There is plenty to keep your children occupied this half term around Godalming and Cranleigh. Some of them may not be for the faint hearted with Halloween tours and frights on offer.
We have compiled our favourite picks to keep you and the family active, educated, creative and spooked all week.
Fishers Farm
The award winning family farm day out always has a unique mixture of things to do with the kids. This half term they are turning spooky with scary tales, fright shows and a haunted train ride. Fishers Farm Park in Sussex offers indoor and outdoor play, exciting rides and animal adventures for the whole family to enjoy.
Air Hop Trampoline Centre
Get up and active with the kids. The Air Hop centre in Guildford is exhilaratingly great exercise with its 50 interconnected trampoline floor and walls that you can literally bounce off. There’s trampoline dodgeball, foam pits and basketball hoops, you can’t fail to have fun and apparently you have the potential to burn 1000 calories in just a one hour session.
Make a Halloween Costume
If you’re looking for something to do at home, design and make Halloween costumes with your children. Try using objects and materials that you already have in the house. Learn how you can recycle cardboard, plastic and other items to create the scariest outfit, those trick or treat rewards are going to taste even better if you earn them.
Wisley Gardens
The Animals of The Night event is sure to be memorable this Halloween. Wisley have teamed up with the Wildlife Trust to create a ‘batty’ neighbourhood that encourages bats all year round. Join them for fun family activities to learn all about bats; plant flowers to encourage bats; and get busy carving pumpkins. Learn fascinating facts about bats, plant bat-friendly flowers and find out what else you can do to encourage these fantastic garden helpers.
Brooklands Museum
Keep an eye out for Bertie the Brooklands Bear who will be out and about, popping up at events around the museum this half term. There are regular car rides, family fun workshops on offer everyday and one highlight is the Concorde Tour for kids. This supersonic tour is aimed at youngsters and will teach them about the marvel that was Concorde, as well as tours of the plane there are also simulated flights.
Denbies
There is more to Denbies than wine this half term, with activities for all the family. They are going into full spook for Halloween with events all week. Wrap up warm and enjoy the Spooky Train Ride & Storytelling around the Denbies Estate. They are hosting a Spooky Fancy Dress Disco for children, so you can put those homemade costumes to the test before the midweek Hobgoblin Children’s Theatre’s ‘The Spookiest Fairy Tale Ever Told’.
Colour Cauldron
Get arty at The Colour Cauldron, Smithbrook Kilns. Book your time, choose your piece and then get creative with a selection of paints and equipment. Take some of their Halloween inspiration and create a ghoulish plate early in the week, leave it at The Colour Cauldron to be glazed and collect it in time for the night itself.
Post Pals
Have a look at Post Pals website and help your child send a letter or a card to a child who is very ill and in need of some cheering up. Perhaps they could draw a picture or write a story about what they did this half term week. It couldn’t be easier for anyone of any age to get involved, requires no commitment and costs only a stamp and your time.