Melbourne~Halloween Festival Event/Market 2025
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Melbourne CBD
- Carlton Museum – Halloween Festival event at the Museum 2025
- Crown – Halloween Festival event 2025
- Old Melbourne Gaol – Halloween Festival event at the Old Melbourne Gaol 2025
- South Wharf – Skyline Melbourne Scare Park
- Dockland – Halloween Paddle Festival Event 2025.
- Dockland – Halloween Boat Party
Springvale – Halloween event 2025
Cranbourne – Halloween event 2025
Doncaster – Halloween event 2025
Thornbury –
The Witches Wardrobe Halloween market 2025
Boo Fest Halloween ’25 Artist Market
Sunshine – Halloween Market 2025
Mornington – Halloween Train Party – 2025
Glen Waverley- Halloween EXTRAVANGANZA 2025
Footscary – Halloween event 2025
Thomastown – Halloween Market 2025
Ballarat –Halloween Market 2025
Newport – Halloween Family Fun Zone 2025
Melbourne CBD
Carlton Museum – Halloween Festival event at the Museum 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Kids Trick or Treat in the Bubble Garden
Wrapped Candies Goodie Bag
Skeleton Collector Cards
Spooky Science Show with Scienceworks
Kids Monster Halloween Disco
Snake Pit
Frog Fog Garden
Frog Skeleton Scavenger Hunt
Facepainting
Entry into the Halloween at the Museum event
Ticket Fee：
Adult $39
Child $24.90
Child U3 $10
Concession Benefit $36
Member Adult $33
Member Child Under 3 $8
Member Child $19
Member Concession $30
Date: 31 Oct (7 pm to midnight)
Location: 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Event details and ticket purchase website
Crown – Halloween Festival event 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
The pumpkins are carved the cobwebs are hung, and the ghosts are ready for one last spectacular gathering. You’re invited to Halloween at 4 PM, a sophisticated Halloween day party designed for Melbourne’s 30+ crowd who know how to celebrate in style—and still be home for a full night’s rest.
Join the event at the stunning Crown L3 as we bring a touch of the macabre to Melbourne’s iconic Southbank. It starts at the bewitching hour of 4 pm, so you can dance under the afternoon sun and into the moonlight. Expect a spine-tingling soundtrack of classic hits and haunting house music, crafted by our masterful DJs to keep you moving.
Date： Saturday, 1st November
Location: Crown L3, Melbourne
Ticket Fee：$20 up
Event details and ticket purchase website
Old Melbourne Gaol – Halloween Festival event at the Old Melbourne Gaol 2025
This Halloween, Melbourne’s most notorious Gaol gets a playful frightful makeover – with thrills, chills and plenty of cheeky shrills. Step inside the shadowy corridors of the Old Melbourne Gaol and the Old City Watch House, transformed for one night only into a mischievous playground of costumes, candy, and curious characters.
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Eerie Cell 17 – take a peek inside… if you’re feeling bold.
Lantern-lit Guides – leading you through curious tales and strange surprises.
Roaming Sergeants – popping up in the Watch House with tall (and terrifyingly funny) stories from Melbourne’s past.
Monstrous Mugshot Station – strike your spookiest pose for the ultimate Halloween selfie.
Trick-or-Treat Fun – with lollies for ghouls and goblins who dare to wander through.
Throw on your creepiest costume and join us for a night of playful scares, unexpected delights, and memories you’ll want to share (or maybe not!).
Date： 31 Oct
Location: 377 Russell Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3000
Ticket Fee：$30
Event details and ticket purchase website
South Wharf – Skyline Melbourne Scare Park
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Step into the Skyline Melbourne Scare Park — where spooky meets spectacular!
Enjoy a frightfully fun mix of scares including a spooky maze, arts and crafts, scary characters, kids activities, Ferris Wheel rides, toffee apples, and so much more!
FREE Halloween arts & crafts until 7pm
Scary characters and street performers
Ferris Wheel rides with a frightful view
Toffee apples & tasty treats
Themed drinks for ghouls and grown-ups alike
FREE Fun kids activities all day long
Scary haunted maze from the creators of Hollywood horrors Haunted house for those brave enough to dare
There’s something for every ghost, ghoul, and grown-up!
Polly Woodside Park, on the front lawn of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Date： 24th October – 26th October & 30th October – 2nd November
Location: Skyline Melbourne, 21 S Wharf Promenade, South Wharf 3006
Ticket Fee：
Halloween arts & crafts / Find the spiders/Trick or Treat for Children in costume until 7pm – Free
Face paint – price dependant on design
Ferris Wheel rides with a frightful view
Children $10*
Senior $10*
Students $15*
Adults $20pp*
👻Scare Maze
Children $10
Seniors $12
Adults $15pp
Event details and ticket purchase website
Dockland – Melbourne Halloween Paddle Festival Event 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
The annual Melbourne Halloween Horror Paddle event is held on the Yarra River. You can watch the event from the Yarra River bank!
Date： 25 Oct (Sat)/ 26 Oct(Sun) (depending on the weather)
Location: 104 Lorimer St, Docklands VIC 3008, Australia
Ticket Fee：Free
Dockland -Halloween Boat Party – Halloween Festival event 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
The annual Halloween event is a popular theme for the year! The boat will be fully decked out in Halloween decor, like never before!
Dress Code:
Halloween dress up is strongly encouraged, although not a must. In our past Halloween events, around 90% of people are dressed up. Prizes to be won for best dressed!
DJ Music Genre:
Upper Deck: RNB – Old Skool & New Skool
Lower Deck: House – Minimal – EDM
Boat schedule:
Boarding – 8:00PM
Departure – 8:30PM
Returning – 11:30PM
FREE face painter available, 7.30 to 8.30
FREE finger food also provided on Boat!
Wide range of drinks is available at the bar
Date： Fri, 31 Oct (8:00 PM – 11:30 PM )
Location: 131 Harbour Esplanade
Ticket Fee：
– $35 (Early Bird)
– $40 (1st Release)
– $45 (2nd Release)
– $50 (Final Release)
Springvale – Halloween event 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Lantern Building
Date：3-4 Oct
Activity: Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival by making lanterns
Fluid Art Workshop
Date：10-11 Oct
Activity: Watch paint flow on bunny keychains
DIY Halloween Bag
Date：24-25 Oct
Activity: Decorate and take home your own Halloween tote bag, ready for Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat
Date：31 Oct
Activity: Free candy and face painting in Multicultural Square
Location： Buckingham Ave, Springvale VIC 3171
Fee： All Free
Cranbourne – Halloween event 2025
Get ready for a spooktacular evening of fun at Milestones Play & Party Center!
Halloween Hunt — a frightfully fun night full of dancing, treats, and play!
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Come dressed in your favourite costume and enjoy:
Halloween Hunt from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Halloween Treat Bag on exit (includes a Free Return Pass) with each Kids or Under 11 months Hunt ticket
Unlimited Playground Access
Electrifying Dance Tunes
The café will be serving up delicious food from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Date： Fri, 31 Oct (6:00 PM – 8:30 PM)
Location: 49 Cameron Street, Cranbourne, VIC, Australia
Ticket Fee： Kids – $15, Adult – Free
Doncaster – Halloween event 2025
The Jackson Court Traders Association (JCTA) is proud to present this years Jackson Court Shopping Centre’s Halloween Spooktacular 2025.
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Trick-or-Treat Trail with sweet surprises
Kids Face Painting
Best Dressed Parent & Child” Contest
360 Photo Booths + Live DJ
Balloonist fun
Sausage Sizzle
Loads of prizes and giveaways
Complete the Trick-or-Treat Trail for your chance to enter the raffle! Winners will be drawn the following week via our Instagram page.
Hungry? Explore Jackson Court’s restaurant precinct plus a BBQ in front of Manningham Gourmet & BBQK.
Put on your spookiest, funniest, or most creative costume and join us for an evening full of thrills, laughs, and delicious treats.
Date： Fri, 31 Oct (4:00 PM – 6:00 PM)
Location: Jackson Court Shopping Centre
Ticket Fee： Kids – $15, Adult – Free
Thornbury -The Witches Wardrobe Halloween market 2025
The Witches Wardrobe brings you a spooktacular Halloween event!
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Held across TWO hall spaces with 30+ stalls with all sorts of goodies ranging from secondhand clothing, shoes, books, jewellery, trinkets and more!
Sizes ranging from XXS – Plus sizes!
Tarot Readers
Professional Photobooth
Costume Competition (We wanna see the spookiest Halloween fits you have)
Raffle Ticket Prizes & Giveaways!!
DIY Craft Stations (Punk patches, badges & friendship bracelets)
Spooky Treats
Food trucks & bar on site
Dog friendly (leashed)
Date： Fri, 31 Oct (5:00 PM)
Location: 520 High St Northcote, Vic
Ticket Fee： $5 up
Thornbury -Boo Fest Halloween ’25 Artist Market
Boo Fest Halloween THE SEQUEL, an all ages Halloween artist market showcasing wares from alternative makers from Naarm/Melbourne and Australia.
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
60 vendors selling jewellery and accessories, original art and prints, art toys, dioramas, stickers, puppets, pottery and ceramic sculptures, entomology artworks, gothic candles and homewares, cat toys and treats, even some creepy tasty snacks and much much more!
Featuring:
• ~60 vendors who base their art practice within Australia.
• Horror photo booth
• Tarot readings
• Giveaways and prizes for best dressed
Date： Sun, 26 Oct (12:00-5:00 PM)
Location: 520 High St, Northcote Naarm VIC
Ticket Fee： $10 , Children under 13 – Freeticket
Sunshine – Halloween Market 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Sunshine Halloween Market
Get ready for a spooktacular day out filled with Halloween fun, local stalls, and treats for the whole family!
Shop from amazing local makers & creators
Fun Halloween vibes for all ages
Perfect family day out!
Date： 25 Oct (10:00 AM – 3:00 PM)
Location: Westend Market Hotel, 47 McIntyre Rd, Sunshine
Ticket Fee： Free
Mornington – Halloween Train Party – 2025
Halloween Train party is always a popular activity with the children. All the Kids, and BIG Kids at heart, dressing up for this event and taking a spooky train ride.
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Moorooduc Station will be open from 6:30pm with food & entertainment at the station.
Join in the Apple Bobbing Game and Face Painting.
COS-play actors will be on both the station and the train to frighten you.
Boarding commences at 8:00pm and Train Ride commences at 8:15pm for a return trip to Tanti Station – 15 minute stop at Tanti Station.
Train returns to Moorooduc by approximately 9pm.
Train Rides commence from Moorooduc Station Only. With the return train ride taking approximately 45 minutes.
Date： 31Oct (8:00 pm – 10:00 PM)
Location: 460 Moorooduc Hwy, Moorooduc VIC 3933
Ticket Fee：
Adult (Return); $32
Child (Return); $20
Family (2 Adults + 2 Children); $79
Concessions (Pension, Medical, Student, Carers and Seniors Cards): $27
Children under 3: $5
Glen Waverley- Halloween EXTRAVANGANZA 2025
It’s BACK! And it’s BIGGER and BETTER than last year.
It’s time for the Halloween EXTRAVANGANZA happening over not one, not two, but THREE MASSIVE EVENINGS!
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Spooky Face Painting – fun designs for kids (and kids at heart!)
Trick-or-Treat Trail – collect loads of goodies from participating businesses
Roving Halloween Characters – snap some fun photos as they wander the precinct
Giant Games – challenge your friends and family
Photo Booth – capture your Halloween memories
Date： 30 Oct-1 Nov (16:00 – 20:00 )
Location: Kingsway, Glen Waverley VIC 3150, Australia
Ticket Fee： Free
Footscary – Halloween event 2025
West Footscray is back with the spookiest, most unique Halloween celebration in the West!
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Trick or Treat Trail – Friday 31 October, 4:00 – 8:30pm
Start at The Op Shop (592 Barkly St) and follow the trail through participating shops for tasty Halloween surprises.
Free Face Painting – only on Friday 31 October, 4:00 – 7:30pm
Free Jumping Castle – Friday to Sunday, 4:00 – 8:30pm
Hot Food Stalls – Delicious bites available every night!
Haunted Hell House – 31 October – 2 November, 4:00 – 8:30pm
Date： 31 Oct-2 Nov (16:00 – 20:30 )
Location: 594 Barkly St (next to The Op Shop)
Ticket Fee： $7.5
Thomastown – Halloween Market 2025
Don’t miss the final, thrilling night of the Thomastown Spring Night Market Series. Join us for an evening packed with incredible food, vibrant market stalls, and spooky fun.
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
An evening packed with incredible food, vibrant market stalls, and spooky fun.𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐧!
We’re bringing a safe and exciting trick-or-treat experience to the market!
Time: 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM ONLY!
Costumes: We encourage all market-goers aged 12 and under to come dressed in their spooky best!
𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬!
Be one of the first to register for a free, fun bucket to collect treats!
𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭: The first 50 registrations for the event will receive a free trick or treat bucket upon entry.
𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 1 free bucket per child (ages 12 and under). There is no limit on the number of children per family!
Date： 31 Oct-2 Nov (17:00 – 22:00 )
Location: 5 Dunstans Ct, Thomastown VIC 3074, Australia
Ticket Fee： Free
Ballarat – Halloween Market 2025
Ballarat Halloween Spooktacular Market – A Frightfully Fun Time!
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Over 100 market stalls featuring handmade, unique, and pre-loved goodies
Delicious food vendors and Halloween-themed treats
Kids’ face painting, costume competition and trick or treat cards!
Date: HALLOWEEN Friday 31st October
Time: 4:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Ballarat Showgrounds
Ticket Fee： adults $2, kids free!
Newport – Halloween Family Fun Zone 2025
Newport’s Halloween Family Fun Zone
EVENT DESCRIPTION：
Jumping castles
Games / activities
Sausage sizzle
Face painting
Rides
Live: Ukulele Dolls
Available to purchase: food/drinks, ice cream, potato twisters
FREE Community Event
Date: Friday 31st Oct 2025, 4:30pm–8pm
Location: Newport Lakes Reserve, Lake Drive (off Mason St)
Ticket Fee： Free
