The October Half Term holiday finishes off with Halloween and there are lots of spooktacular events happening in Surrey.   If you’re looking for ideas of what to do with the kids over October Half Term and family friendly Halloween events 2025, then look no further.  Just click on any of the links in red for more information.  There’s also a handy guide for Berkshire  too if you’re looking to venture a little further.

If you’re looking for WHERE TO GO PUMPKIN PICKING go straight to the PYO pumpkin patch guide.

SPOTLIGHT – Howl’O’Ween at Chessington World of Adventures 4-5, 11-12, 18 Oct– 2 Nov

Things are getting spooky once again at Chessington this October, with a Fa-BOO-lous Halloween event for the whole family! With brand-new Halloween shows, Enchanted Hollow – Trick or Treat, theme park rides at dusk and so much more spooky fun!

October Half Term Activities in Surrey 2025

Mayfield Lavender Pumpkin Patch and Activity Trail (Epsom) 4th – 31st October

Step inside and discover a Wonderland with a twist. Malice in Lavenderland is part spooky trail, part pumpkin adventure – and it all begins at Mayfield Lavender.

• We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt ™ this Halloween at Claremont (Esher) 4th Oct – 2nd Nov
• Halloween Trail at Kew (Richmond) 18th October – 1st Nov
• Halloween on the Priory Farm Estate (Redhill) select dates 4th Oct – 2nd Nov
• Make pumpkin inspired lanterns at G Live (Guildford) 24th Oct

Halloween Wizard School (Aldershot & Farnborough) FREE

For lots of freakishishly good fun this October half-term, enrol at our wander-ful wizard school and enjoy a FREE spellbinding day out in our town centres!

Young witches and wizards will learn to fly a broomstick, encounter creepy cauldrons, take part in a monster dance class, craft a marvellous monster to take home and seek out our frightful face painters!

• Aldershot – 25th October
• Farnborough – 26th October

October Half Term Activities at Watts Gallery (Guildford) 25th October – 2nd November

This October have an adventure with a day out at Watts Gallery, with lots of free with admission activities (and some extra-special bookable experiences too!)

• Mini fireworks festival at Godstone Farm (Godstone) 25th – 26th Oct
• Witches & Wizards Week at Bockett’s Farm (Fetcham, Leatherhead) 25th Oct- 2nd Nov
• Hobble’Ween at Hobbledown (Epsom) 25th Oct – 2nd Nov
• October Half Term family activities at The Lightbox  (Woking) 25th Oct – 2nd Nov
• Justin Fletcher Live Tour at G Live (Guildford) 29th Oct
• Halloween Family Day at The Lightbox (Woking) 29th Oct

Rude Science at G Live (Guildford) 30th Oct

Expect enormous bottoms, f*rt machines, snot cocktails, vast whoopee cushions, pee-powered fireworks and ear-wax-oozing mannequins in this celebration of the fascinating bodily science essential to life with Rude Science at G Live.

• Creative workshop at G Live (Guildford) 30th Oct
• Off Road Day at Brooklands Museum (Weybridge) 2nd Nov