Great 'Free week-end activities' Hunt

earthmother

If you're within travelling distance of East Midlands Airport, near Donington Park there is the Aeropark - not totally free (adults £2, u16s free), but very cheap and a good half-day if you take a picnic - static displays, refreshments, and if you're lucky the chance to go inside the planes. Also (and the main draw for my kids) there is a picnic area right by one of the runways, so you can see the planes coming in/taking off at close quarters (you can see this from the free carpark too, if you don't want to pay to go in).

Only open weekends, Thursdays and special events, so check before travelling.

http://www.eastmidlandsaeropark.org/

TimWentz

I took my kids along to The-Magacian (Google it) It's a great day out and they loved it

blue_monkey_2

The RSPC have lots of reserves and they are all free although some of them you have to pay to park if you are not an RSPB member. It will say next to the centre and ther is often other places nearby to park. http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/index.asp

You can hire binoculars for £1.50 but ask for an 'Explorers Backpack' and the kids can have a free backpack with trail guides and worksheets in.

We can get a good day out and they sometimes offer free activites for the kids on certain days too, such as pond dipping or making bird cakes.

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tiff

susieb wrote: »

OK how about www.geocaching.com
totally free, high tech treasure hunt.

What do you actually do when geocaching? Ive seen it mentioned lots of times over the years. I know you need satnav but what is involved?

Dudley_1066

In September there are the HeritageOpenDays and LondonOpenHouse.

Both are .org.uk

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Leoglas

MSE_Penelope wrote: »

It's starting to get sunny and a tad warmer, which makes us want to actually DO something at the weekend instead of watching Friends reruns on the sofa. But going out at the weekend can be costly, so we'd like to tap into MoneySavers' knowledge for nice free week-end activities.

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Sunday 28th March (10:30am to 4:30pm) is a FREE OPEN DAY at Normanby Hall Country Park, north of S!!!!horpe, North Lincolnshire. The open day is to promote the local park, gardens, hall and farming museum, as well as the amenities Normanby Hall has to offer. This is not an official advertisement, but a plug from a local resident who enjoys the local park and would like to see visitors from other areas experience what the locals enjoy.:j

saltador

Sheldon Country Park off A45 near Birmingham, has small farm for children/anyone to visit free and free parking. Small cafe reasonably priced.

katieh86

You could try this http://www.bettycrocker.co.uk/great_idea.aspx
I found it really useful. You can pick the age of the child, weather type and indoors and outdoors and it comes up with suggestions of activities you can do that are either really cheap or free!

Hope this helps

Katie

fletty

tiff wrote: »

What do you actually do when geocaching? Ive seen it mentioned lots of times over the years. I know you need satnav but what is involved?

You down load coordinates from http://www.geocaching.com/ to a hand held Gps. (There are thousands of caches across the country, there could be one just over the road to you and you'd never know it was there!)
you then follow the signal on your Gps untill you find the cache - these can be just a tube with a pencil and log book on which to log your cache, or a small tub containing small swaps and surprises - it's a kind of treasure hunt.

You have to join the site to dwnload coordinates but thats free, it gets the kids out of the house and we all really enjoy it, I got my GPs from Ebay for £30 and it was well worth it.

hth

summerday

Frisbee in the local park is always good fun!