Our Spectacular Firework Display will be on Friday 1st November 2024. Don’t forget to wear warm clothes for a great evening with Sparklers, Music, Food, Drink & fun for all the family.
Tickets
Early Bird Adults £15 | Family (2 adults/2 children) £40 |Children (3-16 years) £7.
On the Gate |Adults £18 | Family £45.
Date: 27 -31 October 2024 Time: 10.30am-5pm
Explore the Castle, Arts & Crafts, Playground, Hunts & Trails, Spooky Pitch & Putt, Creepy Croquet, Club the Tower, Brave the Zombie Barn and more.
Children £6, Adults £9, Under 4’s FREE. All day parking £3. Book tickets online.
Creature Collectives Trail – Track down the clues and crack the codes to find out the collective terms of the animals here at Avon Heath!
Pick up your trail packs from the visitor centre for £3.70.
Date: 31 October & 1 November 2024
Come and meet some slithering snakes, terrifying tarantulas and other creepy crawlies up close.
Choice of time slot with limited spaces available.
Quiet Session 10.30am.
£4 per child. (1 adult free) £5 on the day. Booking essential on 01425 478082.
Date: 27 October 2024 Time: 10am-3.30pm
Halloween Activity Trail – Are you brave enough to join us on our creepy challenges? Suitable for 5+, join us for some creepy challenges like climbing, archery and much more!
2 hour time slot £10 per person (non-participating adults free) book via the website.
Date: 26 November – 3 November 2024 Times: 10am-4.30pm
Red Squirrel Family Trail – Leap, scamper, and climb, get nutty about red squirrels. Wear a red squirrel mask and follow our interactive family trail to see what amazing facts you can discover about these fascinating furry creatures. Have a go at our pine cone toss game, see if you can build a drey and take part in some squirrel inspired games.
The trail is free of charge and no booking is required.
Date: 1 & 2 November 2024 Times: 11am – 1pm & 2 – 3pm.
Family Bushcraft Workshops – From knife skills, wood carving and fire lighting to animal tracking, foraging and shelter building, there is something for everyone to learn, suitable for 6+.
Booking is recommended, £10 per child.
The Square, Corfe Castle, BH20 5EZ.
Date: 26 October – 3 November 2024 Time: 10am-4.30pm
Bring your own teddy (or borrow a furry Corfe Castle veteran) and send them down the zip line over the great ditch. Don’t forget to collect your bears ‘certificate of bravery’ on your way back down!
Come and take your photo in the middle of our pumpkin display with the castle as your backdrop.
Date: 9 September – 22 November 2024 Time: 10am-4.30pm
Join in with this family quest to find the hidden critters that call the castle home. Explore the ruins to discover how they help or hinder us looking after the castle & earn a special token.
Free Events. Normal admission prices apply.
Date: 31 October 2024 Time: 4.30-6.30pm
Guided Bat Walk – Join us on a walk around the castle ruins in pursuit of the fascinating night-time aerobatics of bats – don’t forget your spooky costume!
Free event but booking essential.
Ringwood Rd, Slip Road, Fordingbridge SP6 1AN.
Dates: 5-6th, 12-13th, 19-20th, 25-31st October 2024 Times: 9.30am – 5pm
Are you brave enough to enter?! Check out our Halloween Maze in the New Forest.
Dates: 12th, 19th and 26th October 2024 Times: 7pm-8.30pm
Twillight Maze plus Picking Patch will be open for PYO Pumpkins, hot food, marshmallow toasting and hot chocolates from 6pm-8pm.
Book via the Picking Patch website.
Date: 12th – 13th & 19th – 20th October 2024 Times: 10am – 3pm
Pumpkin Fest – with tractor rides, live music, a maze, pumpkin bowling alley, pumpkin picking, farm animals, and crafts plus a nature trail.
Nothe Fort, Barrack Road, Weymouth DT4 8UF.
Date: 26 October – 3 November 2024 Time: 10.30am – 4pm
Step into the enchanting world of spells and spooks at Nothe Fort this October Half Term.
Warren & Winnie Ghost Hunt
Ghost Tunnel
Vampire Photobooth
Pumpkin Golf
Potion School
Halloween Games
Make and Take
Spooktacular Extras
Running from October to December 2024.
Explore Lulworth Cove this Autumn on our seasonal rhyming trail.
£1 for the activity sheet and map.
No need to book pop into the Visitor Centre BH20 5RQ between 10am-3pm.
Date: 21 & 26 October 2024 Time: 11.30am-3pm
Apple Pressing in the Kitchen Garden
Date: 22 October – 3 November 2024
Adventure Trail – Collect your creativity activity booklet from Visitor Reception and complete the activities plus pop-up activities around the gardens and visit the Autumn Hideaway on the edge of the Formal Garden for an exciting audio installation (10 – 27 October) or autumn crafts (29 October – 3 November)
Free Events. Normal admissions apply.
Date: 25 October – 3 November 2024 Time: 4pm – 9pm
Explore the forest after-dark with a BRAND NEW spooky illuminated trail for the whole family.
Tickets start from £8. Booking required via the website.
Date: 16 October – 3 November Time: 9am – 5pm
Venom Valley – A short trail for the whole family to learn about native UK snakes with fun activities. Find the snakes at the end of the trail made from natural and locally foraged material.
Date: 29 October – 1 November Time: 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Halloween Crafts – Join us in Ranger Den to decorate witches hats & make spooky autumn bunting. No booking required. £2 per craft.
Date: 12 October – 3 November Time: 9am – 5pm
FREE Halloween Activity Sheet – Available to pick up from the Visitor Centre.
Date: 24 October – 3 November 2024 Time: 10am -4pm
Spookily decorated woodland walk – Look out for ghosts and ghouls as well as our Dinosaurs!
Free Event. No need to book, just drop in.
Date: 30 October 2024 Time: 10am, 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3pm
Museum Make: Magic and Monsters Halloween Costumes £5 – more info here.
1pm & 2.30pm Squidge and Pop Family Bubble Workshops £9 – more info here.
11am- 12pm Relaxed (SEN) Family Bubble Workshop with Squidge and Pop – £9 – more info here.
Date: 31 October 2024 Time: 11am & 2pm
Treehouse Theatre Storybox: The Enormous Pumpkin £6 – more info here.
5.45 – 8.15pm Halloween Magic Family Fun Night £15 – more info here.
Date: 26 October – 3 Noveber 2024 Time: 10am-3.30pm
Ghostly Gala Family Activity Trail – Visit the ghosts and Halloween characters around the Park to find the clues to complete your invitation to the Ghostly Gala.
Fancy dress encouraged. £4 per trail map, includes cuddly prize. Trail maps available from the Welcome Centre.
East, W Cliff Promenade, Bournemouth BH1 3AA.
Date: 26 October – 3 November 2024
Join us for a children’s trail available in the historic house & garden.
Trails are free, but you must have an admission ticket for the house to take part in the house trail.
Date: 30 & 31 October 2024 Time: 10.30am-2.30pm
Join us during October Half Term for some Frightfully Fun Halloween Activities! £4.50 per child.
No need to book, just come along (normal admission applies).
Station Road, Moreton DT2 8RH.
Date: 19 October – 3 November 2024 Times: 9am-3.30pm
Halloween & Autumn Trail – We have 9 ghosts hiding around the garden, some with a letter that makes up our halloween anagram – can you find them all?
Maps are just £3 (including a halloween themed prize).
