This October has a number of activities taking place across Oxfordshire and the surrounding areas! Courtesy of Little Ankle Biters there are some great events below that they have compiled together.
Oxford Story Museum Half Term Happenings
Join The Story Museum this October Half Term for a packed programme of events and workshops, they have a number of activities happening across the week including meeting real life owls, spooky story telling and poem writing, a bogey man slime workshop and creating your own spooky house.
Details
Location: Rochester House, 42 Pembroke St, Oxford OX1 1BP
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Bats, Cats Witches and Charms at Oxford’ Natural Museum
A Halloween special – activities exploring creatures of the night, magic charms and mysteries to be solved.
Details
Location: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW
Date: Monday 23rd October – Wednesday 25th October
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Half term at Yarnton Nurseries
Activities include Pumpkin carving, Face Painting and a Children’s Entertainer
Details
Location: Yarnton Nurseries, Sandy Lane, Yarnton, Kidlington, Oxon. OX5 1PA
Date: Wednesday 25th – Friday 27th October 11am – 4pm
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Halloween Entertainment at Blenheim Palace
As autumn draws in and the nights become longer, Blenheim Palace has a delightfully spooky itinerary of events and activities to entertain your little ghouls during October Half Term.
Hop on board the ghost train to go through a creepy tunnel to the Pleasure Gardens where a bone-anza of activities are to be found.
Families can lurk around the Labyrinth or take the Mini-beasts Trail, and there will be a whole host of treats on offer in the Pleasure Gardens Deli including ice-scream and toffee apples, with pumpkin carving too!
Head to the cinema in the Stables Courtyard for classic Halloween storytelling, and there will be Spooky Tours running throughout the week with terrorific candlelit tours on selected dates…
Details
Location: Blenheim Palace,Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1PP
Date: 21st – 29th October
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Half Term at Millets Farm Centre
There are lots of activities happening at Millets Farm Centre this half term including Halloween Spooky Fun in the Maize Maze, Children’s Jewellery Making Workshops, Hocus Pocus sessions with Millets friendly witch and a Halloween Circus.
Details
Location: Millets Farm Centre, Kingston Road, Frilford, Nr Abingdon, Oxfordshire. OX13 5HB
Dates: 21st October – 29th October
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Halloween Show
Things aren’t always what they seem in this Halloween-themed interactive family show from Science Oxford…
Follow the hero as he meets the monsters in his neighbourhood and astounds them with his science tricks. Expect spooky surprises, eerie experiments and dramatic demonstrations as well as plenty of audience participation.
A show suitable for even the most faint-hearted little monster!
Details
Location: Kennington Village Hall, Kennington Rd, Oxford , OX1 5PG
Dates: Tuesday 24th October 3pm – 4pm
Costs: £5 per person
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Halloween Trail at Cliveden
This half term there are some spooky Halloween happenings down in the woods at Cliveden! Bring your little ones to Cliveden National Trust for a fun Halloween trail around the grounds of stunning Cliveden.
Details
Location: Cliveden Road, Taplow SL6 0JF
Dates: Trust between 21 and 29 October, anytime from 11.00am – 2.30pm
Costs: £3.00 per child.
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Halloween Festival at Odds Farm Park, Wooburn Common
This Half Term from the 21 – 31 October, get ready for stacks of Halloween fun at Odds Farm! Enjoy fun Halloween entertainment, dress up in your creepiest costume to take part in the twice-daily fancy dress competitions and carve a pumpkin to take home with you! How spooky will you make yours? Plus, new for 2017, take part in the Crafty Trick or Treat Walk.
Details
Location: Wooburn Common, Wooburn Green, High Wycombe HP10 0LX
Dates: 21st – 31st Ocober
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Starry Skies – Planetarium, Science Oxford
Did you know that there are over 9000 visible stars in our night sky but this is a tiny proportion of the estimated 200 – 400 billion that make up the Milky Way? Light pollution in our cities means we rarely see more than a small fraction of our celestial neighbours, but that’s where Science Oxford can help. In our inflatable planetarium you can see the night sky as it really is.
You will be shown how to navigate the stars, demonstrate how the movement of the Earth creates night and day and how the sky changes through the seasons. You’ll hear some of the stories our ancestors told about the cosmos and how these relate to what we know today.
Location: Wood Farm School, 11 Titup Hall Drive, Headington, Oxford, OX3 8QQ
Date and time: Wednesday, 25th October 2017 – 10AM, 11AM, 12PM, 2PM, 3PM
(each session is approx 45min)
Suitable for ages 6-10
£4 per person
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Halloween at River & Rowing Museum
The River & Rowing Museum have a number of activities going on over half term including:
Gentle Giant on the 24th October 2017 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Make a massive mask out of willow and paper: learn fun new skills in construction and modelling.
Suitable for children aged 7 – 11 yrs. Price £8.50
Brilliant Bats on the 25th October 2017 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Make a glitzy 3D bat to hang on its roost. Find out how bats chat to each other with a high pitched code. Use your torch to light up dark autumn nights.
Suitable for children aged 4 – 7 yrs. Price £8.50
Magical Monsters on the 26th October 10:30am – 4pm
Explore a world of myths and monsters for Halloween! Enjoy spooky storytelling and get crafty designing bouncing spiders, pumpkin masks and plate monsters. Make monster feet to follow the mythical monster trail through the galleries and collect a spooky, tasty treat! Collaborate on our magical monster picture consequences – it’s going to be monstrous!
Details
Location: River & Rowing Museum, Mill Meadows, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire. RG9 1BF, UK
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Halloween at Waddesdon Manor
The beautiful Waddesdon Manor have a number of spooky activities happening over Halloween including Spooky Afternoon Tea for Kids, Pumpkin Carving & Painting, A Creatures of the Night Trail, Isadora Moon Day & Author Reading and a Fete Worse than Death!!
Location: Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP18 0JH
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Creation Station Halloween Family Fun
Spooky Fun for Half term for ages 2 to 11 years!
Fun but without the scare. Come along (in fancy dress if you wish) for fun craft projects and spooky messy play.
We’ll be making lots of fun projects, including a trick or treat bag and a mask. Hopefully you can have even more fun with the things you make at Halloween the following week.Overalls provided!
£7 per child
Location: Chinnor Community Pavilion, Station Road, OX39 4PU Chinnor
Date and time: Friday 27th October 9:45am – 11:15am
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Little Monsters at Bicester Avenue Wyevale Garden Centre
There are lots of activities going on at Bicester Avenue this half term from Lantern Making, Pumpkin Carving, Haunted Heather Planting, Creating your own Spooky Spiders and Halloween parties.
Location: Bicester Avenue, Oxford Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire. OX25 2NY
Date: 21 October – 5 November
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The Great Pumpkin Hunt at Waterperry Gardens
Join The Great Pumpkin Hunt throughout the October half term from 21st October to 5th November. Find the decorated pumpkins hidden around the gardens and collect a prize at the end! £2 per child
Location: Waterperry Gardens, Waterperry, Nr Wheatley, Oxfordshire OX33 1LA
Date: Date: 21 October – 5 November 10am – 5pm
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