half term

Pumpkin trails around Killerton’s garden

Event Date: 
24/10/2015 - 10:00am to 01/11/2015 - 4:30pm
Venue: 
Killerton House, National Trust, Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon EX5 3LE

Eerie orange faces are hidden around Killerton’s hillside garden ready for brave explorers to find.

To celebrate the Hallowe’en season and to coincide with half-term, daily pumpkin trails will take over the colourful autumn garden on the National Trust estate near Exeter from Saturday 24 October until Sunday 1 November.

Explorers will be searching high and low to tick off each pumpkin face on the trail. Along the way, there will be chances to get off the beaten track to discover secret paths, as well as the Bear’s Hut and Ice House.

Bryony Wilde, Visitor Services...

Trick or Treat with the Treehouse Trolls

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:53am

Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park is launching its brand new spooky attraction, Trick or Treat with the Treehouse Trolls this October half term.

Guests brave enough to take a trek into the spooky Wilderness will come face to face with the mischievous Treehouse Trolls. A trick or treat is in store for guest of all ages, but the question is, “do you dare to enter the creepy treehouse to see what fate waits.”

The legendary Witch’s Cavern returns to Devon’s Crealy with ghastly surprises at every turn. The Crealy witches awake from their summer time slumber ready to spook and...

Trick or Treat with the Treehouse Trolls

Event Date: 
24/10/2015 - 9:00am to 01/11/2015 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Crealy Great Adventure Park, Exeter

Trick or Treat with the Treehouse Trolls in our spooky Wilderness! Dare you enter the troll's treehouse for your Trick or Treat at Devon's Crealy this Halloween?

And once again we be asking you seek out the legendary Witch's Cavern. Are you brave enough to meet a real...live...WITCH? There are horrid and ghastly surprises at every turn, be careful of what's lurking in the shadows.

Free pumpkins for all little ghouls and boys! Grab your hats, broomsticks, whiskers and pussycat tails and enchant us with your best freaky fancy dress! Swing by for all inclusive spooks!!...

Pumpkins, Witches and Wizards

Event Date: 
24/10/2015 - 9:30am to 01/11/2015 - 4:30pm
Venue: 
Escot, near Ottery St Mary

Down at the Greenwood Centre this half term you’ll find Hagatha our resident witch who is making a brew for the grossest Yucky Dip in Devon ready for Escot Fright Nights.

Come along and help stir the cauldron if you can bear the smell! Get ready for Halloween and with help from our friendly witches and wizards, choose and carve your own pumpkin to take home with you.

There is a small charge for the pumpkins

Escot entry fee applies to non-members

http://www.escot-devon.co.uk/

Snake and Lanterns Week

Event Date: 
25/10/2015 - 10:00am to 30/10/2015 - 4:30pm
Venue: 
Powderham Castle, Kenton

A thrilling half-term awaits.... children can follow the Pumpkin Trail to win their own pumpkin to carve in the Potting Shed. The braver ones can have a close encounter with Dartmoor Reptiles!

Included in admission

http://www.powderham.co.uk/

Half Term Family Theatre

Event Date: 
27/10/2015 - 10:30am to 1:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Tuesday 27th October 2015 in the Chapter House

From 200 years away Jakob and Wilhelm, the Brothers Grimm, make a wish on a magic fish to know whether the tales they collected will still be known by children in the future. They magically find themselves in Exeter in 2015 rhyming children through Grimm’s Fairy Tales such as The Fisherman and His Wife. Children will have the opportunity to decorate their own magic paper wishing fish.

Performances at 10.30 and 13.00. £5 admission.

Please note: the morning performance is a more family orientated storytelling session,...

A pay and a ploy get your kids eating carrots!

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 09/25/2015 - 10:11am

Amongst all the cake guzzling, sweet quaffing and sugar-hyped activities on offer for kids this half term, there is another event in town that promises not only to entertain the children but to get them truly excited by carrots and the good stuff! Tortoise & Hare: Making a Meal of Storytelling re-imagines Aesop’s fable to look at the conflict between slow and fast food.

Hare is a fun but unreliable chocoholic whilst her friend Tortoise is moody, slow but a rather fine chef.

They set off on a race to see who can deliver a meal faster to their party guests. Whilst Hare...

Tortoise & Hare: Making a Meal of Storytelling

Event Date: 
26/10/2015 - 11:30am to 30/10/2015 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
The Hall, Exeter

Amongst all the cake guzzling, sweet quaffing and sugar-hyped activities on offer for kids this half term, there is another event in town that promises not only to entertain the children but to get them truly excited by carrots and the good stuff!

Tortoise & Hare: Making a Meal of Storytelling re-imagines Aesop’s fable to look at the conflict between slow and fast food.

Hare is a fun but unreliable chocoholic whilst her friend Tortoise is moody, slow but a rather fine chef.

They set off on a race to see who can deliver a meal faster to their party guests. Whilst...

Make the most of your natural health service

It’s official: Getting out into the natural world is good fun and great for our health

This May half term (23 – 31 May) sees the launch of the first ever Devon Naturally Healthy Week to encourage everyone to get out and enjoy the vast range of outdoor opportunities the county has to offer.

Co-ordinated by Devon’s Local Nature Partnership – an umbrella body which brings together everyone with an interest in securing the benefits of our natural environment, activity ideas range from bird watching to sea kayaking; and locations from the local park or urban canal side, to Devon...

Stay sun safe during school holidays

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 05/24/2015 - 10:34pm

With thousands planning early summer holidays abroad over half term, health professionals are reminding the public to enjoy the sun safely while they make the most of their holiday.

Devon has some of the highest rates of skin cancer in the UK, with over 300 cases of malignant melanoma per year and 40 related deaths.

About 80% of skin cancer cases could be prevented through avoiding overexposure and staying safe in the sun.

Receptionist Sue Foot was diagnosed with a melanoma four year ago, after seeing her GP about a mole she was concerned about.sue foot1

“I...

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