festina lente easter egg hunt

Easter at Festina Lente Bray Wicklow

We are planning two really brilliant Easter camps in Festina Lente during the Easter school holidays for children ages 5-11…  You can book each week separately or book the two weeks

Camp Week 1:  Monday 26th – Friday 30th March 2018 from 10am – 2pm

Monday: Off to the stable yard for a pony grooming session, then after the break, crack on with eggciting crafts! Make a brilliant bead sock bunny to brighten up your Easter. After lunch, search the gardens for lovely leaves and print a stunning spring leaf onto fabric.

Tuesday: After doing a pony riding lesson use air-dry clay to create beautiful Easter Egg ornaments, add patterns and designs and leave to dry. Make a fun and funky bunny mask before you hop off home.

Wednesday: Off to the stable yard for a pony grooming session, then up to the craft room to decorate your lovely clay eggs. Use craft material to make an Easter card for your family or friends.

Thursday: After your time in the stable yard doing a pony riding lesson, have some good clean fun and make some gorgeous handmade soap- choose your colour and an essential oil scent, then wrap in cellophane. Makes a beautiful Easter gift (hint, hint). Then dream on and make a delightful dream-catcher to hang by your bed to keep bad dreams at bay.

Friday: In with the ponies doing pony grooming then out to the garden! Bring the beauty of the Spring garden inside and make a fabulous table arrangement with twigs and daffodils. After lunch, search the gardens to discover the prize in our Easter treasure hunt!

Only €135 for the 5 days!   

Book early to avoid disappointment as we have only 8 spaces and it will book up super fast!

Click here to book & pay online!  

Camp Week 2:  Tuesday 3rd – Friday 6th April 2018 from 10am – 2pm

Time to get arty!   Have fabulous fun with this cool craft camp…There are no pony activities during this week.

Tuesday: Dream on… make a beautiful dream-catcher to take home and hang by your bed to keep those bad dreams at bay. After the break, make a lovely air-dry clay hand, using your own hand as a template. Leave to dry. After lunch, search the gardens for lovely leaves and print a stunning spring leaf onto fabric.

Wednesday: Decorate your clay hand- use paint or decoupage to add some style to your clay hand holder. After the break its time to have some good clean fun and make some gorgeous handmade soap- choose your colour and an essential oil scent, then wrap in cellophane. Lunch is next -then a scavenger hunt in the garden.

Thursday: Take time for slime! Gather your ingredients, choose your colour and scent, and get goo-ing. After break –make and decorate a funky flower pot using decoupage and plant up with something nice! Lunchtime next, then- nature detectives are go! Take a gander round the garden and toddle up the trail to discover fauna & flora at Festina!

Friday: Feed the birds… make a fun bird feeder and some bird treats to encourage our feathered friends to visit the garden. Take a break, then create your own beautiful scented candle to take home. After lunch its time for treasure! Find the clues in the garden, work out puzzles and claim your prize in our brilliant treasure hunt.

Only €108 for the 4 days!   

Book early to avoid disappointment as we have only 12 spaces and it will book up super fast!

Click here to book & pay online!  

Festina Lente Bray Wicklow

Tel: / 2720706 ext 200

Email: info@festinalente.ie

Web : www.festinalente.ie

 

About

Festina Lente Bray Wicklow is an embracing not-for-profit organisation which provides a range of occupational, learning and employment opportunities for people whose needs have not been met in mainstream services.

We have a variety of public services and facilities for everyone to enjoy on our campus in Bray – an Equestrian Centre & Riding School offering lessons, camps and equine facilitated learning programmes, a beautifully restored Victorian Walled Garden, a Garden Centre, an open air Cafe and shop so why not pop along for a visit

Eggstra Wild Easter Greenan Farm Museum and Maze Wicklow

Eggstra Wild Easter Greenan Farm Museum and Maze Wicklow

BRIGHT SPRING-SHINE FUN

Greenan Maze, near Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow are hosting an EGGSTRA WILD EASTER CELEBRATION with an Egg-cellent variety of BRIGHT SPRING-SHINE FUN activities for all the family.

Hop along to Greenan Maze over the Easter weekend where the Easter Bunny will host lots of Easter egg hunts on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday.  Kids will be kept fully occupied and wear off all that Easter sugary buzz while adults can find some peace and tranquillity at this pretty countryside farm in the Wicklow hills.

Easter Weekend

Easter Bunny hops madly in the maze with super Maze Egg Hunts at 2pm and 4pm on both days, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday!!!

Meet the Easter Bunny and two Cheeky Chicks who will be hopping about the mazes entertaining all the kids, finding eggs for the well behaved.  If you are lucky, they will lead you to the middle of the maze where you find the Easter Bunny and the eggs.  Find the special golden eggs and claim a big Easter Egg prize.

Special Egg Hunt at 3pm for toddlers
 and the little ones at the Solstice Maze…toddle your way to the middle of the Solstice Maze to get the well deserved treats…..chocoholics welcome!

Also….Face Painting from 12pm to 5pm…..two face painters will be available to entertain the tots in the tea rooms where the delicious Easter Cakes and Easter goodies will tempt parents and children alike after all that fasting.  See website www.greenanmaze.com for more details.

The farm opens for the Easter School Holidays from Thursday 17th March to Sunday 3rd April.

 

  • Thurs 17th March – St. Patrick’s Day – Meet Larry the Lucky Leprechaun and win from his pot of gold
  • treasure hunts
  • wild nature trails
  • meet the farm animals, feeding lambs and chickens
  • fairy tree walks

Open from 10am to 6pm from Thursday 17th March to Sun 3rd April  inclusive, then open weekends for the rest of April and May and all bank holiday Mondays.  Open 7 days per week in June, July and August.  Weekends in Sept.
See website www.greenanmaze.com for Tea-Room opening times.

Eggstra Wild Easter Greenan Farm Museum and Maze Wicklow

Ballinanty
Greenan
Rathdrum
Co. Wicklow
Tel : 0404 460 00
Email : contact@greenanmaze.com
Web : www.greenanmaze.com