Primary Times - the definitive what’s on and where to go family guide of activities and events for children of primary school age. Things to do with your kids during the school holidays including arts and craft activities, music and theatre for children, parties, competitions, days out, and family attractions along with term time drama schools, dance classes, after school clubs and sports activities. Things to do at a place near you!
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Golden Star Hunt
3rd February-13th March 2026
Venue: Brockhole on Windermere
Address: Windermere, LA23 1FF
Website: https://www.brockhole.co.uk/whats-on/golden-star-hunt/#main
Discover the Magic Every Morning! Welcome to the Golden Star Hunt at Brockhole on Windermere! Nestled in the beautiful grounds of Brockhole and the charming White House, this morning adventure is perfect...
Giant Soft Bricks Playland
7th July-7th September 2025
Venue: Beacon Museum
Address: West Strand, Whitehaven, CA28 7LY
Website: https://thebeacon-whitehaven.co.uk/galleries/galleries-giant-bricks-soft-playland/
Get ready for a colourful, action-packed adventure where fun meets learning! Giant Soft Bricks Playland is an extraordinary indoor playground designed to excite, engage, and educate children aged 6 months...
Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit
7th July-31st August 2025
Venue: Old Laundry Theatre
Address: Crag Brow, Bowness on Windermere, LA23 3BX
Website: https://www.oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk/events/category/all/family/
Hop to your seats, join in the fun and watch with delight as your favourite characters are brought to life in a theatrical spectacular with beautiful puppets and enchanting songs. It’s Peter Rabbit’s...
Mini Trek Windermere
7th July-7th September 2025
Venue: Zip World
Address: Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 1LJ
Website: https://www.zipworld.co.uk/adventures/mini-trek-windermere
A treetop high-ropes course for the adventurous. Zips, floating platforms, rope bridges… there’ll be plenty for them to get stuck into whilst surrounded by nature. Get them up, out and moving on this...
Vulture Awareness Days
16th August-4th September 2025
Venue: Lake District Wildlife Park
Address: Bassenthwaite Lake, Keswick, CA12 4RD
Website: https://www.lakedistrictwildlifepark.co.uk/whats-on/events/vulture-awareness-days/
Come and see the Park’s Vultures Baldric, Farnham and Gonzo. Learn about the work we do with the Hawk Conservancy Trust to help to protect this group of endangered birds. Did you know that Vultures are...
Much Ado About Nothing: The Handlebards
4th September 2025
Venue: Castletown House and Gardens
Address: Rockcliffe, Carlisle, CA6 4BN
Website: https://www.handlebards.com/show/much-ado-about-nothing-castletown-house-and-gardens/
6.30 to 8.30pm. Pedalling from venue to venue with their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally...
Apple Tasting Weekends
8th September-12th October 2025
Venue: Acorn Bank
Address: Temple Sowerby, near Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 1SP
11am to 3pm every Saturday and Sunday. Taste the rainbow of flavours from Acorn Bank's orchard. The 175 varieties of apple growing under the care of Acorn Bank’s Garden team start to ripen at the end...
Mini Trek Windermere
8th September-12th October 2025
Venue: Zip World
Address: Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, LA23 1LJ
Website: https://www.zipworld.co.uk/adventures/mini-trek-windermere
A treetop high-ropes course for the adventurous. Zips, floating platforms, rope bridges… there’ll be plenty for them to get stuck into whilst surrounded by nature. Get them up, out and moving on this...
Mischief in Miniature
8th September-12th October 2025
Venue: Hill Top
Address: Near Sawrey, Cumbria, LA22 0LF
10am to 4pm daily. The Tale of Two Bad Mice comes to life at Hill Top, with little needle-felted mice in various mischievous scenes around the property for you to try and spot. 'Mischief in Miniature'...
Apples & Bees
12th-21st September 2025
Venue: Dalemain Mansion
Address: Dalemain, Penrith CA11 0HB
Website: https://www.dalemain.com/events/applesbees
A Celebration of the Late Summer Bounty from the Garden at Dalemain. This is a weeklong celebration of the harvest from the garden, focusing on our historic apple collection and our Dalemain Bees. There...
Bark in The Park
14th September 2025
Venue: Ford Park
Address: Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 7JP
Website: https://www.ford-park.org.uk/event-details-registration/bark-in-the-park-2
11am to 4pm. Get those leads ready, polish up those paws and fluff up those ears—Bark in the Park is bounding back to Ford Park this September, and it’s bigger and even more tail-waggingly fun than...
The Ultimate Bubble Show
14th-14th September 2025
Venue: Old Laundry Theatre
Address: Crag Brow, Bowness on Windermere, LA23 3BX
Website: https://www.oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk/event/the-ultimate-bubble-show-2/2025-09-14/
Join Ray, International Bubbleologist and Guinness World Record Holder, and help him in his quest to complete the bubble game and make the ultimate bubble. A fast-paced show full of high energy and surprises...
Art Explorers
16th September 2025
Venue: Brewery Arts
Address: 122A Highgate, Kendal LA9 4HE
Website: https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/event/art-explorers/
1 to 2.30pm. Art Explorers is a creative and sociable mixed media arts class for young people in the home education community. Classes are tutor led but creative interpretation is encouraged in a relaxed...
Artseen Tuesday
16th September 2025
Venue: Brewery Arts
Address: 122A Highgate, Kendal LA9 4HE
Website: https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/event/artseen-tuesday/
4 to 5.30pm. This ten-week course, suitable for children aged 7 to 16years runs until 2nd December, with no classes during the weeks commencing 27 Oct or 17 Nov. Artseen Tuesday is a fun and lively class....
Clay Club
18th September 2025
Venue: Brewery Arts
Address: 122A Highgate, Kendal LA9 4HE
Website: https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/event/clay-club/
4 to 5.30pm. This ten-week course, suitable for children aged 7 to 16 years runs until 4th December, with no classes during the weeks commencing 27 Oct or 17 Nov. During Clay Club a series of expert makers...
Makers Club
18th September 2025
Venue: Brewery Arts
Address: 122A Highgate, Kendal LA9 4HE
Website: https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/event/makers-club/
4 to 5.30pm. This ten-week course, suitable for children aged 7 to 14 years runs until 4th December, with no classes during the weeks commencing 27 Oct or 17 Nov. Immerse yourself in fun and inspiring...
WADAMS Addams Family
18th-20th September 2025
Venue: Carnegie Theatre
Address: Finkle Street, Workington, CA14 2BD
Website: https://carnegietheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873657049
From the group that brought you Joseph, Frozen and The Wizard of Oz, WADAMS Next Generation are excited to be performing The Addams Family. A musical comedy where Wednesday Addams, now grown, has fallen...
Brewery Youth Dance
19th September 2025
Venue: Brewery Arts
Address: 122A Highgate, Kendal LA9 4HE
Website: https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/event/brewery-youth-dance-7-to-11-yrs/
5 to 6pm. This ten-week course, suitable for children aged 7 to 11 years runs until 4th December, with no classes during the weeks commencing 27 Oct or 17 Nov. Brewery Youth Dance is a fun and inclusive...
Ulverston Lantern Festival
20th September 2025
Venue: Ulverston Town Centre
Website: https://ulverstonlanternfestival.org/
The theme for 2025 is Music! On Saturday September 20th Ulverston will once again come alive with a river of light that will start from four points around the town before converging on County Square to...
Vintage Book Sale
20th-21st September 2025
Venue: Acorn Bank
Address: Temple Sowerby, near Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 1SP
10.30am to 4pm. Pop into our second-hand bookshop where, for a few weekends only, there'll be a selection of rare and vintage books for sale. From historical fiction to early editions, drop into the second-hand...
Phoenix Fest 2025
27th-28th September 2025
Venue: Windermere Jetty Museum
Address: Rayrigg Rd, Windermere LA23 1BN
Website: https://lakelandarts.org.uk/events/phoenix-fest-2025/
Organised by The Phoenix Comic, in partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF), this exciting family-friendly event brings the world of children’s comics to life through interactive...
Make + Create Sundays
28th September 2025
Venue: Tullie
Address: Castle Street, Carlisle, CA3 8TP
Website: https://tullie.org.uk/events/make-create-sundays/var/ri-4.l-L1/
Come along and get creative with us in our new monthly sessions. From now on, the fourth Sunday of the month is a Make + Create day. Enjoy our new City Hall Studio and try out some arty, crafty activities....
Apple Day
4th October 2025
Venue: Ford Park
Address: Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 7JP
Website: https://www.ford-park.org.uk/event-details-registration/apple-day-3
11am to 4pm. We're looking forward to welcoming you all to Ford Park for Apple Day - our fabulous FREE community event celebrating all things apple! As always, there will be lots to see and do, including...
Carlisle Farmers' Market 2025
4th October 2025
Venue: Carlisle Cathedral
Address: The Abbey, Carlisle, CA3 8TZ
Website: https://carlislecathedral.org.uk/farmers-market/
9am to 2pm. Join us on the first Saturday every month (except January) for Carlisle Farmers’ Market. In the historic grounds of the Cathedral, you’ll find everything from homemade goodies to artisan...
Family Bushcraft
4th-5th October 2025
Venue: Windermere and Footprint
Address: Footprint, St Catherine's, Patterdale Road, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 1NH
Two days of fun and memorable experiences. Learn effective fire lighting and bushcraft skills, build and sleep in your own shelter, greenwood carving skills, campfire cooking (food included), nature walk...
Evening Bat Walk
10th-11th October 2025
Venue: Aira Force
Address: near Watermillock, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0JS
7.30 to 9pm. Head out for family-friendly bat and wildlife spotting adventures after dark with our Ranger team at Aira Force. New for 2025. Join us at dusk and as things get dark, the time of day when...
Grange Goshawks Wildlife Watch Group
12th October 2025
Venue: Brown Robin Nature Reserve
Address: Grange over Sands, Cumbria, LA11 6EG
Website: https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2025-10-05-grange-goshawks-wildlife-watch-group
10am to 12pm. Grange Wildlife Watch Group meets on the first Sunday of the month, for children up to 12 years old. This month we are meeting at Brown Robin Nature Reserve to look through the fantastic...
WAOS: West Side Story
15th-18th October 2025
Venue: Carnegie Theatre
Address: Finkle Street, Workington, CA14 2BD
Website: https://carnegietheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873656205
From the society that brought you Annie and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Workington Amateur Operatic society present ‘West Side Story’, a retelling of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, set...
Enchanted: The Candlelight Concert
18th October 2025
Venue: Carlisle Cathedral
Address: The Abbey, Carlisle, CA3 8TZ
Website: https://carlislecathedral.org.uk/whats-on/#calendar
5.30 to 7.30pm. Enchanted: The Candlelight Concert is a heartwarming and magical musical experience that brings the beloved songs of fairy tales to life in a truly enchanting candlelit setting. Performed...