October Updated - Halloween and Autumn things to do in Sheffield
Welcome to this month's update from Females Updated! 🎃🍂
In this October Halloween edition, we’re bringing you all the best things to do this October, from pumpkin picking with the kids to brunches with the girls.
halloween activities
pumpkin picking
Farmer Copleys
📆 Date: 27th September - 31st October 📍 Location: Farmer Copleys, Pontefract
Wonder through over 300,000 homegrown pumpkins in more than 40 unique varieties. It's the ultimate pumpkin patch in yorkshire- and the perfect backdrop for insta worthy pumpkin photos!
Enjoy:
Tractor rides through the pumpkin fields
Live shows and entertainment
Archery and vinted fairground rides
Witches story time and performances
Delicious street food and festival bars
Fancy dress competitions
Kids under 3 go free !
Sip and Paint Party
📆 Date: 29th October 📍 Location: Stags Head, Psalter lane
A spooky seasonal sip and paint party! A fun 2.5 hour session, you will learn how to mix colours, paint application techniques, how to observe light, dark and colour, layering up to achieve depth plenty more tips and tricks from an experienced artist, all while creating a spectacular halloween themed painting of Salem a witchy black kitten sat upon a pumpkin.
Cannon Hall Farm
📆 Date: 4th - 31st October 📍 Location: Cannon Hall Farm
All paying children get a free pumpkin 🎃
Cannon Hall Farm’s incredible pumpkin patch is returning this October - and is full of instagrammable family moments!
The patch - which was voted the no 1 patch to visit in the UK in a study by Austen and Blake - sees almost 10,000 pumpkins available for visitors to pick and our expert carvers will shape out those toothy grins for you.
Pick Your Own Village Pumpkins Dronfield
📆 Date: Weekends in October 📍 Location: Village Pumpkins
Tickets include:
🚗 Car parking & entry to farm
🌿 Entry to the pumpkin patch
🫏🐥🐐🐓 Farm animals to see!
🎃 Wheelbarrows for you to use - to help you choose your perfect pumpkins with plenty of different varieties!
Please note: the ticket does NOT include a pumpkin.
🚜 Sit on tractor
📸 Photo opportunities ~ new & old! 🪑
🧺 Picnic area with benches & grass to sit on
🛝 Our hay bale slide is staying for our pumpkin event!
💥 NEW for 2025! 💥
⛺️ Brand new undercover seating area for enjoying refreshments.
🌻 Spooky Sunflower Pumpkin Trail ~ go find your mini pumpkins on our sunflower trail & keep a look out for our creepy caterpillar tunnel 🐛
🌾 Plus there will be lots going on at the farm…
🍕🍔 Pop up food vendors throughout the season (not available everyday ~ please see our social media pages for updates)
🐮 Milkshakes from Shmoo thickshakes
🛖 Homemade cakes & bakes including our popular pumpkin pie 🥧 hot chocolates & homemade spiced pumpkin soup 🥣 (open everyday that we are open 9am-5pm)
🥩 Homegrown produce for sale! 🍯
🎨 Face painting for a charity donation ~ We will be continuing to raise money for Ashgate Hospice and Sheffield Children's Hospital.
Inclusions
What you'll need
🧤 Warm Clothing - Weather dependent
☂️ Waterproofs - It's really important to dress for the weather
📋 Other - Wellies/boots you don’t mind getting muddy!
halloween events
Adults Halloween Disco
📆 Date: 31st October 📍 Location: Eckington Civic Centre
Dress to kill at our Halloween Disco over 18's only!
Childrens Halloween Disco
📆 Date: 31st October 📍 Location: Cross Scythes Totley
Bring your little ghouls, ghosts, and goblins down to The Cross Scythes for a spooktacular evening of Halloween fun!
What’s Happening:
Fancy Dress Competition – prizes for the best costumes!
Monster Mash Disco with Halloween tunes
Creepy Cake & Treat Stall
Perfect for children of all ages (parent/guardian supervision required)
children and family events
Sheffield's Biggest Funfair
📆 Date: 24th October - 2nd November 📍 Location: Sheffield Utilita Arena
Fee Entry with some fantastic new rides!
Out of this World
📆 Date: 26th October 📍 Location: Peace Gardens
Now in its 11th year, Sheffield's Out of This World is a free city centre event that celebrates all things otherworldly.
Attracting thousands of children and adults each year, this weird, wonderful and wacky event will return on Sunday 26 October. Expect a host of street entertainment, demonstrations, comic con characters, fancy dress, family activities, fairground rides, street food stalls and more.
The Winter Garden, Tudor Square and Peace Gardens play host to the ever popular sci-fi, comic book, gaming and fantasy areas, while the Halloween Zone can be found spread across Town Hall Square, the Peace Gardens, Pinstone and Surrey Street.At Millennium Square and the Peace Gardens, visitors will be able to step into a world of magic and illusion, with some of the UK’s best magicians and illusionists flexing their skills, while aspiring young witches and wizards will also be able to learn magic spells, design and make their own wands, and much more.
Witches and Wizards Magical trail
📆 Date: 18th October - 2nd November 📍 Location: Butterfly House
Are you ready for a spookily special (trick or) treat this October half-term holiday?
Look out for spellbinding creatures and characters lurking along the Witches and Wizards trail. Conjure up your inner witch or wizard to crack the code hidden amongst the five colourful potion bottles and graduate from the School of Magic (and Mischief)!
Wander the woodland walk and peek into the eerie witch's cabin and take a spooky tractor-trailer ride through the haunted grounds!
Take a seat at the Magical School of Curious Creatures show - stay after the show to learn the art of broomstick flying or giant bubble fun!*
Bewitch us with your dress up and costumes and you could scare your way to a spooky spot prize! Take part in the Wizard and Witches colouring competition and drop your masterpiece in the mysterious Owl Post Box. Can you find one of the special hidden prize scrolls for even more chances to win?
Don’t miss daily animal encounters and talks with keepers revealing gruesome fun facts about their amazing animals - you might just meet some creepy crawlies!
Our spooktacular sandpits and play parks are open daily and if you’re feeling fearless, quake in your boots on the Dino trail!
markets
Night Market Social - Craft and Flea
📆 Date: 30th October 📍 Location: The Steamworks
Join us at our Night Market Social. 40+ great indie makers, artisans & local businesses, street food, cocktails, local beers & music.
Only Clay Ceramics Fair
📆 Date: 4th - 5th October 📍 Location: Kelham Island Museum
nights out
Bottomless Bingo Brunch
📆 Date: 26th October 📍 Location: Mr Wilsons
On the last Sunday of each month, Mr Wilson brings you two hours of burgers, bottomless drinks and BINGO!!
For just £39.50 you'll enjoy a range of bottomless drinks, from our famous signature cocktails to a range of delicious beers and spirits.
There are two sittings available: 1-3pm and 4-6pm.
Psychic Night
📆 Date: 30th October 📍 Location: OEC
Join us for an unforgettable evening with renowned medium Kirsty Celik as she connects with the spirit world to bring messages of love, healing, and guidance.
Ladies Silent Disco Party
📆 Date: 4th October 📍 Location: The Akademy Business Park
Come join us for a fun night of dancing and bonding with other ladies at our Nurture Her Series: Ladies Silent Disco
