Easter Eggs-travaganza at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre

Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre is putting on a whole host of activities for families at Easter 2013.  Good Friday afternoon, 29 March 2013, is the Easter Eggs-travaganza featuring a wide range of creative activities and the classic egg and spoon race.  The following fortnight will see the Digging Archaeology event take place, where children can learn from what was discovered in the ground.

The Easter Eggs-travaganza, running from 2pm to 4.30pm on 29 March, gives families the chance to get creative together.  Decorating Easter Trees to take home, making Easter Bunnies and 3D eggs, and designing Easter hats, are some of the events that families can get stuck into, and it doesn’t end there.  Once you have completed your projects, there are races for the bunnies, a parade to show off the Easter Hats, and a prize for the best one.

Perhaps most dramatic is the Scrambled Eggs event ,where you are challenged to design a contraption to beat gravity and protect a chicken’s egg on its return to earth after it is fired into the air on a rocket.

There is also the Easter Chicken Trail, which will take you out into the wild meadows around the centre.

The cost is £4 per child (but children must be accompanied), which will include refreshments, and is suitable for accompanied children aged 3-11, and Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre has planned an indoor alternative day should the weather go all British.

Digging Archaeology will run from 1 to 2.30pm Mondays to Fridays between 1 April and 12 April.  The activity will look at artefacts found and what we can tell about the individuals they belonged to all those years ago, as well as matching pictures of Iron Age artefacts with what they looked like new.  The activity costs £3 per child and is suitable for 5- to 11-year- olds.  Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Krissi Rochelle, the manager of Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, encouraging families to come along, said:

“Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre offers a great range of activities for children, young people and families, and this Easter holiday is no exception.  We take pride in the activities we offer and our award-winning café will be open as usual so you won’t go hungry.   Of course we also have 30 acres of meadows outside with lots to see and do, weather permitting, so come along and join in the celebrations with us this Easter, you won’t be disappointed.”

To book your place at either the Easter Eggs-travaganza or Digging Archaeology, call Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre on 01588 676060.