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Summer is the perfect time to get crafty

The long holiday is a great opportunity to spend quality time bonding with your kids while they learn through play and spend less time in front of screens.

According to a study conducted by toucanBox, eight in ten of 556 parents parents said that their child’s mental wellbeing is their top concern. Through arts and crafts children express their creativity and their feelings, boosting their mental health.

Parents are often concerned that the summer holiday leads to a “summer slide” where kids forget some of what they learned over the previous school year. Fortunately, crafting with your child this summer helps them to develop their fine motor skills, ability to identify shapes and colours and their general understanding of the world around them.

In addition, crafting is just plain fun! Kids love to spend time with their parents and what better way to create lifelong memories than crafting together? If you’re looking for a way to keep your kids busy this summer, we highly recommend you get crafting!

toucanBox is a flexible subscription encouraging crafting, creativity and learning in children aged 3-8. Get your Free Box at www. toucanbox.com/offer. Use code PTFREE.

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The summer holidays can be tough on parents, it’s a constant battle to get them off their electronics, but we have the perfect solution...

Our games can all help activate core muscles and improve hand to eye co ordination, promoting teamwork and family time, and above all else, FUN!

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Brighton Marina is packed full of fun activities and amazing restaurants (as well as free parking and excellent transport links) making it the perfect place for families to spend the day. We are fully air conditioned and inside, so can be enjoyed no matter what the weather decides to do!

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Summer Family Fun and Fitness at Liquid Leisure Windsor!

Liquid Leisure Windsor is the world’s leading water activity park, with Europe’s largest Aqua Park. Additionally, there is the first ever Ninja Warrior UK Aqua Park, a High Ropes course and a Junior Aqua Park to get the kids out and enjoying exercising in the outdoors. There is also plenty of towed water sports on offer, from wake surfing behind the boat to water skiing and wakeboarding (like snowboarding on water) on the cableway. Open water swimming is available, for those who are training to become the next triathlon stars or for those that are looking for a new way to get fit. For those not too sporty, they can relax on the beach or take advantage of the fully licensed bar and restaurant. So, get the family outdoors and have fun getting fit at Liquid Leisure Windsor.

The Southeast Communities Rail Partnership will be running a free* Treasure Hunt on a Train on the North Downs Railway Line between Saturday 23rd July and Sunday 4th September 2022. The line runs between Reading, via Guildford, to Redhill.

Travel along the line and hunt for clues on board the train and at different destinations to find some quirky Alice in Wonderland treasures. Suitable for families with children aged 7 upwards.

To download your free copy of the Treasure Hunt and to buy your train tickets please go to www.southeastcrp.org/TreasureHunt

*You will need to buy your train tickets from Great Western Railway

The National Trust’s Polesden Lacey and Hatchlands Park are the perfect place to escape with the family during the summer holidays. For younger members of the family, it a great place to run and be free in the great outdoors. For teens, the house and gardens at both properties offer an Instagram photo opportunity around every corner. For older members of the family there are lovely grounds and gardens to wander round and explore.

At Polesden Lacey, there are tree swings and natural play along Admirals Walk or enjoy those simple pleasures like a game of hide and seek amongst the trees or rolling down the South Lawn. At Hatchlands Park the nature adventure steps up a notch in the Wizard Wix’s Willow Warren. Let your imagination run riot in the tree house, visit the bug burrow or build a den with the big pile of logs and branches we’ve left out for you.

There are plenty of spaces to enjoy a picnic too. Roll out a blanket or grab a deckchair or two and find a spot on the South Lawn at Polesden Lacey or find a picnic table nestled in quiet spaces like the orchard at Polesden or the meadow at Hatchlands.

Ths summer we’ve got a host of events and activities for the family to enjoy: Come out and play Challenge yourself to go further, faster, for longer with various sporting challenges. Come and have a go – whether you’re eight or eighty, it’s something the whole family can get involved in.

Polesen Lacey: Sat 16 Jul – Mon 29 Aug Hatchlands Park: Fri 1 Jul – Wed 31 Aug New Sensory Trail - Hatchlands Park. Designed by Cherry Trees charity, with inclusion at its core, this new trail offers the perfect opportunity to explore the parkland with your senses. Sat 23 July - Sun 4 Sept 10am-5pm, Normal admission + £2 for the trail.

Meet the Ranger – Polesden Lacey During the Summer holidays bring your kids to come and meet the rangers –get up close to the tools and equipment they use and learn about the amazing work they do in preserving the wonderful countryside. Alternate Saturdays in July and Aug, starting 2 July. 10am – 2pm. Normal admission

Outdoor Threatre – Hatchlands Park Immersion Theatre and The Lord Chamberlain’s Men will be bringing a series of outdoor plays for all the family on the lawn in front of the mansion at Hatchlands Park. Enjoy Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, an evening spent tangled up with Rapunzel or handbags galore with The Importance of Being Earnest. See website for further details.

Pop-up Shakespeare – Polesden Lacey On Saturday 13 and 21 August, make sure you keep an eye out for some pop-up Shakespeare in the garden. Join us for a humorous take on scenes from some of the bard’s most celebrated plays, enacted by The Cat’s Grin Theatre Company, throughout the gardens. Sat 13 and Sat 21 Aug, Normal admission

Bat walks – Polesden Lacey The Surrey Hills is home to home to many species of bats and Polesden Lacey is a great place for spotting them. Come and join us on a twilight walk around the estate and see the bats dart and dive and hear their ‘silent’ nocturnal calls with special detectors. Wednesdays throughout August: 8.30-10.30pm. £20 per person, children 12yrs and under £10. Booking essential.