
Top 10 Halloween activities to do 2025
Food Editor
Emily Lambe
Looking to make your spooky season a little more fun? Get creative with our favourite Halloween activities, from frightful feasts to petrifying pumpkins. Throw a Halloween party or celebrate – our activities are a great way to keep little ones entertained over the October half term.
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1. 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.

2. Carve a Halloween 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.

3. 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.
No tricks, just treats

4. Bake Halloween treats
Whip up a batch of Halloween baked goodies to share with the family. Use up leftover pumpkin in our rich chocolate brownies – the pumpkin helps make them extra moist. Or use a bag of our Hallow-Scream Munch with these easy mallow rice squares. Up the wow-factor with these mummy apple and blackberry tarts.

5. Get dressed up
Don your spookiest attire and dress up in a creepy costume. Whether you’re getting cosy with some Halloween pyjamas or going all out with fancy dress, we have something for everyone. Don’t forget a roomy bag, like this Pumpkin Bucket Bag, for trick or treating.

6. Host a Halloween party
Get the party started with a batch of ooey, gooey Halloween nachos, loaded up with melty cheese, tomato salsa, and zesty guacamole. Or serve a selection of picky bits on a grazing board for spooky snacking. For a sweet treat, our Cookie Pumpkin Light Up Tin makes a stunning centrepiece and is filled with all-butter crumbly shortbread.
Petrifying party essentials

7. Cook up a spooky storm
Kick off the big day with our spooktacular breakfast like our boo-nana crumpets, topped with funky faces, or our monster pancakes which use spinach in the batter for a creepy green colour. For lunch, fill up on our monster mac and cheese – make eerie eyeballs with mozzarella balls and black olive slices. Then round off the day with a pizza party, decorating with everything from mozzarella ghosts to olive spiders.

8. Start decorating
Get the little ones involved with decorating for Halloween. Cut out paper bats and ghosts or pop in store to find our showstopping range. Set the spooky mood with our colourful Halloween lighting and add a few Halloween decorations like this Pumpkin Garland.

9. Host a frightful family film night
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. Our Spooky Kookie Dough Bites are also a fan favourite, blending creamy chocolate with a soft brownie and biscuit crumb centre and candy-coated chocolate nibs.
Spooky snacking

10. Bob for apples
This classic Halloween pastime is fun for all ages. 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. It’s a Halloween party favourite that’s sure to be a crowd pleaser.
Published 9.29.2025
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