half term

Let Animated Exeter entertain your young ones

If you want to entertain your young ones this half term look no further than Animated Exeter.

Take the kids to Moshi Monster Sunday, which includes a special festival screening of the new ‘Moshi Monsters: The Movie’ and a ‘Make a Moshling’ workshop.

Have some fun learning to animate at one of many workshops aimed at different age-groups and abilities; make characters from your favourite C Beebies programme, Mike the Knight and bring them to life at Exeter Cathedral on Monday; discover how scrap meets animation to make weird creatures come to life; visit our exhibitions, see...

Give a bird a home

THIS half-term try learning a new skill and provide a home for birds to nest in your garden.

Join the countryside team on Wednesday, 19 February at the Axe Estuary Wetlands classroom between 10am and 1pm, and build a nest box from one of our easy-to-use kits – available for a range of common garden birds from blue tits to sparrows and starlings.

The Axe Estuary Wetlands officer and the countryside rangers will help you build your nest box and advise you on where to place it for the best results. You will be helping the conservation effort by encouraging biodiversity in your...

Animated Tudors - Trade Off

Event Date: 
19/02/2014 - 9:30am to 21/02/2014 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Half term workshops

Creative and stimulating activities for unaccompanied children aged 8 years and over. Three workshops exploring Tudor life with animation. Join in for one day or come to all three. Explore a variety of animation techniques and special effects to tell a story of Elizabethan life and trade in Exeter.

£20.

Tickets available online or from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum reception in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.

http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/

Come and try athletics with a difference at Riverside Leisure Centre

Event Date: 
02/11/2013 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Venue: 
Riverside Leisure Centre, Exeter

Saturday 2nd November 2-4 pm Sportshall Athletics for anyone aged 4-8 or 9-14. Have a go at running, jumping and throwing events 2-4pm at Riverside Leisure Centre, Exeter More Sportshall events will take place every month from now until May 2014 - see our website for further details. No experience is needed. Come and have a go at a range of events. Lots of fun to be had! Challenges include sprints, hurdles, distance, relays,high jump, long jump, triple jump, speed bounce, balance, shot, chest pass and turbo javelin. The event costs is £7 for the 2 hour session if you sign up in advance on...

Electric Eclectic Collective presents Halloween Fest

Event Date: 
31/10/2013 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Venue: 
Mama Stones Exeter

A freaking good night's entertainment for under 18s on All Hallows' Eve. Venue and all acts in full Halloween style. Get your freak on and party! £5 on the door. Prize for best fancy dress. Music by Arthur, Caitlin Bee, Charlotte Ward and Sound of the Sirens....

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Winding up for a busy winter at Knightshayes

If you go down to the gardens at Knightshayes this half term, you’ll be in for a big surprise.

With giant spiders, ghostly figures and busy gardeners, the National Trust team on the outskirts of Tiverton have lots on to see the summer out and the winter in.

Along with the popular annual trail around the gardens from 26 October to 3 November, there will also be craft activities and a face painter from 29 to 31 October. Both children and adults will have the chance to get their hands dirty in the formal garden, as the team attempt the mammoth task of planting over 10,000...

Art activity family drop-in

Event Date: 
29/10/2013 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton

THG are running a family drop-in art activity making paper lace jewellery from 11am to 4pm.

This fun half-term activity will involve making brooches, fascinators and bangles from a combination of real and paper-cut lace.

Suggested donation is £2 per child.

The event is suitable for children six years old and upwards.

Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult, as this workshop involves using sharp scissors.

Click here for details.

Woodland Adventure Club

Event Date: 
29/10/2013 - 9:00am to 01/11/2013 - 3:30pm
Venue: 
Haldon Forest Park, Kennford, Exeter, EX6 7XR.

Memories are made of this ... fun packed days in the woods, learning cool woodland skills, sailing crafted boats in the streams, tracking wildlife, foraging for for wild food and listening to spooky stories around the campfire.

Running from Tuesday 29th October - Friday 1st November 2013, book your child onto this Autumn half-terms Woodland Adventure Club for one or all four days.

Contact: Hannah Standen E: info@atouchofthewild.co.uk W: www.atouchofthewild.co.uk

Seven new courts now open at Highbullen Hotel as half term approaches

Authored by SophyNorris
Posted: Mon, 10/14/2013 - 3:09pm

Swing into action this half term at Highbullen Hotel, Golf and Country Club in Umberleigh, as it offers special half term coaching for kids across seven fresh new courts – and a host of facilities to keep parents busy as action-packed (or food-filled) as they like!

Known for its extensive sporting facilities including an 18-hole USGA specification golf course, croquet, snooker, fishing, shooting and – for extra autumnal comfort - an indoor swimming pool with Jacuzzi, sauna and steam room; the hotel now offers seven competition quality courts. Consisting of four full-size and three...

Spooktacular fun this half term with Exeter City FC

With the autumn half term coming up at the end of this month, Exeter City’s Football in the Community team is once again running a range of different holiday courses around the region.


There will be four different football events in Exeter, plus a tennis course, as well as programmes in Dawlish, Exmouth, Sidmouth, Feniton, Crediton, Tiverton, Okehampton, Hatherleigh, Bideford, Ilfracombe, South Molton and Barnstaple.



A two-day course on the astroturf at St Luke’s Science and Sports College kicks off half term in Exeter, starting on Monday 28 October and costing £27 for...

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