HALLOWEEN MONSTER MAYHEM

Monstrous mayhem unleashed for three weeks of Halloween at Children’s Museum Houston!

We’re your Halloween hub for safe trick-or-treating everyday!

Oct. 11 to 29!

Sponsored by Gilbert Andrew Garcia/Garcia Hamilton & Associates, L.P.

HOUSTON (Oct. 7, 2022) – Something spooky this way comes to Children’s Museum Houston!  A myriad of magic, mystery and monsters have maneuvered their way into the Museum for three weeks of Halloween! Come partake in spine-tingling experiments, spirit-lifting activities and slime-filled fun during our “Halloween Monster Mayhem” from Oct. 11 to 29, 2022.  Meander your way through the Museum in search of goblins, goodies and goo!

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• Set out on a trick-or-treat quest  from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays to Fridays; 4 to 8 p.m. during Free Family Night Thursdays; and all day on Saturdays through Halloween night!
• Move your bones to funky tunes at our spooktacular Halloween Monster Mash Bash complete with slime and spooky canines on Oct. 29.

“HALLOWEEN MONSTER MAYHEM” SPECIAL EVENTS:

VAMPIRINA TIME!

Saturday, Oct. 15, beginning at 10 a.m.

Sponsored by Gilbert Andrew Garcia/Garcia Hamilton & Associates, L.P.

We’re going batty for Vampirina! Join us for a fang-tastic event you’ll want to sink your teeth into as Vampirina makes an appearance during a fan celebration event.

SPOOK-TACULAR

Saturday, Oct. 22, beginning at 10 a.m.

Sponsored by Gilbert Andrew Garcia/Garcia Hamilton & Associates, L.P.

Funded in part by City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance

Join us for a spook-tacular Saturday filled with mystifying magic, mystery, and monsters! Join Jamie Salinas for a mesmerizing magic show, enjoy mad science experiments with Bob Botto and learn how owls digest their food by taking apart an owl pellet!

HAPPY HOUSE

Free Family Night Thursday, Oct. 27, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Brought to you by Radio One

Watch before your very eyes how the Museum magically morphs into the Happy House! Join Majic 102.1, 97.9 The Box, and Praise 92.1 for a free, safe and friendly trick-or-treat party for your little ghosts, goblins and ghouls.  Admission is free!

SLIME TIME

Saturday, Oct. 29, beginning at10:30 a.m.

Sponsored by Gilbert Andrew Garcia/Garcia Hamilton & Associates, L.P.

Beware the blob!  We’re going gaga for goo as we experience a slime breach. You’re invited to help us overcome a gelatinous hiccup by probing different types of slime during an out-of-this-world workshop.  It creeps. It crawls. It’s all over the walls!  

SPOOKY CANINE SHOW

Saturday, Oct. 29, beginning at 11 a.m.

Be amazed by some seriously talented Halloween doggos as they perform for you during this ghastly shindig! Watch the Texas Six Steppers put on a dog show with a Halloween twist.

“HALLOWEEN MONSTER MAYHEM” WONDERWEEKS:

Geekbusters

Oct.11 – 15

Sponsored by INVISTA

There's something strange in this neighborhood! Save the Museum from ectoplasmic chaos!  Halloween season kicks off with a ghoulish and boo-tiful WonderWeek!

• Make ghosts appear as you practice sponge a painting technique in Alexander Art Academy.
• Go batty for bats using origami in EcoStation.
• Pull strings to make ghosts fly at Junktion.
• Save your place in your favorite spooky storybook by designing a ghost bookmark at Junktion.
• Heads will spin when you make a ghost move on its own at Junktion.
• Learn how to use cornstarch peanuts to design Halloween costume accessories in Science Station.‍
• Why do vampires like blood so much? Find out what’s inside a drop of blood in Power Science Lab.‍
• Wire together your own freaky Frankenstein and otherworldly monsters in Inventors’ Workshop.

CREEPY CONCOCTIONS

Oct. 18 – 22

Sponsored by BASF

Double, double toil and trouble. Fill your cauldron with ick and goo as our mad scientists show you experiments that bubble.

• Eye of newt and scale of dragon encase the magic in a potion bottle in Alexander Art Academy.
• Go batty for bats using origami in EcoStation.
• OOM! POW! ZAP! Make your hair stand on end when you make a mad scientist wig at Junktion.
• Weave spooky spider webs in Junktion.
• Powerful magic will be at your fingertips when you craft your own witch’s wand in Junktion.
• Go gaga for goo as you probe slime in Science Station.‍
• Why do vampires like blood so much? Find out what’s inside a drop of blood in Power Science Lab.‍
• Wire together your own freaky Frankenstein and otherworldly monsters in Inventors’ Workshop.

MONSTER MAYHEM

Oct. 25 – 29

Sponsored by Gilbert Andrew Garcia/Garcia Hamilton & Associates, L.P.

Creepy, kooky and altogether spooky! This WonderWeek will have you concocting mysterious mad experiments and other monster-iffic activities as we continue to celebrate Halloween!

• Piece together a mythical monster in Alexander Art Academy.
• ‍Go batty for bats using origami in EcoStation.
• Have you always wanted a pet monster? Someone to scare all the other monsters away? Adopt one in Junktion.
• Channel a monster mindset as you design a monster headband in Junktion.  
• Become one of the walking dead as you string together a zombie mask at Junktion.
• Go gaga for goo as you probe slime in Science Station.‍
• Why do vampires like blood so much? Find out what’s inside a drop of blood in Power Science Lab.‍
• Wire together your own freaky Frankenstein and otherworldly monsters in Inventors’ Workshop.

***Activities, events, and times subject to change.

**Children’s Museum Houston will be closed on Halloween Monday, Oct. 31.

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