Top Halloween activities to do 2026

Go trick or treating

Take the little ones out trick-or-treating on Halloween night, or arrange a get-together with friends and set up trick-or-treating stations. Stock up on terrifying treats from the Foodhall like our Sinister Sour Sweet Bags or Haunted Head Milk Chocolate Lollies.

Ghosts and goblins should be prepared with our Halloween Trick or Treat Sweet Bag – a felt bag full of fruit-flavoured jellies.

Trick or Treat with Colin

Our Colin the Caterpillar box is back for Halloween, featuring six mini chocolate sponge rolls with a spooky red filling and a mix of tricks and treat chocolate shapes. Open the box to reveal a spell for a spooktacular surprise at any Halloween party. In stores from 30 September.

Host a Halloween party

Gather your friends, choose some fun Halloween recipes, and pick up decorations and snacks from the Foodhall for you spooky soirée.

Don't forget the ultimate centrepiece: our first Colin cake where you get two Colin faces for the ultimate Trick or Treat, in store from 14 October. It includes one 'trick' side, with Colin dressed as a wizard, while the other is all treats with Colin's classic face, plus the chocolate sponge, buttercream and thick milk chocolate you know and love. Plus, find mini Trick or Treat Colins from 30 September, filled with red-coloured white chocolate buttercream and finished with trick-and-treat decorations.

Watch a scary film

Time to crack out a not-so-scary movie the whole family can enjoy while tucked in on the sofa. Tune into your favourite film (Hocus Pocus, anyone?) and snack on our Hallow-Scream Munch mix, full of jelly beans, crunchy malt balls, salted pretzels and fudgy brownie pieces smothered in creamy white chocolate.

Or open a bag of our Made Without Dairy Halloween Munch, so everyone can enjoy spooktacular treats this Halloween.

Carve a pumpkin

It wouldn’t be Halloween without a festive jack o’lantern. Get started with our guide, including advice for choosing your pumpkin, no-carve pumpkin ideas, and pumpkin templates to download. Discover pumpkins of all shapes and sizes in the Foodhall this Halloween, all with delicious edible flesh for soups and curries. Plus, check out our fudgy brownie recipe for using up pumpkin leftovers.

Bob for apples

Pick up a pack of apples and add them to a full bucket of water. Look out for our red-fleshed Kissabel Apples in store come Halloween – with their red flesh, they're an essential for your spooky celebrations. Then take turns dunking your heads in to scoop them up and see how many you can collect.

Make a Halloween snack board

Get into the spooky spirit and build your own Halloween 'char-spookery' board.

• Cut apples into wedges, then stick them back together with almond butter. Make blueberry eyes, a strawberry tongue and sunflower seed teeth.

• Make spider 'sandwiches' by decorating sandwich rolls with olives, and pretzel sticks for legs.

• Spread our Cheddar Cheese Crispies with cream cheese and top with olives to make ghostly crackers.

• To make spooky devilled eggs, mix hard-boiled egg yolk with our Spicy Nacho Cheddar Dip and spoon back into the egg whites, then top with devil-horn peppers.

Build a haunted house

Decorate chocolate biscuit walls and a roof with colourful icing, fruity jelly sweets and edible decorations before building your own haunted masterpiece. Our Build Your Own Chocolate Haunted House kit is a brilliantly fun Halloween activity for the whole family.

Make monster cupcakes

Get the whole family involved with our Make Your Own Monster Cupcake kit. Inside you'll find everything you need to create frightfully fun treats, including chocolate sponge mix, green icing, mini marshmallows, wafer eyes and cupcake cases.