It’s spooky and it’s scary, and it’s a whole lot of fun! Yes, it’s Halloween 2020 and that means it’s time to get out and about at some spook-tacular events on the North Shore, where you can enjoy frights and delights plus some fun tricks and delicious treats.
Halloween certainly looks a little different this year, but never fear, it’s still all systems go! COVID-19 friendly Halloween events are cropping up all over the North Shore, so if you are ready to get your scare on, use the Quicklinks to take a peek below:
- Broadway: Spooky Potion Making Workshop
- Centennial Park: Little Park Of Horrors
- Entertainment Quarter: Halloween Family Fest
- Darling Quarter: Pumpkin Decorating Workshop
- Kids World Playland: Spooktacular Halloween Disco
- Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden: Slime Making Workshop
- Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden: Spooky Night Walk
- Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden: Trick Or Treat Trail
- Luna Park: Spooksville
- Luna Park: Halloscream
- Online: Halloween Coding in Minecraft
- Online: Halloween Disco
- Sips n Strokes: Halloween painting
- Taronga Zoo: Boo at the Zoo
North Shore
Boo at the Zoo, Taronga Zoo
This Halloween, Taronga Zoo is hosting a brand-new spooktacular event, called Boo at the Zoo! Think after-hours access, spooky entertainment, giant spider lanterns alongside three Halloween inspired presentations plus the chance to witness an array of animals enjoying their very own spooky Halloween themed enrichment.
Don your costume and get ready for the “wildest” Halloween event in town.
- When: Saturday 31 October
- Where: Taronga Zoo, Bradley Heads Road, Mosman
- Time: 5.30pm to 8.30pm
- Cost: $27 per adult, $20 per child
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Kids World Playland SPOOKTACULAR Halloween Disco
Kids World Playland’s Halloween disco will have dancing, games and prizes including best dressed competition. So dust off that broomstick and dress up as your favourite witch, power ranger or transformer and join a fun filled night.
- When: Thursday 31 October, 4.30pm to 7pm
- Where: Kids World Playland, Shop 428 Macquarie Centre Macquarie Park
- Cost: $15 for entry or $20 for entry and a meal + drink, adults free
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Spooksville, Luna Park
Spooksville at Luna Park will be a hub of frightfully fun activities the whole family can enjoy. Experience Showtime Entertainment, spooky activities and more fun for the whole family. The entry ticket to Luna Park (and therefore Spooksville), includes a Spooksville Pantomime, unlimited rides and Trick or Treat houses.
- When: 31 October – 1 November, 10.30am to 4pm
- Where: Luna Park, Milsons Point
- Cost: $50 per person
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Halloscream, Luna Park
Sydney’s most terrifying Halloween event is back at Luna Park Sydney with three new Scare Mazes to navigate your way through. Set the whole night aside; if you can make it through the terror, Unlimited Rides throughout the Park will keep you
chained there all night.
- When: Thursday 29 October – Sunday 1 November, 6 – 11pm
- Where: Luna Park, Milsons Point
- Suitable for: 14 years +
- Cost: starting at $54.95, tickets included unlimited rides.
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Sips N Strokes Halloween Event
Eat, drink and be scary while their professional artist guides you from start to finish to paint your Halloween piece! They’re giving away some free tickets to their upcoming events for the best dressed. So if you’ve got it, haunt it!
- When: Saturday 31 October, 12.30pm to 2.30pm
- Where: Sips N Strokes, 451 Miller Street, Cammeray
- Cost: $55
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Halloween Slime Workshop
- When: Saturday 31 October, 3pm – 4pm
- Where: Wildflower Garden, 420 Mona Vale Road, St Ives
- Suited for: 6-12 years
- Cost: $15 per child
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Halloween Spooky Night Walk
- When: Saturday 31 October, 6.30pm to 8pm
- Where: Wildflower Garden, 420 Mona Vale Road, St Ives
- Cost: $15 per child
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Trick Or Treat Trail
Dress up and drop into the Visitor Centre at Wildflower Garden anytime between 10am and 4pm to join their Trick or Treat Trail. Complete the trail for a treat!
- When: Saturday 31 October, 10am to 4pm
- Where: Wildflower Garden, 420 Mona Vale Road, St Ives
- Cost: FREE
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Halloween Events in the Eastern Suburbs
Little Park of Horrors, Centennial Park
Follow the ghostly Park Rangers on a treasure hunt into the depths of the swamp and meet their resident bats (please note: no vampires included in this program!)
Come in your Halloween costume but leave some space for the scary mask you will be making to get you ready for trick-or-treating! Have fun at this Sydney Halloween events for kids.
- When: Saturday 31 October
- Where: Centennial Parklands, The Wild Play Discovery Centre
- Suitable for: 5-12 years
- Cost: $29 per child
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Halloween Fest at the Entertainment Quarter
Halloween Family Fest turns the Entertainment Quarter into a ghostly graveyard of activities. There’ll be lots of games, showbags and rides if you dare and even more thrills with costume contests, doggie talent shows, festive Halloween crafts, a fun Haunted House and so much more!
- When: Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November
- Where: Entertainment Quarter, 122 Lang Road, Moore Park
- Cost: $5 for all entrants, includes one ride and one game. $25 for 2 hours unlimited rides and entry
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Halloween Events in Sydney
Spooky Potion Making Workshop, Broadway
Children are invited to immerse themselves in a gooey and bubbly fun time with Awful Abigail, daughter of Beatrix The Bad, granddaughter of Eleanora Eggbreath making a potion they can take home in their reusable trick or treat bucket / cauldron. A great Sydney Halloween events for kids.
- When: Thursday 29 October to Saturday 31 October
- Where: Level 3, Broadway Shopping Centre
- Cost: $20
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Pumpkin Decorating Workshop, Darling Quarter
Come along and make your own emoji pumpkin, spider pumpkin or other spooky creation to take home in this 1 hour session on Saturday 31 October.
Go trick or treating and grab a bite to eat at one of Darling Quarter’s restaurants with special Halloween menu items on offer, including Spooktacular cupcakes and drinks, or receive a complimentary entrée with any two mains purchased at Nok Nok Thai Eating House when you’re dressed in Halloween costume.
Each session can host up to 20 participants. Walk-in registrations available, however, bookings are encouraged to avoid disappointment.
- When: Thursday 29 October to Saturday 31 October, 10am – 2pm
- Where: Level 3, Broadway Shopping Centre
- Cost: $20
- More info
Online Halloween Events
Halloween Coding in Minecraft
Kids will get to program a Minecraft robot for virtual trick-or-treating, and design their own haunted house in our building challenge. They will learn and play in a multiplayer world that is supervised by an experienced mentors.
- When: Saturday 31 October
- Time: 3 to 4.30pm
- Suitable for: 7-12 years
- Cost: $45
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Halloween Disco
DJ Kate Monroe and the Kiddo Disco Krew are bringing as much of their big production and community party vibe as they can smash into a Zoom stream into your home this Halloween.
- When: Saturday 31 October, 5pm to 6pm
- Cost: $10 per household
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