Family Events

Easter Egg Trail

2014 – dates to be confirmed
10.00am – 4.00pm

Enjoy a day out in the parkland with an Easter Egg Trail in the grounds.

£3 per person includes Easter gift for children. Children 3 years and under half price.

Children’s Cookery Days and Family Courses

The Children’s Cooking courses are taught by Gilly Robinson and are aimed at encouraging children to master the basics and encourage them to enjoy and experiment with food, in a friendly and fun environment. All children will take home an apron and recipe card at the end of each course.

The courses available are as follows :

Mini-Chefs : Aimed at budding young chefs, aged 6-9yrs, who can enjoy lots of hands on experience and master the basic skills. An afternoon session, which Includes a goody bag to take home.

Basics for Beginners : For the older age group (10-14yrs), designed to give them confidence in the kitchen learning skills they can try at home. Essential skills such as bread making and basic knife skills will be included. The morning session ends with lunch served at the demonstration table.

Confident Cook : For children aged 10 – 14yrs, who will have been on a Basics course or had enough experience in the kitchen to be able to cook with confidence and, for simple tasks, unsupervised. This course will inspire a young chef to experiment with more styles and themes of food than before, and cover some fairly complicated techniques.

Alternatively, if the scheduled dates don’t suit you or if you would like Gilly all to yourself, Gilly can run a private children’s cookery course for up to four at a time. This can include adults if they would like the opportunity to cook alongside their children.

For further information please go to our Children’s Cookery Course page.

Go Native Kids’ Parties

Join Chris Bax, as recently seen on Blue Peter, for a two hour session of foraging for wild food and learning woodland and survival skills in the woods. Each session lasts two hours, and ends with a picnic which parents are welcome to join.

Depending on the ages and any particular requirements, the activities involved would include some of the following :

• Den building
• Fire lighting
• Wide games
• Atlatl spear throwing
• Foraging
• Cooking
• Eating bugs
• Making dreamcatchers

£30.00 per child (including picnic). Suitable for 7 years and older, advance booking required.

Hallowe’en

Day – 26th October – 3rd November 2013

Evening – 31st October 2013

A family day out with a spooky treasure trail in the parkland. On the Sunday evening there is also a torchlit Ghost Walk from the Deerhouse – for those braver souls!

Day Event: £3 per person (children 3 yrs and under half price) includes Hallowe’en gift. Evening Event: £5 per person.
Proceeds in aid of Masham Young Farmers.

Santa at Swinton

23rd December 2013

One of our favourite events in the year, run by Acorn’s Pre-School in Masham – a festive trail in the grounds and Santa’s Grotto, with refreshments and craft making.

Santa at Swinton : £6 per child, including Christmas gift. (Proceeds in aid of Acorns Pre-School, Masham)