Children’s Museum Houston and Fort Bend Children’s Discovery Center are stirring up a month of frightfully fun Halloween festivities for families across the Houston area. From now through October 31, 2025, kids can enjoy safe trick-or-treating, spooky-themed activities, and hair-raising weekend specials that promise giggles, thrills, and a few friendly frights.

At Children’s BOO!seum Houston, safe trick-or-treating kicks off October 9 and continues every Thursday evening, all weekend long, and all day on Halloween. Families can also enjoy a full lineup of special events each week: a Pumpkin Party on October 11 with glowing gourds, scratch art jack-o’-lanterns, pumpkin masks, and dancing with DJ Sally and Jack Skellington; Monster Shock on October 18 featuring Labubu-inspired meet-and-greets, Franken Toys, and hands-on experiments; Happy House Free Family Night on October 23 with costumes and DJ beats; Mad Science Mayhem on October 25 with slimy experiments, Addams Family fun, and potion-making; ’Twas the Night Before Halloween on October 30 with owl pellet dissections, face painting, and a ghost ring spectacle; and the grand finale, Happy Halloween on October 31, featuring K-Pop Demon Hunters cosplayers, sing-alongs, face painting, trick-or-treating, and a monster mash dance party with DJ Beetlejuice. Costume-wearing visitors get $2 off admission through October 17.

Meanwhile, the Fort Bend Children’s Discovery Center in Sugar Land transforms into the BOO!scovery Center for a month of Halloween hoopla. Ghouls just want to have fun, and little monsters are invited to enjoy slime-filled activities, creepy-crawly crafts, spine-tingling experiments, and safe trick-or-treating throughout October. Trick-or-treating starts October 10 and continues every Friday from 3 to 5 p.m., all day on Saturdays and Sundays, and all day on Halloween. Visitors wearing costumes through October 25 receive $2 off admission.

The BOO!scovery Center also hosts weekly wicked events: Halloween Kick-Off on October 11 with Dracula Mickey, Skeleton Goofy, candy stations, story time, and creative crafts; Monster Mayhem on October 18 featuring a Stitch meet-and-greet, Make-a-Monster workshops, and electrifying Squishy Circuits activities; Mad Science on October 25 with gravity-defying performances, candy chemistry, wild wigs, and potion-making; and Happy Halloween on October 31 with all-day trick-or-treating, DJ music, face painting, clay monster-making, and ghost ring launches.

Ranked as one of the “Top 10 Things to Do in Sugar Land” by TripAdvisor and a Reader’s Choice Award winner for Best Local Museum, the Fort Bend Children’s Discovery Center is a Playground for Your Mind™. Located at 198 Kempner St., Sugar Land, TX 77498 in the Historic Imperial Market, the Discovery Center offers innovative exhibits and bilingual learning programs for children ages birth to 12. Hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.childrensdiscoveryfb.org or call 832-742-2800.

From creepy crafts and monstrous meet-and-greets to DJ dance parties and hands-on science experiments, both the BOO!seum and BOO!scovery Center offer a cauldron full of Halloween thrills for kids of all ages, making them the ultimate destinations for safe, spooky family fun this October.