Evenley Wood Garden
10 to 17 April, 1100 to 1700
http://www.evenleywoodgarden.co.uk/
The cafe will be open daily and children’s activities will take place over the Easter weekend.
Horrible Histories, Warwick Castle
From 5 April, 1000 to 1800
Inject Easter with sordid sagas, foul facts and dirty details as the Horrible Histories show takes residence at the 1,100-year-old castle. Don’t miss the re-enacted battle between the Smashing Saxons and the Vicious Vikings.
Cotswold Wildlife Park
The safari park will hold a Golden Easter Egg Hunt, where whoever discovers the hidden egg first will win a special chocolate prize, on Easter Friday, Sunday and Monday.
http://www.cotswoldwildlifepark.co.uk/
Blenheim Palace
April 22 to 25
Woodstock’s beautiful palace will host its annual Easter Egg Challenge and funfair rides. Stars from BAFTA Award winning TV programme Peppa Pig, and Ben and Holly from Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom will also be at Blenheim Palace to meet families at the Pleasure Gardens on Easter Sunday and Monday.
Explore the Formal Gardens with our first ever giant Easter Egg hunt, then join the Easter Bunny at our vintage fun fair at the Pleasure Gardens. Enjoy a Helter Skelter, chair o’planes, mini swinging chairs, game stalls, a clown and ‘buttlerfly’ stilt walkers, offering lots of fun for younger visitors. Families can also enjoy Punch & Judy shows, face painting, circus workshops and balloon modelling during the four days, as well as an Easter trail with tasty treats to be won!
http://www.blenheimpalace.com/whats-on/events/easter-weekend.html
Waddeston Manor
There’s an Easter egg hunt and Super sensory spring trail
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/waddesdon-manor/features/easter-days-out-at-waddesdon-manor
Charlecote Park
8 to 12 April and 19 to 23 April, 1030 to 1630. Free entry
Easter crafts and fun. Get outside this Easter break and take the opportunity to cross off some more of those ’50 things to do before you’re 11 3/4.’ There will also be some fun craft activities to get stuck into as well.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/events
Brackley Wine Festival
Saturday 29 April,1200 to 1800
Organised by Brackley Rotary Club. Now in it’s 9th year the festival, based at the Crown Hotel is an opportunity for wine lovers to taste and buy from merchants who stock a huge range of special wines from around the world.
Entrance: £5.00 in support of Rotary Charities
www.brackleywinefestival.co.uk
Combe Mill
16 April, 1000 to 1700
Enjoy this working industrial Museum with its late 19th Century Steam Beam Engine, working Waterwheel, Dual Blacksmiths Forge. Alongside all our steam and water powered machinery we welcome visiting Steam Engines.
Milton Keynes museum
The hunt will be on at MK Museum this Easter as youngsters are invited to search for hidden eggs that will unlock the way to chocolate rewards.The museum’s novel Easter Egg Hunt means everyone wins something – and gets to enjoy a tour of the whole site while searching for eggs they can trade in for yummy chocolate.
The Connected Earth gallery, telling the story of human communication, is always a huge hit, while the Victorian farmhouse is packed with things to try out and experience, from playing puff billiards in the parlour to taking a turn in the stocks in our courtyard.
Other highlights include the chance to discover the history of transport in this area, experience an air raid in the wartime garden, and make a brass rubbing to take home.
Easter also marks the start of the museum’s summer opening hours which means from the end of March visitors are welcome from Wednesday-Sunday, 1100 to 1630 right through until the end of October.
http://www.miltonkeynesmuseum.org.uk/easter-egg-hunt-14-17-april/
Children open air museum
Visit this Easter weekend and join us for a celebration of all things sweet and sticky!
- Make some delicious traditional treats
- Join our Easter hunt
- See costumed re-enactors in the Museum buildings
- Discover the origins of Easter traditions
- Have a go at Easter-themed crafts and dress up in our decorated bonnets
- Find out about Easter customs in our Thame Vicarage room
- Join in our family games