With the Easter holidays stretching out before us, we take a look at ten awesome ideas for keeping the kids out of mischief
For some, Easter is a time for contemplating resurrection - both of Christ and of the natural world with the start of Spring. For others, it's a fantastic excuse to stuff their faces with chocolate while wondering where exactly the bunny comes into it all.
Whatever your relationship with the Easter holidays, it can be near-impossible to keep the kids occupied. But don't despair! Help is here, as we offer up the most eggciting local Easter activities...
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Strawberry Hill House
Cheeky Chickens: March 28 – April 15
Some cheeky chickens have been traveling the world this past year, just like Horace Walpole! Explore his famous fairy-tale house to find them, and work out where they've been on their journeys to receive a chocolate prize!
12pm - 4pm (opens 1:30pm on weekdays)
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WWT London Wetland Centre
Find Our Ducklings: March 28 – April 15
Some of the Centre’s ducklings have gone missing, and it’s your mission to help find them! Follow the giant Easter duck trail around the reserve to discover where they’re hiding. You can win prizes and create your own colourful duckling.
9:30am – 5pm
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Squire's Garden Centre Cobham
Create and Grow: April 7 – April 16
Squires will be helping children to plant an Easter bunny basket, which they can look after in their own garden. There’s also a free Easter hunt, with a chocolate egg as a prize for the sharp-eyed! This event is on at all Squire's Garden Centres - local centres include Cobham and Twickenham.
9am – 12pm
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The Children's Trust
Easter Fair: April 4It's finished!This year's fair offers a range of family attractions, including an Easter Egg Hunt, a nature trail, go karting, a DJ, a shopping market, Peppa Pig and more!Entry is free for children under 16. Adults tickets (and entry into the children's egg hunt) are £3.
12pm – 4pm
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Ham House
Easter Egg Hunt: April 3 – April 6It's finished!Let your little ones loose in the maze-ike gardens as they hunt for the choccie eggs and engage in games of hide and seek. Lovely outdoor fun with a great reward at the end. £3 per trail, after garden admission.
10am – 4:30pm
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Box Hill
Cadbury Easter Egg Trail: April 3 – April 6It's finished!The Cadbury Easter egg trail returns. Bring your own decorated hard-boiled egg for the great egg roll at 12 noon, where there are prizes for best decorated and best roll. £3 per trail.
10am – 2pm
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Denbies Wine Estate
Horse Drawn Carriage Rides: April 6It's finished!With chocolate and egg hunts ahead of us, let's start with one for the parents - enjoy a leisurely 25-minute ride through the gorgeous Denbies vineyard for Easter. You'll need to book ahead, and places cost £7.50.
12pm – 3pm
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Brooklands Museum
Driving for Easter: April 7 – 10It's finishedBetween children’s trails ready to be followed, a fun and messy ‘paper marbling’ workshop, guest appearances by Bertie the Brooklands Bear and rides down racetracks in vintage cars, Brooklands Museum has a host of fun family activities for Easter!
11am – 4pm
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Hobbledown Children's Farm
Mysterical Adventures: March 28 – April 12It's finished!Hobbledown has a host of Easter events throughout the holidays, from egg hunts and arty workshops to animal handling and daring adventure courses.
10am – 7pm weekdays, 9am – 8pm weekends
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Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens Kew, Richmond, TW9 3ABShaun the Sheep Festival: March 28 – April 12It's finished!Shaun the Sheep will be bringing along his friends to take part in some Easter celebrations, which will include the Spring Lamb Springtime Trail, the Vegetable Orchestra, the Farmer’s Greenhouse, Shaun’s Madcap Meadow and from Bean to Chocolate Baa. The gardens will also be in full spring bloom. Free entry for children under 16.
9:30am – 4pm
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