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Easter is nearly here, spring is on it's way and (hopefully) the weather is starting to get a bit warmer. There are lots of special events planned all over the UK for the school Easter holidays and for the Easter weekend 2024.
Half term holiday dates vary depending on where you live.
The vast majority of local authorities have their Easter break from Tuesday 2nd April 2024 to Friday 12th April 2024.
Our top tip is to check with your kid's school or the local authority before booking anything! Private schools and colleges may have longer holidays.
Let's get cracking (sorry!)
Family events happening across the whole of the UK during the school Easter holidays this year.
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Go on an Egg Hunt this Easter with the National Trust Easter Egg Hunts which are back for 2024.
National Trust properties all over the UK will be hosting Easter Egg Hunts with fairtrade chocolate eggs as prizes, with a vegan chocolate option available. It's the perfect way to get lots of exercise just as spring is on it's way!
Easter Pantos have been growing in popularity over the last few years, and now there are several professional productions touring the UK this Easter.
Find out more at Big Panto Guide.
Keep up to date with the children's and family movies that are on at the cinema this month with our listings of the latest kids movies, which gives you a rundown all the the current family cinema releases.
There are events that are happening across the UK, then you can find out what is happening where you live.
Family events happening across England during the school Easter holidays this year.
Science Museum London's Turn It Up: The Power of Music exhibition opens on 19th October after a successful run in Manchester's Museum of Science & Industry. In this fun, family-friendly experience you’ll get a chance to hear, interact with, and even make your own music!
You’ll explore the science and secrets around the impact music has on us with unique interactive exhibits.
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Visit Warwick Castle for a host of historical fun. Try out the the Horrible Histories Maze and see the Mighty Trebuchet - the largest working siege machine in the world which is fired twice a day.
Plus you can see Flight of the Eagles, which is a spectacular birds of prey display and much more.
The Art of the Brick is coming to London at The Boiler House in (appropriately!) Brick Lane in London's East End. The exhibition uses more than a million bricks, to create over 100+ works of art that can make adults and children smile and reflect.
The collection includes many sculptures alongside re-imagined versions of some of the world’s most famous art masterpieces, such as Michelangelo’s David, Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Among the wonders, you will also find a 6-metre-long reproduction of a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton
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Worcestershire's CountryTastic Festival is a festival just for kids, held annually at Easter to help them discover the countryside. This years event is on Thursday 28th March 2024 at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern it includes appearances from BBC Countryfile's Adam Henson and a chance to meet all your favourite farmyard animals.
Bookings for the day must be made in advance as tickets are not available on the door. This year and the organisers are also encouraging visitors large and small to come dressed as their favourite superhero!
Visit the Eden Project until 14th April 2024 to celebrate the joys of spring, take on playful challenges with your family and discover how we can grow and eat our way to a healthier planet.
The exhibition Acts of Gathering is an exhibition of artworks that celebrate and interrogate the nature of food culture in a rapidly changing world, inviting us to consider the ceremony and symbolism that shape our connections to food, to each other and to the earth.
Reading Museum has various Easter holiday activites including craft activities and the chance to step into the shoes of an archaeologist and excavate a small block of chocolate, complete with edible artefacts, including chocolate eggs!
Get down to one of the RHS' five locations in England and join in a Giant Easter Egg hunt round one of their magnificent gardens.
Plus Hyde Hall in Essex also has Craft activities, face painting and Easter story-telling too!
You would bee mad to miss it, and if you join the RHS now 2 adults and 2 children can get into any of the Royal Horticultural Society's five gardens free for the whole year.
Family events happening across Scotland during the school Easter holidays this year.
The Edinburgh International Science Festival runs from 30th March to 14th April 2024.
The theme for the 2024 Festival is Shaping the Future. Celebrating the power and potential that human creativity, collaboration, innovation and play have to change our world for the better, the 2024 Festival will explore the roles of science, technology and their creative cousins in tackling the challenges and seizing the opportunities that our ever-changing world presents.
For families there are lots of hands-on science events and workshops. Some are free, some have a small charge (see what I did there!)
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At the National Museum of Rural Life in East Kilbride, their Spring Explorer school holiday activities are back, and this time they’re all to do with Scotland’s folklore and wildlife.
There will be stories, crafts and you can find out more about Scotland's most famous sheep, Dolly.
Family events happening across Wales during the school Easter holidays this year.
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A new Gruffalo Trail has just opened at the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Llanarthne Carmarthenshire.
It features five larger-than-life sculptures of characters from the ever-popular books created by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler: Mouse, Fox, Owl, Snake and the Gruffalo.
Get down to the Royal Mint Experience in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taff for
Come face to face with realistic walking dinosaurs at The Royal Mint Experience this Easter holiday with Dinomania. Meet knowledgable rangers with their collosal crew; from babies that have just hatched to a 4m long dinosaur that stomps around the building, these prehistoric puppets will immerse you in a wild adventure.
Blaenavon Ironworks is a historic former industrial site that played a crucial role in the development of the iron and steel industry.
As well as learning about this important part of Wales' industrial heritage you can join in on the Easter Egg Trail at Blaenavon Ironworks. There is an egg prize for each completed trail. This event takes place on 31st March and 1st April 2024.
Family events happening across Northern Ireland during the school Easter holidays this year.
For a super day out try the Gruffalo Trail at Colin Glen Forest Belfast, where sculptures of characters from The Gruffalo can be seen as you walk along the trail.
Search for the famous characters in the woods, listen to the classic tales and take home your very own Julia Donaldson and friends book, sticker and certificate, to keep forever!
Colin Glen Forest park is home to Northern Ireland’s only official Gruffalo Trail.
In Co Down, Northern Ireland, the WWT's Castle Espie become one of Bing’s Nature Explorers as you join Bing and Flop to become a Nature Explorer with activity trails, storytelling, character appearances and much more.
All activities are included in admission ticket or free for WWT members. It runs from 23rd March to 2nd June 2024, so all over Easter and through until May Half Term.
For lots more ideas of things to do this Easter, why not see how many things you can cross off the Easter Bucket List?! It's a whole list of fun Easter themed ideas that will keep kids busy for hours.
You can plan ahead for your next school holiday with our list of all the school holiday dates for the school years 2023/24.
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