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Easter Egg Hunts in Warwickshire

National Trust  – Cadbury Egg Hunts 2017

Baddesley Clinton – Friday 14th April – Monday 17th April, 9.30 – 4pm

This Easter weekend you will only be able to visit us if you have pre-booked an admissions ticket to the property. This will make your visit more relaxed and enjoyable and you’ll be helping us conserve the places you love. You can book online through the events page on the website or call the box office on 0344 249 1895. The trail for the Cadbury Egg Hunt can be purchased on the day from the Easter tent.

Join us here at Baddesley Clinton for our family Easter trail around the grounds, with chocolate prize, outdoor games and take-home crafts and activities. Get all the family together and help Bunny find the big eggs he’s hidden around the gardens. Cost is £3 per child.

Click Here for the website and event page for more information

Packwood House – Friday 14th April – Monday 17th April

Join us for our Cadbury Egg Hunt on Packwood’s Welly Walk from Friday 14 – Monday 17 April, 9.30am – 4pm. With an Easter trail around the Welly Walk, chocolate prize, outdoor games and take-home crafts and activities there’s lots for families to do.

Charlcote Park – Thursday 13th April – Tuesday 18th April 10:30 – 4.30

Explore the parkland at Charlecote with our Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt. Follow the trail to discover some interesting facts about the property and pick up a scrummy Cadbury prize at the end.

Click here for the website and event page for more information

Market Hall Museum Excellent Egg Hunt – Friday 14th April 10.00am – 3.00pm

Take part in our egg-citing sp-egg-tacular Egg Hunt this Easter around Market Hall Museum. Find out about egg  identification along the way and create your own bouncing chick to take home. Cost: £2.50 per child. Children must be accompanied by an adult. No need to book, just drop in.

British Motor Museum

Easter egg hunt with Shaun the Sheep – The British Motor Museum

Easter Bank Holiday Weekend – 14th – 17th April

British Motor Museum Easter 2017

Join Shaun and the flock this Easter for some fun and interactive activities.Shaun has lost the flock’s Easter eggs! Pick up your Shaun the Sheep ears and follow our Easter trail to help Shaun find the eggs hidden around the Museum. You will get a reward for your help!

Click here for more information. 

Lord Leycester Hospital Warwick Egg Hunt – Saturday 15th April

Children can visit the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick on 15 April for an Easter Egg Hunt from 11:00am -12:00noon. There are five age groups of egg hunters who can search for eggs in different areas of the gardens and grounds. Tickets are £5 per child.

The Rabbit Run Easter Egg Hunt – Sunday 9th April

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Help Us Find Mr Rabbit’s Secret Chocolate Stash

St Nicholas Park, Warwick, CV34 4QY – 11am – 3pm – £3 per chocolate seeker

all proceeds go towards the treatment and research of head and neck cancer & disease

More information on the website here 

Easter Fun Trail at Ryton Pools Country Park

Get out in the Spring sunshine to follow the Easter clues around the park to see if you can crack the code to collect your prize! Fun for all the family! Trail sheets can be collected from the Visitors Centre during opening hours and cost is £2 per trail sheet . (Please note, only one prize per trail sheet!) PLEASE NOTE: This trail is on until 24th April!

Foundry Wood Activities

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Foundry Wood is a managed access community woodland. Through volunteer work parties the site is fully accessible with paths and facilities for all to use. If you have small people who like trains, they will love watching the trains zoom past from the top of the wood and you can even take your dog for a walk through the woods. A lovely little place to visit if you have an hour to kill, we advise parking in Victoria Park and walking across.

The woodland is open usually between 10am – 5pm for adventures.

FOREST SCHOOL HOLIDAY SESSIONS

10/04/2017 – 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Monday 10th and Wednesday 12th April

Forest School holiday sessions provide children with the opportunity to embrace nature, use tools to make things, build a fire and cook over it, make dens, run wild, get creative, climb trees, and play games.

Sessions are run by a Qualified Forest School Practitioner who holds DBS, full insurance and pediatric first aid.

5 yrs and up.  £10 per child.  Please provide packed lunch and suitable outdoor clothing and footwear.

Please email forestspirit88@gmail.com or call 07561 580466

PIZZA MAKING – Sunday 16th April 12 – 2pm

Come and make a pizza, watch it being cooked in our wood fired pizza oven and eat it in the woodland clearing. £4 per pizza, no need to book.


Family Parties in the Royal Priors

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This Easter Royal Priors will have a free bouncy castle and a variety of other inflatables at the centre, all day on the below dates. The activity will be on the Upper Mall between Muffin Break and Sports Direct.

Fri 7th April
Sat 8th April
Sun 9th April

Thu 13th April
Fri 14th April
Sat 15th April

Fri 21st April
Sat 22nd April
Sun 23rd April


British Motor Museum

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Easter Holidays at the British Motor Museum 8th – 23rd April

Join us for some ‘cracking’ fun activities this Easter. Every day Follow our ‘Auto Science Secret’ trail to discover the secrets of making British cars. Or drop in to our activity space to design your own scientific car. What scientific tricks will it have? Will it fly? Will it hover? Join the Technic Challenge a drop- in activity where children can get hands-on and design, build and test their own LEGO® Technic machines.

For more info see the British Motor Museum website here

Under 5’s go free and one entry allows free return entries for the next 12 months!


Mini Mornings and other films at The Vue Cinema – Leamington Spa

Vue Cinema Leamington Spa

Children go from £2.50 at selected viewings at Mini Mornings all year round.

MINI MORNINGS AT VUE IN LEAMINGTON DURING EASTER ARE 

Moana:  Click here for mini mornings listings

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Also showing at Easter

Beauty And The Beast, The Power Rangers Movie, Moana, the Peppa Pig Movie and Smurfs

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Click here for the Vue website 


Warwick Arts Centre – 

Puppets & Peppa: the perfect family Easter break at Warwick Arts Centre

The Tiger Who Came to tea

Join little Sophie and her big stripey friend for tea, as the smash-hit West End show – The Tiger Who Came to Tea heads to our Theatre on Fri 14- Sun 16 Apr. The tea-guzzling tiger is back in this delightful show packed with oodles of magic, sing-a-long songs and clumsy chaos!  Book Your Tickets Here (We are going with the family – Can’t wait, Nikki)

Peppa Pig, My First Cinema Experience

From Fri 14 Apr you can also go on an adventure with everyone’s favourite little piggy in Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience. Head down to our cinema and spend “an hour of snorts and giggles” with exclusive episodes, singing, dancing and plenty of interactive fun! Only on until Sunday 23rd April, so get in quick.

Book your tickets for Peppa here 


Ryton Pools Country Park

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Ryton Pools is a 100 acre park with great facilities including two play areas, toilets and plenty of bike riding paths to explore! There are always lots of fun events happening so check out the link below for up to date listings.

please see the website here and have a look at the listings below:

Of all the places locally this year, Ryton Pools seems to have half term packed full of fun:

Every Wednesday

Toddler Trundle at Ryton Pools Country Park

A weekly event for the tiniest of tiddlers!  Leaf fun, stories, mud pies and collecting treasures will be among some of our activities designed for the smallest naturalists.  After the walk and activities, head back to The Courtyard Cafe for refreshments (extra cost for refreshments).  A quarterly programme is available from the visitor centre giving details for each weeks activities.

  • Time: 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
  • Meet: The Visitor Centre Courtyard.
  • Cost: £2.50 per toddler.

For more information please see the website here All above activities MUST BE BOOKED

This listing is being updated as i type 🙂 Please feel free to let me know if there’s something exciting happening we don’t yet know about! You can email us here or comment below.


Jephsons Jungle Club 

Tuesday 11th, Tuesday 18th April

Glasshouse, Jephson Gardens – 10am-12.30pm

Plant a sunflower seed and do a sunflower activity, Pot a strawberry plant to take home

Tuesday 18th April 

Arty Tots – Make an Easter Egg – Market Hall Museum 10.30am-3pm


Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

Thursday 13th & Thursday 20th April – Art Club – Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

11.30am,2pm, 2.45pm & 3.30pm

Make an Easter-themed craft. Create a miniature Japanese Garden.

Friday 14th & Saturday 15th April

Celebrate Easter! – Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum – 11am-4pm

Make a chick basket/ face painting & trail for Chocolate prize


Hatton Adventure World 

Spring Spectacular at Hatton Adventure World

Spring Spectacular – 8th April – 23rd April 2017

Easter is always one of our favourite times of year at Hatton Adventure World. We love welcoming all our new arrivals from lovable lambs to cheeping chicks!

  • Visit our New Arrivals Marquee and meet our Spring new arrivals including chicks, ducks, bunnies, piglets and lambs
  • Take your seat on our Springtime Tractor Safari
  • Meet the Masters of the Skies in our fantastic NEW Falconry Area and Falconry Displays
  • Enter our Easter Egg Hunts with yummy prizes to be won
  • Place your bets – our famous Hatton Sheepstakes are back!

Click Here for Hatton’s Website 


The Royal Spa Centre Cinema

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Date: 7th April 2017 – 20th April 2017, showings daily at 2.30 pm & 7.30pm

Tickets for this are priced at £4.50 each plus £1.50 transaction fee if booked online

Click here for more information and to book 


Become a Gruffalo Spotter?!

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Download the NEW Gruffalo Spotter app and take it to your local Forestry Commission forest, click here for all the info


Compton Verney 

Forest School Compton Verney Easter 2017

Special Easter Holiday Activities

Forest Schools – Thur 13 April & Thur 20 April, 11am – 4pm

All the family can come along and explore all the different types of bugs and mini-beasts that are getting ready for spring. We’ll help you discover the seasonal changes to the plants and trees with a fun. Selection of crafts and games. Included in admission.

See the website with more details here 


Easter Weekend at Bagot’s Castle, Bagington

Bagots Castle

You can see more information on this here 


Market Hall Museum Warwick

Cost: £2.50 per child. Children must be accompanied by an adult. No need to book, just drop in.

Terrific Toys and Games, Wednesday 12th April – 10.00am – 3.00pm
Create some homemade toys just like children did years ago. Have a go at playing some board games from the past and make a puppet and and peg doll to take home.

Excellent Egg Hunt, Friday 14th April, 10.00am – 3.00pm
Take part in our egg-citing sp-egg-tacular Egg Hunt this Easter around Market Hall Museum. Find out about egg identification along the way and create your own bouncing chick to take home.

Arty Tots – Tuesday 18th April 10.00am – 3.00pm Come and join
us at Market Hallfor an ‘Eggcellent’ time. Make ‘Easter’ inspired decorations and maybe a chick or two. Join us for a story and some songs. Suitable for under 5s, older siblings welcome.

Awesome Anglo Saxons – Wednesday 19th April – 10.00am – 3.00pm
Discover the Awesome Anglo Saxons and learn about how they lived, dress up and take a selfie as an Anglo Saxon warrior! Make a timber framed Anglo Saxon house and a glittering brooch to take home.


West Midlands Safari Park 

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SOMETHING ‘EGG’-CITING IS HAPPENING THIS EASTER HOLIDAY

From 8th – 23rd April 2017, West Midland Safari Park will be holding a whole host of extra Easter activities for the whole family, all included in the standard admission price!

Bring your Eggsplorers along and help our onsite Easter Bunny find the missing Easter eggs with a free Children’s Eggsplorers Trail. Pick up a trail, follow the clues around our Discovery Trail, Adventure Theme Park & African Village to find the eggs and unscramble the secret Easter Password! Hand in your completed trail to receive your prize!

Click here for West Midlands Safari Park Website 


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