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Royal Armouries Museum October Half Term Events 2011

Vicky — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:26:33 +0000

There’s Halloween thrills and chills for all the family this October half term at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. The Museum is open daily10am–5pm and admission is free.

Experience thrills and chills for all the family this Halloween at the Museum including:
Haunted Jester’s Yard £2.50
Spooky maze £1.50
Ghoulish face painting £1.50
Eerie bat trail Free
Horrible hands on history Free
Chilling crossbow range £3.00
Jester’s Yard and Crossbow range open 11am – 4pm.

Hair-raising Halloween Horse Show
(Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October)
Scary stunt riders will send chills down your spine in this hair-raising horse show, twice daily at 12 noon and 3pm.

Special Spooky Night at the Museum
(Friday, October 28, 6.30pm to 10.30pm)
Are you brave enough to visit the Museum after dark for a whole host of horrible activities, including a spooktacular live action show all about ghostly pirate Captain Kidd and his horrible hidden treasure. Book your tickets online www.royalarmouries.org. Come in fancy dress and join the parade – you could win a prize.

Opening Times
Times:10am – 5pm

Things that go bump in the night at Eureka!

Vicky — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:46:34 +0000

During the half-term week visitors can enjoy a Spooktacular Halloween.

Wandering through the galleries, children can watch out for scary characters including the Banshee, Medusa, Vampires and Grave Robbers.

After surviving the murky swamps, the daring explorers can investigate the wreckage of cursed ship the ‘Black Light’ in search of treasure and delve into its disgusting barrels. To help them on their quest they can confuse the spooks by Mummifying their Mummies and making new pirates out of discarded bones.

It’s a monster mash of Halloween fun when the scary, hairy and silly creep out of the shadows to take over Eureka!

Eureka! is open from 10am – 5pm every day during October half-term, from 22 – 30 October.

Adults*: £8.95
Children age 3 : £8.95
Toddlers age 1-2: £2.95
Babies age 0-11 months: free
Saver Ticket (admits 5 people): £38.50

Eureka! The National Children’s Museum
Discovery Road
Halifax
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom
HX1 2NE

Toy Story 3 at a Cinema near you!

Vicky — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:30:45 +0000

The first two films were brilliant, so will the latest Toy Story live up to your expectations? You decide …

Father’s Day Scarecrow Making in Yorkshire

Vicky — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:08:35 +0000

At Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden in North Yorkshire there is an unusual event this Father’s Day. It is particularly suitable for those with more green-fingered Dads! Take your dad along and make a scarecrow for your veg garden. Get there early and visit the atmospheric abbey ruins and the beautiful Georgian water garden- complete with ponds and cascades.
* Normal admission charges apply plus £5 event charge. Booking is essential for this event, please call 01765 643164

Unusual Father’s Day Challenge in South Yorkshire

Vicky — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:02:05 +0000

Father’s Day is next weekend on Sunday 20th June. If you fancy something a bit different, why not visit the Tropical Butterfly House Wildlife & Falconry Centre in Sheffield…

There is a beast of a challenge for fearless Dads! Munch your way through a unique menu of chocolate-covered creepy crawlies, building up points to claim a free cream tea in the Butterfly Café.

Top marks for planning an original event – I am not sure how much of a “treat” this will be for Dads but it sounds very entertaining.

Visit the website for more details.

Museums at Night 14th-16th May 2010

Vicky — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:44:49 +0000

‘Museums at Night’ is a national campaign, led by Culture24, and funded by MLA and the National Museum Directors’ Conference (NMDC), to showcase the unique and vibrant museums, galleries, heritage sites, libraries and archives in the UK. Running over the weekend of Friday 14th May to Sunday 16th May, museums and galleries alike will aim to inspire fresh discovery by opening their doors to late night visitors.

Museums will be unrolling an imaginative array of activities across the country. From candle-lit readings, paranormal investigations, sleepovers, night-time tours, musical events and much, much more.

This year’s programme sees the return of firm favourites, like Cabinet War Rooms sleepover and the Old Operating Theatre at St Thomas Church, plus exciting new additions such as the; Helicopter Museum’s ‘Back to the Blitz’ experience, follow a night shift at Cornwall’s Geevor Tin Mine and the chance to see a ‘Light in the Night’ at Cromer’s Lifeboat Museum.

You can find up to date listings at the Culture 24 Website

10 Great Family Days Out for the Kids This Half-term

Vicky — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:06:50 +0000

Half-term is only a couple of weeks away, so what have you got planned?

Here is a list of some places you might want to consider (just click the link for more details):

1. Centre for Life, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear

2. Knowsley Safari Park, Liverpool, Merseyside

3. Eureka!, Halifax, Yorkshire

4. Techniquest, Cardiff, Wales

5. Amazing Hedge Puzzle, Symonds Yat West, Herefordshire

6. Tales of Robin Hood, Nottingham, East Midlands

7. Dinosaur Adventure Park, Norwich, Norfolk

8. Beatrix Potter – The Tailor Of Gloucester’s House, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

9. Deep Sea World, Fife, Scotland

10. Imperial War Museum, Waterloo, London

10 Top Half-Term Family Days Out

Vicky — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:12:23 +0000

For those of you who are looking for ideas about where to take the kids during half-term, here is our compilation of great days out (just click the link for more details):

1. Alton Towers, Staffordshire

2. Eden Project, Cornwall

3. Legoland, Berkshire

4. Longleat, Wiltshire

5. Babbacombe Model Village, Devon

6. The Canterbury Tales, Kent

7. Jorvik the Viking City, York

8. London Dungeon, London

9. National Sea Life Centre, West Midlands

10. Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Shropshire

If you have already been to one of these attractions, do share your views and experiences.

Family Days Out for August Bank Holiday Weekend

Vicky — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:57:38 +0000

The researchers who recently conducted a holiday survey for Total Greek Yoghurt have put together a list of places for a family outing this coming August Bank Holiday weekend:

A NEW DAY OUT Bewilderwood, Norfolk
ADRENALINE RUSH Dalby Forest biking trails, Yorkshire
ALFRESCO BATH The Samling, Cumbria
ANIMAL ENCOUNTER Monkey Forest, Staffordshire
BANDSTAND Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham
BEACH CAFE East Beach Café, Littlehampton, Sussex
BEACH FOR KIDS Crantock, Cornwall

BOATING The Thames at Richmond, Surrey
BREEZY HILLTOP Great Hetha, Northumberland
CAMP SITE Budemeadows Holiday Park, Cornwall
CLIFFTOP COTTAGE Whitby lighthouse, Yorkshire
COASTAL WALK Giant’s Causeway, County Antrim, Ireland
CREAM TEA Southern Cross tearoom, Devon

DEGUSTATION Valley Farm Vineyards, Suffolk
DONKEY RIDE Maggie’s beach donkeys, Weymouth, Dorset
DRIFT DOWNSTREAM River Wye, Wales
FAMILY CYCLE Loch Katrine, Trossachs, Scotland
FAMILY HOTEL Fowey Hall, Cornwall
FISH AND CHIPS Ben Ledi Cafe, Callander, Stirling, Scotland
FLYING International Kite Festival, Portsmouth, Hampshire
ICE CREAM Morelli’s, Broadstairs, Kent
LAKESIDE PICNIC Buttermere, Cumbria

MOONLIT WALK Seven Sisters, East Sussex
PICNIC CONCERT Battle Abbey, East Sussex
PUNCH AND JUDY MAN Codman’s, Llandudno, Wales
RIVERSIDE PUB The King’s Head, Northamptonshire
ROCKPOOLING Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset
SAFARI Cairngorms, Highlands, Scotland
SEA BREEZE Yachting on the Solent, Isle of Wight
SEAKAYAKING Beara Peninsula, Co Cork, Ireland

SEAL BOAT TRIP Searles, Hunstanton, Norfolk
SEASIDE PIER Southwold Pier, Suffolk
SEA-VIEW ROOM Mullion Cove Hotel, Cornwall
SECRET GARDEN Hawkstone Park Follies, Shropshire
SOLAR-POWERED STAY Mesmear, Cornwall

SOLITUDE Sandwood Bay, Sutherland, Scotland
STRIP Morfa Dyffryn Beach, Snowdonia, Wales
TOPLESS DRIVE A686, Penrith to Haydon Bridge, Cumbria
VILLAGE CRICKET Hambledon, Hampshire
WOODIE Oakwood Theme Park, Pembrokeshire, Wales
WILD SWIM Angle Tarn, Cumbria