Ideas for what to do and where to go this Halloween
22-27 October Family Film Festival Halloween Special
The Cambridge Family Film Festival is celebrating Halloween with a range of spook-tacular films priced at a bargain £4 per ticket. Tim Burton’s enchanting, Oscar nominated Corpse Bride gets an airing, as does the riotously funny Young Frankenstein, plus Scooby Doo on Zombie Island. There’s also a showing of four Halloween Shorts for kids with a taste for the ghoulish, and a variety of special, free activities including fancy dress walking tours for children, an ‘unlucky dip’ and a spider-making craft session.
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk
22-30 October Week of wickedness
Enjoy a whole week of wickedness at the Skylark Maize Maze from 22 to 30 October when they add a spooky twist to their fiendishly tricky labyrinth in honour of Halloween. As well as exploring the huge maze, which is located near March, there’ll be loads of extra attractions for you to get stuck into like pumpkin picking and carving, trails, bouncy castles, a zooming zip wire, mega slide and an obstacle course.
28 October Fenland Spooktacular
Got little ones aged three to ten years? Pop over to Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve on 28 October for games, crafts and scary goings-on in the great outdoors. There are sessions from 10.30am to 12.30pm and 2 to 4pm, and you’re encouraged to wear fancy dress if you like, but definitely clothes that you don’t mind getting messy.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wicken-fen-nature-reserve
29 October Family Halloween Fun
An evening of Halloween howls awaits at Wandlebury Country Park on 29 October. Dress up in your spookiest attire and join in a guided candelit walk around the park and twilight pumpkin carving, then head back to the Stable Rooms where there will be hot drinks around a fire to warm you up.
Bring along a torch and some marshmallows to toast.
31 October
Apples, pumpkins and spooks
They’re getting well and truly into the spooky spirit of things over at Denny Abbey Farmland Museum this month, with plenty of kid-friendly fun. Head over on 31 October between 10.30am and 4pm for Apples, Pumpkins & Spooks, when they’ll be laying on activities including pumpkin carving and apple bobbing, plus songs and stories. Dress to scare!