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Frankenslime’s Lab with Catherine McGuinness at EPIC Irish Emigration Museum
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Frankenslime’s Lab with Catherine McGuinness at EPIC Irish Emigration Museum

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There’s a slime and a place for getting messy and it’s here with us at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum this Halloween! Catherine McGuinness will be returning to the museum for a seriously slimy science lab. Come along, get creative, get a little spooky and learn something new in this fantastically disgusting workshop. Feel free to come along in your scariest costume to really get into the Halloween spirit!

This workshop is recommended for ages 6 – 12.

Date: 31 October
Time: 11am – 12pm
Location: EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

Cost: €8     

Special offer: Want to see EPIC while you’re here? Kids get free entry to the museum with the purchase of an adult museum ticket!

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Creepy Town Halloween Spooktacular
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Creepy Town Halloween Spooktacular

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BOO!

TheatreworX Productions is delighted to announce that it’s Halloween production “CREEPYTOWN” is returning to the Helix this October. 

Designed with young families in mind, this is a Halloween theatre experience like no other. “Creepytown” is an hour long, indoor, interactive, panto-esque production,featuring spooktacular visual effects, crazy characters, creepy dance performances, howls of laughter and much more for all the family to enjoy from the comfort of their Theatre seats. 

TheatreworX Productions is renowned for producing top quality family entertainment, including the The Helix Panto, now in its 12th successful year.

If you are looking for fun family-friendly frights this Halloween, you’ll find it at “Creepytown”. It’s the perfect way to bring the frightful fun of Halloween to life for children, without the fear factor, all from the comfort of your theatre seat.

Tickets for this event are €12 per ticket with family and group discounts available.

DATES:

From 26 October 2019 to 27 October 2019

Tickets for this event are available to purchase from the Helix Box Office on 01-7007000 or www.thehelix.ie.

 

Tickets are limited – FIRST COME, FIRST SCARED!

 

MediEvil Halloween Spook Walks Westmeath
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MediEvil Halloween Spook Walks Westmeath

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MediEvil, All new Hallowe’en Spook Walk tours, relocated from Tullynally Castle, with Ghostly Guide Bartle D’Arcy.
 
Assemble in Fore Abbey Coffee Shop, with free car parking, 15 minutes before your tour. Follow the “Walk of the Dead” towards Gallows Hill in Historic Fore on the looped Valley Walk from the old Gaol. They used to give the condemned prisoner a chance. Run for your Life before IT gets you. Something is out there…. still. Brave your way around, learn about the hidden histories and beware the troubled Monks of the old Abbey.
 
Three tours each night at 6.30 pm 7.45 pm and 9.00 pm.
 
Tickets Adults €14.00 Child (over 8) €8.00 and Family (2&2) €40.00.
 
Spook Walks are all outdoors dress appropriately for the weather and wear suitable footwear. Bring a small torch. Spook Walks are scary with Jump Scares and are not suitable for Children under 8 years of age. Walks are approx 2.5 kms in length. All are on hard surface paths. Refreshments available in Fore Abbey Coffee Shop before each walk.
 

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Fore Abbey Valley
Co Westmeath
Tel : +353 87 3463119
Email : bartledarcy@gmail.com
Further Information here

 
junior einsteins halloween
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Junior Einsteins Halloween Camps

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SPOOKY SCIENCE ONE-DAY HALLOWE’EN CAMP (6 – 12yrs)

Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and caldron bubble …. your child will love this fun Halloween camp making their own magical potions and crazy experiments. Just look at what they will be up to ….

Disgusting Slime Monsters, Spooky Fog fun, Glow in the Dark eye balls, Ozzy Bubbling Slimey Mixtures, Flying Rocket Bats, Frankenstein’s Monster – electrocution!, The Elephant Man – Crazy chemical reactions, Murder! – Forensics lab, Vampire Blood and Gorey Heart, Guts – Gross Digestion, Skeletons- human and beyond!

Yes, your child will be thrilled to be at this camp but you might not be so thrilled when they start to work in your kitchen! 6-12 years One Day Camps 9am – 2pm

Junior Einsteins is a STEM / STEAM company so we provide all aspects of science to children including but not limited to flight, engineering, classification of life, Zoology, Maths, Chemistry, Astronomy, Ecology, Global environments, botany, microbiology ,anatomy, geology, oceanography, meteorology , plate tectonics, palaeontology.

Times: 9am – 2pm 
Ages: 6-12 years
Cost: €50 per child 
 

Venues: 

  • 29 October 2019: The Mill Celbridge Community Centre
  • 29 October 2019: St Patrick’s Parish Centre Greystones
  • 30 October 2019: Clontarf St. Anthony Parish Church
  • 30 October 2019: Clontarf St. Anthony Parish Church
  • 31 October 2019 : Maynooth Campus
  • 01 November 2019: St Sylvester’s parish centre, Malahide
  • 01 November 2019: SANDYMOUNT YMCA

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based in Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Louth serving all locations Nationwide along with Junior Einsteins events on site in Craft Central New Ross Wexford

Phone : +353 85 8641959
Email: welcome@junioreinsteinsscienceclub.com

Happy Halloween Experience Cork
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Happy Halloween Experience Cork

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UPDATED 2021 DETAILS COMING SOON…..

 

Happy Halloween Experience Cork is Spooky not Scary and offers Spooktacular Fun for all the family

Families in Cork can look forward to a spooky Halloween half-term treat, with the return of the spooktacular ‘Happy Halloween’ experience in Dunnes Stores, Patrick Street Cork  (and also Jetland Shopping Centre in Limerick).

Open: 18th to 20th October   

Open: 25th to 31st October

Opening times: 12 to 6pm daily (except Oct 18th 3 to 6pm)

Witch Hattie O’Goodspell, the good witch of Munster, will entertain visitors in her magical spooky home.  Hattie is joined by her friends, the spooky skeletons like “Lazy Bones”, the bonkers bats, and a whole host of other spooky (not scary) ghosts and ghouls. 

The cost is just €6 per child, with free entry for adults, and everyone is encouraged to dress-up in their favourite Hallowe’en costumes.  

On entering visitors meet a friendly trainee witch, who guides them on their journey through spectacular spooky sights, en-route to Witch Hattie O’Goodspell’s house.

Once there children meet with Hattie who tells them all about her magic potions, her favourite broomsticks and of course her famous hat collection!!   Visitors see where Hattie makes her magic spells and the very spooky children might even get to sit on her broom!

Everyone leaves with small sweet treat, and a professional photographer is on hand to capture the magical Halloween moment with Witch Hattie O’Goodspell. 

Photos can be purchased immediately afterwards in large 8×10 format with card frame, a great reminder of a spooktacular fun visit! 

Adult: €0

Child €6

1st Photo: €14

Additional photos: €6

For more information about The Witches House and all the spooky fun in Jetland Shopping Centre and Dunnes Stores Patrick Street, visitors can check out Happy Halloween on Facebook.

 

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Halloween at The Cool Planet Experience

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Join in the spooky science festivities at the Cool Planet Experience this October mid-term. Kids will release their mad scientist by stepping into their spooktacular lab experience, where oozing, bubbling potions, glowing slime and fang-tastic explosions are sure to delight. 

Explore the spookier side of chemistry to discover just how a 1oC change can unleash mind-boggling chain reactions.

Dust the cobwebs off, unleash curiosity and start investigating.

1h30 | €20pp | Ages 6-12

Sat 26th – Mon 28th Oct: 11am & 2pm 

Tues 29th – Thu 31st Oct:  11am

For further information email info@coolplanetexperience.ie or call 01-5180197

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Halloween at The National Wax Museum Plus Dublin

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UPDATED 2021 DETAILS COMING SOON…..

Its Halloween at The National Wax Museum Plus!

We have wicked witches, ghastly ghouls, creepy critters and crazy clowns occupying the museum all this month.

So come on down, if you dare!

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Halloween at The National Wax Museum Plus Dublin

22-25 Westmoreland Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Call: 00353 1 6718373
Email: groups@waxmuseumplus.ie
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School-Tours-at-The National Wax Museum Plus Dublin
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School Tours at The National Wax Museum Plus Dublin

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School Tours in Dublin at the The National Wax Museum Plus. An ideal venue for a school tour as it incorporates interactive learning and fun. 

The National Wax Museum has been a huge part of the Irish tourism landscape for nearly 40 years. Here is some interesting information about our old locations over the years and some twists and turns we have experienced. The National Wax Museum at it was then known was originally situated in Granby Row near Parnell Square in Dublin 1. It was opened in 1983 by the Lord Mayor of Dublin and was an exciting new addition to the city. The museum became a landmark with the Giant Cú Chulainn scaling the side of the building and many of our current visitors still remember the infamous tunnels and visiting on there school tour as children. Is was then as it is now the most famous Dublin Museum.

School Tours in Dublin

If you are planning your school tours for the year and don’t know what to do, why not consider Dublin’s most exciting and educational visitor attraction, The National Wax Museum Plus.

HISTORY – SCIENCE – MYTHOLOGY -MUSIC – FUN

The museum is dedicated to the art of sculpting and working with wax to create life size 3 dimensional figures. Our museum features wax figures of some of the most popular individuals from the world of Film, TV, Music, Politics, History, Sport and the Arts from both yesterday and today.

Have your students travel through the Time Vaults of Irish History, discover more about Irish Science in our Science and Discovery Zones and get up close and personal with famous faces from Irish entertainment and literature. We have worksheets and quizzes for various age groups and stages in the education system featuring trivia from all of our educational zones.

More information here

The National Wax Museum Plus
22-25 Westmoreland Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Call: 00353 1 6718373
Email: groups@waxmuseumplus.ie
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Birthday Parties at The National Wax Museum Plus Dublin

If your child’s birthday is coming up, why not choose a unique venue like the National Wax Museum Plus. They offer a tour of the attraction including  an opportunity to have birthday cake surrounded by the stars in the Hall of Fame, party hats included.

Birthday Child is Free

Child admission is €8 each and the birthday child is free. There is a free place for one adult and additional adults are €13 each.

Additional options include:

  • Face painting €25
  • A coloured Wax Hand  €8 each
  • A Wax Museum Party bag €5 each

Wax Hands

Kids World 

For further details and assistance in planning your child’s birthday party, contact the groups department they will be more than  happy to help.

The National wax Museum Plus is a unique venue for kids birthday parties.

The National Wax Museum Plus
22-25 Westmoreland Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Call: 00353 1 6718373
Email: groups@waxmuseumplus.ie
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Santa’s Enchanted Castle 2018

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Santa’s Enchanted Castle is the highly renowned festive event returning to Enniscorthy Castle, Co. Wexford once again for the 2018 Christmas season.

One of Ireland’s most popular Christmas experiences, families will adventure through the Castle in the company of Santa’s Elves, a host of Disney Characters and special friends, exploring the interactive rooms of the castle. Each room has a uniquely interactive theme such as Ice Age, Paw Patrol, Trolls and Beauty and the Beast to name just a few.

Next up, sample some yummy treats from Mrs Claus’ Traditional Sweet Shop using your Magic Castle Currency before your private visit with Santa Claus. He is really looking forward to meeting everyone and has a special gift for all the girls and boys who are on the nice list, which you can check using his Magic Mirror which will also capture a special family photo with Santa.

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Sensitive Santa Tours
Thanks to all the excellent feedback and popular demand, we have set aside 4 very special dates for the Sensitive Santa Experiences which will have a maximum of 8 children and a trained SNA on each tour. These tours are specially designed to support the sensory, physical and other developmental needs of children so they can enjoy a magical Santa Visit.

Sensitive Santa Tour Dates
Sunday 25th November – Times: 12:00, 12:30, 13:00
Thursday 29th November – Times: 16.30, 17.00
Thursday 6th December – Times: 16.30, 17.00, 17.30, 18.00
Tuesday 18th December – Times: 16:30, 17:00, 17:30, 18,00

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Santa’s Enchanted Castle is selling out fast with many dates already heavily booked. To avoid missing out on this intimate magical experience book your tickets today on www.santasenchantedcastle.ie
Our Early Elf Offer runs until Sept 7th and those who book will receive a FREE Magic Mirror Photo Pack worth €10 (includes 2 print copies and a digital copy).

Running from the 25th November to 23rd December inclusive. All tickets available on www.santasenchantedcastle.ie

Price List:

  • Off Peak Dates Children (all ages) €15
  • Peak Dates Children (all ages) €19
  • Big People €10 includes Tea/Coffee & festive snack

A truly magical experience awaits you!

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Santa’s Enchanted Castle 2018

Enniscorthy Castle
Castle Hill, Enniscorthy,
Co Wexford
Ireland.
E: bookings@santasenchantedcastle.ie

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