ALL WEEKEND
 
Family Fun Opening Weekend - Century City
Skylight Studios celebrates the new exhibit LIFE: A Journey Through Time at the Annenberg Space for Photography with a family fun weekend. Kids can meet (and photograph!) rescue animals.

Frightfully Fun Fishy Fest - Santa Monica
Santa Monica Pier Aquarium's annual Halloween/Dia de los Muertos weekend features a glow-in-the-dark deep-sea laboratory, a marine animal graveyard, and colorful Día de los Muertos crafts and masks.

Disney Frozen Fall Festival - Glendale
The Frozen Fall Festival at the Glendale Galleria features interactive activities presented by Leapfrog.

Scarium of the Pacific - Long Beach
The Aquarium of the Pacific’s annual Halloween festivities include a children’s costume contest, the creepy coloring contest, face painting, magic shows, underwater pumpkin carving, spooky storytelling, kooky crafts, and eerie animals in the Great Hall.

Nightmare Before Christmas (PG) - Hollywood
Count on Jack Skellington to remind us of the spooky truth: Christmas is just around the corner!

Boo at the LA Zoo - Griffith Park
The Los Angeles Zoo steps up its Halloweening, adding trick-or-treating and a costume parade to the mix. And Swazzle puppets.

LA Kids Consignment sale - Woodland Hills
The semi-annual consignment sale at Westfield Promenade Mall features new and gently used items from over 650 families.
 
Cirque du Soleil - KURIOS - Costa Mesa
Prepare to be amazed by steampunk-influenced Cirque at the OC Fair!
 
Underwood Family Farms' 18th Annual Fall Harvest Festival - Moorpark
It’s Western Weekend at Underwood Family Farms, with stunt ropers, a covered wagon, music, and magic.

SHRC Fall Festival - Haunted Pumpkin Patch - Shadow Hills
This fundraiser for Shadow Hills Riding Club features haunted houses, face painting, carnival games, a mechanical bull, pumpkin decorating, straw Halloween maze, a petting zoo, and pony rides—plus a Halloween bouncer and slide .

SATURDAY OCTOBER 24

Grand Ave Arts: All Access - Downtown
11 museums along Downtown’s Grand Avenue welcome the new Broad Museum to the fold with open house activities including crafts, behind the scenes tours, and performances.
 
Water Harvest Festival - El Segundo
Kids can learn about water conservation (timely!) while enjoying a fun day of interactive games, kid’s costume contest, stage shows, pony rides, and a reptile petting zoo.

Anaheim Fall Festival and Halloween Parade - Anaheim
The 91st (!) annual Fall Festival features a parade, carnival rides, a haunted house, a children’s costume contest, and one for doggies, too!

RecFest 2015 - Agoura Hills
RecFest introduces families to all sorts of fun outdoor activities that can be enjoyed in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Saturday Morning Stories and More - West LA
Emily Arrow writes and performs catchy tunes inspired by her favorite kids’ books.

AMC Theatres Sensory Friendly Films - Multiple Locations
AMC ups the number of sensory-friendly screenings, adding two more per month. This weekend, families can watch Goosebumps in a safe and accepting environment.

A Faery Hunt & A Faery Hunt's Halloween Party - Griffith Park
Families looking for a gentler alternative to the usual Halloween activities can celebrate Halloween with the Faery Folk in Griffith Park.

Happy Harbor Halloween - San Pedro & Wilmington
Port of Los Angeles throws Halloween bashes in two locations, each featuring a pumpkin patch, costume parade, reptile and marionette shows, games, and candy. 

Portfolio Review Day for Teens - El Segundo
Teens who are interested in pursuing the arts can get a free portfolio review at ESMoA.
 
Eek at the Greek - Griffith Park
The Greek Theatre's annual Halloween show features spooky-ooky musical favorites plus the live-to-film performance premiere of the classic Disney cartoon Hell's Bells. This year actor Armin Shimerman (Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) narrates a chilling rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-tale Heart."  

Mom Expo Los Angeles - Pasadena
The mama trade show features exhibitors of special interest to moms of young children and kids from newborns to school age, with a kids area to amuse the young ones.

Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever - Hollywood
Families can wear Day of the Dead attire to honor the memories of the departed among some of the city's most famous departed, as Hollywood Forever Cemetery celebrates Dia de los Muertos.
 
Halloween Pumpkin Party on the Rancho - Calabasas
At the Leonis Adobe Museum, kids do Halloween crafts, feed ranch animals, enjoy ranch fun and pumpkins and enjoy family music by Craig Newton. Costumes encouraged.

All Things Fall Special Needs Playgroup - North Hollywood
Families are invited for a special “all things fall”-themed playgroup. Highlights include a variety of sensory activities, pumpkin decorating, dance party and more.

Camp Boo and Goo Mid-Wilshire
Kids can enjoy some gooey overnight fun at the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits.
 
Sea Scare - San Pedro
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium’s evening Halloween celebration promises thrills and gills! Activities include a treasure hunt in the Aquatic Nursery, scary sea creature feedings, make your own slime and bioluminescent crafts, as well as a haunted boardwalk and a Sea Scare Party Zone with a DJ and dancing.

Spooky Science Nights - Downey
Kids can discover the spooky side of science at the Columbia Memorial Space Center.
 
SUNDAY  OCTOBER 25

Pumpkin Race Festival - Manhattan Beach
On your mark, get set, gourd! It’s the 25th annual Pumpkin Races at Manhattan Beach Pier.   (Also at the Pier: SKECHERS Pier to Pier Friendship Walk, which raises funds for special needs kids.)
 
Dia de los Muertos Novenario - Downtown
Candlelight Novenario processions are held nightly on Olvera Street. Free  pan de muerto  and champurrado follow! 

Kids Can Cure Fun Run - Woodland Hills
This Halloween-themed family-friendly charity event at Warner Center Park benefits pancreatic cancer research.

23rd Annual Model Train Show - Palos Verdes Peninsula
The finest modular clubs are represented at this annual event at the South Coast Botanic Gardens
 
Birdwatching for Young Children and Parents - Malibu
Young children and their parents can go on a special birdwatching walk at Malibu Lagoon State Beach.
 
Trick or Treat Festival and Halloween Hearse Show - Costa Mesa
Orange County Market Place celebrates Halloween with daytime trick-or-treating for kids in costume, a gigantic pumpkin carving exhibition, snakes and reptiles and tarantulas, oh my, plus a magic show, kids’ karaoke and a kids’screaming contest.  (Because they might as well put all that talent to good use).

Depot Day - Griffith Park
Travel Town’s annual celebration and open house  is filled with special exhibits and activities for the whole family
 
Halloween Stories - Topanga
Creative Playground presents not-so-scary Halloween tales at Theatricum Botanicum.
 
826LA@Hammer: Witches' Cookbook (and TV Show) for the Tragically Non-magic - Westwood
In this workshop, students make a witches’ cookbook and rehearse a TV cooking segment for the book’s upcoming publicity tour.
 
Halloween and Mourning Tour - Montecito Heights
Heritage Square Museum explores death and mourning in the Victorian era. (This event runs all weekend, but only the Sunday event is kid-friendly, with crafts, games and spooky stories.)

Fall Festival - Glendale
The Annual Fall Festival at The Americana at Brand offers live music, crafts, pumpkin carving demos, face painting, raffles, and costumes.

Room on the Broom - Costa Mesa
The popular children’s story is presented live on stage at the Segerstrom Center.
 
Grier Musser Museum Haunted House Tour - Westlake
Grier Musser gussies up for Halloween with spooky tours of the Victorian mansion.

The Grove's Halloween Fall Festival - Fairfax
The Halloween fun at the Grove includes animal encounters with STAR Eco Station, trick-or-treating, costume contests, and meet and greets with Disney star Aedin Mincks of Disney's ANT Farm, Brenna D'Amico of Disney's The Descendants, and Joshua Rush of Disney's The Lion Guard.

Haunted History - Encino
This annual family-friendly Halloween event includes pumpkin decorating/carving (bring your own pumpkin), Unliving History, haunted tours, a twilight blacksmith demonstration, and screenings of spooky cartoons / shorts.

Mickey's Halloween Party - Anaheim
Disneyland. Free candy. 'Nuff said.

As always, there are many more activities listed on our Event Calendar, and if you didn't receive this info as a newsletter, you should sign up for our weekly events updates. Whatever you choose to do this weekend, we hope you have a terrific time!