Looking to plan a few fun days out with the kids this Easter holidays? We’ve got you covered, as here are 15 fun places you can visit in and around Cambridge this half term!
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1) Wimpole Estate
This Easter for 4 days only you can visit the Wimpole Estate for the ultimate Cadbury’s Easter egg hunt! Gather your friends and family to explore the Wimpole wildlife views, solve the clues and win a tasty prize. This can be a great hour or so with your children, where they have to put their thinking caps and running boots on! To book, visit their website here.
2) Fitzwilliam Museum
Visiting the famous Fitzwilliam Museum this Easter holidays will allow you to discover a variety of new exhibitions. For instance, on show are the exhibitions:
- Things of Beauty Growing: British studio pottery.
- Flux: Parian unpacked.
- Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum.
- The Object of My Affection: stories of love from the Fitzwilliam collection.
- Designed to Impress.
As well as their current exhibitions, you can enjoy a fresh load of history and education, learning about a variety of culture and stories that will simply wow you as a visitor. This is a great idea if your kids are intrigued by history and cool artefacts. Learn more here.
3) Shepreth Wildlife Park
Located just outside of Cambridge, you and the kids can enjoy an amazing experience getting up and close with some of the world’s coolest animals. This Easter, you can participate in the park’s very own Easter hunt this 2019 – Simply hunt down the hidden photos and claim your yummy reward! All kids love the zoo, so book now!
4) Anglesey Abbey
Located just outside of Cambridge, you can visit the historic house and beautiful gardens for the ultimate Easter views! What’s new? Those bunnies have been up to mischief again – from just £2.50, you and your kids can participate in another Cadbury’s Easter egg hunt! Learn more here.
5) Nature Walks
Nature Walks
Within and around the historical, busy areas of Cambridge, are some truly stunning trails and fields that you can take a beautiful walk around. With the dogs, kids and even a picnic basket, you can enjoy a relaxing walk with some beautiful views whilst your kids tire each other out with all of the space to run around. You might even see the Easter bunnies!
6) Cambridge’s Botanic Gardens
As well as it’ stunning, one-of-a-kind garden views located in the heart of the city, this Easter your kids can become a secret agent and follow the Garden’s free, self-guided, tree-themed family trail. Called the “Crazy Cone Caper”, there has been an extreme disappearance of seeds from cones and no-one knows who is taking them. You, as a secret agent, need to track down the culprit and save the gardens! It’s so much fun, you should definitely consider visiting here with the kids!
7) Wandlebury Country Park
On 12th April, visit the park where your kids can enjoy some beautiful walks and bedtime stories. Situated all outside, arrive in your PJs to embrace the nightlife of the park – something you truly wouldn’t want to miss out on! Learn more here.
8) Go Visit Some Lambs
From 18th April to 7th May, you can visit some adorable baby lambs at the Wimpole Hall Farm. This is a great way to celebrate Easter, who doesn’t love a new life? We certainly can’t resist it – especially if it’s a little baby lamb! Learn more about lambing season here.
9) Kings Camps
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These activity camps allow your children to experience an incredible, unforgettable school holiday, having fun, making friends and learning together. It is a non-profit organisation with a few camps based around Cambridge that your kids can get involved in! Their key elements are Teamwork, Agility, Strength, Coordination and Confidence, and they aim to help children develop these five core skills by the end of their experience. You can learn more here.
10) Punting Tour
Take your kids on a punting tour for a super cool experience. Witness the historical city within a different perspective like no other, whilst your kids fascinate over the water below them. This is a great idea if you and your family love touring and being on the water.
11) Bike Ride
Cambridge is very well-known for its chaos of bikes! People highly rely on bikes as transport that much, the city has actually adapted to it, adding bike lanes and secure sheds on almost every street corner and road! With the combination of cycle-friendly roads and beautiful historic views around the whole city, this is the perfect place to come for a bike ride! Even if you don’t have a bike, there are plenty of bikes hires too.
12) Cambridge Junction
If your family enjoy comedy, music and theatre, the Junction is a jewel venue full of independent arts and entertainment. It’s not very known, but they offer entertainment for all audience types and can be a great night out for you. Book your tickets for a music concert, play or stand-up comedy here.
13) Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Located right in the heart of the city, there are lots of dinosaur-related activities to participate in! It’s fascinating for those curious of the extinct species – with interactive exhibits, fossils, rocks and mineral specimens found from around the world, the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences can be an educational and fun place to visit with your children!
14) The Cambridge Treasure Hunt Trail
Does your family love a challenge? In Cambridge, you can participate in the super fun treasure hunt trail around the city. Suitable for the whole family, you can spend some quality time together on this self-guided hunt exploring around the North of Cambridge and it’s city centre.
Things to do in Cambridge in the Easter Holidays
15) The Cambridge Science Centre
Perfect for kids, this fun science centre will give you and your family a hands-on experience! Here you can press buttons, pull levels and look through lenses for some cool scientific approaches – the interaction makes the informative side of Science look a lot more fun, so your kids can learn and play simultaneously!
Thanks for reading, have a good half-term!