Find just the right combination of spooky and silly to have a Halloween the whole family will enjoy. We’ve got BingePasses you can borrow to create a Halloween party you wonโ€™t forget! Celebrate Halloween with movies, crafting, and podcasts with Hoopla BingePasses.

BingePasses give you instant access to entire collections and premium streaming services for a single borrow through your local public library. BingePass gives you free, unlimited seven-day access to binge movies, magazines, books, and more with your library card. 

Creative Kidsโ€™ Halloween Crafts 

Get inspired with kidsโ€™ Halloween crafts that spark imagination and creativity.  

Creativebug BingePass 

Kidsโ€™ Halloween Face Painting: Learn how to transform kidsโ€™ faces into Halloween favorites like a tiger, zombie, or vampire with Courtney Cerrutiโ€™s creative face painting tips. Once you master a few simple techniques, youโ€™ll be able to create any disguise your little ones request! 

Halloween Trick or Treat Bags: Kids can make their own spooky Trick-or-Treat bags that are simple, fun, and easy to personalize. With just felt, scissors, and a sewing machine, you can create festive designs like a mummy, jack-o-lantern, or felt fiend. 


Hands on Crafts for Kids BingePass 

Season 3 Episode 8: When creative ideas pop up, write them down! Explore projects like Jenny Barnett Rohrs’s colorful pocket journal or Carissa Bonham’s glowing pumpkin luminary (to brighten up trick-or-treating!). Candie Cooper offers handwriting tips, while Franz Spohn shows how to write with clay. 

Season 3 Episode 10: All you need is paper and imagination to create a playful, slithery creature. Explore impressionist art with Candie Cooper, create sparkling slime with Katie Hacker, and make spooky eyeballs and fun spiders with Jenny Barnett Rohrs.  

Family Halloween Movies and Spooky Stories 

Turn your living room into a mini theater with a lineup of family Halloween movies. Pair movie night with story timeโ€”choose from a collection of scary stories for kids that are just the right amount of spooky. 

Movies: 

Dove Channel BingePass (US only) 

Spookley the Square Pumpkin: Spookley is different from the other pumpkins and teased for his unusual shape, but he finds friendship and encouragement from spiders and a kind scarecrow. Despite being bullied, he continues to believe he deserves a chance to be the Pick of the Patch. When a fierce storm threatens the pumpkin patch, Spookleyโ€™s unique shape proves to be an unexpected strength. 

The Halloween Family: On Mischief Night, Larry the Zombie and Fred the Mummy feel down, and Fred wishes to break his mummy curse. With advice from Boo the Bogeyman, they journey to find a magical tree named Goul, meeting wild characters along the way. 


Spooky Stories: 

GoKidGo Spine Chillers Podcast BingePass: A collection of ad-free, kid-friendly spooky podcasts. 

Includes: 

Juniperโ€™s Grave Tales: A Hoopla exclusive! Follow ghostly storyteller Juniper Graves, granddaughter of the famous fortune teller Madam Sybil. Having returned from beyond the grave, she shares chilling tales perfect for kids who love a good scare. 


R.L. Stine’s Story Club: Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine brings a new series filled with chills, laughs, and unforgettable stories. Join Ivy, the club president (voiced by Ariel Winter from Modern Family), as she leads listeners into a world of strange and spooky adventures. 


Ivyโ€™s Chilling Tales: More stories from Ivy, the leader of R.L. Stineโ€™s Story Club. She’s got mythical monsters, urban legends, and lots more to make listeners shiver! 


How Many Days Until Halloween? Start the Countdown! 

Want to know how many days until Halloween? Start the countdown with your family and plan a new activity for each dayโ€”crafts, movies, or story time to build excitement leading up to the big night.