Come for a twilight ramble through the Botanic Garden and learn about the fascinating world of bats. There will be a chance to use our bat detectors, find out about what bats eat, where they live and have your questions answered.
Suitable for families with children aged 8+
Please note that this event is weather dependent and may need to be cancelled if it is raining.
Booking essential. Bookings open 1 week before event.
Wednesday 14 August, 11am to 3pm
Explore the Wisbech and Fenland Museum's latest exhibition, Beasts: Epic creatures real and imagined, and discover some of the strange and curious creatures that lurk within the Museum's eclectic collections.
With free crafts and activities, as well as the opportunity to meet Inferno, the smoke-breathing dragon, this is a day not to be missed.
Admission to the Museum will be free during this event.
28 August, 12-3.30pm: Cromwellian Herbal Remedies
Discover what types of herbs the Cromwell family used to treat their illnesses, and to make their home smell good. Drop into Huntingdon Town Hall on Wednesday 28 August to make herbal bundles to use in cooking and to hang around your house, and make your own scent to take home!
21 August, 12-3.30pm: Explore 17th century Huntingdon
During the third week of August you can discover what Huntingdon was like when Oliver Cromwell was a boy! Retrace his steps with a new free children’s trail available between Saturday 19 and Sunday 25 August, and drop into Huntingdon Town Hall on Wednesday 21 August to create your own map of 17th century Huntingdon to take home.
14 August, 12-3.30pm: Create your own Charter
Want to know how to craft your own charter? Discover the histories of charters, illumination and types of colour that was used!
Drop into Huntingdon Town Hall to discover how write with a quill, the art of illumination (which includes designing your own coat of arms!), and craft your own important document to take home with you!
How steady are your nerves? Find out by building a game, including doing some soldering. You'll create a metal loop that you then have to guide around a wire maze without the two touching. If you they touch, a buzzer sounds and you have to start all over again!
No electronics experience is required although you will need a steady hand to assemble the components and use the tools.
This workshop is aimed at children aged 9 years and older.
Build yourself a bug-shaped mini robot! This one's always looking for light and can't help crawling towards it!
No electronics experience is required although you will need a steady hand to assemble the components and use the tools, including a soldering iron.
This workshop is aimed at children aged 11 years and older.
The session will contain four activities each and introduce key coding concepts such as logic, inputs, and wireless communications. Along the way we will work through the code to understand exactly how it works. No previous experience is required, just an interest in making tech do cool things!
The session is aimed at children aged between 9 and 12 and is ideal for Key Stage 2 and early Key Stage 3 students. Please note that this is a beginner's workshop and provides a great introduction to the micro:bit.
All under 14s must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
In this hands-on workshop, you will understand what an algorithm is and how important it is to write a correct algorithm in order to make a computer do a particular task. You will start by exploring algorithms that occur in our daily lives (like waking up in the morning, brushing our teeth...) and then use this knowledge to teach a 30-year old BBC Micro computer to count!
The session is aimed at children aged 8 years and older and is ideal for children at the upper KS2 level.
Your starship is travelling through galaxies, gaining points by recovering and recycling old satellites. Meanwhile enemy starships try to collide with you. In this workshop, the team will show you how to create a fun space game using the programming language BBC Basic on a 30-year old BBC Micro. You must gather as many satellites as you can to gain maximum points before enemy starships steal all your health and destroy you!
This workshop is ideal for those aged 11 and older, ideal for those at upper KS2 and KS3 level.
