Take your pick of Halloween Happenings and activities around town! There are tons of things to do this week that will help you get some extra use out of that Halloween Costume. Trick or Treat alternatives, and a day full of fun for your pets! For a complete list of our Fall Festivals and Happenings check out that post here.
Be sure to check this page often throughout the week as it’s constantly updated! We hope you have a fantastic week!
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Sunday October 24th
Mad Science Presents Star Trek Live – Alys Stephens Center
Get ready to embark on an out-of-this-world, interactive adventure based on the most popular science fiction franchise of all time. STAR TREK LIVE is a thrilling journey that combines cutting-edge special effects, unmatched audience interaction, and space-age science to create an exhilarating and unforgettable theatrical experience for all ages! Experience danger as Earth comes under attack from alien forces. Suddenly, the fate of the Federation and human civilization is in your hands! It will require knowledge, ingenuity, logic, and an exploration of science to discover what is happening and how to set things right before it’s too late. Boldly go where no one has gone before!
3PM – Adults: $37 · Kids: $17 · tickets
Fall Festival Sloss Furnace
Come celebrate this spooky time of year at Sloss! No fright, just guaranteed fun! Wear your costumes!!
Pumpkin Carving, Games For The Kids, The Ghost of Sloss Furnaces book will be read by our very own Sloss Witch at 2:30pm, Free Snacks and a Spooky Sloss Scavenger Hunt. Let them know if you are coming! RSVP to info@slossfurnaces.com
Free to all Sloss Furnaces Foundation Members and Future Furnace Keeper Kids Club Members! (please bring proof of membership the day of event)
Admission for non-members is $3 each. Walk Up sales only. All Children Under Age 5 are FREE!
1pm-4pm
Pumpkin Patch Express – Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum
The entire family will enjoy an autumn train ride aboard the Pumpkin Patch Express! The excursion lasts approximately 1 1/2 hours, including our time at the Pumpkin Patch. At the Pumpkin Patch, riders will de-board to enjoy a hayride, jumpstation, coloring, and temporary tattoos (all activities are included in the price of your ticket!) Bring your camera to take photos in front of the giant pumpkin! Snacks and soft drinks are available for purchase. Pick the perfect pumpkin from the patch for an additional fee.
Boo at the Zoo
Wear your favorite costume and make your way through safe candy villages and game zones. Ride the Jurassic Express, Creepy Crawly Carousel and the Hallowed Hay Ride. Enjoy live entertainment each night and see an animal up close. Don’t forget to walk through the Alien Reptile Experience. Ghoul Skool is a time honored tradition at Boo At the Zoo. The classes are about ten minutes long and little goblins are taught how to howl like a wolf, rattle chains like a ghost, walk like a monster, cackle like a witch, and much more to graduate! Classes are taught by our Ghoul Skool Mistress!
Tickets $8
*Animal exhibits will be closed for Boo at the Zoo. The Zoo will close at 4 p.m. on each day of Boo at the Zoo.
Scholastic Chess Club at Books-A-Million Brookwood Village
In our upstairs Kids Nook. Beginners are welcome, lessons
available, K-12, other mind sport activities are available such as
checkers and GO. Free to attend!
2PM – 5PM
Barts Spooktacular Party – Birmingham Museum of Art
Bart the Art Bat invites everyone to his spooktacular party! Get in hauntingly happy spirits just before Halloween — Bart’s favorite holiday! Come dressed as your favorite objet d’art to scare away the goblins, go on a trick-or-treat scavenger hunt and rack up on goodies, listen to some spooky stories that’ll make your teeth chatter, and craft a pumpkin to scare away those pesky black cats! Be ready for a BOO-liciously spooky time!
FREE! 11am-3pm
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Monday October 25th
Monday Movie – Homewood Library
Join us for a fun flick and a tasty treat!
3:30pm
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Tuesday October 26th
Halloween Hoopla – Hoover Library
Come celebrate Halloween in your best costume! We will have games, prizes and snacks throughout the Kid Zone and a special screening of Hocus Pocus on the Plaza.
6:30 pm
Spooktacular Movie Night – Emmet O’ Neal
Pumpkin Decorating and Movie on the lawn.
Pick a pumpkin from our pumpkin patch to decorate with your family while you watch
“It‛s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” outside on the big screen.
All Ages – 6pm
Barnes and Noble – Summit – Terrific Tuesday Storytime
Please join us as we read A Good Day by Kevin Henkes. What makes a bad day turn into a good day for three animals such as the yellow bird, the white dog and the red fox?
11:00am
Education Celebration – Barnes and Noble Summit
Join us for a fun-filled hour of hands-on learning featuring our brand-new Barnes & Noble @ School section with educational toys and games.
11:30am
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Wednesday October 27th
Family Story Time with Mr Mac – North Shelby Library
Storyteller Extraordinaire – Come join Mr Mac and his musical storytime complete with puppets! All Ages, no registration required.
10:45am
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Thursday October 28th
Costume Capers – Alabaster Library
Children may come in costume to enjoy Halloween treats and the wonder of comic magician Russell Davis. The fun, surprises, and refreshments begin at 4:15 p.m. in the mobile unit. Children 6 years old and younger must be with an adult.
Fall Festival – Homewood Community Center
Our long time fall event provides a variety of games, goodies, a concession stand, inflatables and a costume contest that begins at 7pm.
6pm – 9pm
Family Pumpkin Carving – Homewood Library
Join us for the second annual Pumpkin Carving Night. You may bring your own pumpkin or buy one from us for $4.00. All children must have an adult partner. Call 332-6619 to register or for more information.
6pm – 7:15pm
Railroad Park Sunset Cinema
Scream 7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Friday October 29th
Trick or Treat – Emmet O’Neal
Wear your costume and visit all the departments of the library.
Boo at the Zoo
Wear your favorite costume and make your way through safe candy villages and game zones. Ride the Jurassic Express, Creepy Crawly Carousel and the Hallowed Hay Ride. Enjoy live entertainment each night and see an animal up close. Don’t forget to walk through the Alien Reptile Experience. Ghoul Skool is a time honored tradition at Boo At the Zoo. The classes are about ten minutes long and little goblins are taught how to howl like a wolf, rattle chains like a ghost, walk like a monster, cackle like a witch, and much more to graduate! Classes are taught by our Ghoul Skool Mistress!
Tickets $8
*Animal exhibits will be closed for Boo at the Zoo. The Zoo will close at 4 p.m. on each day of Boo at the Zoo.
Wild about Books Story Time – Birmingham Zoo
Come join us for story and craft time with Books-A-Million at the Birmingham Zoo! Every Friday through summer on Grandma’s Front Porch in the Children’s Zoo area
10:00am
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Saturday October 30th
Trick or Treat – Emmet O’Neal
Wear your costume and visit all the departments of the library.
Trick or Treat Hoover Library
Trick or treat throughout the library.
2pm-6pm
Flying Things Party – Southern Museum of Flight
Flying Things Party with Ghost Stories & Mystery Scavenger Hunt at SMF. Kids come dressed as your favorite Flying Thing, go on a Flying Things scavenger hunt, hear a Flying Thing ghost story and get Flying Thing cookies and juice.
10am-12pm
Lowes Build and Grow
Bring your child to Lowe’s and they can build this awesome Flapping Bat! This kit comes with Glow in the Dark stickers!
10am
Pet A Palooza – Veterans Park Hoover
All kinds of fun for Pets and their Humans!
9am – 2pm
Boo at the Zoo
Wear your favorite costume and make your way through safe candy villages and game zones. Ride the Jurassic Express, Creepy Crawly Carousel and the Hallowed Hay Ride. Enjoy live entertainment each night and see an animal up close. Don’t forget to walk through the Alien Reptile Experience. Ghoul Skool is a time honored tradition at Boo At the Zoo. The classes are about ten minutes long and little goblins are taught how to howl like a wolf, rattle chains like a ghost, walk like a monster, cackle like a witch, and much more to graduate! Classes are taught by our Ghoul Skool Mistress!
Tickets $8
*Animal exhibits will be closed for Boo at the Zoo. The Zoo will close at 4 p.m. on each day of Boo at the Zoo.
Barts Art Cart – Birmingham Museum of Art
A new, fun, and free drop-in art program for kids and families. Visit Bart’s Art Cart in the main lobby to explore great art and create some of your own with the help of our Teen Volunteers. Each month will highlight a different gallery and feature a new art activity. Learn how to look at art with your child. Stop by and make art with Bart!
11am – 1pm
Helena Market Days/Farmers Market – Helena Amphitheater
8:00am – 12:00pm
Harvest and Holiday Market at Pepper Place
Autumn in Alabama means fresh-grown apples, pumpkins and squash for your fall meals. November markets will also bring hand-made gifts just in time for the Holiday Season!
7:00am – Noon
Saturday Storytime at Barnes and Noble Summit
Come dressed in your Halloween costume to hear the story The Halloween Kid by Rhode Montijo. Hear how the Halloween Kid can wrangle all manners of Halloween Hoodlums to keep the night safe for trick-or-treaters.
2:00pm
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Sunday October 31st
Trick or Treat – Emmet O’Neal
Wear your costume and visit all the departments of the library.
Pumpkin Patch Express – Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum
The entire family will enjoy an autumn train ride aboard the Pumpkin Patch Express! The excursion lasts approximately 1 1/2 hours, including our time at the Pumpkin Patch. At the Pumpkin Patch, riders will de-board to enjoy a hayride, jumpstation, coloring, and temporary tattoos (all activities are included in the price of your ticket!) Bring your camera to take photos in front of the giant pumpkin! Snacks and soft drinks are available for purchase. Pick the perfect pumpkin from the patch for an additional fee.
Boo at the Zoo
Wear your favorite costume and make your way through safe candy villages and game zones. Ride the Jurassic Express, Creepy Crawly Carousel and the Hallowed Hay Ride. Enjoy live entertainment each night and see an animal up close. Don’t forget to walk through the Alien Reptile Experience. Ghoul Skool is a time honored tradition at Boo At the Zoo. The classes are about ten minutes long and little goblins are taught how to howl like a wolf, rattle chains like a ghost, walk like a monster, cackle like a witch, and much more to graduate! Classes are taught by our Ghoul Skool Mistress!
Tickets $8
*Animal exhibits will be closed for Boo at the Zoo. The Zoo will close at 4 p.m. on each day of Boo at the Zoo.
Scholastic Chess Club at Books-A-Million Brookwood Village
In our upstairs Kids Nook. Beginners are welcome, lessons
available, K-12, other mind sport activities are available such as
checkers and GO. Free to attend!
2PM – 5PM
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Open Daily
McWane Science Center
Itty Bitty Magic City – NOTE: ITTY BITTY IS AN ITTY BIT SMALLER THIS SUMMER!
The Itty Bitty Magic City will be on display this summer in addition to The Adventures of Mr. Potato Head exhibit. The Itty Bitty City is a little bit smaller than usual, but favorite areas including the grocery store, Tot Spot area, crane, and factory are still in the city. The Itty Bitty Golf Course and a few other items were removed temporarily to make room for the new exhibit “The Adventures of Mr. Potato Head” that is also designed for an early childhood audience and they will return in the Fall.
NatureScope – Explore the great outdoors from inside the museum. McWane Science Center and the Birmingham Audubon Society are partnering to create a new exhibit called NatureScope. Explore the science of the birds and the bugs in this new area! Get up close and personal with some resident creepy crawlies! Learn what role insects play in our ecosystem with the decomposition chamber. Meet large bugs including emperor scorpions, a tarantula, and even a giant African millipede!
Animalopolis at the IMAX – ANIMALOPOLIS will take you on a voyage into the magical world of animals. A bit fanciful, a bit “Seussian” perhaps, a place of good natured humor, beauty and just plain fun for kids and their parents.
Birmingham Zoo
Lorikeet Aviary – Our Lorikeet Aviary has more birds than ever! Zoo guests can feed these exotic birds every day. You and your family will see these birds’ behavior as they eat nectar out of your hand.
Weekends 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
PELICAN FEEDING – A great way to see our pelicans in action is to witness them eating their favorite treats near the pelican boardwalk.
RHINO ENCOUNTER – Embark on an African adventure and experience one of the world’s most extraordinary animals, the Southern White Rhino. Watch from only feet away as our zookeepers engage in hands-on interaction with the animals inside their African-themed exhibit. Don’t miss this exciting encounter with one of the largest mammals on the planet!
Weekdays: 3pm – 3:30pm
Weekends: 11:30am – Noon & 3pm – 3:30 pm
GIRAFFE FEEDING – This up close and personal animal encounter is a memory you and your family will have for a lifetime.
Weekday: 11am – Noon
Weekends: 10am – 11am & 2pm – 3pm
Southern Museum of Flight
Earn Your Wings – Bring your little pilot and soar above the clouds in our little pilots room. Kids enjoy building aircrafts, flying kites, and more.
Museum Open Tuesday – Thursday
9:30am – 4:30pm
Do you have or know of an event you would like to have added to our weekly calendar? Please email us at contact@birminghammommy.com, subject line “Events Calendar” – We would love to hear from you!
