Halloween is a fun and exciting time for spooky enthusiasts of all ages. And the best part is you can find it all right here Bake Halloween-themed treats, turn ordinary food into creepy fun, decorate the house with new craft projects, make homemade costumes, and plan your outings all from information in this guide. And please, don't keep this to yourself, share it with other local parents. They will thank you, we promise!
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Local Fall and Halloween Events - 2022
All of October - Boo at the Zoo 2022
All of October (Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) - NVYAA Pumpkin Patch (Maurice)
All of October (Friday & Saturday nights) - Fright Trail
All of October (Monday - Sunday minus October 31st) - Poche's Patch & Maze
Saturdays in October - Corn Maze at Burden (Baton Rouge)
10/1 - Healthy Fall Festival - Willow Charter Academy, Lafayette
10/1 - Trunk N' Treat - Quest Pediatric Dentistry, Lafayette
10/6- 10/8 - Pumpkin Patch in Loreauville
10/7 - 10/31 - Pumpkin Patch at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Lafayette
10/8 - Pumpkin Painting, Lafayette
10/9 - Patch at the Pond - Sugar Mill Pond in Youngsville
10/10 - Silly Spooky Sensory Lab - East Regional Library, Youngsville
10/13 - Silly Spooky Sensory Lab - West Regional Library, Scott
10/14 - Pumpkin Decorating - West Regional Library, Scott
10/15 - Pumpkin Patch - Veteran's Park, Breaux Bridge
10/17 - Pumpkin Oobleck - Main Library, Lafayette
10/17 - Design Your Own Haunted House (Teens) - East Regional Library, Youngsville
10/18 - Treats at the Village - Acadian Village
10/18 - Bubbling Cauldron Bath Bombs (Teens) - East Regional Library, Youngsville
10/18 - Bubbling Cauldron Bath Bombs (Teens) - South Regional Library, Lafayette
10/18 - Haunted Gingerbread Houses - South Regional Library, Lafayette
10/18 - Design Your Own Haunted House (Teens) - Main Library
10/18 - Pumpkin Decorating - East Regional Library, Youngsville
10/19 - Bubbling Cauldron Bath Bombs (Teens) - Main Library
10/21, 10/28, 10/29 - Great Pumpkin Patch Express Train Ride - Sugar Mill Pond
10/21 - Pumpkin Decorating - Main Library
10/22 - Boo Bayou - Vermilionville
10/22 - Car Show and Trunk or Treat - Broussard
10/22 - Fall Festival - Vineyard Church of Lafayette
10/22 - Spooktacular Bookmark Party - Book Rack of Acadiana, Lafayette
10/22 - Trunk or Treat - Vermilion Martial Arts Academy, Abbeville
10/22 - Trunk or Treat - Judice Park, Duson
10/22 - Trunk or Treat - Ricky Smith's Audio in South College Shopping Center, Lafayette
10/22 - Trunk or Treat - St. Julien Park (A Macaroni Kid Lafayette Special Event!)
10/22 - Sky Zone Halloween Lock-In - Sky Zone Lafayette
10/22 - Trunk or Treat, Acadiana Fitness, Carencro
10/22 - AHS First Annual Trunk or Treat, Acadiana High School, Lafayette
10/23 - Fallin' Into Fun - Moncus Park
10/25 - Spooky Jar Luminary (Teens) - North Regional Library, Carencro
10/25 - Monster Hunter Academy - Main Library
10/26 - Trunk or Treat by Service Chevrolet Cadillac - Lafayette
10/26 - Haunted Cave Crawl - Main Library
10/26 - Ghosts, Goblins and Gumbo Cookoff, Parc International
10/27 - Boo Bash, West Regional Library, Scott
10/28 - Boo Bash, Main Library
10/28 - Trunk or Treat - Lafayette Community Honda
10/29 - Crow Fest, Carencro
10/29 - Halloween Art & Nature Festival 2022 - Arnaudville
10/29 - Harvest Fest at Fightingville Fresh Market
10/29 - Trunk or Treat Family Fun Day - Broussard
10/29 - 7th Annual Trunk or Treat - Hub City Ford (A Macaroni Kid Lafayette Special Event!)
10/29 -Spooky STEM Event for Kids! - Code Ninjas in Broussard
10/29 - BK Designs Trunk or Treat - Lafayette
10/29 - Trunk or Treat, First United Methodist Church, Lafayette
10/29 - Acadiana Eats Festival - Scott
10/29 - Autumn in the Oaks, Moncus Park
10/29 & 10/30 - Spooktacular Parties - The Children's Museum of Acadiana
10/30 - Trick or Treat Event, Mire
10/30 - Trunk or Treat, Delcambre
10/30 and 10/31 - Haunted House, Delcambre
10/31 - Trunk or Treat - Willow Charter Academy, Lafayette
10/31 - Bootiful Halloween in the Neighborhood, Northgate Mall
Halloween Recipes & Other Fun Food Ideas
- An Easy Halloween Treat For Your Little Goblins: Monster Apple Bites
- 13 Easy Halloween Lunchbox Treats
- Four Kooky Halloween Recipes Your Kids Will Love
- Let Halloween Candy Take You Into Thanksgiving
- Halloween Bark
- Spooky Halloween 7 Layer Taco Dip
- Halloween Marshmallow Pops
- Two Easy Halloween Party Plates
- A Halloween Trick for Delicious Halloween Treats!
- Leftover Halloween Candy Brownies
- Yummy Witches and Spiders and Bats...Oh My
- Spooky Spider Web Hard-Boiled Eggs
- Yummy Jell-o Worms
Halloween Books, Costume Ideas, & Fun New Traditions
- Boo! Here are 9 Halloween Books Your Kids Will Love
- A Terrific Book to Coincide with this Spooky Time of the Year
- 8 Ideas to Decorate Wagons, Wheelchairs, & Strollers This Halloween
- 13 Family Costume Ideas for Halloween
- Invite the Switch Witch Over This Halloween
- 31 Halloween Family Movies for Kids, Tweens, & Teens
- Safer Halloween Fun: You've Been Boo'd!
Halloween Crafts
- Halloween Milk Jug Luminaries
- DIY Halloween Silhouettes
- Easy Halloween Bat Craft for Kids
- Halloween Hand Puppet: Frankenstein
- "Connect the Webs" Halloween Activity
- DIY Witch Hat for Halloween
- Creepy Stick Forest Craft
- 3 Fun Ideas to Make a Halloween Face Mask For Your Kids
- A Creepy, Crawly Spider Web Craft, Just in Time For Halloween
- Make This Homemade Pumpkin Play Dough With Just 5 Ingredients
Did you know that Iberia Parish and Acadia-St. Landry also have Macaroni Kid publishers and local editions? Yep, they do! And they have each put together a guide of local Fall and Halloween fun in their area. Check them out
Iberia Parish - Halloween & Fall Family Fun Guide
Acadia - St. Landry - Fall Family Fun Guide
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