Children's Crafts
Block Printing – Half-Term Crafts
Let out your inner designer with block printing this May half-term! Come to the Castle and try Indian block printing – experiment on card and find your own unique style, then jazz up a cloth bag with the final design using fabric paint of your choice! For all ages - why not share ideas between [...]
Beside the Sea – Summer Holiday Crafts
Celebrate the summer with crafts at the Castle! Try your hand at holiday themed crafts including decorating a lighthouse, creating a seagull puppet, making a kite and flying it at the Castle throughout the summer break (wind permitting)! Get creative with a different craft every week. Week 1 – Decorate a ceramic lighthouse tealight holder. [...]
Beside the Sea – Summer Holiday Crafts
Celebrate the summer with crafts at the Castle! Try your hand at holiday themed crafts including decorating a lighthouse, creating a seagull puppet, making a kite and flying it at the Castle throughout the summer break (wind permitting)! Get creative with a different craft every week. Week 2 – Beach pebble art. Craft activities available 11am-4pm, [...]
Beside the Sea – Summer Holiday Crafts
Celebrate the summer with crafts at the Castle! Try your hand at holiday themed crafts including decorating a lighthouse, creating a seagull puppet, making a kite and flying it at the Castle throughout the summer break (wind permitting)! Get creative with a different craft every week. Week 3 – Colour and assemble a flying wooden [...]
Beside the Sea – Summer Holiday Crafts
Celebrate the summer with crafts at the Castle! Try your hand at holiday themed crafts including decorating a lighthouse, creating a seagull puppet, making a kite and flying it at the Castle throughout the summer break (wind permitting)! Get creative with a different craft every week. Week 4 – Decorate and assemble your own kite. [...]
Witch and Wizard School
Enjoy Halloween magic in the Medieval Great Hall! Create your very own magic wand and then practise your spells with everyone's favourite teacher, Professor Bumbledum! Get into the spirit of the season by joining us in your best Halloween costume and having fun with other young witches and wizards. Plus, follow the spooky Halloween trail [...]
Pumpkin Carving
New session added on Thursday 31st October at 3.30pm. Get spooky for Halloween with pumpkin carving at the Castle! Pick out a pumpkin from our Pumpkin Patch, have fun scooping out all the seeds and draw your own design. The Castle carvers will then bring your creation to life while you relax with a hot [...]
A Family Christmas
Book your whole site admission tickets hereWorcestershire Resident Pass holders and Whole site Guardians, click here to book tickets Enjoy a magical family day out at the Christmas Castle! A Family Christmas returns to Hartlebury Castle this December! The weekend of 7th-8th December will be jam-packed with festivities and the Castle will be transformed by [...]
Crafty February Fun
Get stuck into crafts at the Castle this February half-term! Adventure awaits at Hartlebury Castle! Put your creativity to the test with three days of crafts and see what history and secrets you can discover on the Fabulous Faces family trail. Themed fancy dress is encouraged - or, why not visit our dressing up station [...]
Easter Crafts – Decorate an Easter Pot
Celebrate Easter with eggcellent crafts! Get the kids feeling arty in the holidays with Easter themed crafts at the Castle. Decorate an Easter pot to take home - to collect mini eggs, hold a pot plant, or keep pencils in. Your pot could have its own cute bunny face, feet and ears, or anything you [...]
Easter Eggstravaganza!
Book your whole site admission tickets hereWorcestershire Resident Pass holders and Whole site Guardians, click here to book tickets Eggsperience a fantastic family day out at Hartlebury Castle's Easter Eggstravaganza! Our ever-popular Easter egg hunts are back for another year from Friday 18th to Monday 21st April! Scour the grounds high and low for eggs [...]
Spring Crafts – Nature-Inspired Clay Prints
Get a spring in your step with crafts this Easter holiday! Be inspired by the beauty of the season with our second week of holiday crafts. Create nature-inspired clay prints - have fun getting messy using air drying clay and make a unique decoration to hang up at home. Available 11am to 4pm, Tuesday 22nd [...]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Fall down the rabbit hole into Wonderland on May Day! Join us at Hartlebury Castle for a special bank holiday celebration of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Decorate a tea cup perfect for a tea party with the Mad Hatter, follow an interactive trail around the site telling Alice's much-loved story, play a game of croquet, [...]
What’s in YOUR Garden?
Get the kids engaged with nature on the late May bank holiday! Embrace National Children’s Gardening Week at the Castle - a week dedicated to inspiring children’s curiosity about the outdoors and encouraging them to get out and grow in the garden. Join Really Rural in the Carriage Circle for Wild Tribe activities! Create your [...]
Make a Mini Bee Hotel
Have a bee-autiful, crafty half-term this May! Buzz over to the Castle and celebrate National Children’s Gardening Week with us as we make bee hotels! Available 11am to 4pm, Tuesday 27th to Thursday 29th May. Inspired by the wonderful nature and wildlife all around Hartlebury Castle, children can make their very own mini bee hotel during the [...]