Family-Friendly Fall Activities Near Skokie 2026

Trick-or-treat across the town square and neighborhood storefronts.

Family-oriented street celebration with live music, photo ops, and candy.

Neighborhood trick-or-treating at local businesses across Lincoln Park.

Thousands of pumpkins line the zoo lawn alongside daily scavenger hunts.

Features a costume parade, carnival games, and a student-hosted haunted house.

Carnival rides, live bats and skunks, and pumpkin carving demonstrations.

Annual community festival featuring live music, hayrides, games, and food trucks.

Festive autumn fun fair for children with games, inflatables, and hayrides.

Family Halloween fun with inflatables, hayrides, pumpkin decorating, and a costume contest

Costumed 3K run and walk featuring themed activities and costume contests.

Stroll a nature path illuminated by over 100 lighted pumpkins.

Evening zoo stroll featuring seasonal decorations and pumpkin decorating.

Family scarecrow stuffing, pumpkin carving, campfire s'mores, and hayrides.

Free family block party with Halloween displays and train rides

Unlimited indoor attractions and free parkwide trick-or-treating in costume.

A 1.1-mile trick-or-treat trail featuring games, candy, and a bouncy house.

Free autumn festival featuring games, a candy hunt, and a pumpkin patch.

You carve the pumpkin and park staff handles the cleanup.

Family event featuring pumpkin painting and live music.

Features trunk-or-treating, a chili cook-off, and carnival games.

Kids and adults cook festive savory bites and sweet treats together.

Includes a pumpkin, carving supplies, paint, and your first drink.

Free family games, crafts, and silly fun with Wacky Drac.

Outdoor nature play, crafts, and family activities celebrating fall's arrival.

Mat Pilates session followed by a seasonal pumpkin drink.

A low-sensory Halloween event designed for neurodiverse children and families.

Roll, smash, and launch pumpkins into compost piles at Centennial Sled Hill.

Free community fall festival with classic activities

Educational corn maze, hayrides, petting zoo, and pre-picked pumpkin patch.

Not-so-scary Halloween fun with Disney tribute concerts and historic trick-or-treating.

Family fall festival with pony rides, hayrides, and costume contests.

Canine costume contest featuring treats, prizes, and owner-pet coordination.

Neighborhood-wide trick-or-treating with over 20 participating businesses.

Musical adaptation of the "Click, Clack, Moo" book series.

After-hours Halloween event at the Lincoln Park Conservatory.

Community-wide trick-or-treating and free movie screening

Fright-free indoor/outdoor Halloween bash for kids

Community fall festival with ponies and a pumpkin patch

Trick-or-treating from decorated car trunks

Trick-or-treating at local businesses with a petting zoo

Family-friendly Halloween celebration with crafts and games.

Indoor trick-or-treating across seven levels of shops

Family Halloween show with trick-or-treating

Kids trick-or-treat from decorated car trunks.

Visitors can trick-or-treat across more than twenty-five neighborhood locations in Northalsted.

Glow stick dance party with costume encouragement