WHAT’S ON WHERE Cardiff Castle Underground Cinema Cardiff Castle Cardiff CF10 3RB. 10.30am: The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG); 12.30pm: Hocus Pocus (PG). Tickets available online. Tel: 029 2087 8100. www.cardiffcastle.com Family Film Chapter Arts Centre Market Road, Canton, CF5 1QE. 11am Hotel Transylvania; 2pm War for the Planet of the Apes. Children under 12-years-old must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets: £2.50 - £4.50. Book online or on 029 2030 4400. www.chapter.org Shrunken Head Garland! Cwmcarn Forest Visitor Centre, Cwmcarn, NP11 7FA £4.50 per child. Release the inner ghoul in you and make these gruesome shrunken heads out of apples to decorate your home! Then once your done, pop them out for the birds!! Carving tools will be used!! Sessions from at 11am - 1.45pm. Suitable for ages 4+. Book early as places are limited. Tel: 01495 272001. www.cwmcarnforest.co.uk Hotel Transylvania 2 (U) Memo Arts Centre, Gladstone Road, Barry, CF62 8NA. 11am. Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster in his half human, half vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel. Tickets: £3 in advance, £3.50 on the door. Plus: Hocus Pocus (PG) 2pm. After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Hallowe’en night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to their reign of terror once and for all. Tickets: £3 in advance, £3.50 on the door. Tel: 01446 738622. www.memoartscentre.co.uk Natural Sciences Hallowe’en Open Day National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP 10am - 4pm. Hallowe’en – the perfect time for the Museum curators to bring out the icky, pickled and preserved things in jars for you to see. From a stingray to a slug – set your inner ghoul free! Discover some of the creepier objects in the collection and chat to the people behind the jars about the specimens. You can also have a go at some hands-on games and activities. Follow the spooky Hallowe’en quiz trail to discover some weird and wonderful objects from the natural world and win a prize. Free. Tel: 0300 111 2 333. www.museumwales.ac.uk Hallowe’en Spooky Funday National Waterfront Museum Swansea SA1 3RD. 12 - 4pm. Free. Enjoy an unmissable day of spooky fun, in our mysterious Museum setting!! Hear ghostly tales, make creepy crafts, meet some unusual characters, and discover whether you are in store for a trick or a treat after completing the weird trail. Tel: 029 2057 3600. www.museum.wales/swansea Hallowe’en Fun Tee-Rex Golf @ Cardiff Golf Centre, Began Road, Old St Mellons, CF3 6JX. Tee Rex Golf has been infested by spiders, ghosts and all manner of spookiness! Plus face printing, spooky course and treats! Tel: 029 2036 1122. www.teerexgolfcardiff.com Monster Fun The Red Dragon Centre, Cardiff Bay, CF10 4JY. Prepare for a scare this Hallowe’en with FREE fiendish face painting and an invasion from Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley. Fang-tastic fun for all the family, alongside all the usual great food, fun, and films to enjoy! Face painting 12 - 4pm. Tributes Mike and Sulley on the hour 12 - 3pm. Usual parking terms apply (minimum spend applies). www.thereddragoncentre.co.uk Hallowe’en themed face painting and balloon modelling The Royal Mint Experience, Llantrisant CF72 8YT. 11am - 4pm. Gary and Raphael from Body Canvas will be showcasing their creativity and imagination creating all manner of balloon sculptures and face painting designs. Free for those guests who book tickets to The Royal Mint Experience. See website for prices for tours. Tel: 0333 241 2223. Royalmint.com/experience Children’s Hallowe’en Party Three Horseshoes Playbarn Moulton, Nr Barry CF62 3AB 4.30 - 7.30pm. £6. Tel: 01446 710428. www.3horseshoesmoulton.com Tuesday 31st <strong>October</strong> - Wednesday 1st November Half Term Activities National Wool Museum, Dre-fach-Felindre, SA44 5UP. 11am - 4pm. Free. Local artist Meinir Mathias uses images, stories and poetry to inspire a celebration of the Welsh language in art. Tel: 029 2057 3070. www.museum.wales/swansea Tuesday 31st <strong>October</strong> - Friday 3rd November Half Term Activities: Me and My Pet Portrait National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP. 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3.30pm. From guinea pigs to goldfish, pooches to parakeets – see the portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet with her pet parakeet and draw your own portrait with favourite pet (real or imaginary). Booking Places limited, book on arrival. Free. Tel: 0300 111 2 333. www.museumwales.ac.uk NOVEMBER Wednesday 1st November The Jungle Bunch (U) Memo Arts Centre, Gladstone Road, Barry CF63 8NA. 2pm. Maurice may look like a penguin - but he’s a real tiger inside! Raised by a tigress, he’s the clumsiest Kung-Fu master ever. Along with his friends, The Jungle Bunch, he intends to maintain order and justice in the jungle, as his mother did before him. But Igor, an evil koala, wants to destroy the jungle once and for all, helped by his army of silly baboons... The Jungle Bunch - to the rescue in this new animated family movie. Tickets: £3 in advance, £3.50 on the door. Tel: 01446 738622. www.memoartscentre.co.uk Tales and limericks with Blandaff the Baard Big Pit National Coal Museum, NP4 9XP 12pm - 4pm. Free. Meet Blandaff the Bard, the teller of tales, who lives in the valleys of lovely South Wales. Hear about Dai Morris the miner and other Blaenafon tales wrapped up in legends. Try your hand at writing ridiculous rhymes and silly sonnets! Tel: 029 2057 3650. www.museumwales.ac.uk/bigpit Creepy Crawlies Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, CF10 3RB Close encounters with some real creepy crawlies – snakes, lizards and spiders to name but a few! All tickets £3.50 per person in addition to normal admission or a valid Castle Key. Tickets: Timed slots & limited availability – tel 029 2087 8100. www.cardiffcastle.com Magical Machines – Half term crafts Cardiff Story Museum, The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff, CF10 1BH 10am - 3pm. Be inspired by the artwork of local legend Charles Byrd and create your own magical machine. Suitable for families with children age 4 - 7. Free drop event. Tel: 029 2034 6214. www.cardiffstory.com Discover Arts Awards Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, CF5 1QE. 10am - 1pm. A morning workshop to introduce 5 - 7 year olds to the different art forms that are all around us like dance, drama, craft, architecture, design and more, (includes lunch and a Discover Arts Award certificate for each participant). £5 per child. Book on 029 2030 4400. www.chapter.org Wednesday 1st - Thursday 2nd November Potion School Winding House, New Tredegar, NP24 6EG. 11am - 12pm. £2.50 per child. Booking essential, Join the spooky witch to make your own wooden wand and create some ‘magic’ potions’. Plus: The Big Draw - Drawing on water 1 - 3pm. Free entry, just drop in. Make a moving picture using special pens and a magic ingredient…Water!. Celebrate the Big Draw event to get everyone drawing. Tel: 01443 822 666. www.windinghouse.co.uk Project: Oggbots From Blackwood Library, Blackwood NP12 1AJ. Every 15 minutes from 10am -12pm and 1.30pm-3.30pm A sci-fi treasure hunt that weaves together immersive street theatre, interactive gaming and the basics of electronic engineering. Prepare for your children’s imagination to be sent racing down the streets of Blackwood as they solve clues and meet mysterious characters on their way to the mothership where they can build their own Oggbot to take home. Tickets: £6.50; family of four £22. Tel: 01495 227206. www.blackwoodminersinstitute.com Thursday 2nd November 50 Things Tredegar House, Pencarn Way, Newport, NP10 8YW. Tick off some of the things to do before your 11¾. No 13 make a mud pie and No 18 Create some wild art. 11am - 4pm. Inclusive of entry price. Plus: Hedgehog Care and Rescue 11am - 4pm. Inclusive of entry price. Representatives from a local hedgehog charity will be taking along some of their rescues to the gardens at Tredegar House. Please note this activity is dependent on the charity having hedgehogs in their care at this time of year. Tel: 01633 815880. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/tredegarhouse Automata Workshop Cardiff Story Museum, The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff, CF10 1BH 10am - 12pm & 1 - 2pm. Create your own automata inspired by Charles Byrd’s magical machines. Suitable for families with children age 7 - 11. Free drop in event. Tel: 029 2034 6214. www.cardiffstory.com A Prickly Affair! Cwmcarn Forest Visitor Centre, Cwmcarn, NP11 7FA 12 - 3.45pm. (4 sessions available). Meet the secretive prickly friends in the care of Hedgehog Helpline, and learn how you can help these shy creatures through autumn as they get ready to hibernate! Booking essential as places fill quickly. Suitable for ages 3+. Adults £2; children £1. Tel: 01495 272001. www.cwmcarnforest.co.uk The Museum in Focus – behind the scenes. National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP. 10am - 4pm. A special photographythemed day highlighting the work of the people behind the scenes. Meet the Museum scientists and curators as they show you what goes on day in, day out at the Museum to research and keep safe the stunning collection of paintings and artefacts that belong to the people of Wales. The photography theme has been chosen to fit in with the new photography exhibition SWAPS by David Hurn. You’ll be able to see how imaging and photography are vital skills for Museum curators, such as the powerful electron microscope used to examine ancient objects for traces of paint on objects. Free. Plus: After Dark in the Museum 5pm - 9pm. A night of fun activities, mysteries, experiments and torch-lit tours. Meet scientists from the Museum and Cardiff University and have a go at some awesome experiments. Discover how and why things glow in the dark, make a balloon scream, use a really, really powerful microscope and loads more! With activities galore there will be something for all the family to get involved in. Free. Tel: 0300 111 2 333. www.museumwales.ac.uk Thursday 2nd - Friday 3rd November Scrappy Sheep Club - Pinecone Pals National Wool Museum, Dre-fach-Felindre, SA44 5UP. 12 - 3pm. Free. Transform pine cones into super-cute animal friends. Tel: 029 2057 3070. www.museum.wales/swansea Friday 3rd November Tales and limericks with Blandaff the Baard Big Pit National Coal Museum, NP4 9XP 12pm - 4pm. Free. Meet Blandaff the Bard, the teller of tales, who lives in the valleys of lovely South Wales. Hear about Dai Morris the miner and other Blaenafon tales wrapped up in legends. Try your hand at writing ridiculous rhymes and silly sonnets! Tel: 029 2057 3650. www.museumwales.ac.uk/bigpit Carry on Screaming Screening: Phone for film details Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, CF5 1QE. Every Friday at 11am, Carry on Screaming allows parents or carers to see a film without having to worry about their baby causing a disturbance. Tickets: £2.50 - £4.50. Free entry for babies. Book online or on 029 2030 4400. www.chapter.org Spooky Toddler Crafts Cwmcarn Forest Visitor Centre Cwmcarn, NP11 7FA 10.30am - 12.15pm - 2 sessions. £2 per child. Take your tiny tot and enjoy some spooky messy fun in these crafty workshops! Booking essential. Ages 1+. Tel: 01495 272001. www.cwmcarnforest.co.uk Dark Skies Planetarium - Adventure Amongst The Stars The Royal Mint Experience, Llantrisant CF72 8YT Show every 30 minutes between 12 - 4pm. Learn about the planets and constellation we can view from Wales. Astronomers will be on hand to answer any of your questions. Free for those guests who book tickets to The Royal Mint Experience. See website for prices for tours. Tel: 0333 241 2223. www.royalmint.com 16 Primary Times OCTOBER HALF TERM <strong>2017</strong> | www.primarytimes.net/cardiff Continued on page 18
www.noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk ARCHEBWCH HEDDIW BOOK TODAY Experience Discover the unexpected wonder of coins at The Royal Mint Experience, Llantrisant Take a guided tour and you’ll have the opportunity to strike your very own coin. Book tickets online at www.royalmint.com/experience or phone 0333 241 2223 Open 7 days a week, first tour at 10am. Darganfyddwch ryfeddod annisgwyl y ceiniogau ym Mhrofiad y Royal Mint, Llantrisant Ewch ar daith dywys ac fe gewch gyfle i fathu’ch darn arian eich hun. Archebwch docynnau ar-lein yn www.royalmint.com/experience neu ffoniwch 0333 241 2223 Ar agor 7 niwrnod yr wythnos, taith gyntaf am 10am. www.primarytimes.net/cardiff | OCTOBER HALF TERM <strong>2017</strong> Primary Times 17
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