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Through October, the Spartan and local East Lansing community will celebrate Halloween with a collection of inclusive, family-friendly festivities.
This year, MSU’s Culturas de las Razas Unidas and Asian Pacific American Student Organization, with support from the Residence Halls Association, are hosting Fright Fest in the Multicultural Center for a night of Halloween fun and cultural celebration. Explore Halloween-season traditions, folklore and celebrations from cultures around the world through interactive activities, crafts, a Kahoot! competition and much more.
If you want to learn about MSU’s history with a sprinkle of spooky stories and Halloween fun, Mid-Michigan Spartans have partnered with MSU Archives for a Halloween-themed historical walk through our storied campus.
A key event this year is MSU Fraternity and Sorority Life’s annual Safe Halloween, an enduring tradition in which fraternity and sorority chapters at MSU host a carnival featuring various Halloween-themed activities for the children of East Lansing’s community. This year, Safe Halloween is holding a donation drive for the Michigan Foster Care Closet, a nonprofit organization that provides clothing, toys, school supplies and other necessary care items for youth in Michigan’s foster care system.
For a sensory-friendly family event, Choose Lansing is hosting Trunk-or-Treat at Total Spectrum’s new Lansing Autism Learning Center for a safe and inclusive Halloween celebration. The event will feature sensory-friendly activities, goodies and the opportunity to explore the new space.
Do not miss the city of East Lansing’s Great Pumpkin Walk, a trick-or-treating event in downtown East Lansing with more than 30 participating businesses that features entertainment, opportunities to decorate a pumpkin and a 26-foot inflatable pumpkin. For the full list of participating locations, visit East Lansing’s website.
Check out the event list below for more about the local festivities.
All events are listed in Eastern time. To add an event, email sileriog@msu.edu.
Join Residence Halls Association, Culturas de las Razas Unidas and the Asian Pacific American Student Organization for Fright Fest at the MSU Multicultural Center for a fun night with costumes, cultural activities, food and more. Register on the Involve@State website.
Join MSU Vietnamese Student Association in Holden Hall’s room C132 for Fear Factor, where daring bites and thrilling challenges await.
Join MSU’s African Student Union at the Multicultural Center for a murder mystery meeting featuring a fundraiser with donuts, apple cider and caramel apples.
A carnival for children in the greater Lansing area at MSU’s IM East Field featuring a donation drive for the Michigan Foster Care Closet. Donation guidelines include new and gently used children’s clothing, baby gear, toys, school supplies and new personal care products.
Grab your friends and waddle on over to the Landon Hall Lobby Lounge for a night of spooky season fun with free t-shirts, stickers, posters and other goodies while supplies last.
Join MSU Black Researchers and Advocates for Nature, Culture and Horticulture in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building room 233 for delicious food, refreshing drinks and a hands-on terrarium workshop where you will create your very own miniature ecosystem. Register through BRANCH’s GroupMe.
Join Queer Educators of MSU at Erickson Hall for a movie night featuring the film “Spookley the Square Pumpkin,” hot chocolate and donuts. Register on Google Forms.
Enjoy free snacks, a screening of “The Conjuring” and the chance to adopt a black cat plush of your very own in STEM Teaching and Learning Facility room 1130. Cats will be available while supplies last.
MSU’s North American Indigenous Student Organization will host pumpkin painting during its general assembly meeting.
Lansing Parks and Recreation is holding a Trick or Treat Trail at two different parks, Ben Davis Park and Fish Ladder Music Park, for the community’s children to have fun and get some goodies.
Join for a spooky afternoon of eight-legged fun for all ages inspired by artwork from the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum’s collection! Get creative with creepy crafts and meet your favorite crawly creatures from the MSU Bug House. Register for this event on the MSU Broad Art Museum website.
The 2026 Great Pumpkin Walk will be held in downtown East Lansing with more than 30 downtown businesses. Attendees also will have the opportunity to decorate a pumpkin, enjoy entertainment and witness the 26-foot inflatable giant pumpkin.
Join MSU Spectrum in Holmes Hall C104 for a pumpkin painting event featuring cider, donuts and pumpkins to paint.
Get into the Halloween spirit with the Multicultural Business Program. The event will feature pumpkin decorating, fall crafts and Kahoot! trivia in the Broad Student Engagement Center. Hang out, meet new people and enjoy apple cider and donuts.
Join MSU Archives on a historical walking tour of campus with mostly historical information and a sprinkling of spooky stories. Join the waitlist on Eventbrite.
Children can enjoy Halloween at their own pace with sensory-friendly activities, goodies, balloon twisting with Neverland Entertainment and, of course, candy. Plus, participants will have the opportunity to check out Total Spectrum’s new Lansing Autism Learning Center.
The MSU Chinese Learning Community will host “Ghost Night” for this year’s Halloween season, themed “Eastern Ghost Culture vs. Western Halloween. Join in Wells Hall room A218 and design your own Chinese blessing charm. Register on Google Forms.
The University Activities Board is bringing Halloween to the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum! Hang out, get creative, enjoy some trick or treats, and screen print your own glow-in-the-dark art. Register for this event on the MSU Broad Art Museum website.
Celebrate Halloween as Beaumont Tower comes to life with music and visuals lighting up the tower. University carillonist Jon Lehrer is joined by Theater Professor Alison Dobbins for a program of eerie favorites, from compositions by Mozart and Saint-Saëns to modern film scores, accompanied by large-scale animated imagery. For the event program and potential rain date, visit the MSU College of Music website.
The MSU Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students’ Halloween celebration is currently sold out.
Come enjoy a special *spooky* edition of Six-Legged Saturday at the MSU Bug House, room 147, in the Natural Science Building.
Halloween is a time for fun and costumes; however, the selection of certain costumes may cause unintended harm. To learn why costume selection matters, visit the inclusion.msu.edu website.
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