Halloween Half-Term at Wildwood

Halloween Half-Term 2019 Saturday 19th October - Sunday 3rd November

The spookiest time of the year is almost upon us and we're celebrating all things wicked and ghoulish at Wildwood this October half-term. We have plenty of daily Halloween activities to entertain your little ones as well as our adventure play park with climbing walls, rope bridges, slides and scary drop slide PLUS we have over 50 species of native British animals from past and present in our 42 acre woodland! Daily Talks Find out more about our animals with engaging daily talks by our team of wildlife experts. 11am - Rats 12pm - Owls 1pm - Otters 2pm - Wolves 3pm - Scottish Wildcat Spider Trail Join our FREE trail around the park and track down the spiders. Enter your completed trail for the chance to win gift vouchers! FREE Crafts and Activities Daily activities will be taking place at our events building near to the entrance of the park, including: Halloween crafts and activities Meet an animal Touch tables Potion making Special Events Our resident bushcraft expert, Steve Kirk, will be running FREE events throughout the park on Tuesdays and Wednesdays over the holiday period. Tuesday 22nd October 11am - Atlatl Spear Throwing (weather permitting - at the horse paddock) 2pm - Wolf Tales (at the wolf viewing platform) 3pm - Bushcraft (behind the reptile house) Wednesday 23rd October 11am - Spider Tour 2pm - Wolf Tales (at the wolf viewing platform) 3pm - Bushcraft (behind the reptile house) Tuesday 29th October 11am - Atlatl Spear Throwing (weather permitting - at the horse paddock) 2pm - Wolf Tales (at the wolf viewing platform) Wednesday 30th October 11am - Spider Tour 2pm - Wolf Tales (at the wolf viewing platform) Bat Session Friday 25th October - 2pm Join our resident bat expert, Hazel Ryan, in our outdoor classroom to learn more about this fascinating species, before heading to our Bat Care Centre to see them flying. * All talks take place at the animals' enclosures. Talks, meet an animal and activities may vary, please check the noticeboard on entry to the park for daily details. All of our activities and events are free to paying visitors and members but spaces may be limited. Please note that from 28th October the park will be adopting winter opening times, closing at 4pm with last entry at 3pm.

Wildwood Trust, Herne Common, Herne Bay, Nr Canterbury, Kent CT6 7LQ Registered Charity No. 1093702   FOLLOW US Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewildwoodtrust Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WildwoodTrust Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thewildwoodtrust   ABOUT WILDWOOD Wildwood Trust opened in 1999 as a centre of excellence for the conservation of British wildlife, and was established as a registered charity in 2002. Wildwood is Kent's best British wildlife park. Home to over 200 native animals, past and present and set in 40 acres of beautiful ancient woodland where visitors can see bears, wolves, bison, deer, owls, foxes, red squirrels, wild boar, lynx, wild horses, badgers and beavers plus many more. As one of the leading British animal conservation charities in the UK, Wildwood Trust is dedicated to saving Britain's most threatened wildlife. Wildwood Trust have taken part in many ground-breaking conservation programmes to date, which include, saving the water vole, using wild horses to help restore Kent's most precious nature reserves, bringing the extinct European beaver back to Britain and returning the hazel dormouse & red squirrel to areas where they have been made extinct.

Wildwood Trust Herne Common Herne Bay Kent CT6 7LQ Registered Charity No: 1093702 Wildwood Kent: 01227 712 111 Wildwood Devon: 01404 822 188 info@wildwoodtrust.org