Festivals & fairs
What's on for families in Holywood
232 family events within 10 miles of Holywood over the next four weeks: crafts, shows, storytimes, trails and more.
Seapark, on the shore of Belfast Lough, has a playground, a putting green and a free car park. The Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra, just outside town, has whole streets of old houses, farms and shops to wander. Redburn Country Park has 7km of paths above the town, and the maypole at the crossroads is the only one left in Ireland.
Today
Halloween
Halloween
Halloween Pumpkin Patch 2026
Time TBC+2 more dates
Ark Open Farm · 7 mi
- Indoor & outdoor
- Sensory-friendly
Halloween
Halloween
Streamvale's Halloween Pumpkin Patch 2026
9am – 12:30pm+6 more dates
Streamvale Open Farm · 4 mi
- Outdoor
Halloween
Halloween at Ulster Folk Museum
10am – 4pm+2 more dates
Ulster Folk Museum · 2 mi
- £9.35–£32
- Indoor & outdoor
Halloween
Crafts & making
Gulliver's Travels: A Creative Writing Adventure
10am – 12pm
Carrickfergus Museum · 5 mi
- Ages 8–12
- £12
- Indoor
Halloween
Halloween
Halloween
Halloween
SUPER Natural at Castle Espie
10am – 5pm+3 more dates
WWT Castle Espie Wetland Centre · 9 mi
- Indoor & outdoor
Halloween
Halloween Spooky Scavenger Hunt (Cloughfern Library)
11am – 5pm+2 more dates
Cloughfern Library · 4 mi
- Indoor
- Drop in
Theatre & shows
Music
Caregiver & Baby Music, Movement & Sensory Workshops
11am – 12:30pm+7 more dates
Carrickfergus Museum · 5 mi
- Up to 1
- £12
- Indoor
Halloween
Spooktacular Halloween Witch-Crafts! (Ardoyne Library)
11:30am – 12:30pm
Ardoyne Library · 5 mi
- Ages 6+
- Indoor
- Drop in
Halloween
Halloween
Spooktacular Activity Afternoon (Cloughfern Library)
2:30pm – 4pm
Cloughfern Library · 4 mi
- Ages 4–11
- Indoor
Halloween
Science & museums
Halloween
'Eye' Love Reading! - Halloween Storytime and Craft (Holywood Arches Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Holywood Arches Library · 4 mi
- Indoor
Halloween
Bats and Broomsticks and Halloween Fun (Grove Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Grove Library · 4 mi
- Indoor
- Drop in
Halloween
Little Spooks and Storybooks Festival: Boo Bash! (Rathcoole Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Rathcoole Library · 4 mi
Storytime & rhyme
Halloween
Halloween
Halloween
Halloween
Spooky Hallowe'en Bedtime Stories (Glengormley Library)
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Glengormley Library · 5 mi
- Ages 3–8
Storytime & rhyme
7 - 9 Year Old Reading Group (Newtownbreda Library)
6:30pm – 7:15pm
Newtownbreda Library · 6 mi
- Ages 7–9
- Free
- Indoor
- Drop in
Storytime & rhyme
Rhythm and Rhyme (Bangor Carnegie Library)
9:30am – 10am+3 more dates
Bangor Carnegie Library · 7 mi
- Up to 4
Tomorrow
Halloween
Not So Scary Halloween: Spooky Seaside Creations
10am – 10:45am+3 more dates
North Down Museum · 7 mi
- Ages 3–11
- £7
- Indoor
Saturday 31 October
Halloween
Little Monsters Breakfast Banquet
12am – 11am+1 more date
The Ivy (Granary Square Brasserie and other Ivy Brasserie locations, excluding Ivy West Street) · 5 mi
- £27.50–£32.50
- Indoor
Sunday 1 November
Theatre & shows
Monday 2 November
Storytime & rhyme
Ravenous Readers - Junior Reading Group (Whiterock Library)
3:15pm – 4:15pm
Whiterock Library · 7 mi
- Ages 6+
- Free
- Indoor
Tuesday 3 November
Storytime & rhyme
Page Turners Book Club (Ballyhackamore Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Ballyhackamore Library · 3 mi
- Ages 9–11
- Indoor
Wednesday 4 November
Storytime & rhyme
Thursday 5 November
Crafts & making
Friday 6 November
Something different
Something different
Saturday 7 November
Storytime & rhyme
Monday 9 November
Something different
Tuesday 10 November
Storytime & rhyme
Sensory Stay and Play Club (Glengormley Library)
11:30am – 12:30pm
Glengormley Library · 5 mi
- Indoor
- Sensory-friendly
Wednesday 11 November
Outdoors & nature
Get Wild! Kids Gardening Club (Whiterock Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm+1 more date
Whiterock Library · 7 mi
- Ages 8+
- Outdoor
Thursday 12 November
Christmas
Letters to Santa (Carrickfergus Library)
Time TBC+11 more dates
Carrickfergus Library · 5 mi
- Ages 2–10
- Free
- Indoor
Saturday 14 November
Christmas
Sunday 15 November
Theatre & shows
Monday 16 November
Science & museums
Wednesday 18 November
Outdoors & nature
Go Green with Libraries NI (Tullycarnet Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Tullycarnet Library · 3 mi
- Ages 5–11
- Indoor & outdoor
Thursday 19 November
Science & museums
Go On - Meet Kubo the robot! (Belfast Central Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Belfast Central Library · 4 mi
- Ages 4–10
- Indoor
Friday 20 November
Crafts & making
Design your dream library for Universal Children's Day! (Whitehead Library)
10am – 5pm
Whitehead Library · 9 mi
- Indoor
- Drop in
Saturday 21 November
Christmas
Carrickfergus Christmas Lights Switch On
3pm – 5:30pm
High Street / Market Place · 5 mi
- Free
- Indoor & outdoor
- Drop in
- Sensory-friendly
Sunday 22 November
Christmas
Monday 23 November
Something different
Where things happen around Holywood
The venues with the most family events coming up within 5 miles.
- Belfast Central Library12 events
- Rathcoole Library10 events
- Cloughfern Library9 events
- Greenisland Library9 events
- Tullycarnet Library9 events
- Woodstock Library9 events
