\n The festivities, which will take place during half-term from October 24 to October 31, will also feature a Halloween trail through\u00a0shops and a special event in Holland Park.\n<\/p>\n
\n On October 31, from 4pm to 7pm, Holland Park will transform into a theatrical playground,\u00a0featuring unusual characters, installations, games, and entertainment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Play day brings spooky fun to Design Museum (Image: Matthew Kaltenborn)\n<\/p>\n
\n Visitors will have the chance to cast spells with a talking frog, spin the Turntable Trick-or-Treat game, and join the Day of the Dead-inspired Skeleton Serenade parade.\n<\/p>\n
\n This will include a 9ft dancing skeleton puppet and a mariachi band.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other activities in the park will involve jugglers, magicians, glow-in-the-dark hula hooping, a bubble professor, and performances from Wolfman and his band, the Howling Stones.\n<\/p>\n
\n Costumed dog parade to raise funds for Dogs Trust in Kensington (Image: Fable & Mirth) Beyond the park, a\u00a0Halloween-themed dog parade, hosted by independent design boutique Fable & Mirth, will feature dogs and their owners parading in Halloween costumes along Kensington Church Walk.\n<\/p>\n
\n Proceeds from the parade will be donated to Dogs Trust.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Milestone Hotel will be offering Halloween-themed afternoon tea and cocktails throughout October, while Sambourne House will host its Haunted\u00a0event on October 31, featuring a night of Victorian intrigue and drama.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Milestone Hotel serves up Halloween-themed afternoon tea and cocktails (Image: The Milestone Hotel) Visitors will be taken on an after-hours tour of the house by a guide dressed as Mrs Marion Sambourne, who will share stories about society and the lives and secrets of the Sambournes.\n<\/p>\n
\n Leighton House will host an interactive crime mystery puzzle on October 25, where children and their adults will work together to discover who stole Leighton\u2019s painting.\n<\/p>\n
\n Holland Park becomes a Playful Park of Peculiar this Halloween night (Image: Playful Park of Peculiar) The Kensington Vintage Flea Market, taking place on Saturday, October 25, will be full of Halloween dress-up inspiration, along with family-friendly workshops and entertainment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Hyde Park’s\u00a0Halloween Discovery Days will run from October 28 to October 30, featuring ‘feely boxes’ in the Witches’ Den, a nature trail, bat discovery sessions, and ghostly stories throughout the day.\n<\/p>\n
\n Design Museum hosts play day with Halloween-themed family activities (Image: Matthew Kaltenborn)\n<\/p>\n
\n The Design Museum will also be joining in the Halloween festivities with family-friendly activities, staff dress-up, themed caf\u00e9 treats, and carved pumpkins on display.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kensington\u2019s new late-night club, Gallery, will hold a Halloween costume contest and themed pre-parties leading up to and through the weekend of October 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The festivities, which will take place during half-term from October 24 to October 31, will also feature a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-472866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115314280617258514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}