Amazing activities for kids
Loads of fun for your little ones!
Enter a world of PLAY activities* specifically made for our smallest guests! During the day there’s everything from sand art to super rockets, biscuit houses to nature rangers.
If all those activities haven’t worn out your little monkeys then the evening entertainment certainly will! We know they’ll be transfixed by our exciting shows including our exclusive characters Bear in the Woods, Lucy and Scratch!
Under 5’s can also join in any PLAY activity you think they’ll enjoy. We just ask that each under-five is accompanied by a parent or adult guardian throughout the activity session.
A small price to pay
There’s at least one free activity each day and other sessions are charged from £4 per child. We make a small charge for My Active sessions so we can ensure the experience you and your child have is the best possible.
How to book
These exciting activities are always very popular so we do ask you to book in advance. You can book all the activities when you arrive – just have a look at your entertainment guide to find out more.
Play Activities
The perfect opportunity for your kids to get their hands covered in paint, chocolate and sand as they create their own magical masks, pet stones and spaghetti art.
Join in with a playful programme of daytime activities organised every day, specially designed for the little ones.
Pirate PLAY – £8.50
Arrrrre you ready to set sail on our pirate adventure? We must create our very own treasure maps to follow and solve the clues to find the hidden treasure. Lots of silly games & sing songs including Captains Coming. You’ll learn the pirate lingo, how to walk to plank and make your very own pirate sword and hat to make sure your pirate transformation is complete!
Superhero Academy – £8.50
Turn yourself into your super self at our Superhero Academy. You’ll come away with a graduation certificate, a superhero name, a superhero pose and your very own Mask & Cape to graduate as your superhero alter ego! Part of your Superhero training involves making your comic book strip, superhero party dances and Superhero games & races to make sure you are ready for life as a superhero!
Bears Picnic – £8.50
Bring your favourite teddy along to our Bears Picnic, a magical experience where you will make your own ‘fun’wiches to add to your decorated picnic bag, packed with lots of tasty goodies for our picnic, including our yummy puddings, Edible Sparklers! After our lunch, we will play some exciting garden games, have a sing song, and have a special visit from our very own Bear, a perfect opportunity for cuddles and photos. Before we say goodbye, we will write down our wishes for Bear to help us put them on the wishing tree.
Sock Puppets & Puppet Theatre – £6
Make & decorate your very own sock puppet and puppet theatres before producing your own scripts for your puppets to perform. You can take your theatre home with you to put on your readymade Punch & Judy style performances to entertain all your family and friends. Your Lucy, Scratch & Bear teddies would also love to perform in your theatre!
Lava Lamps – £4
Who needs to buy a Lava Lamp when you can come along and make your own! A very cool reaction creates a lava effect that you won’t be able to wait to show all your friends and wow your teachers at school.
Sand & Slime – £4
A crazy Science project where we will be making lots of different slimes and your own portion of kinetic sand to take away and play with.
Mad Scientist Workshop – £4
Prepared to become a whacky scientist with your glasses and aprons in this fantastic workshop that is not only fun but very educational too. Be ready to get messy and be wowed as we take part in some mind-blowing experiments.
Nature Rangers – £4
Get in touch with nature in this fantastic outdoors activity! With magnifiers and wildlife checklists in tow, you will be taken on a walk around the park where you will take part in things like bug watching, tree rubbing, masking tape leaf bracelets, or even create your own journey stick. The end of the session will use our nature walk to create some art to take home with us, such as; Stick People, a Ladybird bed, A woodland collage of your name or Stick Spider Webs.
Grass Head Monsters – £4
Let’s get green fingers in this wonderful activity for aspiring gardeners. Using sawdust, tights and grass seeds we will start to make your own grass monsters that will then be decorated with googley eyes and other bits and bobs to give them their own unique look. Cress heads will then be made to make sure our Grass heads behave themselves!
Tie Dye T-shirts – £6
Keep up with the latest fashion trends by learning the art of Tie-Dye and creating a funky t-shirt that you can wear during and after your holiday! You will be taught how to make different patterns with the dye and with various colours to choose from, not one will be the same giving you a one of a kind T-Shirt!
Pottery Painting – £5
Create the illusion of your very own stained glass window by drawing your own enchanted pattern or picture which will then be beautifully painted onto your ‘glass’ for you to take home and display for all to see.
Stained Glass Windows – £5
Create the illusion of your very own stained glass window by drawing your own enchanted pattern or picture which will then be beautifully painted onto your ‘glass’ for you to take home and display for all to see.
Sand Art & Bottles – £4
Lots of sandy fun in this PLAY Activity! First of all, you will learn the art of sand painting by ‘colouring’ your picture in with colourful sands to create a magical masterpiece! Then using a layering technique, you’ll create a vibrant sand bottle that come in lots of different shapes and sizes, a lovely keepsake from your holiday!
Shaving Cream Marble Art – £5
A very messy craft session! Be prepared to get your hands messy as we use shaving cream and watercolours to create a beautiful marble picture. Using black card and your imagination, you’ll then turn your marble art into a fantastic silhouette picture worthy of showing off!
Bear Map & Binoculars – £4
Using collage techniques, you will create a map to help find our Bear’s cave. The map will show that there are rivers to cross, thick mud on the journey and mountains to climb before we can mark the spot where Bears cave is. We will then create your own pair of binoculars to make sure you have all the tools you need to go on your very own Bear Hunt!
Glitter Snow Globes – £5
Choose one of our character templates or design your own photo to sit in the middle of your globe. We’ll then add the water, glitter and snow to finish it off. Don’t forget to shake it and make a wish!
T-Rex Teacakes – £5
Make your very own tasty T-Rex gardens with dinosaurs hatching from chocolate marshmallow treats. A gooey, delicious sweet treat that you’ll have to gobble before your grown-ups get to them!
Cookie Campers – £5
Using numerous different biscuits, create your very own camping scene with your campers fast asleep in their sleeping bags surrounding a little campfire and tent. It’ll look too good to eat…but too tasty not to!
More PLAY Activities
Stay & Play – FREE
Stay & PLAY is an area for children to come along to and enjoy a selection of mainly arts and crafts equipment for free.
PLAY Toddlerpops
PLAY Toddlerpops are fun and fantastic activities designed for our younger guests, offering both creative and active sessions for kids to enhance their skills, educate themselves and most importantly have fun!
Even better, throughout the year we host Little Campers, toddler based breaks aimed at parents and their little ones that feature these activities all week!
PLAY Live
PLAY Live on Stage
PLAY Live on Stage is an hour of family entertainment where you can join our presenters for floor games with our younger guests, as they wow the kids with games, party dances and our characters from Bear in the Woods.
PLAY Live: Extra
PLAY Live on Stage EXTRA features during peak holidays. In addition to the fun-filled hour of PLAY Live on Stage, a visiting live family feature is presented. This varies between ‘All Action Wrestling’ (excluding Tattershall Lakes), SBX featuring BMX, Basketball, and Beatbox street theatre, and The Creepy Crawly Show.
Bear in the Woods
The friends from Bear in the Woods love to come out to play in their own shows as part of the PLAY Live on Stage show. Kids (and even parents) will find themselves dancing along to toe-tapping tunes, playing fun games and even getting involved on stage with the gang.