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Published: Sunday, 26th October, 2008 12:00

Ideas to keep you busy at half term

By Sarah Tull

Keep the kids busy with these half term treats

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27

Tots Tumble 10.00am - 12noon, Palmer Park Sports Stadium. Bring your toddlers to our fantastic supervised soft play session with bouncy castle.

A great way to burn off that excess energy!For Under 5’s, £2.90/£2.40 2nd child per session.

Mini Soccer 10am-12 noon, Palmer Park Stadium.

This session will concentrate on ball skills and drills with plenty of action packed games and goals galore for the under 8s. In association with Reading Football Club.£6 per child, please book on 01189015080

Soccer Skills 10.00am - 3.00pm Palmer Park Sports Stadium. These sessions will cover skills, drills and plenty of action packed games with goals galore for 8-12 year olds!

In association with Reading Football Club. £12 per child, Tel 0118 901 5080

Kick Around for £1 9.30am - 4.30pm, Palmer Park Sports Stadium during October Half term you and your friends can play football for only £1 per person - goals galore!

Monday 27 to Friday 31 October 9.30am – 4.30pm. Under 16 years, £1.00 per person. Subject to availability

A Grimm World 2pm at South Hill Park. 'The Tim Burton of children’s theatre’ director Gavin Robertson tells the story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm who have got to get to their publisher before the French army capture them and their precious stories!

Ages 7-11. £11 per ticket or £29 for a family.

Diving Crash Courses 12.15 - 1.00/1.00 – 1.45pm, running Monday to Friday at Central Swimming Pool. A great opportunity for kids to learn to dive or improve on their existing skills. Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Candidates must be competent swimmers and aged 6+ years.

Please book £25.50/£24.75 with YRP, per course. Central Swimming Pool, Tel: 0118 901 5070

Surestart and BACYP are hosting a range of activities from basketball and football to dance and craft. So come along, meet new friends, try new activities and most importantly have lots of fun! At Great Shefford Village Hall.

For 8-14 year olds, contact Andrew Homer on 0118 9231259 or email andrew.homer@bacyp.co.uk for more information.

Lego Star wars training and Firework display at Legoland Windsor.

Come and join us in training activities to prepare yourselves for the Clone Wars. Complete at least two out of the five activities below to become a Jedi Knight! And after a full day of Star Wars activities, it’s all eyes to the skies for one of the most spectacular fireworks displays in Britain, celebrating the events that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

The Old Shire Horse Centre on the Bath Road, Littlewick Green, has Halloween activities over the half-term holiday. Events include pumpkin carving, Halloween pottery painting, scary card making and scrapbook workshops and a pumpkin trail through the farm. www.theoldshirehorsecentre.com

Wellington Country Park. All week children in Halloween costumes get

half price entry.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28

Mini Soccer 10am-12 noon, Palmer Park Stadium. See Monday

Soccer Skills 10.00am - 3.00pm Palmer Park Sports Stadium. See Monday

Kick Around for £1 9.30am - 4.30pm, Palmer Park Sports Stadium

StageAbility Half Term Workshop For girls and boys aged 8+ High School Musical Workshop .£24 per day.

Call Jackie on 0845 050 8245 or email info@berkshire.stageability.co.uk 10am - 4pm

Trampoline Taster- Tuesday 28 October 11.30am - 12.30pm, Meadway Sports Centre.

If you’ve always wanted to try trampolining then this is your chance, our coach will teach you the basic bounces and help you to progress onto more complex moves.

Places cost £4.20/£3.80 with YRP per child. Booking is recommended on 0118 901 5060

Bouncing Babes- 9.30 - 10.30am & 10.30 - 11.30am, under 5’s,

£4.20/£3.80 with YRP, Meadway Sports Centre.

Bring your toddlers along for some bouncing around on the trampoline this half term.

Parental supervision is required at all times. Children must wear socks. For the under 5’s, £4.20/£3.80 with YRP, please book Meadway Sports Centre Tel 0118 901 5060

Let’s Dance the Asian Way 10am, 11am, 1pm & 2pm, Museum of Reading, Blagrave Street. Bring your dancing feet and join Ashwini Kaleskar to learn some Indian dance moves incorporating traditional steps and Bollywood grooves. Ages 7+, 45 minute sessions.

Entry: £2 pay on the day - Tel 0118 939 9800

For 8-14 year olds. For more details contact Andrew Homer on 0118 9231259 or email andrew.homer@bacyp.co.uk

Three Billy Goats Gruff & other Furry Tails 11.30am-2pm.

He’s on the run from those three-headed monsters, trying to bring you the most fantastic tales from the Magic Land of Three.

Suitable for anyone aged 3 and up; 55 mins. Tickets: £6.50, £22 group ticket for 4 persons (at least 1 child and at least 1 adult)

Beale Park 11am-3pm

Circus workshop including juggling, unicycling, hand-held stilts, diabolo and spinning plates and a Halloween arts and crafts workshop, where children can create their own masks and puppets to spook their friends.

£4 per session plus the low season entrance fee.

Lego Star wars training at Legoland Windsor. See Monday.

The Old Shire Horse Centre on the Bath Road, Littlewick Green. See Monday.

Wellington Country Park All week children in Halloween costumes get half price entry.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29

Three Billy Goats Gruff & other Furry Tails 11.30am & 2pm. See Tuesday

Beale Park- Circus workshop and Halloween arts and crafts workshop. See Tuesday.

StageAbility Half Term Workshops For girls and boys aged 8+ Street Dance Workshop. £24 per day. Call Jackie on 0845 050 8245 or email info@berkshire.stageability.co.uk. 10am-4pm

Surestart and BACYP are hosting a range of activities from basketball and football to dance and craft. So come along, meet new friends, try new activities and most importantly have lots of fun!

At Hermitage Village Hall. For 8-14 year olds.

For more details contact Andrew Homer on 0118 9231259 or email andrew.homer@bacyp.co.uk

Lego Star wars training at Legoland Windsor. See Monday.

The Old Shire Horse Centre on the Bath Road, Littlewick Green. See Monday.

Wellington Country Park All week children in Halloween costumes get half price entry.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30

Pied Piper Trail 2 - 2.45pm, Museum of Reading, Blagrave Street.

Celebrating Black History Month, take a walk with a Museum of Reading guide focusing on the past and present of Reading’s Black communities.

Start by the Chilis Terrace restaurant by the Oracle. Suitable for all ages. Entry is Free. Tel 0118 939 9800

Surestart and BACYP activities are hosting a range of activities from basketball and football to dance and craft. So come along, meet new friends, try new activities and most importantly have lots of fun! Frilsham Village Hall

Puck’s Bottom 11.30am & 2pm. Based on 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ - 'Puck’s Bottom’ is an enchanting burlesque tale for children from 5 years and their parents.

Tickets: £6.50, £22 group ticket for 4 persons (at least 1 child and at least 1 adult)

StageAbility Half Term Workshops 10am - 4pmFor girls and boys aged 8+ Grease and Hairspray Musical.

£24 per day Call Jackie on 0845 050 8245 or email info@berkshire.stageability.co.uk

The Old Shire Horse Centre on the Bath Road, Littlewick Green. See Monday.

Wellington Country Park. All week children in Halloween costumes get half price entry.

Halloween puppet show at Wellington Country Park.

Lego Star wars training at Legoland Windsor. See Monday.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

Surestart and BACYP are hosting a range of activities from basketball and football to dance and craft. So come along, meet new friends, try new activities and most importantly have lots of fun.

At Brightwalton Village Hall, for 8-14 year olds. For more details contact Andrew Homer on 0118 9231259 or email andrew.homer@bacyp.co.uk

Autumnal Mobiles and Beauty & the Beast Props Workshops for ages 6-11yrs at South Hill Park.

Our talented set designer will show you how to make a fantastic mobile using natural objects or props from a favorite Disney tale. £14 each, you will need to phone the box office on 01344 484123.

The children will be supervised during lunch, but they should bring their own lunch box.

Lego Star wars training at Legoland Windsor. See Monday.

The Old Shire Horse Centre on the Bath Road, Littlewick Green. See Monday.

Wellington Country Park. All week children in Halloween costumes get half price entry.

'Spooky Clowns’ show.

Tots Tumble Halloween Party at Palmer Park Sports Stadium for Under

5’s. £2.90 then £2.40 for 2nd child. Runs 9.30 – 11.30am.

Wild Halloween party for children at Old Orleans with a spooky treasure hunt, competitions, lots of party games and a magic show. Wear your spookiest, scariest outfit as prizes will be given to the best dressed.

Fun will be followed by yummy lunch and desert. Parents welcome and the party will be held at Unit 5, The Oracle. Pre-booking advisable. 9am-12 noon, £10 per child. Phone 0118 9512 678.

Museum of Reading- This Halloween event and learn about the ghosts, vampires and werewolves of Ancient Greece. Design and make your own paper stained glass window to take home. Suitable for children aged 6 years and over. £3 per child, accompanying adult free.

Booking required. For more information or to book phone 0118 378 6990.

Halloween Art Factory running at South Hill Park This event is suitable for ages 6-11yrs and runs 10am-noon. This is followed by the chance to make Halloween Biscuits ready to give to friends as they pop round for their trick or treat. Both cost £14 per session and booking in advance is advised in addition to providing own packed lunch.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Wellington Country park-'Best Halloween Costume’ competition and apple dunking.

Milestone Centre in Caversham Park Village -Halloween Family ball.

Family tickets cost just £3 and the spookey fun starts at 7:30pm running until 12am. Dress code is Fancy Dress!

Windsor Racecourse Characters from the Theatre Royal Windsor’s’ Pantomime Peter Pan will help light the bonfire and fireworks, 50th Anniversary Chupa Chups Girls will be on hand to with free lollies for the kids and Green Watch from Windsor Fire station will be showing off their fire engines. Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead will be

holding a workshop for the “River of Light”. The Rotary Club of Windsor & St George will once again be selling glow sticks and mulled wine.

Time 106.6 will be hosting the stage, and there will be a performance from The Battle of the Divas. Gates open 5.15pm. Adults £7 (£5 in advance), children £6 (£4 in advance).

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Wellington Country park-'Best Halloween Costume’ competition and apple

dunking.

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