October Half-Term & Halloween Planning Pack
One printable to fill five days off school and pull together a Halloween the kids will love
Instant PDF download (10 pages). Print it or use it on your phone or tablet.
A printable planner that gets you through October half term and Halloween in one go: a five-day activity grid, a costume planner with deadlines, a trick-or-treat safety and route page, a party planner, and a full shopping and countdown checklist. Print at home, fill it in once, and stop juggling five days off school and a Saturday-night Halloween in your head.
What's inside
- A five-day (Mon–Fri) half-term planning grid with space for an anchor activity, location, cost and rainy-day backup for each day
- A costume planner covering first choice, backup idea, what's already owned, and a shopping/making deadline for each child
- A trick-or-treat planning page — route, timings, who's joining you, and a safety checklist
- A Halloween party planning page with guest list, food plan and a ready-to-use games list for ages 3–11
- A pumpkin carving station checklist plus a simple roast-seeds recipe
- A full shopping list and a two-week countdown broken into 'two weeks before / one week before / the day before'
- A backup-plans page for last-minute costume, weather or illness problems
Questions
It's built around the standard England, Wales and Northern Ireland dates of 26–30 October 2026. If your local authority sets slightly different dates, just adjust the day labels on the planner grid — the structure works the same either way.
No — most of the pack (the five-day planner, activity ideas, costume planner and trick-or-treat page) is useful whether or not you're hosting anything. The party planning page is entirely optional and easy to skip.
It's written with primary and nursery-age children in mind (roughly 2–11), but the half-term planner and shopping/countdown pages work for any age of child at home during the break.
No. Print only the sections you'll actually use — most people get the most value from the five-day grid and the costume checklist alone.
The activity ideas, party structure, pumpkin checklist and packing lists aren't date-specific, so yes — you'd just need to update the day labels to match next year's half-term dates.