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Summer Holiday Club 2019 Summer Holiday Club is available to children registered with Kids PlayDen only July the kids will love! And an animal Animal Antics themed afternoon snack for them Monday 01 July – Friday 05 July to prepare themselves. Mon Streamvale Farm Baby animals to cuddle, barrel Pirates and Princesses rides, pony riding, lamb and kid goats to feed. A wee walk around Monday 08 July – Friday 12 July the nature trail, a climb on the Mon Themed Games & Activities ropes course, plus all the new Join us today and make Treasure additional play areas the farm have Maps, Pirate Ships and Hats. Play added this year. We can’t wait!! Pin on Pirate Pete’s Patch, Musical (Bring £7) Islands, Musical Coins and Ahoy me Hearties. Weather permitting Tues Park and Play we will ship our pirates to the park Walk, play park and ice cream in during our adventures!! the morning. Make your own pizza animals for lunch, followed by Tues Carrickfergus Castle animal themed face painting and A guided tour, pirate themed the film Zootopia. play at the Loughshore Park and Sausages & Chips for lunch on this Wed Belfast Zoo full day trip. (Bring £5) We will be taking a self-guided tour of the zoo. The zoo is a Wed Treasure Hunt, Bouncy Castle & conservation zoo with lots of Obstacle Course @ PlayDen learning opportunities today. However, having recently visited Thurs Lost City Golf we cannot tell you just how good The kids will love making and the new animal themed play park is, playing Pirate dominoes, followed the kids will love it!! We have also by crazy golf at City Side. We also been very busy prepping a safari have jewelled mirrors and catapults background and building up lots of to make! (Bring £6) materials and papers for the kids to do a collage of the animals back Fri CLOSED at the group. Comfy shoes today!! (Bring £5) Kids’ Favourites 1 Thurs Spanish’ Animals & Yoga Monday 15 July – Friday 19 July Join us today for animal themed arts, crafts and games. We will be Mon CLOSED learning some Spanish and using our new knowledge of animal names in Tues Junior Masterchef our games and animal display. And Today we will make our own chef taking a well-earned break at some hats and aprons, design our own stage whilst doing animal yoga!! menus from the ingredients provided. Fri Themed Games, Crafts and Cookery Wed Jumping Clay (Bring £7) Crafts today include Animal Masks, Kitchen Roll Animals and Wooden Thurs Ormeau Park Spoon Animal Puppets. We have Tennis, Basketball, Picnic and Park. new animal themed games that Fri Kids Pick Fri Belfast Castle Kids Choice Cinema, Nail painting The children will enjoy playing in and art activities. (Bring £5) the grounds of Belfast Castle & a picnic in the castle gardens. The castle has an excellent play park Enchanted Kingdom which includes a younger & older Monday 22 July – Friday 26 July section including its own castle play frame suitable for 7+ years! Mon The Giant’s Lair, Children’s Story Trail & Play Park An unforgettable full day out at August Slieve Guillion, this trail is a living story book, a trail of mystery, dragons, giants and witches. We Let’s Get Active will follow Flynn, the mischievous Monday 29 July – Friday 02 August fairy, share a cup of dandelion tea, grab a seat at the Giant’s table, Mon Crawfordsburn Country Park stroll along to the Ladybird House Beach Walks, Rock Pools, and sneak a peek at local witchy Sandcastles, BBQ Picnic, Parachute trickster, The Cailleach Beara!! & Ball Games. (Bring £2) (Bring £8) Tues We Are Vertigo Tues Pizza Party in the Park Kids choice of activities at We Join us in ‘our’ park ‘Cherryvale’ for Are Vertigo Adventure Park. a free play day. We have organised (Bring £10) ball games, parachute play, nature craft, jewellery making (clay), pizza Wed Water & Bounce!! and we will take over lots of books, By popular demand, they all want to activity sheets and toys of the kids get wet!! Let’s hope it’s a hot day, choice for them to play as they bring a full change of clothes and shoes as we will be having water desire. themed games, water balloons. Wed Fairy’ Glen Another favourite, the bouncy Following Monday’s adventure, join castle with slide will be visiting for us today to create our very own the day!! If you have a super soaker giants, fairy doors and learn more bring it in please with your name on about pixies and dragons. After it. We have plenty of beach buckets lunch we will walk through the and spades. beautiful ‘Cregagh’ Glen and try to find signs of fairies!! The kids Thur Fitness Freddy will enjoy building their own dens Let’s get active & dance with and toasting some yummy smores Freddy. (Bring £3) during their walk. Fri BBQ & Bubbles Thurs Themed Crafts and Games Park, BBQ, Giant Bubbles, Make Morning art activities will include Lemonade, Tie Dye T shirts, Clay fairy making for our fairy doors, Creations. Lots and Lots to enjoy dragon making to go along with at their leisure!! Bring your own yesterday’s giants, followed by white t-shirt. the opportunity to do a letter in a bottle. We will also make a huge Buckets and Spades dream catcher to catch all our dreams!! Monday 05 August – Friday 09 August Mon CLOSED Fri Back to Belfast. Open top bus tour today for us all. Of course we will Tues Art Session be making our own Tayto Cheese Seaside Paintings, Beach Games and and Onion sandwiches for snack. Gardening projects all happening (Bring £6) today. Wed Ballycopeland Windmill Kids’ Favourites 2 BBQ, Games, Beach Play and Park Monday 19 August – Friday 23 August (Bring £2) Mon Games Tournament at Cherryvale. Thurs Bangor We didn’t go last summer and Tues Tayto Castle we missed all going as friends he kids will love this trip to together! Swans, Pickie Puffer, the Potato Crisp factory. No Splash Park, Beachcombing and open shoes, no nail polish and Kentucky Fried Chicken here no jewellery please. And fingers we come!! Swimsuit, towel and crossed for lots of freebies!! This no packed lunch needed today. is a factory and a very set tour (Bring £5) time, so please beware the bus leaves promptly at 9.15am today Fri Airtastic and we cannot wait!! (Bring £7) The children would love to go to the trampoline park in Belfast. Wed The Science Lab @ PlayDenl (Bring £7) Oozing Slime, Exploding Volcanoes & lots more!! Epic Explorers Thurs Ultimate Water Battle Monday 12 August – Friday 16 August Please bring spare clothes and your super soaker/ water toys!! Mon Trip to W5 (Bring £7) Fri Craigavon Ski Slope Tue Today we are off to Egypt! Join us Another first time for us as a in the morning to create ancient group, the children will snow tube Egyptian headbands and jewellery today! Of course a few of us for our visit to the Ulster Museum. have checked it out and its great During our visit we will see the fun! Please bring gloves and wear famous ‘Takabuti’ and lots more trainers. (Bring £7) on our treasure hunt. We will have a picnic and enjoy the Botanic Gardens too. We will end the day with Egyptian dancing!! Wed Loughmoss Park It has a Spaceship Climbing Frame!! We’ve your Movie and cinema treats late afternoon. Summer Holiday Thur Popping across to China today!! Care all Wrapped Chinese Dragons, Fan Making, Chinese Food and traditional Up... Chinese dancing are today’s activities. Summer Holiday Club is available to children registered with Kids PlayDen only. Summer Holiday Club 2019 Why? Summer Holiday Club is eight weeks of treats and This ensures they take responsibility for all fun (most parents want to come)!! It is time for aspects of their care and are given lots of : (0)28 9038 8339 Design by bluegatorcreative.com fun, relaxation and enjoyment after working so attention. As you know we are all experienced hard at school all year. Summer Holidays are also ‘out of school’ carers and as such are trained expensive and we want to make sure the children specifically in working with children whilst they get the most out of them. As such whilst children are ‘out and about’. We have been to the places bring a little pocket money on certain days we on our programme and as such have completed have built up a summer outings fund for the risk/ benefit assessments for all our outings in children from your fees paid during the school order to give parents complete peace of mind. year in order to cover additional costs (and those Unless otherwise advised we are normally back at costs are huge!!) such as transport, extra staffing Play Den at 4.30pm and children can be collected for outings, art materials, themed equipment, any time from 4.30pm to 6pm. The later part even our disposable BBQ’s and ice creams when of the day is spent relaxing and chilling out. We we are at the park!! provide a themed art activity at the art table, We plan summer holiday club around themed themed and free play and allow the children to weeks with one planned activity or excursion watch TV if they are tired. The children are also each day. Whilst we try to stick to the plan encouraged to keep a scrap book of the summer. as much as possible we may switch outdoor As well as being a nice keepsake for them it is a activities within a week according to the great way of encouraging the children to keep up weather, this flexibility makes our programme their writing skills!! much more enjoyable for the children.