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Ideas for kids' Halloween activities

Barnet Halloween Walk Dress up in suitably frightening fashion and let Paul Baker show you the most chilling bits of Barnet. There’s a prize for the spookiest outfit.
(020 8440 6805) High Barnet tube. Fri, Sat, Sun 7.30pm; £6, under-12s £3. Oct 31

Ghosts, Gaslight and Guinness Seasonal spooky walk.
020 7624 3978/www.walks.com. Holborn tube. Fri 6.30pm; £7, concs £5.

Halloween Ghost and Murder Walks Haunted theatres, supernatural happenings and a bizarre killing at the Savoy. Meet at the Villiers Street exit.
07913 253242. Embankment tube. Fri 7pm & 9pm; £6, students £5.

The Halloween of Cross Bones XIA ritual drama to honour The Goose, a mysterious character said to be buried alongside the prostitutes, paupers and other outcasts in the Cross Bones Graveyard. This performance of songs and poems from John Constable’s ‘The Southwark Mysteries’, spiced with spooky tales and bawdy humour, ends in a candlelit procession to the graveyard.
The Hop Cellars, 24 Southwark St (in the cellars of Hop Exchange Building next to Borough Mkt), SE1 1TY (www.crossbones.org.uk). London Bridge tube/rail. Fri 7pm; £10, concs £7; no adv booking, early arrival advised. Feature continues

Halloween Sinister and Haunted City TourHaunted graveyards, execution spots and the sites of two of London’s most notorious prisons.
020 8881 2933/www.secretlondonwalks.co.uk. Farringdon tube/rail. Fri 7pm; £6.

Haunted LondonGhostly encounters guaranteed. Meet at the Fish Street Hill exit.
020 7624 3978/www.walks.com. Monument tube. Fri 7.30pm; £7, concs £5.

Haunted Park WalkThis event features an installation by Alex May and Martin A Smith, whose video projection and spine-chilling sound design recreate Japanese Kaidan gatherings, at which 100 candles are lit and slowly extinguished following the telling of successive ghost stories.
Kyoto Garden, Holland Park, Abbotsbury Rd, W11 3SU. Booking essential (020 7361 3204/arts@rbkc.gov.uk) Holland Park tube. Fri 6-10pm.

London Ghost Festival London Paranormal hosts the capital’s first ever ghost festival, featuring walks, public investigations, talks and ghost-themed events at venues across London. Highlights include a seven-hour ghost hunt at Harrow Museum on Halloween Night and a ghostly family boat trip through a ‘haunted’ Islington tunnel on the same day.
07982 230208/www.londonparanormal.com. Various; Free-£60.

Silent CinemaSettle in to the screening room at this upmarket hotel with a pair of wireless headphones that screen out unwanted popcorn-munching and chatty movie-goers. Tickets include a drink, there are nibbles created by the hotel chef and if you need to nip out to the loo you can still hear the film, which at this launch evening is ‘The Shining’ (Stanley Kubrick, 1980).
Andaz Hotel, 40 Liverpool St, EC2M 7QN (020 7618 5061/www.silent-cinema.co.uk). Liverpool St. Fri 7.30pm; £10.

Thorpe Park Fright NightsHead out of town to catch end-of-season events at the theme park, which include late-night opening, a spooky maze, freakish performances and a new, surprise attraction. Late-night events are unsuitable for under-12s.
Thorpe Park, Staines Rd, Chertsey, KT16 8PN (0870 444 4466/www.thorpepark.com). Staines rail then 10min bus ride/by car just off the M25 at Junction 11 or 13. Daily 10am-8pm; Oct 24-Nov 2 until 10pm; £33, seniors £24, disabled & helper £20, under-12s £21, family £88-£105; online bookings are discounted.

Ideas for kids' Halloween activities