Halloween is a fantastic time for art, full of spooky, bright and colourful imagery, stories and games.

Artzone will be running the following Halloween camps either online in their Virtual Studio, or in-person at one of two Dublin venues (Artzone Studio in Rathfarnham and Taney Parish Centre, Dundrum).

• Junior camps for 5-6 year olds
• Intermediate camps for 7-9 year olds
• Senior camps for 10-12 year olds
• Drawing Academy camps for 10-16 year olds
• Halloween Sculpture Academy for 10-16 year olds
• Halloween Illustration Academy for 10-16 year olds

For more information, click here.

Dates: November 1st to 4th, 10am-2pm

In this special Halloween BrickFlicks Stop Motion Animation Camp, witches will fly, houses will be haunted and graves will be creepy as you learn how to make your own spooky animations.

With plenty of hands-on learning and simple demonstrations, Createschool will take you on a journey from having a cool idea to making it into an awesome movie. You will learn the different elements of stop motion animation as well as how to create sets, storyboards and plan for your movie, which you will then film, edit, and record.

Suitable for ages 8-12. For more information, click here.

The popular Wild Connections Halloween Camps are back for 2022 and run from November 1st to November 3rd. It is suitable for ages 5 to 12 years and runs from 10am to 2pm daily. Children will enjoy nature crafts, pond dipping, bird watching and loads of other fun activities each day.

Find out more and book your Halloween Camp here.

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Pet slime monsters, vampire blood, witches’ snot, spooky smoke ghosts, alien flying saucers, Frankenstein Barbie doll and much more…!

One-day Halloween camps are available in Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Westmeath.

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Dates: November 1st and 2nd

The Halloween Mini Camp will include fun yoga, a guided meditation, arts and crafts, lots of fun games and life lessons. The camp will help children learn how to deal with mean words (reduce arguments and upset), stand up and speak up for themselves, boost their self confidence and grow their friendships.

Suitable for children aged 6-12 years.

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The archaeology camps provide a new and fascinating alternative to sports-themed camps and other school-break activities for children aged between 7 and 12 years old.

If your child is a curious explorer with a thirst for knowledge about their past, why not let them try the School of Irish Archaeology? Camps run year round, and introduce children to the mysteries and adventures of our past in a fun, practical and hands-on way.

For more information, click here.

Dates: November 3rd or 4th (same content on both days) from 9am to 2pm

Join the Rediscovery Centre Education team and get involved in some terrifying Halloween hands-on activities! The Halloween Activity Day includes a variety of fun and educational activities, games, experiments and arts & crafts to stimulate children’s curiosity and interest in the world around us.

During the camps children will be busy hunting for spiders and other bugs in the hedgerows, picking and carving gruesome pumpkins grown in the vegetable garden, making mini-scarecrows, as well as lots of spooky arts & crafts. They will also make fancy dresses made out of recycled materials and host a ghoulish team challenge!

Suitable for children aged 6-12 years.

For more information, click here.

Suitable for ages 8-13 years. For more information, click here.

Planet Science Kidz will be back at King John’s Castle for Halloween SpookTacular Science workshops this Halloween midterm.

You can look forward to:

• Gooey Bugs ‘n’ Slime
• Giant Slime Bubbles
• Slime Monsters
• Slime Falls
• Spooky trick-or-treat science
• and Monster Viruses

These hands-on sessions will allow kids an opportunity to experiment again in person. Numbers are limited and booking is essential.

For more information and booking details, click here.

Catering for children aged 5 to 12 years, the ethos of this Multi-Sport Camp is to provide an enriching, inclusive and welcoming environment full of fun where children can try a range of sports and activities.

With over 20 sports on offer, children are encouraged to try something different, make new friends and, most importantly, have fun!

For more information, click here.

Dates: November 1st to 4th

Taking place in the forest at Russborough House, Wicklow, this Halloween multi-activity outdoor camp for 7-12 year olds will contain all the requested favourites:

• Shoot Out! The most fun you can have with a bow and arrow, including archery and archery tag.
• All Harnessed Up: Once you are all harnessed up and ready to go, you will be climbing walls, zipping down ziplines and working your way through the rope obstacle course. Add in some tree climbing and your smiles will no doubt be bigger by the end of the day.
• Wet & Wild: Always one of the most popular activities with the kids. All things water, sit on top kayaking and experience our super large 12 person canoes!
• Bushcraft: Bushcraft and survival techniques are always a fun and useful life skill for kids to learn. It helps them become aware of nature around them, learning how to build shelters (the aim is to be waterproof against showers!), how to successfully build a fire, first aid, along with the constant knowledge and chatter about the surrounding nature.

For more information, click here.

Something spooky is happening at Bricks 4 Kidz this Halloween! Join in for some frightfully fun LEGO-themed builds, suitable for 5-12 year olds.

Halloween camps teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) through play with LEGO builds. Plus there is an opportunity for Master Builders to create their favourite Halloween-themed game and movie characters in LEGO.

Camps will take place in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Louth, Meath, Westmeath, Roscommon, Wexford, Waterford, Carlow and Kilkenny.

For more information and booking details, click here.

Dates: November 1st to 4th

Four-day Halloween camps for children aged 5-12 year olds will take place in Coolock and Tallaght this October.

For more information and booking details, click here.

Dates: November 1st to 4th

Pirate, cowboy, witch, outlaw, robber, convict – these probably aren’t words you’d usually associate with the Irish, but throughout history there’s been more than a few infamous Irish around the world!

In this two day camp, EPIC’s detectives are trying to solve a case, and enlisting only the most brave and fearsome recruits to join as they dive into the darker side of Irish history. Uncover those figures who made a notorious name for the Irish around the world, like legendary Wild West figure Billy the Kid; fearsome pirate of the Caribbean Anne Bonny; William Lamport, the Wexford man behind the mask of Zorro; Bootlegger, bank robber and gangster, George “”Machine Gun”” Kelly, and more.

Participants will work together to build case studies of the suspects, as they hear the tales of the Irish that have challenged and sometimes even changed the law – for better or worse. Mapping places and connections, solving clues, quizzes and riddles, acting out scenes, drafting wanted posters, diary excerpts and newspaper articles and more to help bring history to life, they’ll attempt to solve the EPIC murder mystery – discovering whodunit before the countdown clock expires on day two!

Suitable for 7-12 year olds. For more information and booking details, click here.

This Halloween, Gaiety School of Acting is offering in-person camps for ages 8-18.

Camps to choose from include:

• Hocus Pocus: Make a Movie (ages 8-11)
• Bites of Broadway (ages 8-11)
• Bites of Broadway (ages 13-18)
• From Screams to Screen (ages 16-18)
• Stranger Things: Make a Movie (ages 12-15)

For more information and booking details, click here.

Dates: 2022 Details TBC

Want your child to learn to code but not sure if they’ll enjoy it? This online Halloween coding camp is the perfect opportunity to try it out!

These camps run over the October mid-term break and are open to beginner coders ages 9-18. Students will dive into the world of coding, tackling a series of coding challenges and games using programming languages like Scratch and Processing.

For more information and booking details, click here.

Dates: October 31st to November 4th

Camp Yolo are running a seasonal, fun-filled, multi-activity camp for children aged 4-12 years old. Camp Yolo is based at The Pavilion Complex, Stormont Estate, Belfast.

For more information, click here.