February Half Term Holiday Care (17-21 Feb)
Art Attack Week
Let's get creative, messy and challenged!
During February half term holiday care we will have daily indoors and outdoors art challenges - where fun is the key. Across the week we will have the following unusual and exciting art inspired activities:
- Bubble art
- 3D pop art
- Outer space abstract scene painting
- Trip to an art gallery and fun in the park
- Pottery workshop
- Outdoors crazy colour paint art
- Kidszone weaving challenge
- Topographic modelling
- Crazy cola printing
- Arty Party to end the week on Friday!
And we will bring our creativity to outdoors play too with new 'arty' versions of some favourite games and sports.
Plus we will have lots of board games, construction toys, books, role play area and sports equipment for the children to play with each day as they choose.
You can reserve a place now via our enquiry form here or email
October Half Term Holiday Care (21-25 Oct)
TRICKS and TREATS Week
For our Tricks & Treats Week this is what we did each day:
- Mon 21 Oct - Team games and trick challenges, plus pumpkin decorating and carving
- Tues 22 Oct – Magic Philip brings his magic show and workshop to Kidszone, plus paper and balloon ghost making
- Weds 23 Oct – Making spider cakes, monster masks/witches hats and Halloween scavenger hunt outside
- Thurs 24 Oct – Trip to Tenpin bowling at Parrs Wood plus pumpkin lantern making and memory games
- Fri 25 Oct – Monster Mash Party with costumes, party food, dancing and games and apple bobbing
Plus we had lots of board games, construction toys, books, role play area and sports equipment for the children to play with each day as they choose.
Summer Holiday Care (24 July - 16 Aug)
We had 18 days of Summer fun across 4 weeks!
For Summer Holiday Care 2024, we had four different themes, changing each week. Each week had a workshop or trip, a sports coach session, baking activity and loads of creative activities, team games, challenges and chill time.
Mad Science Week (24-26 July)
In this three day week a crazy science workshop from Science Boffins visited us on Thurs 25 July, we had our own science lab role play, baked with science, and used everyday objects for unusual effects….
OIympic Week (29 July-2 Aug)
To celebrate the Paris 2024 Olympics we had a sports coach to run Olympic sports sessions, we visited Bruntwood Park on Weds 31 July for a day out and picnic, we had an indoor gym for our role play, and we visited Ladybarn Park for some Kidszone Games. Plus we made Olympic bunting and our own Olympic torches.
Heroes Week (5-9 Aug)
Who’s your favourite Superhero? We created superhero t-shirts, masks, designed and baked a gingerbread hero character (to eat!), we had a gymnastics session to get superhero active, and we had a ‘bring your bike or scooter day’ to use our push and pedal powers. Plus we had a trip to Applejacks Adventure Park on Weds 7 Aug to use up all of that superhero energy!
Celebration Week (12-16 Aug)
For our final week we had all things celebration, including banner making, cake shop role play, baking and decorating banana muffins, made our own ice lollies and animal balloons, we had a circus skills workshop on Thurs 15 Aug and on Fri 16 Aug it was party day with a bouncy castle, bubbles, disco and water play.
As well as the themed activities each day we had a role play area, sports equipment, messy play, board games, construction toys, Lego, books and other toys to play with.
May Half Term Holiday Care (28-31 May)
ANIMAL MAGIC!
We had four days of animal fun with a day trip, workshop, cooking, team games and lots of crafts and outdoor activities.
- Day trip to Heaton Park to see the animal farm - Weds 29 May
- Animal handling workshop – Thurs 30 May pm
- Baking activity
- Clay animal modelling and painting
- Face painting - Fri 31 May
- Animal inspired team games every day
Easter Holiday Care (2-12 April)
FARM TO FORK WEEK - 2-5 April
We had fun finding out about how our food is grown, different farm animals, and we made our own tasty food creations.
- Cookery workshop - Weds 3 April pm
- Role play farm shop – all week
- Create junk model animals
- Animal yoga
- Food bingo
- Farmyard team games
- Sports coach - Thurs 4 April am
SPRING DETECTIVES WEEK - 8-12 April
During this week we investigated the flora (plants) and fauna (animals) that are associated with Spring and Easter time.
- Trip to Fletcher Moss Park for picnic and activities - Thurs 11 April
- Flower hunt Parsonage Pocket Park - Mon 8 April pm
- Make kites
- Paint plant pots and bulb planting
- Den building and nature watching
- Bug hunt
- Gymnastics coach - Weds 10 April
February Half Term Holiday Care (19-23 Feb)
SHOW BUSINESS WEEK
We had a fun, creative, exciting and children led 'Show Business Week' where everyone had a go at being in the limelight and behind the scenes. It was lights, camera, action week!
- Drama workshop with a theatre company
- Costume making - in our own costume and make up dept
- Film afternoon - with popcorn, tickets and ushers
- Put on our own show - written and directed by the children
- Show poster art - design our own posters
- Director's chair and film crew role play
- Special effects sensory den - play with light and sound to create
- Outdoors charades
- Kidszone flash mob dances and moves
- Team circus skills games
October Half Term Holiday Care (23-27 Oct)
SPOOKTACULAR WEEK
We had a spooky, creepy crawly, ghostly, creative, fun and exhilarating week of activity.
- Creepy Crawly Creatures animal handling with Zoo2U
- Costume making - spooky or just fun - anything goes!
- Tasty treats cooking workshop
- Pumpkin decorating and carving
- Slime messy play
- Sensory spooky play den - lights/textures/fun - definitely not scary
- Monster Mash Party - disco and party food, fancy dress and face painting
- Outdoors pumpkin trail and treat hunt
- Ghostly Games - outdoor team games with a spooky twist