Our guide to what’s on during the Easter holidays for families in Oxford is everything you need to keep you entertained.
The first part is what’s on all through the Easter holidays, scroll down for your day by day guide:
🐰 Evenley Wood Gardens: The Guardians of Spring Trail
Evenley Woods Gardens always go all out for their seasonal trails – so imaginative! The Guardians have been resting all winter, and now they need your help to wake the garden and begin a brand‑new spring. Collect your trail sheet at the entrance, then follow the hares as they guide you along meandering paths and lakeside views to a series of interactive spring‑starting stations.
📅 On until 19th April ⏰ Morning or afternoon slots (10am or 1pm) 💴 Trail for children £7.50 (plus booking fee), Adults £9.50 🎫 Booking recommended ℹ️ Book via the website. Book for the children online and pay for yourself when you arrive.
🐥Waddesdon Manor: Easter adventures
Lots included with entry: Actual Reality Arcade – a life-sized interactive game zone – and the Zoolab Trail. There’s also a paid trail with a chocolate easter egg at the end. The Easter trail runs Saturday 28th – Sunday 29th March and Wednesday 1st – Monday 6th April, Actual Reality Arcade runs Wednesday 8th – Sunday 12th April. Waddesdon is open Wednesday – Sunday. Don’t forget that the playground is currently closed for refurbishment.
📅Open Wednesday – Sunday. See above for activity dates⏰ 11am – 5pm 💴Adults: £14, Children: £7 (grounds only)🎫 Booking essential ℹ️ More details on the Waddesdon Manor website.
🐰Waterperry Gardens: Big Easter Bunny Hunt
Join the Big Easter Bunny Hunt, a lovely jaunt around the ornamental gardens spotting carrots as you go. Return to the café with their location marked on your map and word unscrambled to claim your prize. The playground just beyond the café is worth a visit after, as is the Waterperry to Waterstock walk.
📅 On until Sunday 19th April ⏰ 10am – 5pm 7 days a week💴 £4.75 per trail per child (includes prize), Adults £12.95 entry fee to the gardens 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ More details on the Waterperry Gardens website. Check out one of our many visits here.
🥚The Covered Market: The Great Covered Market Easter Egg Hunt
Hunt out pictures of eggs with letters in them inside or outside participating market shops. For each letter spotted, show the trader in that shop and they’ll stamp your card. Find all the letters on the card and then hand your card back in and be entered into the grand prize draw. Collect your card from iScream, Wicked Chocolate or The Garden.
📅Until 4th April ⏰ Opening times vary over Easter, see here for times 💴 Individual entry £2.50, Family £8 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ More details on the Covered Market website.
🐣High Lodge Farm: Easter Trail
The usual fun from High Lodge Farm trails! Your ticket includes LOADS: woodland trail and activity sheet, Play Patch access with garden games, sandpit, straw bales, farm tractor, ride-on toys, mud kitchen and lots more! Barrel train rides around the farm are extra (£3pp). SEND sessions too.
📅28th March – 5th April ⏰ 10am – 4pm 💴 Adult: £6.50, Child: £8.95, Under 1: Free, Carers ticket: Free 🎫 Booking recommended ℹ️ More details on High Lodge Farm website.
🐑 Cogges: Easter Fun at Cogges Manor
Love a farm visit in spring! See the farmyard animals, sheep and goats, ponies, lambs, chickens, ducks and turkeys, including many rare breeds. Follow the hidden fairy door trail and go on a fun egg hunt in the straw! Mini-farmers can ride the toy tractors, play on the zip wire in the adventure playground, dig in the sandpit or search for minibeasts with a Cogges Explorer Backpack!
📅 Open everyday⏰ 9.30am – 5pm 💴 Adult: £10.50, Child: £7.50, Under 3: Free 🎫 Booking recommended ℹ️ More details on Cogges website.
🥚Oxford Museum of Natural History: Eggstraordinary Easter Eggventure Family Trail
Eggsplore the museums with an eggciting egg-hunters trail! Find all of the hidden eggs around the museums to discover amazing animal facts.
📅 Until 12th April ⏰10am – 5pm 7 days a week💴 Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ More details on the Museum of Natural History website.
📚 The Story Museum: Spring has Sprung trail
Galleries, Small Worlds, half term activities and events – particularly excited for the ‘Spring has Sprung’ trail – free with your ticket. Stepping into a book at The Story Museum is such a unique experience. And it’s open every day in the school holidays!
📅 Open everyday in the school holidays ⏰10am – 5.30pm 💴 Different prices for Galleries and Small Worlds🎫 Booking recommended ℹ️ More details on the Story Museum website.
♥️ Thomley
This extraordinary and inclusive place is for children for all abilities and disabilities. Check the online calendar to see who each day is for and what’s on and book in. As well as loads of activities (the theme is fables and fiction) there’s also the huge bouncy pillow, soft play, dino area, splash pad, bikes and bike track, sensory and construction rooms and more! And if you fancy glamping there are even glamping pods too!
📅 Open everyday in the Easter holidays but generally closed Mondays⏰ 10am – 3.30pm 💴 £15 per child (adults do not require tickets)🎫 Pre booking required ℹ️ See Thomley website for more information and booking.
🐇 Oxford Sightseeing Tour Bus : Easter Bunny Hop trail
Have you ever been on the Oxford Sightseeing Tour? It’s the open top double decker that you see around town. I’ve never been on it but my boys have with school and are obsessed with it. This Easter they have a Bunny Hop Trail: join a quest to spot the six elusive bunnies playing hide and seek throughout Oxford. Explore the sights of Oxford while you search the Easter bunnies who have hopped off to different locations around the city. Trail free for anyone on a bus tour.
📅28th March – 12h April⏰ All day 💴 Adult: £19.50, Child: £13, Family ticket: £49 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ More details on the City Oxford Sightseeing website
🐲Oxford Castle and Prison: Adopt a dragon
Young adventurers and their adults are invited to join the Dragon Masters for an imaginative family experience where children can learn about Oxford’s dragon lore, decorate their own dragon egg, design a cosy nest and ultimately adopt a soft‑toy dragon to take home complete with an official adoption certificate.
📅30th March – 10th April⏰10am/12 noon/ 2.30pm 💴 1 Adult + 1 Child £16.75 | Extra Child £14.75 🎫 Booking required ℹ️ More details on the Oxford Castle and Museum website.
🗺️Sheldonian Theatre: The Wren Trail
Find Rosie Wren and learn more about Christopher Wren’s architectural masterpiece as she takes you around the building’s unique and fascinating features. Alongside our new trail, we’ll be offering activity sheets and building block challenges for a hands-on learning experience. Check out our previous visit at half term.
📅Running throughout the holidays ⏰ 10am – 4.40pm 💴 Under 9: Free, 9-16 years old: £7.00, Adults: £8.25. 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ More details on the Sheldonian Theatre. website.
🥚Oxford Preservation Trust: Easter Egg Hunt
There’s TWO Easter Egg Hunt on Oxford Preservation Trust properties: Abraham Wood and Larkins Lane Field. Find the wooden eggs, spot the letters and unscramble the words! If you visit town over the holidays you can claim your prize from the OPT offices.
📅28th March – 13th April ⏰ All day 💴 Free🎫 No booking required ℹ️ More details on the OPT Facebook page
🛝South Oxford Adventure Playground (SOAP)
Open for the holiday playscheme this Easter. Children can enjoy being outside, climbing, building dens, Easter arts and crafts and more! There’s different rules for different days so check out the website and sign up fpr free fun!
📅 Monday 7th – Friday 11th April ⏰10am – 4pm💴 Free 🎫 Registration needed for over 7sℹ️ More details on SOAP website.
SATURDAY 28th MARCH
🐣High Lodge Farm: Easter Trail
First day of fun on the farm! There’s a lot packed woodland trail and activity sheet, Play Patch access with garden games, sandpit, straw bales, farm tractor, ride-on toys, mud kitchen plus lots more.
📅Until 5th April ⏰ 10am – 4pm 💴 Adult: £6.50, Child: £8.95, Under 1: Free, Carers ticket: Free 🎫 Booking recommended ℹ️ More details on High Lodge Farm website.
🐑 Bishop’s Court Farm Lambing
Annual lambing day! Visit the Maternity Ward, meet farm animals (including Al Capone the alpaca), and maybe even see a lamb being born. Lots of fun for all ages with lamb petting opportunities, treasure hunt, bouncy castle, country market, live lambing feed, and delicious food & drinks.
📅Saturday 28th March⏰ 10am – 4pm 💴 Single ticket: £5, Family ticket (2 — 5 people): £12 🎫 Booking essential ℹ️ More details on Bishop’s Court Farm website.
🌈Ashmolean Museum: Create a colour book
Explore colours and make a unique colour book full of hues that bring you joy, take you back to places you have visited or maybe make you think of people and places you love. Your colour book will become your guide around the Museum inviting you to look at the collection with a new, colourful focus. This Easter the cafe is offering a free Babyccino with an adult drink purchase.
📅 Saturday 28th March and Sunday 29th March l ⏰10am – 3.30pm 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More details on the Ashmolean website.
🐏Oxford City Farm: Family Friendly Day
Get your wellies on and get down to the farm to see the animals – including the new lambs and kids, plus the chickens, pigs, goats and sheep. There’s also an area for free play and much to learn about farm to fork in the vegetable patch. Community farming at it’s best!
📅 Saturday 28th March ⏰ 10am – 1pm 💴 Free 🎫 Booking only needed for parties over 10 ℹ️ Visit the Oxford City Farm website for more info. Never been to the farm? Check out our visit here.
SUNDAY 29th MARCH
🚂Cutteslowe Miniature Railway
A lovely miniature railway experience and great value for money too. There is SO much to do at Cutteslowe park: numerous playgrounds, huge sandpit, free splash park (now open!), crazy golf, tennis courts, wildlife area, duck pond, beach volleyball court, café and more! It’s easily a whole day adventure!
📅 29th March ⏰ 1pm – 4.30pm 💴 £2 per ticket, combined ticket: £3.50. Under 2’s free with fare paying adult🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See the website for more details and more pictures from our visit here.
🌈Ashmolean Museum: Create a colour book
Explore colours and make a unique colour book full of hues that bring you joy, take you back to places you have visited or maybe make you think of people and places you love.Your colour book will become your guide around the Museum inviting you to look at the collection with a new, colourful focus.
📅 Saturday 28th March and Sunday 29th March ⏰11am – 3pm 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More details on the Ashmolean website.
🛝Forest Side play area opening event
Celebrate the opening of the new play area! Korky Paul will be there signing books, free ice -cream for the first 100 children, bouncy castle, games and activities.
📅 Sunday 29th March ⏰11am – 3pm 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More details on the Kennington Paris Council Facebook page.
🚌 Oxford Bus Museum: Scooter Sunday
Scooter mad? Get yourself down yo the Oxford Bus Museum for scooters classic and modern!
📅 Sunday 29th March ⏰10am – 4pm 💴 Adults £8, Concession £7, Children £5, Family £17🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See website for more info.
MONDAY 30th MARCH
🐸 Museum of Natural History: Pond Life
A fun, hands-on event where kids can discover the amazing creatures that live in ponds. Make your own pond-themed craft to take home and get an up-close look at real museum specimens – from fascinating frogs to incredible insects.
📅Monday 30th March ⏰ 1pm – 4pm 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More info on Natural History Museum website.
🧚Banbury Museum and Gallery: Fairy Houses
Decorate a glowing Fairy House using recycled materials, colourful paper, flowers, buttons, and sparkly embellishments.
📅Monday 30th March ⏰ 10.30am/ 1.30pm💴 £4 per child 🎫 Booking required ℹ️ Book via the museum website.
TUESDAY 31st MARCH
🐈Weston Library – Family Fun – People and their pets
Celebrate our furry, scaly, and feathered friends with creative crafts, printing, and poetry. You can also meet amazing guide dogs and learn about their role supporting grown ups and children with visual impairments.
📅Tuesday 31st March ⏰ 11 am – 3pm💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More info on Weston Library page.
🐸 Museum of Natural History: Pond Life
A fun, hands-on event where kids can discover the amazing creatures that live in ponds. Make your own pond-themed craft to take home and get an up-close look at real museum specimens – from fascinating frogs to incredible insects.
📅Tuesday 31st March ⏰ 1pm – 4pm 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More info on Natural History Museum website.
🐶 Westgate Character Meet and Greet: Chase from Paw Patrol
I remember the Paw Patrol era in my house was INTENSE! If that’s your reality now, book in for this character meet and greet at the Westgate. All meet and greets will take place at intervals between 12pm – 3pm, with a Special Educational Needs (SEN) session at 11am.
📅Tuesday 31st March ⏰ Between 12 – 1 pm 💴 Free 🎫 Booking essential ℹ️ Book via the Westgate website.
🦕Oxfordshire Museum: Dinosaur egg
There’s loads of fun and creative craft activities over Easter. In this session you will make your own dinosaur nest with eggs and hatching baby dinosaurs. Fancy ore dinosaur fun? Visit the dino garden and dino room!
📅Tuesday 31st March ⏰ 10.30am – 12.30pm/ 2pm – 4pm 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More info on Oxfordshire Museum page.
🥽Radley Pool: Fun Sessions
With two large inflatable assault courses, pool toys and two diving boards, the sessions are action-packed and incredibly fun. The age limit for these sessions is 8-12 years old and parents are not permitted in the pool with the children. The session is fully lifeguarded.
📅31st March/ 2nd April/ 7th April/ 9th April ⏰ 2.30pm – 4pm 🧒8 – 12 year olds 💴£8 for 90 minutes 🎫 Booking required ℹ️ Book via Radley website
WEDNESDAY 1st APRIL
🐣 Easter XPlorer
Take part A free Easter themed family Xplorer event in Botley aimed at pre-school and primary aged children to do with an adult. Explore the park, find the markers, complete the challenge and have fun together! Last registration is at 11.30am.
📅Wednesday 1st April⏰ 10am – 12 noon 💴 Free 🎫 Registration required ℹ️ More info on the South and Vale website.
🖼️ Modern Art Oxford Family Holiday Workshop: Alter Ego
Make a mask, a head-piece, or even a full outfit as this family session explores character building, soft sculpture and wearable art. In this workshop you will create costumes inspired by the colourful outfits that Suzanne Treister creates for her time-travelling alter ego.
📅Wednesday 1st April⏰ 11am – 4pm 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More info on the Modern Art Oxford website.
🐰 Westgate Character Meet and Greet: Peter Rabbit
Hop along to meet Peter Rabbit at the Westgate. All meet and greets will take place at intervals between 12pm – 3pm, with a Special Educational Needs (SEN) session at 11am.
📅Wednesday 1st March ⏰ Between 12 – 1 pm 💴 Free 🎫 Booking essential ℹ️ Book via the Westgate website.
😁The Oxfordshire Museum: April Joker
Make have fun making a jokey jiggly jester puppet. Visit the dinosaur garden, cafe and library too!
📅Wednesday 1st April⏰ 10.30am – 12.30pm/ 2pm – 4pm 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More info on Oxfordshire Museum page.
👀 History of Science Museum: Victorian Visual Wonders
Discover how the Victorians played with images before the invention of cinema. Try out a Zoetrope, Steroscope, Stanhope viewer and find out about how Magic Lanterns work. You can also make your own Victorian-inspired visual wonder to take home. Suitable for ages 7+
📅 Wednesday 1st April ⏰ 10.30am – 12.30pm 💴 Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ Visit the History of Science Museum website for more info.
🚂 Pendon Museum: Junior Model Making
The Pendon Museum is such an interesting place! It’s a glimpse of rural life through extraordinary display scale models and large scenes of the rural countryside. We absolutely love following the railway around; especially as it passes so many places that we recognise! This hands-on model-making session (11am – 3.30pm) is run by expert modellers who create and maintain Pendon’s world-famous models. Each participant will work on their own small diorama to take home.
📅Wednesday 1st April ⏰11am – 3.30pm 💴 Adults: £9, Children: £7, Under 5: Free 🎫 Drop-in session is free ℹ️ Visit the Pendon website to see what it’s all about.
THURSDAY 2nd APRIL
🌺Museum of Oxford: Tudor flower painting
Be inspired by the natural pigments and flowers you can see in the Painted Wall on display at the Museum of Oxford, a legacy of Tudor Oxford. Families are invited to create your own natural paint colour chart and paint your own flower.
📅Thursday 2nd April ⏰11am – 12pm/ 2.30pm – 3.30pm 💴 £3 per child, includes accompanying adult 🎫Booking essential ℹ️ Visit the Museum of Oxford website to book.
🏠Bekonscot Model Village
Have you booked your ticket to the world’s oldest model village? It re-opened this weekend for the season and is the perfect half-term outing! ! So quaint, and the perfect place for the little ones to feel like giants. There’s lots going on over the easter holidays including an Easter egg trail around the village, egg decorating crafts Tuesday – Thursday and children’s entertainer Professor Crump is making a return over the Easter weekend (from the 3rd – 6th April).
📅 Open seven days a week ⏰10am – 5.30pm 💴 Adult: £13.50, Children: £8.55 🎫 Booking recommended for discount ℹ️ Visit the website and check out our (very sweet!) pics and info here.
FRIDAY 3rd APRIL
🐰Pets at Home: My Easter Pet Pals
These FREE animal sessions are interactive and up-close. Pet and hold some of the animals (my boys held a rat last time 😶) and learn lots of interesting facts (we did a post on it here). Disclaimer: If you are talked into buying a pet after attending one of these sessions it’s not my fault!
📅28th March – 12th April ⏰ 2pm – 2.45pm 💴 Free 🎫 Booking required ℹ️ More information and booking o the Pets at Home website.
😶Oxford Illusion Museum
Step into an upside down room, experience an infinity dodecahedron, cast spells with glowing wands, spin in the manuscript vortex and see the world flip with inversion goggles! 22 rooms of madness and mayhem await! My boys are OBSESSED with this place!
📅Open everyday ⏰ 10am – 5pm (quieter in the afternoons) 💴 Adults: £14, Children: £7, Students: £7 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ More information on their website and pictures from our visits here.
SATURDAY 4th APRIL
🐣Templars Square: Easter Egg Hunt
Search for colourful eggs hidden throughout the centre to claim a free chocolate egg. The event will be followed by crafts and activities for children.
📅Saturday 4th April ⏰ 10am – 5pm (quieter in the afternoons) 💴 Adults: £14, Children: £7, Students: £7 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ More information on the Templar’s Square website.
🐑 Farmer Gow’s: Easter Eggstravaganza
What’s spring without a trip to the farm! Farmer Gow’s has had a huge glow-up with new playground and hay bale maze in the barn. They have their usual animal meets included in the price (twice a day) and they are also offering lamb cuddles too plus the chick barn is very busy with new arrivals . If you are an Oxfordshire parent then chances are you have been or your child has been there on a school trip – it’s defo worth a re-visit.
📅 Open daily until 12th April ⏰💴 Adult: £14, Child (3 – 6 years old): £12.00, Child (1-2 years old), Child (under 2): Free, Concession: £12.85 🎫 Booking recommended ℹ️ Book here, see our visit here.
SUNDAY 5th APRIL
🚌Oxford Bus Museum: Easter Chick Hunt
Go an an Easter chick hunt (they are cute!) and find the Easter bunny. Plus free heritage bus rides at 12.15pm and 2.15pm.
📅 Sunday 5th April ⏰10am – 4pm 💴 Adults £8, Concession £7, Children £5, Family £17🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See website for more info.
💨Brill Windmill opens
The iconic Brill Windmill will be opening for the first time this season. Sails will be turned at 12:15 followed by the opening of the Windmill to the public at 12:30. Team with a visit to Brill playground.
📅Sunday 5th April ⏰ 12.15pm onwards 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More info on Brill Windmill Facebook page
MONDAY 6th APRIL
🚌Oxford Bus Museum: Easter Chick Hunt
Go an an Easter chick hunt (they are cute!) and find the Easter bunny. Plus free heritage bus rides at 12.15pm and 2.15pm.
📅 Sunday 20th April and Monday 21st April⏰10am – 4pm 💴 Adults £8, Concession £7, Children £5, Family £17🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See website for more info.
TUESDAY 7th APRIL
🐲 Westgate Character Meet and Greet: Zog
Who doesn’t love Zog?! All meet and greets will take place at intervals between 12pm – 3pm, with a Special Educational Needs (SEN) session at 11am.
📅Wednesday 1st March ⏰ Between 12 – 1 pm 💴 Free 🎫 Booking essential ℹ️ Book via the Westgate website.
WEDNESDAY 8th APRIL
🌿Arboretum Family Day: Super Spring
A day of seasonal activities and find out about what the trees, plants and animals are doing in spring. There will be trails and nature crafts for all ages. Don’t forget the new play area is open too – take a peak at it here.
📅Wednesday 8th April ⏰ 11am – 3pm 💴 £3 per child (under 2s and accompanying adults free) 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ More info on Harcourt Arboretum page
🐷 Westgate Character Meet and Greet: Peppa Pig
The theme tune that lives in our heads forever! All meet and greets will take place at intervals between 12pm – 3pm, with a Special Educational Needs (SEN) session at 11am.
📅Wednesday 1st March ⏰ Between 12 – 1 pm 💴 Free 🎫 Booking essential ℹ️ Book via the Westgate website.
👀 History of Science Museum: Victorian Visual Wonders
Discover how the Victorians played with images before the invention of cinema. Try out a Zoetrope, Steroscope, Stanhope viewer and find out about how Magic Lanterns work. You can also make your own Victorian-inspired visual wonder to take home. Suitable for ages 7+
📅 Wednesday 8th April ⏰ 10.30am – 12.30pm 💴 Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ Visit the History of Science Museum website for more info.
THURSDAY 9th APRIL
🤖Westgate Library: Robot Easter egg hunt
Code robots to explore and find “eggs”, tackle fun challenges as a family and discover just how creative coding can be! Aimed at children aged 7 – 11.
📅Thursday 9th April ⏰ 2pm – 3pm 💴 Free 🎫 Booking required ℹ️ Book via eventbrite
🌲Hill End: Family Forest Day
Explore the huge 67 acre site! Step back in time and make a stone age axe and watch a bronze casting demonstration, grind wheat to make flour and cook damper bread on a campfire, play ‘wild boar’ hunting game, wool weaving demo and crafts and ‘Science and Folklore’ guided walks. It’s a busy day!
📅 Thursday 9th April ⏰10am – 2pm 💴 Adult: £11.50, Child: £9.50 (Under 2 free), includes lunch and parking 🎫 Book on the Hill End website.
🧱Carteton Library: Lego robots
Using coding and Lego Spike Prime and Spheros robots, children can create their own designs with help from the STEM volunteers.
📅Thursday 9th April ⏰ 10am – 12 noon 💴 Free 🎫 Booking required ℹ️ To book a place, call 01865 815125 or DM on Carteton Library Facebook page.
🥽Radley Pool: Fun Sessions
With two large inflatable assault courses, pool toys and two diving boards, the sessions are action-packed and incredibly fun. The age limit for these sessions is 8-12 years old and parents are not permitted in the pool with the children. The session is fully lifeguarded.
📅31st March/ 2nd April/ 7th April/ 9th April ⏰ 2.30pm – 4pm 🧒8 – 12 year olds 💴£8 for 90 minutes 🎫 Booking required ℹ️ Book via Radley website
FRIDAY 10th APRIL
🥕Sandy Lane Farm
A proper working farm with such a colourful farm shop. On Thursday – Saturday you can visit the farm, take a peek at the pigs and the horses and grab yourself a proper coffee (and cake!) from the coffee van they have. Perfect if you are looking for a low key, short outing rather than a proper ‘day out’. Great park around the corner too.
📅 Open Thursday – Saturday ⏰ 10am – 4.30pm (Thursday and Friday) 10am – 2pm (Saturday) 💴 Free 🎫 Drop-in ℹ️ Check out the Sandy Lane website.
🧀Cheese Shed: Easter fun
As well as loving the Cheese Shed for a multitude of reasons (cheese, obviously, and glorious walks), there’s also loads of activities on there over summer – all free and drop-in. A special Bertie Slippers Easter show between 10am – 11am and balloon making from 11am – 12 noon. FREE! See our Cheese Shed visits here.
📅 Open seven days a week ⏰ 8.30am – 3pm 💴 Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ Details of all the Easter FREE fun on at the Cheese Shed here.
SATURDAY 11th APRIL
🐑 Bishop’s Court Farm Lambing
Annual lambing day! Visit the Maternity Ward, meet farm animals (including Al Capone the alpaca), and maybe even see a lamb being born. Lots of fun for all ages with lamb petting opportunities, treasure hunt, bouncy castle, country market, live lambing feed, and delicious food & drinks.
📅Saturday 11th April⏰ 10am – 4pm 💴 Single ticket: £5, Family ticket (2 — 5 people): £12 🎫 Booking essential ℹ️ More details on Bishop’s Court Farm website.
🧭 Thames Valley Orienteering Club Saturday Series: Cutteslowe Park
Big fans of this Saturday series and easy access to orienteering for all the family. Short 1.6k route suitable for beginners and family groups. Worth a try if you haven’t given it a go before!
📅 Saturday 11th April ⏰ Start times between 10am and 12pm. Course closes at 2pm 💴 From £4. Different prices for different routes, see website 🎫 Booking essential ℹ️ Visit Thames Valley Orienteering Club website for more info.
🔬Science Oxford: Family Day
The UK’s first indoor-outdoor primary science education centre with a hands-on Exploration Zone and 15 acres of woodland and ponds. This is STEM on another level and the fun factor is off the wall! We’ve been here so many times for school trips and days out and there is always something new to learn.
📅 Saturday 11th April ⏰10am – 12noon/ 12.30pm – 2.30pm/ 3pm – 5pm 💴 £8.50 per ticket, Under 3s Free 🎫 Booking required ℹ️ Book via the Science Oxford website and check out our previous visit here.
🪩Family Dance Party: Cutteslowe
A ‘hip-hopping, toe-tapping’ daytime disco for all of the family. Featuring bubbles and balloons, movement activities and dance games, sensory play and face painting! With DJs playing party classics, for you and your little ones.
📅Saturday 11th April ⏰2 sessions: 10.40am – 12pm / 1pm – 2.30pm 💴PWYD🎫 Booking required ℹ️ Book via the Dancin’ Oxford page.
SUNDAY 12th APRIL
🍃Nature Day at Kate’s Place
A chance to connect with nature with activities such as seed planting, painting, cooking on the open fire and a chance to spot activity in the busy wildlife pond. It’s free to attend and everyone is welcome. A great way to enjoy spring!
📅 Sunday 22nd March ⏰11am – 3pm 💴Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See the Nature Effect website for more details.
🐷 The Wild Pig
Sweet little farm and farm shop. Previously the Crazy Bear. Pigs (and usually cute piglets!), goats (including scary eyes), llamas (very rude) and sheep. You can walk from here through a little woodland (with so many fairy doors!) and then onto the Stadhampton playground. Easily half a day adventure. Do visit the Farm Shop and buy something if you can, it helps keep the little farm open and free.
📅Open everyday ⏰ 9am – 6pm 💴 Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ More information on their website and pictures from our visits here.
🧀The Cheese Shed
Yes, your Easter holiday gift is you stuffing your face with cheese and then going on a walk. There’s not much more to say than that!
📅 Saturday 12th April ⏰ 8.30am – 3pm 💴 Free entry 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ Check out the website for the ridiculous toastie you need to get in your mouth. Read about one of our visits here.
Have a lie down, you’ve survived two weeks of school holidays! 🙌🏽
Don’t forget all the FREE things to do and places to go:
🛝Playgrounds (click the links)
Upper Heyford
Stadhampton playground
East Hanney Play Area (Fantastic Mr Fox)
Combe
Warborough
Exeter Hall
Tackley
Holton
South Park
The Leys, Stanton Harcourt
Sandford
🚶♂️Walks (click the links)
White Horse Hill – Wayland’s Smithy
Farmoor Countryside Walk
Blenheim Community Path
Thrupp Lake
Warburg Nature Reserve
Farmoor Reservoir
Hinksey Height Nature Reserve
Blenheim Park Combe Gate
University Parks
Kingston Bagpuize Millenium Green Trail
Shotover Park
🐰Happy Easter!🐰
