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The really useful magazine for parents www.familieswarwickshire.co.uk Issue 28 | March/April 2016 | Families Warwickshire In this issue 60 years supporting parents The UK’s largest parenting charity, the NCT, the NCT, or anyone 2 Snippets is celebrating a huge achievement this year. who has previously Having supported parents for the last 60 attended one of years, they are preparing to celebrate their the courses. Tickets 4 Clubs & Classes diamond jubilee. The Warwickshire Central are available from branch of the NCT will be holding an event to http://tinyurl.com/ 6 Education mark this special occasion and to celebrate hlx3lk3 and all all the work that has been done to benefit money raised at this local families. In Leamington and , event will go directly to the local branch so the NCT provides antenatal classes to around they can continue to support parents in our 8 500 couples every year as well as postnatal, local area. If you no longer live in the area, baby massage and baby first-aid courses. the Warwick Hilton is giving a discount on Three days a week free breastfeeding support rooms. Please get in touch with any questions is available from trained breastfeeding at [email protected]. If you have counsellors and regular groups meet for been involved with the NCT in the last 60 netball, weekly walks and bumps and babies years but can’t make the ball, they would still groups. love to hear from you and share your story on the night. Please contact coordinator. To celebrate these achievements, the NCT will [email protected]. be holding a 3 course dinner and formal ball at the Hilton in Warwick on the evening of 14 For details on local NCT activities, please visit May. As with all things NCT, this event is open www.nct.org.uk/branches/warwickshire- to all but a particular invitation goes out to central or call 01926 354081. q Travel anyone who has been involved with

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@familieswarks familieswarwickshire www.familieswarwickshire.co.uk 9 Travel It Takes Two… Families Should you share a holiday with another family? By Sally J Hall It seems like a great idea when you and a friend are daydreaming about your next holiday and it turns out you both want to hire a cottage in Cornwall. If you want to go away with both your families and share the costs of the holiday, read our tips to make this a holiday to remember and not a nightmare. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing How well do you know the other family? Are there areas of their life you find difficult to cope with? If you’re a neat freak and they are the Are we nearly there? kind to ignore mould on the milk bottle - or the other way around - you’re probably not going to get along with each others’ standards Top tips on how to survive long car journeys with children of housekeeping. Do you know what their politics are? And do your children get along? By Sally J. Hall All good friends Travelling long distances with sets of headphones. Then you Your partners also need to get on and you need to be friends as a children can be tricky. They get don’t have to hear ‘Let It Go’ foursome. The grown-ups need to be united if there are disputes bored, they need entertaining, fifteen times. between the children. Spend a day together in the run-up to the they argue and they think even holiday and have the children on a sleep-over to iron out problems a short journey is the longest If they are getting really stir crazy, before you go. ever! Here are some ways to get classical music can calm them. there without going grey in the Try Mozart clarinet and string Set the rules process. concertos, ballet music, Radio 3 Make some ground rules. Set a budget and decide how you are going or Classic FM. to share the price of the house and shopping once you are away. It’s Create a magical destination best to share everything equally (easy if your families are the same If the children know where you’re Know where you’re going size, otherwise work it out proportionately). Talk this all through going and what they’ll find when Make sure you have directions to before you go, as the last thing you want is an argument at the you get there, they can be more where you’re going or invest in supermarket check-out! enthusiastic about the journey. a Satnav. If you don’t have one, Find out facts about your you can use a map package on Doing the housework destination, make them a booklet your smartphone, or alternatively The chores will also have to be shared equally, so that nobody has to they can fill in with things they get a helping hand from the AA do all the cooking or all the washing up. Take it in turns and eat out a spot and have a ‘prize’ when they (www.aa.com). couple of times so that you all get a break. get there for being good. Other essential tips l Us-time Pack snacks Travel at a time when your As there are other grown-ups with you, this would be an ideal Children get bored if energy children would usually be opportunity to have some time alone with your partner. Take it in levels drop, so pack snacks they sleeping or napping. turns to look after all the children, so that each couple has some can nibble on along the way; rice personal space. cakes, crackers, crisps and mini l Take plenty of loo breaks and a sandwiches are ideal. However, portable potty. let the front passenger control A room of one’s own l Make sure there’s room for you all to have some personal space. Even these so they don’t eat them all Take exercise breaks to allow the best of friends can end up getting on each others’ nerves at times. at once. Always save sweet treats them to let off steam. Some Letting the children sleep in the same room may backfire too, as they until last and make sure drinks service stations have play will be so excited that they may not get to sleep before the small are in spill-proof cups. rooms. hours. l Play games Take a change of clothing. So while there may be some things to consider before you embark Why not play the spotting game. l on a holiday with friends, there are many advantages. You can afford The children win points for every If your child gets car sick, somewhere much nicer than you might otherwise have done, you can animal they notice - on pub encourage them to look at the share chores and babysitting and you can forge lifelong friendships signs, shops, etc. - and the winner horizon and pack a few plastic between both the adults and the children. With a little forethought, gets to pick what you spot next. bags! this will truly be a holiday to remember! If you’re feeling really generous, you could offer a small prize. l Take some colouring books and pens or pencils, sticker You can also have endless books and games. discussions about whether mythical creatures like dragons l Take pillows and blankets. count or not. l Keep a mini first aid kit in the Alternatively, spot coloured cars car. - yellow and blue are unusual enough to be worth it. l Allow more time than you need to allow for traffic jams. Play music or films Whilst you might restrict the use Sally J. Hall is a writer and editor of tablets at home, car journeys who has written for all the main are when they are worth their parenting titles as well as The weight in gold. Give each child Independent and The Mail. their favourite film and of course She is author of ‘Eco Baby’ and headphones. If you only have contributing author to ‘Watch My one tablet, you can buy an Baby Grow’ (Dorling Kindersley). inexpensive converter for two

10 [email protected] T: 01926 335004 Easter Easter Holiday Clubs, Camps and Workshops 2016 Let’s Animate Animation Junior Tennis Camps Fit For Sports Coolsportz Workshops Warwick Boat Club, Warwick CV34 6PP Stratford Leisure Centre, Stratford-upon- Warwickshire College, Henley-in-Arden Fargo Village, Coventry CV1 5ED Mon 21 Mar- Thurs 7 Apr, 9am to 2pm Avon CV37 6YY B95 6AB Mon 28 Mar, 9.30am-11.30am, 12noon-2pm, (excluding bank holidays) Tues 29 Mar-Fri 8 Apr, 9.30am-4.30pm Mon 21-Thurs 24, Tues 29 & Weds 30 Mar 2.30pm-4.30pm Learn a new sport or improve your tennis (extended care available) Fun multi-sports activities in a safe indoor Come with all the family and create a skills. Fun coaching sessions, open to Lots of sports, keep fit, dance and drama and outdoor environment. For 4-13 years. short animated movie - think Wallace & members and non-members. All abilities as well as arts and crafts. For 4-12 years. T: Morning, afternoon and all day sessions. Gromit - based around the theme of Easter. welcome. £20 a day members £25 non- 0845 456 3233 T: 07912 664426 Experience model making, set building, members. www.fitforsport.co.uk/venues/stratford- www.coolsportz.co.uk animating/filming, voice recording and T: 07787 568642 leisure-centre editing. Each film maker will receive a www.warwickboatclub.co.uk certificate, their created models and a copy of their animated movie to share with friends and family. £8 per child. Booking is History Detectives Agency Fun essential. Holiday Club T: 07973 354567 St John’s Museum, Warwick CV34 4NF www.letsanimate.co.uk Tues 22-Thurs 24 Mar, 9.30am-4pm THE Explore the collections, get crafty and play games at these special day-long UK’S workshops. £20 a day. For ages 6-12 years. NO.1 T: 01926 412132 FROM www.warwickshire.gov.uk/ £30 heritageboxoffice PER DAY Easter Action Warwick School, Warwick CV34 6PP Tues 22 Mar-Thurs 7 Apr (excluding bank holidays) Super Choice multi-activities for all children HOLIDAY FUN! aged 3-12 (4-7 Apr for 6-12 years). Warwick MONDAY - FRIDAY 8AM TO 6PM Super Camps School provides an ever expanding range WITH ACTIVITIES FOR The Croft Preparatory School, of holiday activities. Open to everyone, AGES 4 - 14 Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7RL these courses provide a fun way to Tues 29 Mar-Fri 1 Apr, 9am-5pm experience new or favourite activities from (extended care available) go-karting to wall climbing. 01235 467300 • WWW.SUPERCAMPS.CO.UK Looking for something for your children T: 01926 735473 to do this Easter? Super Camps daily www.warwickschool.org/What-is-on- activity camps are the perfect way to in-2016 put the magic back into the school holidays. The programme is jam-packed with fun activities that will keep your Glittering Stars Film Club children entertained for hours, and our Spencer Yard, Leamington Spa CV31 3SY ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted rating gives you the Thurs 24 Mar, 10am-3pm peace of mind that your children are in the Creative filmmaking fun. Learn tricks of the best possible care. Camps include a variety trade to write, film and edit a short film to of sports, games, and arts and crafts. take home. No two days are the same and the price T: 07792 576573 includes all activities. E: [email protected] T: 01235 467300 www.supercamps.co.uk Activate Sport Princethorpe College, Princethorpe CV23 9PX Weds 30 Mar-Fri 1 Apr. 9.30am-4pm Netball Fever - netball coaching course for girls aged 7-16 of all abilities. Extended day available. T: 01785 711572 www.activatesport.co.uk Onside Coaching Venues in Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Southam and Coventry Mon 21 Mar-Fri 8 Apr (excluding bank holidays) Multi sports, football, dance and forest school. Extended day available. T: 01926 496406 Aspire Active Camps www.onsidecoaching.co.uk North Leamington School, Easter Action 2016_Layout 1 11/02/2016 10:44 Page 1 Leamington Spa CV32 6RD Mon 21-Thurs 24 Mar, 10am-4pm (extended care available) Multi Sports offering your child a huge range of sports, physical activities and alternative activities such as dodgeball, ultimate frisbee and archery. Children aged 4 are eligible for half day Multi Sports Academy only. Weds 30 Mar-Fri 1 Apr, 10am-4pm (extended care available) bu Xbsxjdl!Tdippm ✸ Multi Sports Academy is on offer as well 22 March to 1 April ­ Multi Activities 3­12 years Caterpillars 3­5 Years as Football Academy, where your child (exc. bank holidays) Including ­ Bouncy Castle, Stories and Music, will develop various football skills and Treasure Hunts, Multi Sports, Cookery, techniques, and Gym Beatz Academy, 4­7 April ­ Short Courses for age 6­12 years Art and Crafts and much more... an exciting programme for children who Warwick School provides an ever expanding want to participate in gymnastics sessions range of holiday activities. Open to everyone, Super Choice Programme ✸ 6­12 Years regardless of skill or experience. these courses provide a fun way to experience Including ­ Pottery, Cartooning, T: 01926 298178 new or favourite activities. Powered Go Karts, Wall Climbing, www.aspire-sports.co.uk All enquiries to the Course Director, Eileen Braham Circus Skills, Star Wars Lego, Fun Swimming Playbox Theatre 01926 735473 [email protected] and much more... Warwick CV34 6XR Mon 21-Thurs 24, Weds 30 & Thurs 31 Mar Check our website regularly to see what is available and to make a booking Fun holiday theatre workshops at The Dream Factory. www.warwickschool.org/Easter­Action T: 01926 419555 www.playboxtheatre.com

@familieswarks familieswarwickshire www.familieswarwickshire.co.uk 11 The Children’s Simple Easter crafts Garden: Loads for children of Things to Easter Egg Bunny Make & Grow You’ll need: 1 hard-boiled egg by Matthew Appleby Yellow and white felt (Frances Lincoln, £14.99) PVA glue Felt tips pens in yellow, I’m looking forward to getting orange and black out in the garden with my daughters and trying out some 1. Take a freshly cooked of the ideas in this fantastic and cooled hard- book. Through 52 exciting boiled egg. family projects, The Children’s 2. Cut shapes for the Garden inspires parents and bunny’s feet and their children to play and learn in the garden, with activities including hands out of the yellow felt; then cut larger ear shapes out of nature trails, cooking, crafting and growing plants and vegetables. yellow felt and smaller ones from the white. 3. Stick the feet on the base of the egg, making sure the egg can A garden can be a place for discovery, creativity and fun, and a space stand upright on them. that encourages children to enjoy and engage with the natural world. 4. Stick the white ears onto the yellow and when they have dried a In this book, projects and activities are divided by the seasons so you’ll little, stick them on to the rear of where the face will be. never be stuck for green-fingered inspiration again. 5. Finally, draw a rabbit’s face on the front of the egg with the pens and decorate with patterns. Ex-primary teacher Matthew Appleby is the expert voice behind the book. Appleby has two sons and has tapped into his first-hand experience of parenting and teaching to devise these seasonal Egg Bunting projects for every week of the year. The Children’s Garden is the You’ll need: perfect companion for families Plain white paper looking to discover the magic and Poster paints adventure their gardens have to Stickers offer. Glitter Glue Projects include: Plant and scented Scraps of paper, fabric and handbag, All-you-can-eat basket, wool Home-made seed bombs, Turf Mini pegs tattoos, Keeping chickens, Sand String play and art, Snacks for super heroes, Foraging fun, In search of 1. Cut out lots of Easter egg shapes from the paper. forest finds, Ugly veg and Craft a 2. Get the children to use paint to create patterns on the eggs; Dalek compost bin. stripes and circles work well. 3. Next, use the scraps of craft fabrics and stickers to make the eggs Photo credits Paul Debois. even more decorative. 4. Use some glue to create lines or shapes and scatter the glitter for the final touch. 5. When the egg shapes are dry, hang them on a piece of string with Yoga for You and the colourful pegs. If you can’t find pegs, use coloured paper clips Your Child or simply thread the string through a hole in the top of each egg. The Step-by-Step Guide to Enjoying Yoga Bunny Ears with Children of All Ages By Mark Singleton (Watkins, £12.99) You’ll need: White cardboard Improve your child’s health, agility, Grey and pink paint concentration, confidence and awareness Scissors through simple and fun yoga practice. This is PVA glue a comprehensive introduction to the inspirational world of yoga for An Alice band children. Mark Singleton adapts more than 40 yoga positions to make them safe, effective, and fun for children. Practical and fun, the book 1. Get the children to contains everything you need to know to start practising yoga with paint sheets of paper your child. With the emphasis on safety and enjoyment, it shows plain grey or plain how to make yoga sessions exciting, interactive, and child-friendly by pink. playing yoga games, going on ‘yoga adventures’, and imitating animal 2. Help your children (using child-safe scissors) to cut out larger grey shapes, walks, and noises. The instructions for postures and exercises ear shapes and smaller pink ear shapes from the painted paper. are addressed to the children themselves, to make them as easy to 3. Be sure to leave a longer bit of paper at the bottom of the grey follow as possible. As well as energetic physical poses, this book also shapes. adapts traditional yogic breathing techniques and meditations into 4. Stick the pink inners on the grey ears. fun exercises that calm and soothe the mind and help children sleep 5. Next, attach the shapes to the Alice band with the glue and leave at night. It explores how regular yoga practice can help children to dry. learn more effectively and cope better with stress, as well as reduce symptoms of illness such as asthma and prevent posture problems in later life.

12 [email protected] T: 01926 335004 Easter EASTER HOLIDAYS AT COVENTRY MUSEUMS Saturday 26 March – Sunday 10 April 2016

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63669_CC_EASTER_ADVERT AW.indd 1 10/02/2016 12:07 Bagel Noughts and Hot Crosses As Easter time approaches here is a fun idea for using a seasonal bread bun! All you need is a slate tile with noughts and crosses grid chalked on it and prepare home-made (or a couple of packs each of) bagels and hot cross buns – bagels for noughts and hot cross buns for crosses! Play using CLEAN hands and finish the game by eating the playing pieces! Fun and Yum!

Photo credit Frances Quinn

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Family Shows Pyjama Concert: Cinderella Look out for Easter Egg Hunts! Warwick Arts Centre Coventry CV4 7AL Hatton Adventure World St John’s Museum Royal Shakespeare Theatre Sun 6 Mar Nr Warwick CV35 8XA Warwick CV34 4NF Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BB An interactive musical experience for all the Sat 19 Mar-Sun 10 Apr Thurs 24 Mar, 11am-3pm Mon 21-Tues 29 Mar, 10.30am-4pm family. Sit back, relax and listen to the story Easter Eggstravaganza Free Craft Activities of Cinderella performed by the University Egg-cellent Egg Hunt Easter fun for the whole family, from Easter Family craft activities, from Yorick skulls to of Warwick Chamber Choir and Chamber Around St John’s Museum and garden. Orchestra. Come in your pyjamas, bring Bunny Hunts to our Easter Garden where Find out about egg identification. Create Bottom’s ears, we create something new your favourite cushion, pillow or duvet, and children can search for eggs to exchange your own bouncing chick and proud each day. Drop in. Suitable for all ages. we’ll provide the story, the music and the for chocolate treats. Full programme peacock to take home. £2.50 per child. Fri 25-Mon 28 Mar magic! will be operating plus the usual animals Drop in. The Great Shakespeare Egg Hunt Box Office: 024 7652 4524 and indoor and outdoor adventure play. T: 01926 412132 Pick up a trail leaflet and follow the clues to www.warwickartscentre.co.uk Outdoor Laser Combat (for the over 8’s). http://heritage.warwickshire.gov.uk find special Shakespeare egg heads hidden T: 01926 843411 around the Theatre. Solve the puzzle to get Singing Playgrounds Big Sing www.hattonworld.com/farmvillage an Easter treat! FREE. Warwick Arts Centre Coventry CV4 7AL T: 01789 403493 Fri 11 Mar The MAD Museum www.rsc.org.uk Presented by Warwickshire Music, a vibrant Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6PT partnership with Ex-Cathedra involving 11 Mechanical Easter Egg Hunt Compton Verney schools across Warwickshire and over 300 An egg hunt with a typically MAD twist. CV35 9HZ ‘Song Leaders’ presenting to family and Press buttons, turn handles and look in Sat 19 Mar friends. and around all the exhibits to find the Pond dipping and bird hide launch Box Office: 024 7652 4524 hidden eggs. Activities and trails. See what you can www.warwickartscentre.co.uk T: 01789 269356 find lurking in the depths of the lake and www.themadmuseum.co.uk hiding among the reeds. Warwickshire Music Gala Sat 19 Mar-Sun 3 Apr Concert Stratford Butterfly Farm Shakespeare Heart Trail Warwick Arts Centre Coventry CV4 7AL Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7LS Sensory trail around the park based on A Fri 11 Mar During the Easter Holidays there will be Midsummers Night’s Dream. Featuring Warwickshire Music’s award demonstrations in the Caterpillar Room on Fri 25-Mon 28 Mar, 11am-4pm winning County Choirs, and the Coventry and Warwickshire Youth Orchestra. seed growing. Find out how our butterfly English Country Garden Showcasing thousands of talented young chrysalis is unpacked, redistributed to Design your ideal garden then bring it people from across the county. other butterfly houses and prepared for alive by collage or by modelling it. Take Box Office: 024 7652 4524 the Emerging Cage. Plus Handling Sessions Redwings Horse Sanctuary your creation home or leave it in our giant www.warwickartscentre.co.uk with some of the amazing creatures that Oxhill CV35 0RP patchwork garden. live in the Butterfly Farm. Sat 19 Mar-Sun 10 Apr, open every Fri, Sat, Thurs 24 & 31 Mar, 11am-4pm Warwickshire Wind Band Music T: 01789 299288 Sun and Mon, 10am to 4pm Forest Thursdays Spectacular www.butterflyfarm.co.uk Easter at Redwings Fun and educational activities at our Warwick Arts Centre Coventry CV4 7AL If you love donkeys, visit Redwings Horse dedicated forest school site. Suitable for Sat 12 Mar Hill Close Gardens Sanctuary’s Oxhill centre where they’ll all ages. Warwickshire Music supports high quality Warwick CV34 6HF be celebrating these long-eared lovelies! T: 01926 645500 music making in over 200 Warwickshire Thurs 24 Mar, 10.30am-12noon Ever wondered why donkeys love ginger www.comptonverney.org.uk schools. This concert showcases the Music Count Down to Easter biscuits or why they need a best buddy? Centre and County groups available to Children’s Workshop: Easter Bonnet and Your donkey questions will be answered young people in the County. Three groups Easter Basket making, and Miniature on Redwings’ special donkey tours and at junior, intermediate and area level share Gardens. £4 per child. Pre-booking demos! You’ll also meet donkeys nose-to- the stage with the County Windband, essential. nose before testing your knowledge with County Jazz Orchestra and County Sat 26-Mon 28 Mar, 11am-4pm fun activities and quiz trails! Percussion. An evening of exhilarating A Victorian Easter T: 0870 040 0033 entertainment. Victorian styled tea rooms and Victorian www.redwings.org.uk/visiting Box Office: 024 7652 4524 Easter displays around the gardens. www.warwickartscentre.co.uk Sun 27 Mar, 11am-4pm Leamington Art Gallery Opus 7 Easter Eggstravaganza and Museum Warwick Arts Centre Coventry CV4 7AL Easter egg hunt and Easter bonnet parade Leamington Spa CV32 4AA Sat 12 & Sun 13 Mar at 3pm. Fri 25 & Sat 26 Mar, 11am-4pm Circa Tsuica is a company of cracking T: 01926 493339 Easter Weekend musicians and daredevil acrobats who serve www.hillclosegardens.com Matilda themed Easter Egg Hunt trail a cocktail of funky brass beats and awe- around the with inspiring physical feats. A vibrant spectacle. Foundry Woods chocolate prize. Face painting. Make your Recommended for ages 5+. Leamington Spa CV31 1PH own bunny shopping bag to take home. Box Office: 024 7652 4524 Mon 21 Mar, 10am-12noon & 1pm-3pm FREE drop in and join in. www.warwickartscentre.co.uk Children’s Willow Weaving Thurs 24 & 31 Mar, half-hour sessions at 11am, Make anything - from star wands and fish, 2pm, 2.45pm & 3.30pm The Shakespeare Houses The Chris & Pui Show to birds and dragonflies! £7.50 pp. All ages. Easter Holidays Art Club In and around Stratford-upon-Avon Weds 23 & 30 Mar, 1pm-4pm Make your own Easter card. FREE Places are Fri 18 Mar-Tues 5 Apr Leamington Spa CV32 4HN Introduction to Print Making allocated on a first come, first served basis. Easter at Shakespeare’s Family Homes Tues 22 Mar Learn mono print and relief printing with Suitable for children up to 12 years. Raise your glass at the pop-up pub at With songs, comedy sketches, a dash of artist Laura Hood. £5 pp. Ages 8+. T: 01926 742700 Shakespeare’s Birthplace. Learn how to bake magic and heaps of joining in, this is a Thurs 24 Mar, 10am-2pm the ‘old fashioned way’ at Anne Hathaway’s family show for children aged two to a www.warwickdc.gov.uk/wdc/ Easter Activities Cottage plus dress up as a Victorian and hundred and two. royalpumprooms Easter themed activities including Easter discover more about the characters Box Office: 01926 334418 egg hunt (note not chocolate), egg who once lived in this beautiful cottage. www.royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk Ryton Pools Country Park painting and find bunny’s tail game. CV8 3BH Decorate an Easter egg like a character Marvellous Imaginary Mon 28 Mar, 10am-4pm Sat 19 Mar-Sun 10 Apr from Shakespeare’s plays at Mary Arden’s Menagerie (Les Enfants Terrible) Family Woodland Adventure Day Easter Fun Trail Farm when it reopens on 12 March. Try traditional crafts, see falconry displays, Royal Spa Centre A day in the woods for all the family with Follow the clues around the park to crack pet the animals, have a go at archery and Leamington Spa CV32 4HN activities such as campfire cooking, fire the code and collect your prize. £2 per explore the nature trails. Visit Hall’s Croft Thurs 24 Mar lighting, clay work, storytelling, whittling trail sheet. to learn about Tudor fashions and find out Packed with Vaudeville, circus, puppets, and tool use, dens and role play, nature Tues 29 Mar, 10.30am-12pm what your outfit said about you in Tudor dance, music and magic. Our professional activities and foraging for food. The Great Ryton Egg Hunt times. At Harvard House design one of charlatans will regale you with tales of wit, £35 per family. Collect your mystery egg sheet from the their favourite foods, marzipan and see virtue and courage and rendered with a www.foundrywood.co.uk Visitor Centre and follow the trail. Claim the designs Tudors used to make marzipan bizarre theatricality all of their own. your prize from the Easter Bunny in her fruits. For ages 4+. den. £2.50 per child. T: 01789 204016 Box Office: 01926 334418 T: 024 7630 5592 www.shakespeare.org.uk www.royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk http://countryparks.warwickshire.gov.uk

14 [email protected] T: 01926 335004 What’s on? Kenilworth Castle Kenilworth CV8 1NE Fri 25-Mon 28 Mar, 11am-5pm Easter Adventure Quest Adventurers wanted this Easter weekend! Complete the quest and win your chocolate reward. T: 01926 852078 www.english-heritage.org.uk/ kenilworthcastle Coventry Transport Museum Coventry CV1 1JD Sat 26 Mar-Mon 19 Sept, 10am-5pm Tractors – from factory to field Come and discover the world of tractors, the unsung heroes of the farm! A fun and family friendly exhibition celebrating Coventry’s link with tractors. This interactive exhibition is a must for enthusiasts of all ages! ADVENTURE. ANIMALS. ACTION. Sat 26 Mar, 10am-4pm Tractor Factory Family Day Join artist Jim Morris and use recycled card and tactile materials to make a model British Motor Museum tractor. Could you be the tractor designer Gaydon CV34 0BJ of the future? Workshops are suitable for SPRING Sat 19 Mar-Sun 10 Apr age 4+ but all are welcome. £2 per child. Auto Science LIVE Booking is not necessary. SPECTACULAR Crafts, interactive workshops and MAD T: 024 7623 4270 Science shows, plus Easter trail. Explore the www.transport-museum.com 19th March - 10th April 2016 newly refurbished Museum and discover cars that you may never have seen before. Cadbury Easter Egg Trails at Mon 21 Mar & 4 Apr The National Trust Museum Mondays ‘Cars of the Future’ Fri 25-Mon 28 Mar A choc-o-bloc array of Spring Guided tours of our museum, focusing on Have fun on a Family Easter Trail at one of the cars of yesteryear. In the afternoon, the local National Trust properties where Newborns design what you think the cars of the you’re guaranteed a delicious prize! Some future will look like! have craft activities and outdoor games. NEW Miniature Donkeys Tues 22 & 29 Mar & 5 Apr www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lists/ Technic Tuesday warwickshire - Hatton’s Newest Residents A drop-in activity where children can get hands-on and design, build and test their Shakespeare’s Birthday own LEGO® Technic machines then race Easter Week Egg Hunts them along the ‘Track’. Celebration Parade Weds 23 & 30 Mar Stratford-upon-Avon Zoobee’s Jungle Jamboree Show MAD Auto Science Show Sat 23 Apr A 45 minute show full of cool interactive Commemorating 400 years since ALL DAY INDOOR demonstrations and hands on activities. Shakespeare’s death, and celebrating his Thurs 24 Mar & 7 Apr 452nd birthday, this year’s parade, starting ENTERTAINMENT Balloon Modelling at 10:30am, will be a spectacle like nothing Create your own car out of a balloon. we have seen before. Following the parade, Thurs 24-Tues 29 Mar there will be street theatre, workshops, Laser Combat (8yrs+) Shaun the Sheep Activities music , dancing, readings and family Join Shaun and the flock this Easter for activities. A full day out for all the family. All the usual Hatton Activities some fun and interactive activities. www.shakespearescelebrations.com Mon 28 Mar Easter Museum Monday St Mary’s Church An explosion of Easter crafts and activities. Warwick CV34 4RA Create your own Easter Bunny out of socks, Thurs 14 Apr-Thurs 30 Jun make your own Shaun the Sheep, and paint Shakespeare 400: History, Heritage & Faith your own Easter Eggs! This major exhibition featuring the Thurs 31 Mar Shakespeare First Folio (1623) (courtesy Time Travelling Toby and the Apollo of the V&A Museum) and a first edition Moon Landing of the King James Bible (1611) (courtesy Join the author of ‘Time Travelling Toby and of Cambridge University) offer a rare the Apollo Moon Landing’ in this interactive opportunity to see these two iconic texts family workshop. on display together. Admission £3.50 Weds 6 Apr Adult/£2.50 Child/Conc. There will be a Build a balloon powered car number of events for children and families How far will your LEGO® sports car travel on throughout the three-month exhibition the ground or will it float away? period. T: 01926 641188 T: 01926 403940. www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk www.stmaryswarwick.org.uk Herbert Art Gallery Coventry CV1 5QP Sat 26 Mar-Sun 10 Apr Easter Holidays at the Herbert * Be inspired by some of the artists ADU LT GOES FREE on display in our galleries and get with another 2 Full Paying Visitors experimenting with a range of art materials. Don’t miss the chance to become * when booking in advance online at a fantastic Master Artist! Stratford Literary Festival Tues 5 Apr hattonworld.com Sun 24 Apr-Sun 1 May Degas Day for Families There are several story time and activity Terms and Conditions apply - see website for details Join us for a fun filled family day inspired sessions for pre-schoolers throughout the by the exhibition of work by Edgar Degas. festival and a dedicated Children’s Day, As part of our Art Masters week, take part

Strat Lit Fest for Kids, on Sunday 1 May 18211A 2/16 in this day of special activities including from 10am-5pm, featuring a fabulous line drawing to music and creating artworks up of authors and illustrators, including with moving machines. author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Tony T: 024 7623 7521 www.hattonworld.com Ross. A fun day of events for children. www.theherbert.org www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk

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