We love Halloween! It's a super fun time for all the family, to get dressed up, and spend some quality time together. We have compiled a list of fun activities to help you celebrate Halloween and keep your children entertained!

Spooktacular Ideas for Halloween in Coventry

Pumpkin Picking

Whilst it's easy to buy a pumpkin in the supermarket, it's great fun to pick your own! Pumpkin Picking is a great activity to do with the whole family, and there are lots of places around Coventry where you can pick the perfect pumpkin!

We have round-up our favourite local pumpkin patches here - Pumpkin Picking near Coventry

Pumpkin Carving

Once you have chosen your ideal pumpkin, get your kids to come up with a fantastic, spooky design and carve it together! If you're looking for ideas for how to carve your pumpkin once it's picked, then scroll to the bottom of this guide for some of our favourites.

If you aren't too confident check out this Pumpkin Carving Kit - it includes tools, templates and a handy storage bag!

Pumpkin Recipes

Don't throw out all that lovely pumpkin flesh - it's great for cooking! There are so many ways to use up leftover pumpkin, we love these ideas from BBC goodfood, including Pumpkin Muffins, an amazing halloween party centerpiece, Pumpkin Hummus and this warming Pumpkin Tagine. Yum!

Click here to find loads of great recipes for sweet and savoury ways to use up leftover pumpkin!

Dress to impress

We've done our research, and the most popular Halloween costumes for 2025 are K-Pop Demon Hunters, Elphaba from Wicked, Zombies and Monster High. We've included these, plus some timeless classics in our Easy Halloween Costume Ideas Guide - featuring both ready-to-buy options from Amazon and simple DIY ideas you can make at home. You’re welcome! 

Read our guide for easy costume inspiration!

Get out and about

Autumn is a lovely time of year to get wrapped up and enjoy a walk together as a family. We have round up some of our favourite Family Friendly Walks in this handy guide.

Why not find somewhere new to explore? Head to our Parks and Walks section to find a brilliant collection of local outdoor spaces. Click here to find somewhere new to explore!

Collect conkers for some epic conker wars and find out who will be the all-conkering hero! Check out our top spots to find conkers in Coventry here!

Local Events

The Coventry Rocks website is PACKAGED with Halloween events happening in and around Coventry!

Click here to browse our collection of Halloween Events!

Keep them Sweet!

Make your own toffee apples, bake Halloween cupcakes or have a go at apple-bobbing. Decorate Halloween cookies or have a go at some spooky shortbread using Halloween cookie cutters.

When you have created a feast of devilish delights you could have a go at reverse trick-or-treating! Take some of your tasty treats and deliver them to your neighbours!

Go Mad with Decorations!

Create Halloween crafts together and see who can make the creepiest creations. Try your hand at some Halloween themed origami, think scary monsters, biting lips, blinking eyes and more or maybe these lovely Halloween paper lanterns.

We love these Halloween Decorations from Amazon - there's so much choice to suit every budget!

We have also created some Halloween Printables - just download and print the PDF, and the kids can colour some masterpieces for your window!

Party Time!

Hold a Halloween kitchen disco and play some spooky tunes – The Time Warp is one of our favourites! Have a game of Halloween bingo with your family. You can download some FREE Halloween bingo sheets or create your own.

Have a spooky dinner party with wormy spaghetti followed by jelly brains! Or you could try baking sausage mummy dippers. Follow up with some Halloween inspired mocktails. Cranberry juice works well for blood! Food colourings are great for green and blue and they're delicious served from a hollowed-out pumpkin!

Fright Night

Make your family laugh, jump (or cringe) by telling spooky jokes. Hold a scary movie marathon, turn off all the lights and cuddle-up tight and see who gets goosebumps! There are loads of scary movies for kids now available on Netflix.

Tell some spooky stories; find a quiet corner of the house, grab some duvets and a torch and scare the living daylights out of each other with stories of things that go bump in the night!

We hope you have enjoyed our spooktacular ideas for Halloween and it's given you some inspiration to make Halloween great for your kids!

There are lots of other things to do on our website - including parks, walks, day trip ideas, and groups and classes. Visit Coventry Rocks to find your fun today!

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