For when the forecast falls apart in and around Blackpool. Everything here is under a roof, or has enough indoor space to be worth the drive anyway.
The Clubhouse marks 25 years of Room on the Broom with a Halloween dance party and the chance to meet Witch. Costumes encouraged. It is included in normal admission, which is from £12 a child.
A Halloween trail round the aquarium with challenges, a pumpkin patch and a reward at the end, plus Serafina the Sea Witch at weekends and in half term. Included with admission. Separate, scarier After Dark evenings run on 24, 25, 30 and 31 October for older children.
High Jinx, a magic and illusion show in the Blackpool Tower Circus ring, on a handful of dates only this autumn. All shows at 2.30pm, and it comes back for the Christmas holidays.
Steve Backshall's Deadly Live, the stage show from the CBBC series, at the Winter Gardens Opera House in Blackpool. One show at 2pm on 1 November. Tickets are not cheap.
Quieter evening sessions at Sandcastle Waterpark in Blackpool, with fewer people and the music and loud sounds switched off. Meant for children who find the usual noise too much. From £15 each.
Every Sunday in term time, fun activities based on Bible stories for children and young people.
Santa's grotto at Coral Island on Blackpool prom, with a gift, goody bag, a £5 play card and 50 prize tickets in the price. £9.50 for 3 and under, £11.50 from age 4. Book through Eventbrite.
The Pleasure Beach panto for 2026 is Aladdin. Seats run from £12 in the side blocks to £22.50 in main block A, or £25 a head at a table.
A walk-through grotto by the Pleasure Beach Arena: decorate a bauble, collect reindeer food and a magic key, meet Santa, get a gift, then one ride on Alice in Wonderland and a hot chocolate. Two adults go free with each child and a third is £5. It is at the Arena end off Watson Road, not the main park gates.
Starts at 11am. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
A festive session for 0 to 4s at Blackpool's museum of fun, with fake snow, Christmas sensory play and a hand-bell dance party. Free, but you must book, and tickets only open on 12 November.
Come and enjoy all the fun of the Christmas Fair with stalls, games, refreshments and of course a visit from Father Christmas
The Grand's panto, recommended for ages 3 and up, with Lisa George from Coronation Street as the Spirit of the Beans and Steve Royle as Silly Simon. It has strobe, smoke, pyrotechnics and loud bangs, all toned down for the relaxed performance on Sunday 27 December at 5pm if you have a child who hates noise.
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Santa sets up a grotto inside the aquarium and every child gets a Christmas gift. It is £8.50 a child as an add-on to a same-day SEA LIFE ticket, or £12 a child for Santa on his own, which makes the add-on a good use of a wet December Saturday you were going to spend there anyway.
Scrooge as a circus musical at the Winter Gardens Opera House in Blackpool, with circus acts and West End singers, billed for the whole family. Public shows 10 to 13 December.
Starts at 4pm. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.