Festivals & fairs
What's on for families in Newtownabbey
203 family events within 10 miles of Newtownabbey over the next four weeks: crafts, shows, storytimes, trails and more.
Theatre at The Mill in Mossley and the Courtyard Theatre at Ballyearl both put on family shows and workshops. Hazelbank Park runs along the shore of Belfast Lough with views across to Carrickfergus and County Down, and V36 at the Valley hosts family events through the year.
Today
Halloween
Halloween
Halloween
Halloween
Streamvale's Halloween Pumpkin Patch 2026
9am – 12:30pm+6 more dates
Streamvale Open Farm · 8 mi
- Outdoor
Halloween
Halloween
Crafts & making
Gulliver's Travels: A Creative Writing Adventure
10am – 12pm
Carrickfergus Museum · 5 mi
- Ages 8–12
- £12
- Indoor
Halloween
Halloween at Ulster Folk Museum
10am – 4pm+2 more dates
Ulster Folk Museum · 6 mi
- £9.35–£32
- Indoor & outdoor
Halloween
Halloween Spooky Scavenger Hunt (Cloughfern Library)
11am – 5pm+2 more dates
Cloughfern Library · Under a mile
- 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
Spooktacular Activity Afternoon (Cloughfern Library)
2:30pm – 4pm
Cloughfern Library · Under a mile
- Ages 4–11
- Indoor
Science & museums
Halloween
Halloween
Little Spooks and Storybooks Festival: Boo Bash! (Rathcoole Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Rathcoole Library · Under a mile
Halloween
Bats and Broomsticks and Halloween Fun (Grove Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Grove Library · 4 mi
- Indoor
- Drop in
Halloween
'Eye' Love Reading! - Halloween Storytime and Craft (Holywood Arches Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Holywood Arches Library · 6 mi
- Indoor
Halloween
Storytime & rhyme
Halloween
Halloween
Spooky Hallowe'en Bedtime Stories (Glengormley Library)
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Glengormley Library · 1 mi
- Ages 3–8
Storytime & rhyme
7 - 9 Year Old Reading Group (Newtownbreda Library)
6:30pm – 7:15pm
Newtownbreda Library · 8 mi
- Ages 7–9
- Free
- Indoor
- Drop in
Storytime & rhyme
Rhythm and Rhyme (Cloughfern Library)
10:30am – 11am+3 more dates
Cloughfern Library · Under a mile
- Up to 4
- Indoor
Tomorrow
Halloween
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) · 6 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 · 6 mi
- Ages 6+
- Free
- Indoor
Tuesday 3 November
Storytime & rhyme
Junior Reading Group (Glengormley Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Glengormley Library · 1 mi
- Ages 9–11
- Free
- Indoor
- Drop in
Wednesday 4 November
Storytime & rhyme
Thursday 5 November
Crafts & making
Lego Club (Cloughfern Library)
2pm – 4pm+2 more dates
Cloughfern Library · Under a mile
- Ages 4–12
- Indoor
Friday 6 November
Something different
Game On (Holywood Arches Library)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Holywood Arches Library · 6 mi
- Ages 7–11
- Free
- Indoor
- Drop in
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 · 1 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 · 6 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 · 7 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 · 5 mi
- Ages 4–10
- Indoor
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
Monday 23 November
Something different
Where things happen around Newtownabbey
The venues with the most family events coming up within 5 miles.
- Rathcoole Library10 events
- Ardoyne Library9 events
- Cloughfern Library9 events
- Greenisland Library9 events
- Glengormley Library6 events
- Grove Library6 events
