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Venue: Crealy Adventure Park and Resort
Address: Clyst St Mary, Exeter, EX5 1DJ
Website: www.crealy.co.uk
Summer Fun at Crealy Find your WOW at Crealy this summer and enjoy great events, amazing rides & attractions, and magical live shows during your visit. City Cirque: Urban Stunt Show: 1pm &...
Venue: Crealy Adventure Park and Resort, Clyst St Mary
Address: Near Exeter, EX5 1DR
Website: www.crealy.co.uk
Find your WOW at Crealy this summer and enjoy great events, amazing rides and attractions, and magical live shows during your visit. Includes City Cirque Xtreme, an adrenaline-fuelled stunt show, direct...
Venue: The Tank Museum
Address: Bovington, BH20 6JG
Website: www.tankmuseum.org
Enjoy six weeks of explosive action. With Tank in Action displays every weekday- with realistic lifelike explosions and expert commentary- family trails, lots of family activities, an outdoor play area...
Time: 10am to 5.30pm
Venue: Corfe Castle
Address: Wareham, BH20 5EZ
Get hands-on with history this summer and take a step back in time to the English Civil War (1642 - 1651), where a journey of discovery and intrigue awaits. Call 01929 481294
Venue: Durlston Country Park
Address: Swanage, BH19 2JL
Website: www.durlston.co.uk
Visit fairies and elves, win a prize and make a magic wand.
Time: 10am-6pm
Venue: Kingston Lacy
Address: Near Wimborne, BH21 4EA
This summer discover how the women of the house enjoyed the summer holidays with their children and families. This is part of 'Beyond the Portrait' portraying four key women in the history of the estate....
Time: 7pm to 10pm
Venue: Poole Quay
Address: Poole, BH15 1HJ
Website: www.pooletourism.com
Also 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 August. A weekly Thursday night occasion with live music, family entertainment and a firework finale at 10pm.
Venue: Russell Cotes Museum
Address: East Cliff Promenade, Bournemouth, BH1 3AA
Website: www.russellcotes.com
A jam packed schedule of Alice in Wonderland themed activities including crafts, trails, competitions and garden games. Go for a tea party, create some famous characters and play croquet with flamingos....
Venue: Brownsea Island
Address: Poole Harbour, Poole, BH13 7EE
Explore nature and adventure this summer holiday. Call 01202 707744
Venue: Heathlands Primary Academy
Website: www.scambiocucina.com
Also 22 August. Children will make a starter, main course and dessert in each workshop. They will also partake in fun activities and learn some basic Italian.
Venue: Knighton House
Website: www.scambiocucina.com
Also 23 August. Children will make a starter, main course and dessert in each workshop. They will also partake in fun activities and learn some basic Italian.
Time: From 2.30pm
Venue: Durlston Country Park
Address: Swanage, BH19 2JL
Website: www.durlston.co.uk
Learn about Durlston's creepy crawlies at this fun event. Booking essential. Cost: £3. Call 01929 424443
Time: 10.30am to 5pm
Venue: Corfe Castle
Address: Wareham, BH20 5EZ
The 'Time Traveller's Kitchen' demonstrates culinary delights from the seventeenth century, using ingredients from Purbeck's land, sea and sky from a replica Civil War field kitchen. Call 01929 481924
Time: 10.30am – 12.15pm or 2pm – 3.45pm
Venue: Walford Mill
Address: Knobcrook Road, off Stone Lane, Wimborne BH21 1NL
Website: www.walfordmillcrafts.co.uk
Exploring the grounds of Walford Mill for materials, you will then pinch, roll and sculpt clay to create a leafy masterpiece. For 5 -12 years. Call 01202 841400
Time: From 10.30am to 12.30pm
Venue: Lorton Meadows Centre
Address: Lorton Lane, Weymouth, DT3 5QH
Discover the amazing webs, traps and subterfuge that Lorton's spiders use to catch their prey. With wildlife inspired crafts and games. Children £3. Booking essential - call 01305 816546
Time: 10.30am – 12.15pm or 2pm – 3.45pm
Venue: Walford Mill
Address: Knobcrook Road, off Stone Lane, Wimborne BH21 1NL
Website: www.walfordmillcrafts.co.uk
Help make a colony of bats 'fly' above the River Allen. Use recycled materials, create a 3D bat sculpture. For 5 -12 years. Call 01202 841400
Venue: West Bay Road
Address: Bridport, DT6 4EG
Website: www.melplashshow.co.uk
One of the largest one-day agricultural shows in the area. With livestock displays, falconry, terrier and ferret racing, show jumping, cookery demonstrations, over 300 trade stands, a fun fair and much...
Time: 11am to 12.30pm
Venue: Chesil Beach Centre
Address: Portland, DT4 9XE
Get slimy with seaweed! Learn fascinating facts, find out how to identify seaweed and have fun pressing them. For details ring 01305 206191
Venue: South Down
Address: Blandford Forum, DT11 8HX
Website: www.gdsf.co.uk
Celebrating its 50th anniversary. A large heritage and cultural event, showcasing Britain’s industrial, agricultural and rich leisure history. Working rural displays on a 500-acre site including old...
Time: 8.45pm to 10.30pm
Venue: Corfe Castle
Address: Wareham, BH20 5EZ
This August bank holiday, Purbeck Film Festival presents open-air cinema at Corfe Castle. Experience the magic of watching a film with family and friends within the castle ruins. Call 01929 481294
Time: From 11am
Venue: Durlston Country Park
Address: Swanage, BH19 2JL
Website: www.durlston.co.uk
Take your teddy, picnic and blanket to this fun-packed day and enjoy games and activities. Booking essential. Cost: £5. Call 01929 424443
Time: Starting at 2.30pm
Venue: Portfield School, Christchurch
Website: www.autismwessex.org.uk
Autism Wessex is the regional charity that provides specialist support and services to anyone affected by autism. Founded in 1968, Autism Wessex is celebrating its 50th Birthday this year and is inviting...
Venue: Durlston Country Park
Address: Swanage, BH19 2JL
Website: www.durlston.co.uk
Join artist and ‘Jackanory’ illustrator Peter Rush to create creepy crawly art from plastic cutlery. Booking essential.
Venue: Monkey World
Address: Wareham, BH20 6HH
Website: www.monkeyworld.org
On Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the summer bank holiday weekend, every child that enters the park with a melon for the primates will receive a free Monkey World badge. Call 01929 462487
Venue: River Cottage
Address: Park Farm, Axminster, EX13 8TB
Website: www.rivercottage.net
Enjoy a jam-packed programme of music, masterclasses and festival fun. For children there’s play art, Splatch Circus, wildway bushcraft, family yoga, giant bubbles, marine monster making, natural woodcraft,...
Time: 10am to 5pm
Venue: Stock Gaylard
Address: Sturminster Newton, DT10 2BG
Website: www.stockgaylard.com
Featuring over 180 wood and timber related stalls. Plus, Adams Axmen, a Heavy Horse display team, Mere Down Falconry, tree pirates and the Big Tree Climbing Company. Call 01963 23511
Venue: Brownsea Island
Address: Poole Harbour, Poole, BH13 7EE
Join the Outdoor Centre Team for a session of archery or low ropes. Book one session or both on the same day. Booking essential. Call 01202 707744
Venue: Shelly Park
Address: Boscombe Overcliff Drive, Bournemouth, BH15 ILN
Website: www.sortedindorset.com
A family festival with locally produced food and drink, live music and plenty of children’s activities.
Venue: Durlston Country Park
Address: Swanage, BH19 2JL
Website: www.durlston.co.uk
Join artist and Jackanory illustrator Peter Rush to create seabirds from wire and paper. Booking essential.
Time: 11am to 12.30pm
Venue: Chesil Beach Centre
Address: Portland, DT4 9XE
Complete the Chesil Challenge - a children's treasure trail that goes inside and outside the Centre. Look for clues to solve puzzles about Chesil Beach and the Fleet Lagoon. Suitable for ages 5+. For details...
Time: 10am to 4pm
Venue: Priest’s House Museum
Address: High Street, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1HR
Website: www.priest-house.co.uk
With plenty of fun activities for all the family. Cost: £1.75 per person. For details call 01202 882533
Time: 10am to 12pm
Venue: Burngate Stone Centre
Address: Langton Matravers, Swanage, BH19 3BE
Get creative as a family at this have-a-go stone carving session. For details and booking call 01929 439405
Venue: Bournemouth
Address: Bournemouth, BH1
Website: www.bournemouthair.co.uk
Four days of spectacular aerial displays in the skies above Bournemouth. Including displays from The Red Arrows, a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, plus a European air display too. On land, the festival...
Venue: Marine Theatre
Address: Lyme Regis, DT7 3BS
Website: www.lymefolk.com
A fun festival with a full programme of singing, dancing and music–making. Call 01297 442138
Venue: Various Venues
Address: Bridport, DT6 3LF
Website: www.bridporthatfest.org
Celebrating its 9th anniversary. A multi-day celebration of hats. With live music, a hat auction, games, hatted dogs and a huge mass hat-wearing photoshoot in Bucky Doo Square on ‘Haturday’.
Time: From 12.30pm
Venue: Durlston Country Park
Address: Swanage, BH19 2JL
Website: www.durlston.co.uk
Live classical music with the Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival. You are welcome to take instruments. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free. Call 01929 424443
Website: www.tobygardenfest.co.uk
Celebrate the harvest in the beautiful grounds of Forde Abbey near Chard in Somerset with Toby Buckland and expert speakers including Guardian writer Alys Fowler, Matt Biggs from...
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