unexplained sightings!

Halloween Melbourne – South

• WIIILD Wednesdays Spooky Treasure Hunt (Wed 25 Oct) – Embark on an exciting adventure with a Halloween twist as you and your friends search for hidden treasures. It promises to be a spook-tacular time, so gather your friends and meet at the trail of mystery and fun.
• Halloween in Elsternwick Village (Sat 26 Oct) – Halloween is coming to Elsternwick Village on Saturday, October 28. Join in for a spooktacular day and night to celebrate Halloween.
• SPOOKY Season at LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Melbourne (Fri 25 Oct – Thur 31 Oct) – Celebrate the SPOOKY Season and enjoy haunting Halloween activities, watch a brand new 4D Halloween movie, join in a spooky Halloween Scavenger hunt and free face painting!
• Monster Party, LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre (Monday 16 Oct – Tue 7 Nov) – You’re invited to join the Monster Party! Put on your creative costume and dive into the world of LEGO as you craft your very own imaginative monsters.

• Melbourne’s HOWL-O-WEEN Paw Parade & Kids Trick or Treating! (Sun 27 Oct) – We are inviting ALL pooches and owners to descend on Port Melbourne for HOWL-O-WEEN. As per tradition, please come “in costume” and embark on the biggest Doggy Parade ever seen in Australia.
• Nicholson Village Trick or Treat (Tue 31 Oct) – Celebrate Halloween with free family fun! Join on Nicholson Street for treats, surprises, and a chance to win special prizes.
• Halloween themed Messy Play, Frankston South (Tue 31 Oct – Thu 30 Nov) – Get ready for 50 minutes of messy play fun! This session will include all things to do with the farm! Your child can squelch, squish, stomp, splat and spill and more
• Scary Halloween Fun, Traralgon Centre Plaza (Tue 31 Oct) – Trick or Treat, Spooky Characters, Face Painting, Spooky Craft & Best Dressed Pet Competition with Lunas Delights.
• Hall-Oz-Ween, Prahran Market (Thur 26 – Tue 31 Oct) – Prahran Market becomes ‘Hall-Oz-Ween,’ a unique Aussie twist on Halloween. It’s the ultimate trick-or-treat spot with ghosts, ghouls, and a giant praying mantis. Market stall holders are creating a day of spooky delights for all ages, including eerie entertainment and craft workshops for kids, along with a Home Grown cocktail station for adults. Don’t miss it! ​

• Scare Kilda (Fri 25, Sat 26 + Sun 27 Oct) Join the fun for a spooktacular event right in the heart of St Kilda! Get ready for a night of Halloween excitement with thrilling activities and eerie entertainment. From spooky decorations to hair-raising games, there will be something for everyone to enjoy.
• Spooktacular Halloween Market and Family Fun Day (Sun 27 Oct) – There will be a free Halloween Hunt, craft station, face painting, entertaining performers, and a lolly hunt at no cost. It’s going to be spooktacular!
• Halloween Disco at Lollipop’s Playland, Clyde North (Thu 31 Oct) – Join in at Lollipop’s Playland Clyde North for a groovy, fun and spooky evening filled with fun activities such as themed games, endless play, music, and a visit from your favourite mascot.
• Luna Dark (Fri 25 Oct – Sat 2 Nov) – Luna Park will be coming alive at night as Luna Dark – Melbourne’s biggest and most spine-tingling costume party, featuring zombies, ghouls, ghosts, vampires and more! On top of showing some ghastly costumes, guests can also enjoy activities including everything from VR horror games to screaming competitions, an SFX horror makeup artist and more!

Halloween Melbourne – East

• The Haunted Theatre (Sat 26 – sun 27 Oct) – Ready to have the fright of your life? The Haunted Theatre has prepared an immersive Halloween experience filled with terrifying characters, creative installations, spine-tingling soundscapes and fright-filled passageways.
• Yarra Valley Railway Ghost Train (Fri 25 – Sat 26 Oct) – All on board the Yarra Valley Ghost train – a haunted carriage event that will take you to two spooktacular Halloween events!
• Halloween on High Street, Ashburton (Sat 26 Oct) – Collect your Pumpkin Hunt form from the Ashburton Community Centre, then find the pumpkins in the windows of the Ashburton Village Traders.
• Melbourne’s Halloween Fest (Sat 26 Oct – Sun 27 Oct) – Get your kiddos in their costumes and join us at Caribbean Park for tons of candy, a kid zone, dancing, games, and prizes! This event is free to attend for kids aged 3 and below.
• Halloween Carnival (Sat 26 Oct) – Halloween is fast approaching! So book your kids in to a fun filled night of Halloween games, activities, food, treats and prizes!

• Burwood Village Halloween Street Fest (Thur 31 Oct) – The famous Burwood Village Halloween event is back with lots of activities for kids, including: trick or treating, face painting, heaps of scary fun. 
• Halloween at Wyreena (Thurs 31 Oct) – Discover the historic Silver Birches building transformed into a new immersive Halloween House experience by local creative residents True Fairies. This event is best for families and children aged 5-12 years.

• Halloween Special Event, Caribbean Rollerama, Scoresby (Sat 26 Oct) – Be part of one of the event calendar’s most popular and spooky nights! Enjoy a mesmerizing dance performance. Reserve your spot now to avoid missing out!
• Halloween Films: Double the trouble (Sun 27 Oct) – This year for Halloween Bunjil Place presents to you, not one but two Halloween films! For smaller kids the narrated classic tale Room on the Broom (G), and for the slightly bigger kids Coraline (PG).
• Halloween at Greythorn Central (Wed 30 Oct) – Halloween at Greythorn is a totally free event and offers something special for everyone. Greythorn traders make it a super fun day for everyone. 
• Spooktacular Halloween Hunt, Glen Waverley (Thur 31 Oct – Sat 2 Oct) – This year’s Halloween celebration is bigger and scarier, featuring FREE activities, entertainment, decorations, and trick-or-treating with our fantastic traders! 
• Halloween at Maling Road (Thur 31 Oct) – Join us for a spooky and fun trick-or-treating afternoon! This event is free. 
• Halloween Flying Fox Walk (Thur 31 Oct) – Join us for a walk down to where the colony are roosting along the river before watching them fly over Bellbird Picnic area. We’ll be joined by Angus from Life Gone Wild to host this walk.

Halloween Melbourne – West

• Trick or Treat Kryal Kastle (Sat 19 0 Sun 20 Oct) – Follow Dr. Frankenstein’s Spooky Scavenger Hunt throughout the entire Castle! All participants will receive a free trick or treat bag, and then you can follow the trail, solve ridiculous riddles, and challenge yourself in some of his ghoulish, gruesome experiments to collect some tasty treats! 
• The Psycho Clown’s Halloween Fundraiser (Sat 26 + Sun 27 Oct) – Step right up to our spine-chilling Halloween fundraiser, where the real horror isn’t just in the decorations—it’s in the twisted, maniacal clowns lurking in every shadow. These psycho clowns are ready to haunt your nightmares as you face your fears and support a great cause.
• Spookyville (Sun 27 Oct) – Enjoy tons of opportunities to celebrate the Halloween season in a fun and enjoyable way! The event includes activities such as Kids Entertainment, Face Painting, Crafts and a Costume Parade.
• Halloween Spooktacular in the Park (Thurs 31 Oct) – Come along in your scariest or most enchanting costume and be part of the costume parade. Suitable for primary school-aged children.

• SpringFest 2024: Halloween Spook Fest (Sat 26 Oct) – Are you game to visit the haunted houses? Spooky music fun, kid activities, and roving Halloween characters.
• Creepy Crafts Truganina (Tues 29 Oct) – For ages 8-14, come along to Truganina Library and make fun craft projects. Take home your creations and display them for free, fun and creative Halloween decorations! 
• Creepy Crafts Hoppers Crossing (Wed 30 Oct) – Celebrate October with a fun craft afternoon, creating spooky-themed projects at the library. All supplies and some treats are provided! Ages 8-14.
• Kids Haunted Halloween (Wed 30 Oct) – Dress up in your coolest Halloween costume and come join us for an afternoon of spooky crafts and fun. Ages 5-12.
• Halloween at Hoppers Junction (Thur 31 Oct) – Bring your best moves and your spookiest costumes for a night of fun at Powell Drive Reserve! It’s a family-friendly evening out, where the music is thrilling, the treats are chilling, and the fun never stops.
• Library Halloween Celebration (Fri 1 Nov) – Do you like scary movies? Celebrate and socialise with like-minded young people at our haunted library party this Halloween!

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