Abberton Reservoir

Abberton Adventurers: Holiday club for unaccompanied 8-12 year olds
Basket-Making Workshop: Make a basket for Easter
Birding Day Out: Day out birdwatching local sites
Brambly Hedge Winter Adventures: Brambly Hedge event for all the family
Challenge Abberton: A day of games and challenges on the reserve.
Messy Creatures: A messy indoor play session for 7 and unders.
Optics Day
Pond Dipping Afternoon: A pond dipping session for all the family
Star Gazing: An evening with Essex Wildlife Trust and North Essex Astronomical Society
Stick At It: A whole day of sticky fun!
Twilight Explorers: An evening club for all ages.
Wildlife Watch: Wildlife-themed activities, ideal for 8-12 year-olds; younger children welcome but must be accompanied by an adult.
Arsenal Soccer School
February Half-Term Soccer Camp
Beth Chatto Gardens
Cupcake and Scone Making Session: Fun and informative baking lesson with our friendly patisserie chef Jo.
Colchester Arts Centre
Little Frankenstein: Semi famous puppeteer Frank Stein has had enough with his badly made puppets. Taking inspiration from his most infamous ancestor, the scientist Dr Victor Frankenstein, and with the help of the audience he creates a new real live puppet that is destined to change his life forever!
Colchester Castle
Medieval Storytelling: Hear some stories from the days of yore in this Medieval Castle.
Colchester Leisure World
Arts and Crafts 5 – 11 yrs
Badminton & Short tennis 5 – 12 yrs
Base Camp
Creative dance 1.5 – 4 yrs
Jazz dance 5 – 7 yrs
Kid’s Camp
Mini street 5 – 7 yrs
Play and Swim 5 – 11yrs
Street dance 8 – 14 yrs
Trampolining 3 – 11 yrs
Whiz Kids 0 – 16 yrs
Crafty Mums Gift Shop
Butterfly Paper Mobile Making: Come along and use beautiful coloured butterflies to make your own mobile, using sparkles, shimmer and beads to make your eye catching and majestic mobile.
Ceramic Painting: Come along to crafty Mums to paint your own ceramics. Perfect for all ages, no experience needed. Choose from a selection of coasters, plates, mugs,hanging hearts, heart shaped trinket boxes and animals
Children's Decopatch: Decopatch is a funky addictive papercraft activity (a paper and glue varnish system, which creates a decorative, hardwearing finish) that is so simple to use and suitable for all ages
Childrens Jewellery Making: You will make, a bracelet, necklace and bag charm, with a choice of beautiful brightly coloured beads,you will be taught the skills required to make your own jewellery.
Cupcake Decorating: Cupcake decorating is fun for all ages - Decorate 4 spring inspired cupcakes as a sheep, flower,nest with eggs and a rabbit or create something yourself.
Creative Arts Live!
Arthur's Dream Boat: One night, Arthur has an amazing dream about a beautiful pink and green boat with a stripy mast. He can't wait to tell everyone about it but no one (not even his dog!) is interested.
Cudmore Grove Country Park
Room on the Broom with Talking Tots: Fun activities will be based on the 'Room on the Broom' story by Julia Donaldson.
Fingringhoe Wick
Campfire Cooking: You'll be amazed what you can cook on the campfire - much more than just marshmallows!
Drop-in Clay Creatures: Join us in the secret woods as we hunt for mini-beasts to give us inspiration to make our own clay creatures! What natural materials can we use to create some ‘creature features’? Children must be accompanied.
Drop-in Den Building: Test your family's skills as you build a cosy den in the woods. Also follow our survival trail to see more of the reserve. Fun for ages 2 - 92! Children must be accompanied.
Feathered Friends: A morning all about our birds especially for the under 5s. Donation £5 per child.
Fingringhoe Explorers: Could you survive in the woods? Try your hand at the skills you'd need and have a go at woodland crafts too. Great fun doing all sorts of woodland activities including den building and campfire cooking. A drop off and pick up activity for ages 8+.
Love Your Birds: As part of National Nest box Week we are going to be making some simple bird homes and feeders to help our feathered friends through the rest of the winter. Suitable for ages 7+. This is a messy activity - wear old clothes!
Starry Starry Night: Space themed activities, crafts and experiments - if the sky is clear we'll also be learning how you can stargaze without expensive equipment. This event is always popular so advance booking is essential.
Firstsite
FREE Animation Workshops: Workshops covering various animations techniques such as stop-motion, drawn and computer animation from our wonderful professional animators.
Hollytrees Museum
Colchester 3D picture postcards: Get inspired by our collection of postcards from the past to create your own 3D Colchester postcard.
Keep calm and create your own slogan T-shirts: You will be given ideas and have original slogans to develop yourself and put on your shirt using specialist pens.
Jungle Adventure
Half Term Cowboy and Indian Club: Howdy Partner! Join in the fun & games today at our Cowboy & Indian Camp for Jungle Adventures Final Half Term Club!
Half Term Pirate Club and Pancake Day: Join our team for Pirate Training today at Jungle Adventure's Half Term Club then re-boost after with some Yummy Pancakes!
Half Term Spy Club: Join our team for lots of fun & games today at Jungle Adventure's Half Term Club and learn how to become a Professional Spy!
Half Term Stars of Frozen Club: Award winning Michael J Fitch hosts the ultimate half term party. Booking required.
Lakeside Theatre
Chicken Lickin':A baby chick is born and thinks the sky is falling down. On the way to tell the King, she meets Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky & Turkey Lurkey, but there’s a shocking surprise!
Marks Hall
Children's Trail: Marks Hall will be open from Tuesday 18th February for half-term and will be running a children's trail throughout the week. Normal admission applies and the trail is free.
Snowdrop Weekend:Robins Grove at Marks Hall is a sight to behold this time of year, with a blanket of delicate white snowdrops. This woodland area is made up of three different varieties.
Mega Inflatables
Indoor Half-Term Family Fun Days: Enjoy Bouncy Castles, Activity Units, Slides and Entertainment from Mr Happy, Tidimix, Crazy Legs & Ruby Rascalls
Mercury Theatre
Hansel and Gretel: The Pimlott Foundation is delighted to present a full scale production of Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera. A professional cast and orchestra is joined by a youth chorus and ensemble from local schools.
Lion Boy: Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats.
Mersea Outdoors
Aiming high for Disabled Children: Activity/sailing and crabbing days, one-night activity breaks.
Natural history museum
Go Live! Close encounters: A wide selection of animals will be on display today, many of which you would rarely see or get close to in the wild.
Sock-idermy: The animals you see on display are here due to the art of taxidermy. Now you can have a go, using a sock to create your own stuffed creature
Poplar Nurseries
Doorstop Workshop: Get creative designing and painting a giant stone that can be used as a doorstop or decoration for your garden.
Rollerworld
School Holiday Skating: up to 2 hours skating
Signals Media Arts Centre
FREE Animation Workshops: Workshops covering various animations techniques such as stop-motion, drawn and computer animation from our wonderful professional animators.