Fall is finally here! As the temperature drops and the leaves start to change colour, we’re back with our most popular post – a round up of La Castanyada and Halloween activities for kids! Make sure to check back, we’ll be updating the post daily as new events and dates get announced. Still need a costume? We can help with that too.
Ciutat Vella
Hard Rock Cafe (@hardrockcafebarcelona), Little Monster Ball Halloween Brunch y Concierto con La Colla Pirata
Description: Celebrate the spookiest Halloween brunch with us! As every year, we’re planning a brunch to enjoy with the family on the Sunday before Halloween, including entertainment, face painting and a show for the little ones. The little Rockstars will enjoy spooky decorations together with a full breakfast served at the table with cold meats, bread with tomato, fruit, sweets, scrambled eggs, bacon and a wide range of drinks (tea, coffee, chocolate and assorted juices). And, above all, don’t forget your costume!
Ages: All
Dates: October 28 & 29
Eixample
Cookiteca (@cookiteca), Pasteles Chocolate Hallowee
Description: Chocolate cake baking workshop. Learn how to bake brownies and coulant and decorate them for Halloween!
Ages: 6-12
Date: October 28
Dinamo Kids (@dinamokidsbarcelona), La Fabrica Embrujada Lehmann
Description: Whether you like chestnuts and panellets or trick or treaters, we have you covered!
Ages: 6+
Dates: November 1
Escola Comunica’t (@escolacomunicat), Rua de HalloweennDescription: As every year, Escola Comunica’t will organize the Rua de Halloween. At the cry of “trick or treat” we will visit some local businesses where we’ll scare the staff and ask for candies, so come dressed up, with your face painted, with a mask or however you like.
Ages: 4-12
Date: October 31
First Page English School (@firstpageschool), Halloween Party
Description: Join us for a spooktacular Halloween celebration for kids! Dress up in your scariest costumes and get ready for a night of fun and excitement. Our venue is located at 94 Carrer de Viladomat, which will be transformed into a haunted wonderland. There will be thrilling activities, games, and surprises awaiting all little monsters and witches. Get ready to enjoy a variety of Halloween-themed games, face painting, and a costume parade. Don’t forget to bring your trick-or-treat bags because there will be plenty of delicious treats for everyone! The event will be split into two different shifts so everyone can enjoy the evening!
Ages 3-12
Date: October 28
FunTalk (@funtalkbarcelona), Halloween Party
Description: We invite you to bring your children to experience our spooky Hallween party from 18:00 to 20:00 hours, all in English! Join us and enjoy thrilling activities such as our glow in the dark room, freaky disco, spooky cookies, wonderful witches potions and terrifyingly fantastic games. FunTalk will be transformed completely for Halloween, not to be missed! We encourage children to come dressed up in your most spooky costume! Come join us for an evening of freaky fun and many surprises!
Ages: 6-12
Date: October 27
Helen Doron Sagrada Familia (@helendoronsagradafamilia), Halloween Party
Description: Come and celebrate Halloween with us!
Ages: 3-9
Date: October 27
Nou Eixample Eix Comercial (@eixcomercialnoueixample)
Description: Castaween celebration, with trick or treating among shops in the neighbourhood.
Ages: All
Date: October 31
Rose Bonbon (@rosebonbon.bcn)
Description: Halloween party in French, with performances, storytelling, face painting and candy
Ages: 0-3+
Date: October 28
Smileroom Kids & Parents (@smileroombarcelona)
Description: Music, photo booth, costumes, sensory experiences and more
Ages: 0-3 years
Date: October 29
Warriors Barcelona (@warriorsbarcelona), Fiesta de Halloween
Description: Come and spend a terrifying afternoon with your friends!
Ages: 3-18
Date: October 31
Gràcia
Bake a Tuil (@bake_a_tuil), Taller de Cupcakes de Halloween
Description: A super fun workshop in which children will make terrifying Halloween cupcakes from start to finish. Two hours where we will stimulate our creativity and learn by playing. All materials and a mid-morning snack will be included in the workshop.
Ages: 6-12
Date: October 21
La Teatreria (@lateatreriabcn)
Description: La Teatreria is organising a festive week of Halloween-themed workshops and a mini casal
Dates: October 26-31
Little Makers (@littlemakers.es)
Description: Family Day Halloween – explore, create and get messy in the atelier and then play freely in the playroom upstairs. Costumes welcome!
Dates: October 21 -November 3
Rupits Art (@rupits_art)
Description: Fall-themed creative sensory experience inspired by autumn landscapes and the La Castanyada festival
Ages: 10 months-36 months with adult
Les Corts
English in the Kitchen (@english.in.the.kitchen.bcn) Talleres de Halloween
Description: Come enjoy our Halloween workshops with Kit Pot Kids (@kitpotkids) where you’ll make spooky recipes and ceramics in English!
Ages: 6-12
Dates: October 21-28n
Kids&Kafe (@kidsandkafe)
Description: Halloween Party, including fun activities, photobooth and professional photographer
Ages: 0-6
Dates: October 28 & 29
Sant Martí
Escola Esclat (@escola_esclat)
Description: Creative Halloween workshop in English
Ages: All
Date: October 28
Espai Granada (@espai_granada), Decoración de Galletas Halloween
Description: Catrinas, ghosts and pumpkins! This year we offer you catrinas, colourful decorated skulls from Mexico, as well as pumpkins and ghosts that will accompany us in our Halloween biscuit decorating workshop! Espai Granada offers 4 workshop sessions to learn how to decorate terrifyingly delicious biscuits. Different decoration techniques with fondant, piping and edible ink markers, as well as how to use some edible decorative elements such as pearls, sugar paper, colours, etc. We also give you a delicious recipe for shortbread biscuits that you will want to repeat.
Ages: 5 – Adults
Date: October 29
Next Level English (@nxtlevelenglish), Halloween Magic and Potions
Description: Get ready for a bewitching Halloween adventure! Join us with @weavingmonsters on Saturday, October 28th, from 11am to 1pm for a Halloween Witchcraft and Potions event for the whole family. Unveil the mystical potential of witchcraft and magic in our special story craft adventure. Embark on a journey of wonder and awe, where storytelling, spells, wand crafting, and potion experiments come to life! All in English of course! Dress up in your fanciest Halloween costumes and join us for a spellbinding day of Halloween fun in Barcelona.
Ages: 4-12
Dates: October 28
Playful Minds (@playful_minds_), Special Halloween Sensory Workshop
Description: This Halloween, we’ll be hosting an Outdoor Sensory Workshop, and we have an exciting surprise in store: talented make-up artist, Niloo, will be our special guest! Don’t miss out on a wonderful hour and a half with your little ones while they learn and have fun.
Ages: 0 months – 4 years
Date: November 1
Vernita Studio (@vernita.studio), Castañada y Halloween: taller de costura familiar
Description: Family sewing: Castañada/Halloween special. Ghosts, chestnuts, bats…. A time to enjoy with the family and sew as a team.
Ages: 5 – adults
Dates: October 27 & 28
Sants-Montjuïc
CreaTIC Nens (@creatic_nens)
Description: Casal de Halloween – Come and enjoy a day full of technology and fun, including educational robotics with LEGO, 3D design and crafts.
Ages: 6-12
Date: October 28
FAnglès (@fangles_ceramics)
Description: Clay & Create: Halloween ceramics workshop
Date: October 29
Poble Espanyol (@pobleespanyol)
Description: Tunnel of terror, costume contests, family spectacles, photo call, castanyes and more
Ages: All
Sarrià-Sant Gervasi
Artes Marciales Mac (@artes_marciales_mac), Halloween en MAC
Description: Fancy dress and trick-or-treating
Ages: 2 – Adults
Dates: October 27 & 31n
Casita Club (@casitaclubbcn), Halloween Workshop at Casita Club
Description: Halloween Workshops, including face painting, trick or treat and arts and crafts
Ages: 6 months-10 years
Dates: October 21, 22, 28, 29
Cookiteca (@cookiteca), Cupcakes and Pastelitos Halloween
Description: Join us on October 21 to decorate festive cookies at the Sarrià street market or on October 30 to make terrifyingly delicious cupcakes!
Ages: 6-12
Dates: October 21 (Pastelitos) and October 30 (Cupcakes)
Helen Doron English Bonanova (@hdbonanova), Booh Funfair
Description: Take part in our Halloween fair and have a frightfully fun afternoon. This activity is entirely organised by Teen Success (B2) students, the income generated will be for their own use and enjoyment, help them to get to know Europe!
Ages: 2-16
Date: October 27n
Parc d’atraccions Tibidabo (@parctibidabo)
Description: ‘Wilhelm Freak Show,’ a terrifying new show from Hotel Krüeger
Ages: 8+
Dates: September 30 – November 12
Peekaboo (@peekaboo_bcn), Halloween at Peekaboo!
Description: Get ready for spooky fun at our kids Halloween event! Calling all little ghouls and goblins! Join us for a fang-tastic Halloween celebration that’s sure to send shivers down your spine and put a smile on your face!
Ages: 1-6
Date: October 29
Turo Park Halloween (@turoparkhalloween)
Description: Local families and businesses in and around Turó Park will host their annual trick-or-treating event again this year
Ages: All
Date: October 30
Multiple Locations
Music Together (@musictogetherbarcelona)
Description: Do you dare come to a Music Together’s Special Halloween class? If you are a baby-pumpkin, toddler-witch, or a zombie up to 5yo, bring your grown-up monster to ing (or scream), dance (or run), play maracas and drums (or bones and pumpkins), and having a spooky fun in any of our venues in Barcelona and surroundings, and make Music Together!
Ages: 0-5
Dates: Multiple
Outside Barcelona
AAprende idiomas (@aaprendreidiomes), Activitats de Halloween en anglèsnDescripción: Actividades en inglés. Si quieres, puedes venir con disfraz., no dará miedo.
Edades: 4-11
Datos: 27 de octubren
Lugar: Terrassann
Artes Marciales Mac (@artes_marciales_mac), Halloween en MAC
Description: Fancy dress and trick-or-treating in all centres
Ages: 2 – Adults
Dates: October 27 & 31
Lugares: Esplugues, Pedralbes, Rubí, Sabadell, Sant Cugatnn
Cal Trilla 1902 (@caltrilla1902)
Description: A local farm with pumpkin festival and decorative gourds for sale. If you’re looking for a traditional pumpkin patch/pumpkin picking experience, this is the place to be.
Ages: All
Location: El Prat de Llobregat
Can Sala (@cansalamontornes)
Description: Castanyada celebration, with chestnut hunting and roasting, songs and Halloween face painting
Ages: All
Location: Montornès del Vallès
Catalunya en Miniatura (@catalunyaenminiatura)
Description: Halloween-themed activities for kids of all ages
Ages: 3+
Dates: October 7 – November 5
Location: Torelles de Llobregat
CatVana Learning Centre (@catvana_lc)
Description: Autumn Camp, with lots of fun Halloween and castanya crafts, games, and spooky activities in English
Ages: 3-12
Location: Sant Pere de Ribes
Celtic Language School (@celticlanguageschool)
Description: Halloween arts and crafts, cooking workshop and movie night
Ages: 2-6+
Date: October 27
Location: Cardedeu
Cute & Crafts (@cuteandcrafts), Fiesta – Taller Cuki Party Halloween
Description: We are going to celebrate a very special Halloween at our Cuki Party! If you have kids from 5 years old come with them to spend a fun morning doing crafts and trick or treat games. We’ll have a little snack and have a great time together.
Ages: 5-11
Date: October 28
Location: Santa Coloma de Gramenet
Fira de la Castanya (@firadelacastanya)nDescription: A festival and cultural activities celebrating the chestnut, an important product of the town of Viladrau
Dates: October 22 & 23
Location: Viladrau
Helen Doron English Badalona (@helendoronbadalona)
Description: Halloween cooking, arts & crafts, masks, costumes & makeup workshop (17-19:30h) and scary movie and popcorn (19:30-21h)
Ages: 3-17
Date: October 31
Location: Badalona
Granja Aventura Park (@granjaaventurapark)
Description: ‘Castahalloween’ – the popular farm and adventure park is offering special activities this month, including storytelling, Halloween-themed tattoos and roasted chestnuts
Ages: All
Location: Viladecavalls
La Jungla Family Café (@lajunglafamilycafe)nDescription: ‘Festa Castanyada’ with stories, songs, autumn activities and special visit from Sra. Castanyada. ‘Jungla Monster Party’ with trick-or-yoga, Halloween tattoos and face-painting, snacks and costume party.
Dates: October 25 & 29
Location: Sant Feliu de Llobregat
Little Socks Sant Feliu (@littlesockssantfeliu), Fiesta de HalloweennDescription: A fun-filled event including a special Halloween workshop with exploration and crafts, games, music and guided activities! Don’t forget to dress up!
Ages: 1-5
Date: October 31
Location: Sant Feliu de Llobregat
MyGranChef (@mygranchef), Taller de Cocina Terrorífica
Description: Celebrate Halloween in a fun and delicious way! Join our children’s cooking workshops and discover how to create spooky culinary delights – we’ll make our spooky dishes full of flavour and fun!
Date: October 31
Location: Sabadell
OCHIMANIKIA Espai de Cuina (@ochimanikia), Especial Halloween
Description: What could be more fun than transforming simple ingredients into culinary masterpieces worthy of a horror movie? From monster cupcakes, to bloody witches’ fingers, to delicious pizza pumpkins or chocolate skulls… there are so many options, sweet or savoury, all of them as delicious as they are terrifying! The important thing is to let your creativity run wild and have lots and lots of fun….
Ages: 5-16
Date: October 28
Location: Sant Esteve Sesroviresn
PortAventura World (@portaventuraoficial)
Description: A festive Halloween-themed atmosphere and special seasonal performances
Ages: All
Dates: September 23 – November 12
Location: Tarragonan
Do you know of other activities happening in or around Barcelona? Tell us below, and we’ll add them!
