Come trick-or-treat at the Main Library in your scariest, shiniest, and best costumes. We'll parade all through Main, starting in the Children’s Room. We'll have stickers and bookmarks in addition to allergen-free candy, too!
Less searching. Better weekends.
A thoughtful list, delivered every week. Free, local, and personalized to you.
About a minute. No payment required.
Choose ages, interests, and nearby cities.
Fifteen event picks for you.
Browse the complete local catalog anytime.
Mad Magic! open from noon to 7 p.m. at Children’s Fairyland.
Spooky Science at Chabot Space & Science Center offers a lab with gooey experiments, a pumpkin elevator challenge, a rooftop pumpkin drop, and a dark‑matter film premiere panel.
Family Storytime at Rockridge Branch Library offers stories and songs in the Upstairs Meeting Room, sometimes in the Picture Book area, for all ages.
Games and toys for families, plus occasional storytime or performances, at Asian Branch in Oakland for all ages.
Insect Discovery Lab in the Chapel Courtyard at Children’s Fairyland.
Halloween ghost craft in the Main Library's Children's Room provides a not‑too‑creepy afternoon craft session, for all ages.
Halloween trick‑or‑treating at Fairyland features performances, DJs, food trucks, candy stations, arts & crafts, games, prizes, STEM activities, and a Mad Science Fairy Fun House.
Storytime with rhymes, books, and songs, then free play with toys and garden access at Melrose Branch, Oakland, all ages.
Songs, active rhymes and stories, then age‑appropriate toys playtime through 11:15 am; may be held outside the library, for ages 1–3.
Spooky songs and stories for babies at Golden Gate Branch, Oakland, with a 15‑20‑minute storytime followed by play, all ages.
West Oakland Branch Library offers Halloween crafts including witches' hats, pipe‑cleaner spiders, yarn spider webs, and coloring pages, all ages.
Free Zumba class with instructor Becca Todd at Dimond Branch, welcoming beginners and all abilities, held four Tuesdays, ages 18 and up.
