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Easter Holidays Children’s Arts and Crafts
Age 6+. Koalas, Rabbits and so much more! These are going to be such fun!
Draw a Decorative Easter Bunny with Dawn
Tuesday 2nd April:
1:00-3:00pm Ages 8-13 (£22).
Draw an illustrated Cuddly Koala with Dawn
Wednesday 3rd April:
1:00-3:00pm Ages 6+ (£22)
Sew a character felt Plushie with Karyna
Thursday 4th April:
2:00-4:00pm Ages 6+ (£22).
Create a seaglass picture on canvas with Pat
Friday 5th April:
2:00-4:00pm Ages 8-13 (£22).
Design animal cartoon characters with Thinus
Tuesday 9th April:
2:00-4:00pm Ages 8-13 (£22).
Sew a felted key ring character with Karyna
Wednesday 10th April:
2:00-4:00pm Ages 8-13 (£22).
Design character emotion cartoons with Thinus
Thursday 11th April:
2:00-4:00pm Ages 8-13 (£22).
Daily Snick Lego Build Challenges
8th April – 12th April:
large theme murals with Dawn. Prizes for best builds.
9:00am-12:00pm Ages 6+ (£22).
Walk This Way!
Walk This Way! in April for Jersey Hospice Care…
In celebration of the arrival of Spring, this is a great way to get more active, enjoy the lighter days, and get out and about with family and friends.
WHAT IS THE CHALLENGE?
Take your pick! All we encourage you to do is walk every day for 30 days between 1 – 30 April. But everyone is different so here are some ideas for how you can take on the challenge:
- Walk a mile every day for 30 days.
- Walk 10,000 steps every day for 30 days.
- Challenge friends and family to see who can walk the most steps during the month.
- Sign up as a team of 4 and challenge another team (think inter-office or inter-firm rivalry!) to see who can walk the most steps during the month. You could also choose a destination that you could aim to ‘walk’ to – for example, a team of 4 could cover 660 miles during the month (based on 10,000 steps a day) which would take them as far as Denmark or Spain! So where could you walk to?!
You can walk whenever you like – so whether it’s as the sun is rising to start the day off right, or when it’s setting to celebrate the end of the day, your commute to and from work, to collect shopping, walk the dog, in your lunch hour, or when the children are in bed – the timing is up to you and what fits in with your day!
You can use it as a good excuse to explore all corners of the island with these self guided walking routes from Visit Jersey:
North Coast — South Coast — East Coast — West Coast
And some other walks to give you inspo:
WHAT DOES IT COST TO TAKE PART?
Adult: £10
Child (Under 16): £5
Team of 4: £40
Les P’tits Faîtchieaux
Something strange and delightful has been happening at Hamptonne over the winter!
Do you believe in magic? A visit to Hamptonne and La Hougue Bie may just change your mind.
Something strange and delightful has been happening there over the winter. Les P’tits Faîtchieaux, or little folk, are back and they have been busy creating a new home. In fact, they have been so busy, we think there could be a whole village!
We hope the fairies will stay for some time and we’d like them to settle in properly before being visited by your little people, so take the opportunity to visit them from the end of January.
Wild Islands: through the lens
Forty talented photographers from Jersey and Guernsey have contributed to this wonderful exhibition, which is the first to take place in our new museum space at Hamptonne.
More than 200 images, printed on banners, capture the incredibly rich biodiversity we have in the Channel Islands – from birds, insects and mammals, to wildflowers, fungi and sea life, with a focus particularly upon Jersey.
Bouonnefemme
Meet Rose Le Brun, the Bouonnefemme at Hamptonne, who will let you in on local secrets and village gossip
Rose’s predecessor, Old Maud, had been at Hamptonne for years, but she travelled to St Aubin to see family and never returned. Perhaps the plague got her – they had a lot of it down there.
Rose was born in the parish of St Lawrence in 1606 and lived in the Vingtaine du Coin Motier, where Hamptonne House stands, all her life. She serves as housekeeper for Jurat Laurens Hamptonne, who himself witnessed Rose lugging a large poutchie of apples up the hill, and thought her constitution would be fitting to take charge of his household.
Meet the Bouonnefemme at Hamptonne from Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 4pm (except first Friday of the month when the performance will be on a Saturday)
If meeting the Bouonnefemme is going to be the highlight of your trip to Hamptonne Country Life Museum, please call +44 (0) 1534 863 955 before you visit to check that performances are confirmed for that date.
Longhouse Tour and Fire Lighting
his 20-metre long replica Longhouse was built over two years by volunteers, with oversight from Ancient Technology expert Luke Winter. Since it was officially opened in 2019, volunteers have performed day-to-day maintenance tasks using authentic techniques and tools, and act as guides, demonstrators and interpreters to explain the project to visitors. They are also continually researching, experimenting and training to acquire more Stone Age skills to share, including basket-making and flintknapping.
Every Tuesday, a member of the volunteer team lights a fire in the Longhouse using authentic techniques. This adds warmth to the building but also stops any insect infestation in the traditional straw roof. During your visit, the volunteer will also talk about the traditional methods used and the lessons learned during the build.
If speaking to a Longhouse volunteer is going to be the highlight of your trip to La Hougue Bie, please call +44 (0) 1534 853 823 before you visit to check they are confirmed for that date.
Free JTGA guided walk Royal St Helier
I’m please to confirm that the free St Helier town walks will be returning again this year, with a change of day to Tuesdays, starting on 2 April and then every Tuesday until the end of October. As usual they begin and end at the town Hall , starting at 10:30 and lasting around 2 hours.
The walks are free and sponsored by the Parish of St Helier and each week a different JTGA ( Jersey Tourist Guides Association) guide will be covering a different aspect of the town, ranging from it’s from history to people via culture to the outright bizarre!People can turn up on the day and there MAYBE space but there are restriction on numbers for some walks so it’d be sensible to book via eventbrite HERE or by emailing me at [email protected] or 07797 780868
Mont Orgueil Castle Tour
Want to find out more about the Castle’s history? Take a free tour with one of our volunteer guides
TOUR TIMES
Tours last approx. 1 hour. Our tours are free of charge (normal entry fee applies).
The meeting point for your tour is the ticket desk.
Tours are subject to change, if a tour is to to be the highlight of your visit to Mont Orgueil Castle please call +44 (0)1534 853 292 to confirm the site tour is going ahead.
Spring Into Action – Shark-egg hunt
Join our education officer on an Easter Egg hunt with a difference.Children will learn about local ray and shark species, and help gather scientific information for the Shark Trust’s national database on the species that we have in Jersey’s waters. (Real Easter Eggs are also up for grabs!). We will also do our bit for the environment by collecting beach litter along the way.
£3 for NTJ Members – children to be accompanied by an adult (please note that tickets are only required for children). Suitable for children aged 5 – 11 years.
All equipment will be provided, advice on clothing etc. will be sent prior to event start.
To support our conservation work, and take part in many exciting events, please consider becoming a member. Family memberships are available from only £45 a year.
Kindly Supported by Jersey Electricity
(milk chocolate eggs will be given out both during and at the end of the activity, please contact us in advance if your child has any allergies, so we can make other arrangements for them)
