# Things to do with kids in Milwaukee this weekend

> 20 family events on Fri, Oct 30 – Sun, Nov 1 in the Milwaukee–Waukesha area. Times are Central Time.

Source: Grassy Knees is a directory of real family events, places and programs for kids across major U.S. metro areas, where every listing is researched from the organizer’s own page and shows the date we last checked it. https://grassyknees.com covers 42 metro areas as of Oct 24, 2026, with more added regularly. About: https://grassyknees.com/about
Freshness: listings are re-checked on a daily research run (latest check 2026-10-24), and new events are added as organizers post them. Sell-outs, weather cancellations and time changes show up on the live page first: https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/this-weekend

Towns with listings: Milwaukee (16), Waukesha (2), Elm Grove (1), Hales Corners (1).

## Fri, Oct 30 – Sun, Nov 1

### Milwaukee (16)

- [Community Ofrenda at the Milwaukee Art Museum](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/community-ofrenda-at-the-milwaukee-art-museum--listing-e76ab7fc0e333ee50a090045) — Fri, Oct 30 (+2 more dates) · 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM · Milwaukee Art Museum · All ages · With admission · checked Oct 24. A Día de los Muertos ofrenda created by Mexican Folk Art Collective artists Gabriela Marván and Yesica Coria. Visitors learn about the altar's traditional elements and can honor…
- [Celebrando El Día de los Muertos — Lantern Walk to the Domes](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/celebrando-el-dia-de-los-muertos-lantern-walk-to-the-domes--listing-aa4df9e354d08647472fa939) — Fri, Oct 30 · 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM · Urban Ecology Center – Menomonee Valley · All ages · Free · checked Oct 24. The Urban Ecology Center's Menomonee Valley branch opens its Day of the Dead evening with a Bembe performance, a DJ, face painting and flower-crown making from 4 to 6 p.m., when…
- [Twilight & Treat — Andrew Douglas MS Twilight Center](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/twilight-and-treat-andrew-douglas-ms-twilight-center--listing-2ac3a81a3d40c5d246b99a53) — Fri, Oct 30 · 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM · Andrew Douglas MS Twilight Center · Free · checked Oct 24. Milwaukee Recreation's free annual Halloween celebration at its Twilight Centers, the evening drop-in spaces it runs in Milwaukee Public Schools buildings. Families can…
- [Día de los Muertos Celebration at the Domes](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration-at-the-domes--listing-adc119517f97fe0a1a7b77d9) — Fri, Oct 30 · 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM · Mitchell Park Domes · All ages · From $18 · checked Oct 24. The Milwaukee Domes Alliance's annual Day of the Dead evening fills the Mitchell Park Domes with music and color. Students from the surrounding community build traditional…
- [Creepy Cosmos — Halloween Planetarium Show](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/creepy-cosmos-halloween-planetarium-show--listing-e5098e051711d515972d404e) — Fri, Oct 30 · 7:00 PM – 9:15 PM · UWM Manfred Olson Planetarium · From $7 · checked Oct 24. UWM's Halloween planetarium tradition: a tour of the creepiest parts of space with haunting cosmic visions and chilling stargazing tales, followed by an indoor stargazing session…
- [Sugar Skull! A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/sugar-skull-a-dia-de-muertos-musical-adventure--listing-19182409676a07d8da7cfa2d) — Fri, Oct 30 · 7:00 PM · Uihlein Hall, Marcus Performing Arts Center · Paid · checked Oct 24. A touring bilingual, bicultural musical for young audiences and families that uses traditional regional music and dance from Mexico to tell the story of twelve-year-old Vita…
- [Halloween in the Streets](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/halloween-in-the-streets--listing-18dc8421c045bcf1a8b1d3f7) — Sep 26 – Nov 1 · Milwaukee Public Museum · All ages · With admission · checked Oct 24. For the last fall in its current building, the museum dresses its walk-through Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit for Halloween. Replica turn-of-the-century Halloween decorations…
- [Ofrenda Display for Día de los Muertos at MPM](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/ofrenda-display-for-dia-de-los-muertos-at-mpm--listing-07d5aec415affed90ed271b0) — Oct 12 – Nov 23 · Milwaukee Public Museum · All ages · With admission · checked Oct 24. The museum sets up an authentic traditional ofrenda, the temporary altar families build for Día de los Muertos, with information about the pre-Hispanic roots of the holiday that…
- [PNC Mobile Learning Adventure at Discovery World](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/pnc-mobile-learning-adventure-at-discovery-world--listing-fe64d6324d3568278017c137) — Sat, Oct 31 (+1 more date) · 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM · Discovery World · With admission · checked Oct 24. PNC's traveling early-learning exhibit parks at Discovery World for Halloween weekend. Young children gather at the Story Tree for imaginative play, pose at a 'When I Grow Up'…
- [Go, Dog. Go! / Ve Perro ¡Ve! at First Stage](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/go-dog-go-ve-perro-ve-at-first-stage--listing-ce792e655434780366e5e102) — Sat, Oct 31 (+1 more date) · 11:00 AM · Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (Goodman Mainstage Hall) · Ages 3+ · Paid · checked Oct 24. First Stage's bilingual English-Spanish musical version of P.D. Eastman's picture book, full of roller-skating, bicycle-riding and car-driving dogs, and the song 'Do You Like My…
- [Twilight & Treat — Bay View HS Twilight Center](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/twilight-and-treat-bay-view-hs-twilight-center--listing-f7750eb926784d98bb915836) — Sat, Oct 31 · 4:30 PM – 8:00 PM · Bay View HS Twilight Center · Free · checked Oct 24. Milwaukee Recreation's free annual Halloween celebration at its Twilight Centers, the evening drop-in spaces it runs in Milwaukee Public Schools buildings. Families can…
- [Twilight & Treat — Washington HS Twilight Center](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/twilight-and-treat-washington-hs-twilight-center--listing-3399dd9bc2c869409b867034) — Sat, Oct 31 · 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM · Washington HS Twilight Center · Free · checked Oct 24. Milwaukee Recreation's free annual Halloween celebration at its Twilight Centers, the evening drop-in spaces it runs in Milwaukee Public Schools buildings. Families can…
- [Isabel Bader Community Day at MPM](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/isabel-bader-community-day-at-mpm--listing-cc4bfaf812217c91dac3cfca) — Sun, Nov 1 · 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM · Milwaukee Public Museum · All ages · Free · checked Oct 24. The museum opens the first day of Native American Heritage Month with free admission for everyone, honoring the late Milwaukee philanthropist Isabel Bader's 100th birthday. The…
- [Squirrely for Squirrels!](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/squirrely-for-squirrels--listing-ed6afbb62430ea4e98c556ca) — Sun, Nov 1 · 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM · Schlitz Audubon Nature Center · Ages 3+ · From $26 · checked Oct 24. An adult/child pair program about the squirrel species living at Schlitz Audubon and how they get ready for winter. Families explore the trails looking for squirrels, peek at…
- [MSO Family Series: Peter and the Wolf](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/mso-family-series-peter-and-the-wolf--listing-6f554fd6b4a66e82cbd35331) — Sun, Nov 1 · 2:30 PM · Bradley Symphony Center · Paid · checked Oct 24. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's family concert introduces kids to the instruments of the orchestra through Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, with the storytelling troupe Really…
- [Planetarium Palooza](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/planetarium-palooza--listing-69e6d1978fffb614413bdb4f) — Nov 1 – Jan 3 · Milwaukee Public Museum · All ages · From $6 · checked Oct 24. A nine-week farewell lineup in the Daniel M. Soref Planetarium and Dome Theater that brings back the 20 most popular planetarium programs and giant-screen films of the past 20…

### Other towns in the Milwaukee–Waukesha area (4)

- [Fall Story Hike: The Acorn and the Oak — Retzer Nature Center](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/fall-story-hike-the-acorn-and-the-oak-retzer-nature-center--listing-fd4aaafb0293c15dd66d564f) — Oct 24 – Oct 31 · 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM · Retzer Nature Center, Waukesha · All ages · Free · checked Oct 24. A self-guided story walk on Retzer's roughly 0.6-mile White Trail: read Rhonda Accardo's picture book The Acorn and the Oak page by page and learn about oak trees and their…
- [Annie at Sunset Playhouse](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/annie-at-sunset-playhouse--listing-cc0bf1807e261446bd96248d) — Oct 24 – Nov 8 · 2:00 PM · Sunset Playhouse — Furlan Auditorium, Elm Grove · From $15 · checked Oct 24. Elm Grove's community playhouse stages the Broadway classic Annie: the red-haired orphan's journey from Miss Hannigan's orphanage in 1930s New York to the home of billionaire…
- [China Lights: Legends Come Alive](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/china-lights-legends-come-alive--listing-34c18b9182452a940d6346e0) — Fri, Oct 30 (+2 more dates) · 5:30 PM – 10:00 PM · Boerner Botanical Gardens, Hales Corners · All ages · Paid · checked Oct 24. The final week of China Lights Wisconsin at Boerner Botanical Gardens: more than 40 handcrafted, larger-than-life lantern displays on the theme 'Legends Come Alive', from ancient…
- [Scarecrow Lane at Retzer Nature Center](https://grassyknees.com/milwaukee/activities/scarecrow-lane-at-retzer-nature-center--listing-944019f65f4d2179aa514832) — Oct 24 – Oct 31 · Retzer Nature Center, Waukesha · All ages · Free · checked Oct 24. A self-guided fall hike past more than 42 creative, one-of-a-kind scarecrows set up along Retzer's trails by the Friends of Retzer Nature Center. Start near the Discovery…

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