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Halloween at Strawberry Hill House
2025-10-27 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-28 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-29 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-30 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-31 09:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Strawberry Hill House, 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham, TW1 4ST
This Halloween, Strawberry Hill House transforms into the stage of Horace Walpole’s darkest imaginings. Here, in his ‘little Gothic castle’, the Gothic was born: one night in 1764 Walpole dreamt of a giant armoured hand on a staircase and awoke to write The Castle of Otranto — the first Gothic novel, the blueprint for every haunted castle and uncanny tale that followed. Over half-term, shutters will be drawn, every room alive with flickering candlelight, as unsettling stories echo through the halls and visitors wander at their own pace. Families can take part in a riddle-strewn Halloween Garden Trail throughout the week, complete with a sweet treat reward from the Garden Café.
Normal admission applies plus £2 per trail.
https://tickets.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/event-tickets/66911?catID=13844

Cheeky Chops Play Cafe (0-5yrs) – Twickenham
2025-10-27 09:30 - 17:00, 2025-10-28 09:30 - 17:00, 2025-10-29 09:30 - 17:00, 2025-10-30 09:30 - 17:00 | Cheeky Chops Play Cafe, 37-39 York Street, Twickenham, TW1 3LP, United Kingdom
A family-run play café designed to provide a quality experience for the whole family – with modern, stimulating and challenging play for children aged 0-5 years as well as a clean and comfortable café area for adults serving high quality coffee and cakes.
There are three play sessions available to book on weekdays and two on a Saturday morning. Each session allows 90 minutes for families to enjoy the play facilities as well as the food and drink on offer, while the 30 minutes in between will give staff the opportunity to clean and tidy the facilities to ensure that we provide the best possible customer experience.
The maximum capacity for each slot is 25 children. They encourage you to book online as places for each session fill up fast. If you arrive without a booking you can pay to enter at the front desk, but only if there are spaces available for that session. You can book via the link below.
Prices
0-6 months – FREE
7-11 month – £5.50
1+ years – £9.00
​Adults – FREE
Session Times
Monday – Friday
Slot 1: 9.30am – 11am
Slot 2: 11.30am – 3pm (stay for 90 minutes at any time within these times)
Slot 3: 3.30pm – 5pm
Saturday Mornings
Slot 1: 9am – 10.30am
Slot 2: 11am – 12.30am
https://www.cheekychopsplaycafe.co.uk

Autumn Bunting – Kew Gardens
2025-10-27 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-28 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-29 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-30 10:00 - 15:00 | Kew Gardens, Kew, TW9, United Kingdom
Celebrate the season of colour by collecting your favourite fallen autumn leaf and adding it to Kew’s autumn bunting display. Children will unleash their inner scientist and discover tree-mendous tree facts along the way. The journey begins when children pick up an autumn spotter sheet at the gates. Starting at Pagoda Vista, they will go on a quest to ID some of Kew’s most colourful trees. From star-shaped leaves to more resilient species, how many can they see?
Normal admission applies.

https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-on/autumn-bunting

Creepy Carnival – Hounslow Urban Farm
2025-10-27 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-28 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-29 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Hounslow Urban Farm, Faggs Road, Feltham, TW14 0LZ
Are you ready for Halloween?!!!… This year’s animal fundraiser is going to be the Farm’s biggest, spookiest, and most spectacular event yet! The team is hard at work to bring you something truly unforgettable. Twists and turns, frights and delights, all for a great cause! There will also be ‘After Hours’ spooky animal encounters 29th-31st October, with lizards, scorpions, cockroaches, spiders and snakes. You won’t want to miss it! Plus stroll around the pens with goats, pigs, donkeys, llamas, peacocks and owls, and you can even feed some of the animals.
Special tickets required.
https://hounslowurbanfarm.co.uk/whats-on/

We’re Going On A Ghost Hunt™️ Halloween Adventure – Osterley Park
2025-10-27 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-28 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-29 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Osterley Park, Jersey Road, Isleworth, TW7 4RB, United Kingdom
We’re going on a ghost hunt. Go and join the fun! Can you find them all? Yes! Run, run, run! Based on the bestselling children’s books, this Halloween the bunnies are setting off on an adventure to find the ghosts hidden around Osterley with heaps of exciting things to see and do along the way. Pick your bunny name, play Halloween hoopla, race your broomstick, and watch out for the warty toads as you cross the stepping stones, before joining the celebration party and collecting your sticker. This trail is ideal for preschoolers and young children. Normal admission applies.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london/osterley-park-and-house/events/36432cf8-4982-465e-9d59-0776922d3cbf

Super Natural Half-Term – London Wetland Centre, Barnes
2025-10-27 10:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-28 10:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-29 10:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-30 10:30 - 15:30 | London Wetland Centre, Queen Elizabeth's Walk, Barnes, SW13 9WT, United Kingdom
Get ready for a fun-filled Halloween, bubbling over with magical activities for the whole family to enjoy. For those who love the super natural but not the spook, this is the place to escape the ghouls and goblins, and step into a super natural adventure that will leave big and little nature fans spellbound. Make magical memories and experience the wonder of wetlands through enchanting activities. Weave a little magic with a handmade willow wand, mix a magical potion and cast a spell for wetlands, search for spotted tops, giant domes, and more on a fungi hunt, or bring the wetlands to life by sculpting your own clay creature (see their website for details of times).
Normal admission applies.
https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/london/whats-on/events/super-natural-october-half-term-2025-1

Baby Sensory (0-13m) – Whitton
2025-10-28 09:45 - 15:30 | Whitton Baptist Church, Hounslow Road, Whitton, TW2 7BZ, United Kingdom
Suitable from newborn to 13 months
Baby Sensory provides ideas for creative play, massage, tummy time, movement, visual development, textures, scents and music in simple practical ways that can be easily repeated at home. They also use a combination of original and traditional songs and rhymes to develop early speech and language skills, and sensory signing activities to help you and your baby communicate from birth.
Classes are usually booked by the term but PAYG/Drop in is also possible where available @ £13 per session. Please text 07494036282 for availability.
https://www.babysensory.com/isleworth/home

Spooky Sewing Workshop (5-11yrs) – Hampton
2025-10-28 10:00 - 12:00 | YMCA White House, 45 The Avenue, Hampton, TW12 3RN
Take your little makers along for some spooky stitching! Choose from fun Halloween projects like Boo! Banners, Ghoulish Ghosties, Eerie Eyeballs, Flappy Bats and Pixie Pumpkins. Perfect for ages 5–11.
Beginners are welcome and you can choose your project on the day. Spaces are limited, so book early!
Time: 10am -12pm
All dates and locations:
Monday 27th October – Scoop & Waffle, Hampton Hill
Tuesday 28th October – The White House Family Hub, Hampton
Friday 31st October (on Halloween!) – Patch, Twickenham
Pricing:
£34 per child (Autumn term school club members save £5)
https://www.pinsandneedles.club/spooky-workshops

Baby Sensory (0-13m) – Richmond
2025-10-28 10:10 - 13:50 | Old Deer Park Sports Ground, 187 Kew Road, Richmond, TW9 2AZ, United Kingdom
Baby Sensory provides ideas for creative play, massage, tummy time, movement, visual development, textures, scents and music in simple practical ways that can be easily repeated at home. They also use a combination of original and traditional songs and rhymes to develop early speech and language skills, and sensory signing activities to help you and your baby communicate from birth.
Classes are bookable by the half-term, but drop in spaces are also available.
https://www.babysensory.com/richmond/

NCT Breastfeeding Clinic – Twickenham
2025-10-28 14:00 - 16:00 | United Reform Church, First Cross Road, Twickenham, TW2 5QA, United Kingdom
Baby Cafe with friendly NCT Breastfeeding Counsellors, Liz and Geraldine! Drop by for a cuppa and to meet other local parents.
At NCT Baby Cafe you can expect to receive support, encouragement and reliable information – whether getting ready to breastfeed, establishing breastfeeding, continuing breastfeeding, expressing, mixed feeding, formula feeding, introducing solids, stopping breastfeeding and beyond.
Twickenham Baby Cafe:

Tuesdays 2.00-4.00pm at United Reform Church

Hounslow Baby Cafe’s:

Mondays at Alf King Family Hub (10-11.30am)
Wednesdays at Lampton Family Hub (10am-12pm)
Wednesdays at Chiswick Children’s Centre (10.15 – 11.45am)
Thursdays at South Isleworth Children’s Centre (10-11.30am)

No appointment required but please arrive early in the session.
Please note all of these services are free and open to all local families.
Outside of these times you can contact the NCT Infant Feeding Line for free support on 0300 330 0700 (7 days a week 8am to midnight incl bank Holidays).
If you would like to support our Twickenham drop in please consider donating to their Just Giving page.

https://www.nct.org.uk/local-activities-meet-ups/twickenham-hounslow-and-district

Slime Workshop – Hampton Hill
2025-10-30 10:10 - 12:00 | Scoop & Waffle, 52 High Street, Hampton Hill, TW12 1PD
Slime workshops with Splat Messy Play are suitable for children from aged 4 – 11 and are 50 minutes long. Children will have fun learning how to make and play with their slime (blowing bubbles, twisting etc)! Also included in the price is an ice cream and sprinkles provided by the venue, Scoop and Waffle!
50 minute workshops at 10.10am & 11.10am.
https://www.bookthatin.com/BookingWidget?id=12671#
