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Tropical Encounters
Cardiff Castle, Castle Street, CF10 3RB
www.cardiffcastle.com
Timed sessions. Meet a range of amazing
animals from the tropical rain forest of the
Amazon to the African Kalahari desert for a
chance to learn about their behaviour and
habitats. Please note these sessions are
extremely popular and may sell out in advance.
Limited availability - booking necessary. £4 per
person. Tel: 029 2087 8100.
Primary Times FEBRUARY HALF TERM 2019
Monday 25th February -
Saturday 2nd March
Half Term: Art Gallery
Wales Millennium Centre,
Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AL
www.wmc.org.uk
11am - 4pm. The Glanfa foyer will be
transformed into a brand new art gallery
with everything you could possibly need…
except the artwork! Join the eccentric artists
and kooky curators and create your own
masterpiece for the walls, plinths or sculpture
gallery. Don’t miss the daily guided tour from
the gallery curator; keep your eyes peeled for
impromptu performance artists; and be sure to
return for the grand opening party! You don’t
Make it Monday
Dyffryn Gardens, St Nicholas,
Vale of Glamorgan, CF5 6SU
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dyffryn-gardens
12pm - 3pm. Free event but normal admission
applies. If No you booking are necessary. looking Get creative need to book advance, just pop down and
for more inspiration, there
this half term with nature-themed crafts
stay for as long as you like. Tel: 029 2063 6464.
taking place are in the many Morning Room. more You can events on our website
make something to take home and keep as a Tuesday 26th February
memento of www.primarytimes.co.uk/cardiff
your visit. Tel: 029 2059 3328. Half Term Craft Club for 7-12 year olds
Cardiff MADE Café & Studio,
Build LOOKING Your AHEAD Own Nest Box
41 Friday Lochaber 1st Street, - Monday Roath, 25th Cardiff, March CF24 3LS
Bryngarw Wednesday Country 7th Park, May
www.larkdesignmake.co.uk
Lambing at Llwyn yr Eos Farm
Brynmenyn, Early Years Bridgend, Open Morning CF32 8UU
10am St Fagans – 3.30pm. National One History, day craft clubs where
www.bryngarwcountrypark.co.uk
Cathedral School, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2YH children Museum will St Fagans, learn new CF5 skills 6XBand take home
11am www.cathedral-school.co.uk
- 3pm. £6.50 per child. Build your own 2 www.museum.wales/stfagans
personal and useful hand made products.
bird For Nursery box for your and Reception garden. All class. materials provided. Today’s 10am - morning 5pm. Free. sewing Celebrate activity: the start a super of spring
Adult 9.30am supervision - 11am. Contact is required. Slots every 10
useful with and individual the annual tote baby bag! boom Afternoon in the
mins registrar@cathedral-school.co.uk
from 11am to 3pm. One nest box per time
craft activity: lambing you will shed. learn Follow how the to create progress the
slot Tel: - 029 if you 2083 have 8504. more than one child please
Don’t forget web to like structure of the mums of a dream and babies catcher on and the
book consecutive time slots. Tel: 01656 725155.
ONGOING
say you saw then it in decorate
Museum
it in a bohemian
website via
style
#lambcam.
ready to
Tel 029 2057 3500.
Amser Sunday Chwarae 24th March Toddler - Time Primary Times! hang in your bedroom. £35 per day, discounts
St Sunday Fagans National 14th April History Museum,
for siblings or multi day bookings. Booking
Saturday 16th February -
St Egg Fagans, FestCF5 6XB
essential either online or or call
Sunday 10th March
www.museum.wales/stfagans
Noah’s Ark Farm, Clevedon Road,
Gemma
Winter
on 07419
Wonders
731772.
– A Walking Trail
1.30pm Wraxall, - Bristol, 3pm. Enjoy BS48 themed 1PG toys and
Dyffryn Gardens, St Nicholas,
activities www.noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk
with museum staff. Story at 3pm. Fruity Vale of Glamorgan, Bird Feeders CF5 6SU
Free. Paint Tel and 029 egg 2057 then 3500. heard round the
Cwmcarn www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dyffryn-gardens
Forest Visitor Centre, Crosskeys,
zoo to find your own egg on the afternoon Newport, 10am - 5pm. NP11 Free 7FAevent but normal admission
Slime Easter Egg Factory Hunt. Tel: 01275 852606.
www.cwmcarnforest.co.uk
applies. No booking necessary. Discover what
Margam Country Park Margam,
10.30am is in flower - 11.15am at Dyffryn & 11.45am this winter - 12.30pm. with this
Neath Saturday Port Talbot, 30th SA13 March 2TJ-
Age self-led 4+. trail. £2.50 This per walk child. will Booking take you essential. around As
www.margamcountrypark.co.uk
Sunday 7th April
part the property, of the Feathery taking February in the highlights celebrations of our of
Sessions Cardiff at Children’s 10.30am, 12pm, Lit Fest 1.30pm and 3pm. all winter things garden. birds, make See the a selection snowdrops, of bird seek feeders out
Learn Various how locations to make in slime Cardiff and why it works from the camellias fruity bits and to hang admire in the garden! stripped-back
with www.cardiffkidslitfest.com
the ingredients. £6 per person. Ticket only Tel: structures 01495 272001. of some of our best trees. Take your
event The Cardiff on 01639 Children’s 881635. Literature Festival is now time and follow the route to discover the best
in its 7th year, running across two weekends Funky of what Foam Dyffryn Flowers has to offer and this Vase season.
Monday with free school 25th events - Thursday mid-week. 28th With February
over 40 Margam Tel: 029 2059 Country 3328.
Park Margam,
Half ticketed Term events, Fun: FREE Victorians
craft sessions and
Neath Port Talbot, SA13 2TJ
St an Fagans extensive National programme History of Museum,
school
FEBRUARY
St events Fagans, running CF5 6XB
www.margamcountrypark.co.uk
across iconic
We check
Monday 11th February
www.museum.wales/stfagans
Sessions at 11am, 12.15pm, 1.45pm and 3pm.
venues across the city centre
listings carefully but Amser Chwarae
12pm including - 4pm. Cardiff Take Castle, a guided City tour and find
Make your own funky foam flowers and vase.
event details and prices Toddler Time
out Hall, what National life was Museum like for Wales children in the may 19th be subject Sessions to change. last approx 1 hour. £3 per child. Buy
St Fagans National History,
Century. and The Old Play Library. with some The festival,
traditional toysMake Please always your check ticket at the entrance cabin. Meet in the
Museum St Fagans, CF5 6XB
your aimed own predominantly peg doll to take at children home (£2). with the venue. Castle. Adult supervision required. Plus Have a
www.museum.wales/stfagans
Tel ages 029 3 - 2057 11, continues 3500. to create
Go at Archery
1.30pm with Margam
- 3pm. Archery
Enjoy themed Club from
toys
lifelong readers whilst entertaining
11am - 3pm.
and 3
activities arrows -
with £1. Meet
museum at the
staff. BBQ
Story
Monday and enthusing 25th them February about reading. -
Events site
at at
3pm. rear
Free. of Castle.
Tel 029 Tel:
2057 01639
3500.
881635.
Friday include writing 1st March
workshops, book readings, craft
Half activities, Term quizzes at Parc and Play games and the occasional Willow Wednesday Weaving 13th for February children
Parc appearance Play, Unit of 5, a character Curran Embankment,
or two! Sessions are Bryngarw Beach Academy Country Park,
Grangetown, extremely popular Cardiff, and CF10 may 5DX sell out in advance. Brynmenyn, Newton Beach, Bridgend, Porthcawl, CF32 CF36 8UU5NF
www.parcplay.com
Email: events@cardiff.gov.uk Tel: 029 2087 3394. www.bryngarwcountrypark.co.uk
www.beachacademywales.com
Enjoy some fresh air and entertain your little 11am, - 12pm 1pm. & Home 1pm. Educators Have a go group at willow session.
ones Every at Parc Saturday All Weather Play. Tel: 029 2034 5696. weaving £7 per child with (one Out adult to Learn free Willow. per child). Learn how
Free Family Saturdays
to Additional make lots siblings of amazing £6, under things...butterflies,
18mths free.
Musical Wales Millennium Theatre Centre, Week
fish, Register hearts, by emailing swords, dream catchers and bird
The Bute Talent Place, Shack, Cardiff Unit Bay, 17, CF10 Freemans 5AL Parc,
feeders beachacademywales@gmail.com to name but a few. Tel: 01656 or 725155.
Penarth www.wmc.org.uk Road, CF11 8EQ
texting 07966 572273.
www.shelleynorton.co.uk/half-termworkshops/
11am - 4pm. Age guidance 3+. Based in the
Tuesday 26th February -
Glanfa Foyer and hosted by a team of bilingual Thursday 14th February - Saturday
A facilitators, week of Musical everyone Theatre is encouraged with Elian to Mai unleash West.
Friday 1st March
2nd March
Singing, their inner dancing Picasso and and acting! make Working something on special
Half Term Workshops: Leonardo
Woo at the Zoo
material together from in a safe, shows nurturing currently environment. in the West End. This National Museum Cardiff,
Noah’s Ark Farm, Clevedon Road,
For family ages programme 7 to 16. (Please was developed note: Dance to Intensive give an Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP
Wraxall, Bristol, BS48 1PG
will opportunity run at Easter for families not Feb to half experience term). Minis being aged www.museumwales.ac.uk
3 creative - 6 can together. also come Create to The your Talent own Shack flying for kite, games 12pm Follow - the 4pm. heart Find trail, out more keeper about talks, the promise amazing
and make playing. a beautiful Monday stained-glass to Friday 10 window, - 4pm. Minis mould a artist tree and afternoon inventor Leonardo tea. Celebrate da Vinci the in animal these
£100. plasticine Juniors monster £120 or Tel: just 07886 get messy 020923. at a sponge creative, couples hands conservation. workshops. Tel: £2 01275 per person. 852606.
Email: paint party. shelley@shelleynorton.co.uk
Tel: 029 2063 6464.
Tel: www.noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk
0300 111 2 333.
Wednesday Friday 15th 27th February February
Cardiff Carry on Devils Screaming vs Glasgow Screening: Clan
The
The House Viola by Arena
the Sea
Olympian Chapter Arts Drive, Centre, CF11 0JS
7.30 Market pm Road, face off Cardiff (Doors CF5 open 1QEat 6.30)
https://www.cardiffdevils.com/tickets/match-
www.chapter.org
tickets/
Every Friday at 11am, Carry on Screaming allows
Booking parents or is carers necessary to see and a film we advise at Chapter doing without so
having advance to worry as games about do their sell baby out at causing this point
a
in disturbance. the season. Free They entry can for be babies. booked £2.50 online -£4.50. or
by Book calling online 0800 or on 0842 029666. 2030 Children 4400. tickets cost
from £8 and adults from £16
Toddler Time
Half Wales Term Millennium Craft Centre, Club for 7-12 year olds
Cardiff Bute Place, MADE Cardiff Café & Bay, Studio, CF10 41 5AL Lochaber Street,
Roath, www.wmc.org.uk
Cardiff, CF24 3LS
www.larkdesignmake.co.uk
11am - 2.30pm. For babies and toddlers up
10am to 5-years-old. – 3.30pm. Toddler One day Time craft is a clubs monthly where
children favourite will for learn new mums, new skills dads and and take babies home
2 where personal everyone and useful can make hand new made friends, products. express
Today’s themselves morning and be sewing curious! activity: Tel: 029 make 2063 a cool 6464.
cupcake cushion. Afternoon craft activity: Soap
Making, Free Toddler but not Time any soaps, these soaps will
look National and smell Museum like Cardiff, doughnuts! £35 per day,
discounts Cathays Park, for siblings Cardiff, or CF10 multi 3NP day bookings.
Booking www.museumwales.ac.uk
essential either online or or call
Gemma 11am - 4pm. on 07419 Every 731772. Friday during term time
toddlers can enjoy special boxes of toys, games
Nest and books Building in different Workshop galleries to help parents
Cwmcarn with children Forest explore Visitor the Centre, Museum through
Crosskeys, play. Themed Newport, toys and NP11 activities 7FA with museum
www.cwmcarnforest.co.uk
staff 1.30pm - 2.55pm, story at 3pm.
10.30am Tel: 0300 - 111 11.15am 2 333. & 11.45am - 12.30pm.
Age 4+. £4 per child. Booking essential. Try
your Saturday hand at 16th building February a birds nest using clay
and Cardiff natural Devils materials. vs Milton Tel: 01495 Keynes 272001.
Lightning
Winter The Viola Wildlife Arena at the Park
Margam Olympian Country Drive, CF11 Park, 0JS Margam,
Neath 7 pm face Port off Talbot, (Doors SA13 open 2TJat 6)
www.margamcountrypark.co.uk
Website: https://www.cardiffdevils.com/
11am tickets/match-tickets/
- 3pm. Join the Discovery team and learn
about Booking wildlife is necessary in the winter and we plus advise enjoy doing craft so
activities in advance such as games as making do sell bird out feeders. at this Discover point
how in the to season. look for They tracks can and be signs booked of wildlife. online or
Meet by calling at the 0800 Castle. 0842 Plus 666. Have Children a Go at tickets Archery cost
with from Margam £8 and adults Archery from Club £16 from 11am - 3pm.
3 arrows - £1. Meet at the BBQ site at rear of
Castle. Parent Plus & RSPB Child - Workshop Give nature a - home Resin - enjoy
family Coaster fun Making nature activities 11am - 3pm on
Castle Cardiff Lawns MADE (in Café Castle & Studio, if wet). 41 Lochaber Street,
Tel: Roath, 01639 Cardiff, 881635. CF24 3LS
www.larkdesignmake.co.uk
Warrior 2pm – 3.30pm. School This workshop will encourage
Cardiff team work Castle, from Castle the Street, parents CF10 and 3RB children
www.cardiffcastle.com
as you will make 4 resin coasters together,
there will lots of decorative items to add to
ROYAL MINT
Learn your coasters how to sword but feel fight free with to also Sir bring Jay and small Sir
Lewis items from that you’d the Warwick like to set Warriors in your and become
a resin, fully-fledged small photographs knight. Held can indoors be in the
atmospheric really effective 15th to century personalise Undercroft the and
ending designs. in £20 a knighting per adult ceremony. and child Tickets for this
event team. cover Book the online workshop call and access to the
Castle Gemma grounds on 07419 including 731772. the Keep, Wartime
Tunnels and Battlement Walk. An additional
charge Family applies Feature: for access to other areas.
Suitable Bumblebee for ages (PG) 5 - 16 years. For safety
reasons, Chapter children Arts Centre, under 5 may not participate
but Market may Road, accompany Cardiff adults CF5 1QE who have
purchased www.chapter.org a ticket. Please note these sessions
are 11am extremely & 3pm. popular On the run and in may the sell year out 1987, in
advance. Bumblebee Timed seeks slots. refuge Limited in a junkyard availability in - a
booking small California necessary. beach Tel: town. 029 2087 Charlie, 8100. on the
brink of turning 18 years old and trying to
Build find her Your place Own in the Nest world, Box soon discovers the
Bryngarw battle-scarred Country and Park, broken Bumblebee. When
Brynmenyn, Charlie revives Bridgend, him, she CF32 quickly 8UUlearns that this
www.bryngarwcountrypark.co.uk
is no ordinary yellow Volkswagen… £2.50
11am
- £4.50.
- 3pm.
Children
£6.50
under
per child.
12-years-old
Build your
must be
own
accompanied
bird box for
by
your
an adult.
garden. All materials
provided.
Book online
Adult
or on
supervision
029 2030
is
4400.
required. Slots
every 10 mins from 11am to 3pm. One nest box
per
Monthly
time slot
Nature
- if you have
Ramble
more than one child
Forest Farm Warden Centre, Forest Farm Road,
please book consecutive time slots.
Whitchurch, Cardiff, CF14 7JJ
Tel: 01656 725155.
www.outdoorcardiff.com
10am - 12pm. Free. Take your binoculars (if you
Bats, Rats and Cats Crafts
have them) and join the Friends of Forest Farm
Big
on a
Pit
guided
National
walk
Coal
to
Museum,
identify the ever changing
Blaenavon,
array of birds
Torfaen,
and wildlife
NP4 9XP
which call Forest
www.museum.wales/bigpit
Farm home. Tel: 029 2044 5903.
11am - 4pm. Some animals worked
underground
Space Day
at Big Pit helping the miners,
others National were Botanic not so Garden welcome. of Wales, Find out Middleton
about Hall, Llanarthne, the animals Carmarthenshire, you might have found SA32 8HN
underground www.botanicgarden.wales
and in the surrounding area.
£2 From per 2pm. child. Emma Tel: 029 Ride, 2057 of 3650. AstroCymru, and
her 3D cinema, making rockets, studying
Cooking meteorites on and a Campfire
fossils. From 6pm - 9pm:
Dyffryn Star Party Gardens, – join St the Nicholas, Swansea Vale Astronomical of
Glamorgan, Society and CF5 gaze 6SU at the stars. Talks, demos and
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dyffryn-gardens
telescope clinic for those wanting to get more
11am out of - their 2pm. equipment. £2 per s’mores Tel: 01558 kit, plus 667149.
admissions. Get back to nature and cooking
in Saturday the great outdoors. 16th February Grab a s’mores - kit,
make Sunday your 3rd way March to the campfire and toast
marshmallows Zoo Detectives to squish between two
delicious Bristol Zoo, chocolatey College Rd, biscuits. Gluten free,
vegetarian Clifton, Bristol and BS8 vegan 3HA options are available.
Normal www.bristolzoo.org.uk
admission charges apply.
Tel: Enjoy 029 a 2059 detective 3328. trail, evidence vault - join the
line up and much more. Tel: 0117 428 5300.
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