Hello SLC friends,
I hope this article finds you well. It's crunch time for Halloween next week! Do you have your costumes all ready? Are you staying in for Halloween this year?
It was either October 2018 or '19, we did so many Fall & Halloween activities that by the end of the month, I was sooo exhausted. We'd already had too much candy and dressed up at least twice to trick-or-treat throughout the month at different events. So on the 31st, I let my daughter skip school and didn't tell her it was Halloween because I didn't want to take her trick-or-treating again. It wasn't my finest hour. LOL. But we stayed home, made some fun crafts and watched Hocus Pocus, and it was wonderful.
So however you choose to celebrate Halloween this year, we got you!
Here are ideas for some Halloween fun with your kids:
Trick-or-Treating:
Use Nextdoor to see who is handing out candy in your neighborhood, or use the good old trick-or-treat rule: If the porch light is on, they're handing out candy. There will be people passing out candy on both Saturday and Sunday, so either day you go should work!
Halloween on the Road:
Use KSL's map to drive around and look at all the cool Halloween houses.
Halloween at Home:
**Enter Our Halloween Coloring Contest! 2 winners will receive 4 tickets EACH to Jurassic Quest**
(Entries accepted until Wednesday, October 27 @ 6pm)
Dye macaroni Halloween colors and make fun, festive jewelry
Make a haunted graveyard or haunted graham cracker house
Here are our top 7 picks for things to do this week, with kids, in Salt Lake City!
1. Trick-or-Treat for a Book @ Your Local SLC Library
FREE
Kids ages 12 and under can Trick or Treat for a book at any City Library branch and the Children's Library at the Main Library (2 hr free parking with validation). Just come to the Reference Desk and let staff know you are trick or treating for a book. Costumes are encouraged!
October 25-31
2. Pumpkin Festival @ The Gateway
FREE
Get in the Halloween spirit and join us for our first-ever Pumpkin Festival! We'll have spooky good tunes, pumpkin painting stations, scary good photo-ops, and pumpkin art exhibits, games and more!
October 29
3. Spooktacular @ The Leonardo
$5
Make your own haunted house, mix up a batch of ghost goo, raise a zombie from the dead with static electricity and watch a spooky science demonstration at The Leonardo!
October 30
4. Little Haunts @ This is The Place
$10.95 - $14.95
Bring your little ones to This is The Place Heritage Park for a fun, non-scary Halloween celebration! Costumes welcome! In addition to all the usual activities (pony & train rides, take-home crafts, gold-mining and more), you can also visit the Story Telling Witch, go trick-or-treating and see creepy crawlies up-close at Creature Encounters.
October 30
$11.95 - $14.95
BooLights is a not-so-spooky Halloween themed light event at Hogle Zoo. Bring your whole family for some Halloween fun, and enjoy the zoo in the cool evening hours.
October 25-29
$15
Come trick-or-treat at Align Fitness Studio! Grab your little ones and bring them to your favorite barre class to get a quick 45 minute workout and a treat for you and your little monster. Limit 1 child (age 3+) per adult. Don't forget to wear your Halloween costumes!
October 30 - 8:30-9:15am
$19+
Make sure to enter our coloring contest for your chance to win 4 tickets to Jurassic Quest!
Jurassic Quest is the largest exhibition of life-size, moving, museum-quality dinosaurs in North America! Each of over 100 dinosaurs has been painstakingly replicated in every detail by leading paleontologists. Future paleontologists can dig up fossils, ride a life-size dinosaur, explore a dino-themed play land and enjoy face-painting, crafts and more!
October 29-31
Have a spooky fun week! And don't forget - if you haven't yet - subscribe to receive our free weekly newsletter so you don't miss out on local events and activities for you and your family. Also, check out our events calendar! There are lots of other things happening that you'll want to check out that aren't listed here.
From our family to yours, Happy Halloween!
Kat
