Easter Bazaar at The Hive
Staff at a Shropshire arts and entertainment venue are looking forward to hosting their Easter Bazaar. The special Easter themed Bazaar at the Hive Music and Media Centre will take place on Saturday 30 March, delivering more than 30 individual stalls for people to browse with the best of Shropshire’s independent traders on show!
The unique event will offer a diverse selection of interesting stalls, celebrating and showcasing an array of crafts-people and small businesses from across the region.
Stall-holders exhibiting for the Easter event include knitwear, baby items, hair accessories, ceramics, greetings cards, scarves, stationary, books, clothes, , jewellery, bags and much more. Entry to the event is £1 for adults and proceeds from the entry fee will support the Hive’s work as a youth arts charity, delivering creative outreach projects and arts opportunities to disadvantaged young people across Shropshire.
The Easter Bazaar on Saturday March 30 will take place between 10am and 3pm at the Hive which is located on Belmont, just yards from the High Street.
Easter Egg Hunt at Sunnycroft
Over Easter weekend Sunnycroft, the National Trust villa in Wellington, will be decorated for a traditional Easter at home with the Dining Room laid for dinner and beautiful Edwardian Easter cards on display around the house.
For Easter weekend in the house there will be a free Easter Chicken trail for children to spot some feathered friends, whilst on the main lawn will be a new 2013 Cadbury Easter Egg hunt as well as colouring activities to get stuck into. During the main school holidays there will also be a hare themed trail outside in the garden for children to partake in some Easter fun along with games such as skittles, badminton and croquet on the main lawn.
For those who won’t be hunting for eggs the Edwardian style tea-room will be serving simnel cake and hot cross buns, which can be enjoyed inside or out on the veranda.
Sunnycroft is open on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays from 10.30am to 5pm, with last admission to the House at 4pm. Normal admission charges apply, Cadbury Easter Egg trail £2.50 per child, School holiday trail £2 per child.
Enjoy Easter fun with The Venue at Park Hall
Find Spot the Dog – Good Friday
Spot will be in Oswestry Town centre, from 10am-2pm. There will be fun and games with prizes to be won!
Family Fun Day – Saturday 30th March from 12 noon
Come on down to The Venue at Park Hall. Join in the fun and laughter with giant games, face painting, and our Easter egg hunt. Special offers on food and drink, Cheer on the team as they aim to retain the Welsh Premier title. The New Saints v’s Carmarthen Town FC (KO 2.30pm) (Adult admission is £4 which includes entry to the match, Children under 16 are free)
Mad Hatters Tea Party – Monday 1st April – 11am-1pm
Get your bonnet at the ready for our Mad Hatters Tea Party! With fun and entertainment from Pyjama Drama and Diddy Dance, Easter bonnet decorating and a visit from the Easter bunny, followed by a yummy tea party! £4.99 per child, per booking advised, call 01691 684840.
The hunt is on for giant sized eggs at RAF Museum Cosford!
This Easter holiday, children can play detective as they take part in the hunt for giant size Easter eggs, hidden amongst the aircraft and exhibits on display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. The trail is sure to keep the younger members of the family entertained throughout their visit, plus there is a small prize for every successful participant to take home as a memento of the day.
All egg hunters will need to search the Museum for hidden eggs, which will have an RAF roundel and a code letter. As you find each egg, make a note of the code letter on your trail sheet. After finding all of the hidden eggs, children must decipher the secret word in order to claim their prize. So, if you have any young children in your family and are up for the egg challenge, pick up your Easter Trail from the Admissions Desk on arrival at the Museum.
There is plenty for the whole family to enjoy at the Museum including our new 4D Experience. If you have ever wondered what it feels like to fly to the moon or to participate in an intense mid-air combat, wonder no more. Visitors to the RAF Museum will be able to experience all the thrills and exhilaration of powered flight by entering the Museum’s 4D Experience. The 4D Experience combines cutting-edge 3D computer animation with the added fourth dimension of special environmental effects, including seat movements, water spray, leg ticklers and smoke effects.
The Museum is open daily from 10am – 6pm. Entry to the Museum and participation in the Easter Trail is FREE – don’t forget to pick up your free prize after completing the trail! For more information on the Easter Trail or the Museum, please call 01902 376200.
Kids Easter holiday cupcake-making courses
Budding young Shropshire bakers are being given the chance to learn how to make cupcakes during the Easter holidays.
Professional cake-maker Dom Creighton, of Pontesbury, near Shrewsbury, is teaching youngsters the secrets of decorating the fashionable little cakes.
Courses are taking place every weekday of the school Easter holidays from 3pm to 4.30pm. Courses are also to begin every Saturday throughout the year from 2pm to 3.30pm, launching on Saturday April 6.
“It’s a chance for children, aged 8 and upwards, to get creative, have a play and learn how to decorate cupcakes using various different types of icing and finishes,” said Mrs Creighton, who runs Creighton’s Celebration Cakes.
The courses run from her newly equipped classroom at Bennett’s Business Centre, Main Road, Pontesbury.
For further information visit www.creightonscakes.co.uk or contact Mrs Creighton on 0787 080 6866.
Easter Egg Dancing at Blists Hill Victorian Town
Join the residents at Blists Hill Victorian Town, near Ironbridge in Shropshire as they celebrate Easter over the Bank holiday from Friday 29th March to Monday 1st April.
A highlight will be the unusual pastime of egg dancing, which will take place opposite the Print Shop. Once blindfolded, the townsfolk will dance across the street without stepping on eggs that are carefully placed along their route. After the demonstration, visitors are invited to have-a-go with mini Easter eggs and lollies as rewards for all who complete the course without stepping on an egg!
You can also take part in the ‘hunt-the-chick’ competition, following a trail of clues around the recreated Victorian town; join a sing-along in the New Inn Public House and try hands-on workshops as well as watch open-air performances by the Prince Albert Players and Kaleidoscope Theatre.
Families should come wearing their best Easter Bonnets, as the Town’s Milliner will be judging the finest creations at 2pm in the Pleasure Gardens; there will be a prize for the winner and every youngster taking part receives a small Easter egg.
Open 10am to 5pm Blists Hill is one of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums. A great value Annual Passport Ticket allowing entry into all ten museums, valid for twelve months and unlimited return visits, costs £24 per adult, £19 for the 60 plus, £15.25 for students and children and £65 for a family of two adults and all their children aged up to 18 years in full time education (terms and conditions apply); under 5s free. Activities and workshops vary day-to-day and some carry an extra charge in addition to the museum admission fee. Individual museum entry tickets are also available.
Easter fun at Attingham Park
Bring Cadbury magic to your family at Attingham Park near Shrewsbury by joining in with the Easter Egg Trail this Easter.
Follow the clues, answer the questions and complete the challenges to find your way to a prize just for you!
The Easter Egg Trail will have face painters, a games area and activities to take part in such as giant snakes and ladders, sack races, the egg shy and lots of other fun.
Egg and Spoon Race – 1st April 2013
Join in the fun as part of the national Egg and Spoon Race. Will you be the quickest to navigate your way through our egg-xcellent egg and spoon obstacle course? Make sure your egg stays safely on your spoon or you’ll have to start again! From 10.30am – 4.00pm in the grounds.
For full details see http://www.eastereggtrail.com/Attingham-Park.aspx
Easter Eggs-travaganza at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre
Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre is putting on a whole host of activities for families at Easter 2013. Good Friday afternoon, 29 March 2013, is the Easter Eggs-travaganza featuring a wide range of creative activities and the classic egg and spoon race. The following fortnight will see the Digging Archaeology event take place, where children can learn from what was discovered in the ground.
The Easter Eggs-travaganza, running from 2pm to 4.30pm on 29 March, gives families the chance to get creative together. Decorating Easter Trees to take home, making Easter Bunnies and 3D eggs, and designing Easter hats, are some of the events that families can get stuck into, and it doesn’t end there. Once you have completed your projects, there are races for the bunnies, a parade to show off the Easter Hats, and a prize for the best one.
Perhaps most dramatic is the Scrambled Eggs event ,where you are challenged to design a contraption to beat gravity and protect a chicken’s egg on its return to earth after it is fired into the air on a rocket.
There is also the Easter Chicken Trail, which will take you out into the wild meadows around the centre.
The cost is £4 per child (but children must be accompanied), which will include refreshments, and is suitable for accompanied children aged 3-11, and Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre has planned an indoor alternative day should the weather go all British.
Digging Archaeology will run from 1 to 2.30pm Mondays to Fridays between 1 April and 12 April. The activity will look at artefacts found and what we can tell about the individuals they belonged to all those years ago, as well as matching pictures of Iron Age artefacts with what they looked like new. The activity costs £3 per child and is suitable for 5- to 11-year- olds. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
To book your place at either the Easter Eggs-travaganza or Digging Archaeology, call Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre on 01588 676060.
Create ‘Sticky Critters’ at Enginuity
Use your imagination to design and create fun ‘sticky critters’ from craft materials inspired by the suction capabilities of an octopus, then discover how long they can cling to an upright glass surface. The drop-in Nature’s Engineers family workshops will be held at Enginuity, near Ironbridge, Shropshire during the Easter school holiday from Friday 29th March until Sunday 14th April, between 10.30am and 3.45pm.
Paper, card, plastic and other materials will be used to make the designs based on frogs, geckos and octopus or any other creature of your own invention. Activities will vary from day-to-day and some additional costs will apply.
Open 10am to 5pm Enginuity is one of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums. A great value Annual Passport Ticket allowing entry into all ten museums, valid for twelve months and unlimited return visits, costs £24 per adult, £19 for the 60 plus, £15.25 for students and children and £65 for a family of two adults and all their children aged up to 18 years in full time education (terms and conditions apply); under 5s free. Activities and workshops vary day-to-day and some carry an extra charge in addition to the museum admission fee. Individual museum entry tickets are also available.
Easter fun at Shrewsbury’s Darwin Shopping Centre
Shrewsbury’s Darwin Centre will turn over one of its units to become a temporary dance studio as part of an Easter holiday programme of family fun.
Events include a special Easter Egg Hunt with a host of prizes and art and cartoon displays as well as a week of free daily workshops including a day of Vintage Dance on Thursday, April 11.
There you can sashay back to the classic roots of modern dance to learn how to shim sham shimmy from dance teacher Christine Seal who specialises in the look – and the moves – of the 20s, 30s and 40s.
It is part of a busy programme for Easter and the holidays which kicks off with the Great Easter Egg Hunt around the centres with a selection of prizes on offer with the grand draw taking place on Thursday, April 4.
There is also a programme of free workshops designed for all ages which will be held the week starting Monday, April 8, with Chris’s two hour-long vintage dance workshops taking place on Thursday, April 11, at 11am and 2pm.
The week begins with Street Dance workshops with Lindsay Kelly, who led the Dance Flash Mob last weekend. Both Dance workshops are taking place on the middle level next to Mothercare.
There are Craft activities are all day from 11am to 4pm in the unit next to WH Smith on the mid level of Darwin Shopping Centre.
Angela Martin and two other artists will give a workshop on Art Allotments on Tuesday, Jamila Walker on Faux Flowers on Wednesday, Chris on Thursday, Jewellery Making on Friday and on Saturday another of Shrewsbury’s passions, gardening, with Shrewsbury in Bloom holding as Plant A Seed workshop, gardening experts on hand to help with any questions and a seed to plant and take home for the children.
Have a go Archery at Attingham this Easter holiday
Visitors to Attingham Park are being offered the chance to unleash their inner Robin Hood at a have-a-go archery event in the historic parkland on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 April from 10am – 4pm.
Local archery group the Bowbrook Archers will be on hand to show visitors the basics, with a shooting range set up in the paddock overlooking the river. All ages are welcome to come and test their target-shooting talents as well as discovering more about the sport and how to get involved.
Following the Olympics there has been a rise in the popularity of archery, and this is the perfect chance for people who want to find out more to have a go in a stunning setting. For £2, visitors can shoot 6 arrows at the targets with a traditional bow, and every participant will get one-to-one instruction from trained archers to help them hit the mark.
All proceeds for this event go to the Bowbrook Archers. Standard grounds admission charges apply. Admission to the grounds is free for National Trust members and under 5s.
Get Crafty for Easter at The Hive!
A Shropshire arts venue is offering the exciting opportunity for young people aged 8-13 to get creative during an Eco-fashion workshop, which will be taking place in the Easter holidays. The Hive Music and Media Centre will be hosting the day long workshop on Tuesday April 2 and people are urged to book their places whilst there are still some available.
Participants will be able to spend the day working with a fashion designer to create stunning pieces of textile art with recycled materials. The workshop will enable them to develop new skills, learning different ways of customising fabric items in an eco-friendly way. Young people involved will produce stylish home and fashion accessories, under the guidance of inspiring workshop leaders.
The workshop on April 2 is for youngsters aged 8-13 and places cost £17.50. It will take place between 10am and 3:30pm and overall, aims to provide the opportunity for participants to be creative, make new friends and learn invaluable skills whilst most importantly having fun at the same time!
In addition to the eco-fashion workshop, there will also be an animation workshop for the same age-group, taking place on Tuesday April 9, with places similarly costing £17.50 for the day.
To book places for the Easter-holiday workshops, call the Hive on 01743 234970 or visit the centre in person at 5 Belmont, SY1 1TE. More information http://www.hiveonline.org.uk/holidayworkshops/
Create a model ceramic house for Easter
Go along to Coalport China Museum in Shropshire’s Ironbridge Gorge during the Easter school holidays and join-in family ceramic workshops to create a model house, real or fantasy, to your own design. These sessions will take place weekdays from 1st – 5th and 8th – 12th April.
On Mondays you can paint your own design on a glazed mug or plate, while on Tuesdays try your hand at sculpting a real insect home from terracotta clay for the bugs in your garden back home. During Wednesday – Friday you can let your imagination run wild and create a fun, fantasy house from earthenware clay.
The Easter workshops at Coalport China Museum will be held from 11am until 1pm and 2pm until 4pm; ceramic activities carry an additional fee of £4 per item, plus £3 if you want the item sent to your home after firing.
Open 10am to 5pm Coalport is one of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums. A great value Annual Passport Ticket allowing entry into all ten museums, valid for twelve months and unlimited return visits, costs £24 per adult, £19 for the 60 plus, £15.25 for students and children and £65 for a family of two adults and all their children aged up to 18 years in full time education (terms and conditions apply); under 5s free. Activities and workshops vary day-to-day and some carry an extra charge in addition to the museum admission fee. Individual museum entry tickets are also available.
Easter activities at Gobowen children’s centre
Families are invited to a special Easter celebration with Shropshire Council Sure Start Children’s Centres at Gobowen Primary School on Monday 25 March 2013. The special Easter activities will run in the morning, and are designed for families with young children.
The morning’s activities will include an Easter Egg hunt, making Easter bonnets, and planting shoots to see grow over the coming weeks. There will also be face painting and a variety of toys to play with. For parents new to children’s centre services this is a good opportunity to experience what is on offer at a ‘Stay and Play’ session first-hand, while staff will be there to answer any questions and give extra information on both the services provided and any parenting queries.
The morning’s activities will take place between 9.15am and 11.30am, and snacks for the children will be provided. Regular ‘Stay and Play’ sessions are run every Monday, at the same time, at Gobowen Primary School in the demountable building next to Gobowen Allrounders Pre-school.
For more information call the Sure Start Children’s Centres north team on 01691 656513.
Easter Flower themed Tile Decorating Workshops
Join drop-in flower themed tile decorating workshops at Jackfield Tile Museum in Shropshire’s Ironbridge Gorge and design your own spring blossom, inspired by the floral tiles at the museum, using your own choice of colours. The ceramic tiles can then be fired and sent to your home a few days later. The sessions will take place between Tuesday 2nd and Friday 5th April and again from Monday 8th until Friday 12th April.
The Victorian tube lining technique will be used to decorate the tiles, which are priced from £5 per tile (p&p extra to have your tile sent home after firing) plus the museum admission fee. Workshops start from 10am, but allowing up to 1½ hours to decorate your tile, last admission is at 3.15pm.
Open 10am to 5pm Jackfield is one of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums. A great value Annual Passport Ticket allowing entry into all ten museums, valid for twelve months and unlimited return visits, costs £24 per adult, £19 for the 60 plus, £15.25 for students and children and £65 for a family of two adults and all their children aged up to 18 years in full time education (terms and conditions apply); under 5s free. Activities and workshops vary day-to-day and some carry an extra charge in addition to the museum admission fee. Individual museum entry tickets are also available.
Football coaching for budding Beckhams
Budding David Beckham’s will be able to perfect their skills at a series of football coaching sessions in Shrewsbury during the Easter holidays.
SR Football Coaching will be hosting weekly sessions at Monkmoor Recreation Ground, which is managed by Shrewsbury Town Council, from April 2-5 and April 8-12 from 10am until 3pm or 10am until 12.30pm.
Five hour sessions cost £7.50 per child, per day and two-and-a-half hour sessions are priced at £5 per child, per day. Coaching is open to boys and girls from age five up to 16-years-old.
All children will need a packed lunch, plenty of drinks, weatherproof/change of clothing, shin pads, football boots and training shoes.
All coaches are licensed, fully insured and CRB checked. For more information, or to book a place, call 07794 508773 or email sar-ronfc@hotmail.co.uk
Further training sessions will also be held on May 6, during half term from May 27 to 31 and during the summer holidays – details to be confirmed.