Halloween with Kids in Madrid 2026

For Halloween, Parque de Atracciones de Madrid runs a gentle program for younger kids and a scary one for teens and adults. Kids walk through three haunted passages with laughs and small scares, including the new Un Laboratorio Muy Loco, and catch Nickelodeon shows and parades. The four terror passages and the Área 51 scare zone are built to frighten. Families with small kids can stick to the first half.

Parque Warner's Halloween season has a family side and a scary side. Younger kids get the new ACME Factory, a hands-on mission to help Wile E. Coyote find a lost candy recipe, plus Looney Tunes parades and a Día de los Muertos show. The four terror passages, based on films like IT and The Nun, are for older kids. Halloween Scary Nights are separate late-night events.

Faunia's Halloween puts the park's venomous and nocturnal animals up front: snakes, tarantulas, Komodo dragons, lemurs and bats. Educators give short themed talks in five zones about the threats facing the planet and how families can help. This year it doubles as a Superthings trick-or-treat: kids who catch the talks claim a Superthing toy at the entrance shop, and can meet the character Enigma for a free photo.

Every fall, Zoo Aquarium de Madrid in Casa de Campo runs a Halloween season. Some animals get their food inside pumpkins, an enrichment trick that makes them work for the treat, and educators give themed talks on the creatures behind spooky legends and the threats they face in the wild. It is about animals, not frights, so it suits animal lovers more than kids chasing scares.

Micropolix is a kid-sized city in San Sebastián de los Reyes where children try out grown-up jobs. For Halloween the streets are decorated, there is Halloween face painting, and the cruise ship turns into a haunted passage with mild scares, on top of the usual job activities. It suits kids who want a bit of spooky without a proper fright.

The Magic Forest is an indoor play park beside the Kinépolis cinemas in Ciudad de la Imagen, with slides, climbing frames, a volcano and bouncy mats over more than 1,100m². It is throwing a kids' Halloween party, and the program has not been announced yet.

Pica Pica, the kids' band behind YouTube hits like Los Esqueletos and El Vampiro Negro, put on a Halloween musical built from their spookiest songs. Expect skeletons, vampires and plenty of singing and dancing along, with classics like El Baile de la Fruta and La Mané thrown in. The aim is laughing, not scared. Sung in Spanish, and best for kids who already know the songs.

The Family Scalofrini are a band of monster musicians who swap between more than 15 instruments, from tuba and banjo to double bass, in a spooky old castle set. Songs run through jazz, swing, rock and cabaret, with musical games kids join in and stories about ghosts, vampires and skeletons with feelings. The fright is played for laughs.

The city's puppet theater sits inside El Retiro park: an outdoor stage with bleachers and floor space for kids up front. Each weekend a different company plays, from Madrid to Argentina, with marionettes, hand puppets and music. The Halloween weekend brings a variety show with a dancing skeleton and a skateboarding witch. Shows are short and in Spanish.

El Curiosity, a sightseeing boat on the Tajo river in Aranjuez, becomes the Witch's Boat for Halloween. The cruise is a family party on the water, with games, contests, karaoke, a DJ and a photo booth run by entertainers on board. Kids are encouraged to come in costume, since the contests are built around them. The later sailings go out after dark.

A Halloween afternoon at the Museo de la Fresa, a working farm in the old market gardens of Aranjuez. Costumed characters have taken over the field: kids solve a clue game to get in, visit the farm's interpretation center, pick a pumpkin and decorate it, then make edible Halloween figures from donuts and cookies. Every child goes home with a pumpkin.

A pick-your-own pumpkin patch on a farm in the Aranjuez market gardens. Kids pull their pumpkin from the field and paint it, ride a tractor trailer and look for the way out of a big corn maze, while the smallest ones get a hay maze and a corn pit. Sack races run for kids and grown-ups.

A certified organic family farm in the Jarama valley where kids push a wheelbarrow into the field and pick their own pumpkin. Between rounds there's a hay maze, a slide and hay-bale photo spots, plus a shop terrace where parents can sit. On workshop days a booked session adds a tractor ride, farm animals and hollowing out and decorating a pumpkin. Works well for toddlers and younger school kids.

The yearly pumpkin party at El Huerto del Retiro, the city's environmental education center and garden inside Retiro Park. Local growers sell food from their stalls, a singer plays a short set, and the municipal nursery hands out free plants. Older kids can join a booked workshop making decorative pumpkins from old fabric, and a contest crowns the biggest and rarest pumpkins of the year.

La Casa del Fantasma is a Halloween day out at the Eurofiestas complex, built around a family lunch with a comic show, games and costume contests. After lunch comes a spooky gymkhana with sack races and tug-of-war, then covered inflatables. At the end, the Mansión Dam terror passage opens next to an 80s and 90s disco. The organizer says the main show is meant to be fun, not frightening.

This year's Day of the Dead altar at Casa de México honors the composer Agustín Lara, shown seated at his piano. The scene is a mountain cemetery in Michoacán on the night families visit their dead, with candles, orange marigolds, copal, food, music and monarch butterflies. Skeleton figures keep it colorful more than spooky, and it suits kids who like to look closely at small details.

A family workshop at Casa de México where kids and parents make papel picado, the cut-paper banners that hang at every Mexican fiesta, plus paper versions of the orange marigolds that cover Day of the Dead altars. You hear how families mark the day across Mexico, then take the decorations home for your own altar. Led by paper artists Diana Ramírez and Andrea Guerrero.

For Halloween week, the Museo de Cera adds giant gargoyles, a Day of the Dead altar, a spooky cemetery and a real coffin for photos, and staff hand out trick-or-treat candy at times through the day. The Wax Horror Experience is a separate, much scarier route with live actors and intense effects. On a few set days, kids can also join a potion workshop and get their faces painted.

Each Halloween, Madrid's district cultural centers, youth centers and libraries put on free activities for kids: costume contests, scary storytelling, craft workshops, face painting, sports gymkhanas and haunted passages for teens. Most are small and local, so check your own district first.

A Halloween gymkhana at La Talaverona, the Las Rozas town hall's environmental education center. Kids and their grown-ups hear some of the eeriest and strangest stories from the natural world, then make something together in a Halloween craft workshop. It is a small guided group, not a party, so it suits kids who like nature and stories more than costumes and crowds.

Imagina, the Alcobendas town hall's youth center, puts on a Halloween afternoon for kids. In 2025 that meant craft workshops by age group, face painting, a costume photocall and a kids' Halloween disco, plus a separate witch story time for babies and toddlers. Most of it was drop-in, so it suits kids who want to wear a costume and try a bit of everything.

La Calbotada is Rozas de Puerto Real's chestnut festival, when the town roasts and tastes chestnuts from its own groves. They are the biggest chestnut woods in the Madrid region, with some trees over a century old. It is a village tradition rather than a big fair, so it suits families who will pair it with an autumn walk in the woods or around the Morales reservoir.