Houston Family-Friendly Fall Activities 2026

Fall festivities at the zoo with glowing pumpkins and themed trails.

Halloween-themed run and after-party where participants race in full costume.

Features Houston's only Trick-or-Treat Nature Trail and live animals.

An evening, 21-and-up Halloween event at the Houston Zoo.

World's Largest Bouncy Pumpkin attraction

Discovery Green's annual Halloween celebration with a costume contest and games.

Spooky family activities, interactive exhibits, and hair-raising science experiments for kids.

Features a community ofrenda honoring departed animals, crafts, and festive treats.

Free trick-or-treat party with candy stations, DJs, and live theater.

Halloween celebration featuring monster crafts, trick-or-treating, and Frankenstein on stilts.

Free pet adoptions, trunk-or-treat, and Halloween treats for people and pups.

Spooky science, hologram crafting, and ghost scavenger hunts for families.

Zoo-wide scavenger hunt searching for stripes to win prizes.

Community festival with pumpkin decorating, games, beer tasting, and vendor shopping.

Decorated trunks, games, music, and treats with Constable Precinct 7.

A community gathering for seniors featuring games, treats, and socializing.

Autumn STEAM activities, jumbo games, mini-dramas, and live entertainment.

Vietnamese Mid-Autumn celebration featuring lion dances, storytelling, and crafts.

Hands-on pumpkin carving, special-effects makeup, and live Thriller dance performances.

Family-friendly Halloween fun run with costume contest and pet participation.

Trick-or-treating with market vendors and a Día de los Muertos finale.

Community festival featuring activities, food, entertainment, and local vendor booths.

Free pumpkins, petting zoo, pizza, and costume contest.

Family-friendly race offering distances from a kids dash to a half marathon.

Features pony rides, hay rides, a petting zoo, and costume contest.

Houston book festival with local authors, book swaps, and costume contest

Trunk-or-treat with bounce houses, hay rides, and food trucks.

Decorate and take home a Beetlejuice-themed cake with guided instruction.

Themed nature and science day camps for kids ages 5 to 10.

Drop-off clay sculpting workshop where kids build custom haunted houses.

Classroom science and hands-on messy outdoor activities for young kids.

Parent-and-child art class creating a keepsake pumpkin handprint canvas.

Caregiver-and-child sensory class with not-so-spooky stations for young children.

Hands-on nature specimens, live ambassador animals, and family scavenger hunts.

Outdoor messy sensory play and art for young children.

Spooky family fun, costume contests, and a ballpark movie screening.

Community Trunk or Treat event

Brazoria County’s largest fall festival featuring an annual strategic corn maze.

Explore a strategic corn maze featuring a brand-new design each year.

Hayrides, face painting, live music, and artisan shopping for all ages.

Costume-friendly pumpkin hunt featuring music, face painting, and prizes for kids.

Carnival games, free face painting, and costume contest for kids.

Community altars honoring ancestors who helped develop Sugar Land.

Free community celebration featuring games, candy, and a pumpkin patch.

Annual fundraiser supporting the EPIC! High School Service Learning Club.

Features trick-or-treating, a kids' costume contest, and an outdoor movie screening.

Youth fall festival featuring games, live music, and a costume contest.

Non-scary Halloween LEGO building challenges and gallery walkthrough for kids.

Community trunk-or-treat gathering hosted by the local swim school.

All-ages Halloween gathering featuring costumes, sweet treats, and activities.

Features a trunk-or-treat and a chili cook-off.

Free community celebration hosted in Tomball.

In-person painting session featuring pumpkin painting with a pink palette.

Games, snacks, and swim tips for the whole family.

Features a chili cook-off and trunk-or-treat.

Features a partnership dance workshop, food, and pumpkin carving.

Kids show off their spookiest costumes to win ghoulish goodies.

Immersive art experience celebrating color with 14 unique installations.

Annual two-day fall festival with pumpkins and activities

Thousands gather for Kingwood's premier Halloween festival.

Costume cartwheels with The Little Gym

Expansive 75-acre farm with a variety of pumpkins and attractions.

Trick-or-treating and a haunted bridge.

Month-long Halloween celebration with themed activities and water park fun.