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Here is a selection of our activities, events and experiences that have been chosen by the children, with help from our Club Council.
Activities will be decided upon on the day depending on the children’s wishes.
Monday 24th July 2017
Theme: Strictly Come
Dancing
Tuesday 25th July 2017
Theme: Wacky Bake Off
Wednesday 26th July 2017
Theme: Circus
Thursday 27th July 2017
Theme: Circus
Friday 28th July 2017
Theme: Circus
Arts and Crafts: Create sparkly
Strictly score paddles and dance
shoe sun catchers. Make a bow
tie, collar and top hat, a
glitterball, and musical
instruments. Design your own
Strictly costume and a new
trophy for the winners of the
competition.
Messy Play: Edible glitter.
Cookery: Make marshmallow
ballerinas and dancing themed
cookies.
Role Play: A dance studio with
dressing up and a disco ball.
Competition: Take part in our
Wacky Dance Competition.
Arts and Crafts: Make edible
play dough, tissue paper fruit
and veg, paint with rainbow
sugar crystals, and natural dyes.
Create your own table
decoration, design a doughnut,
and build the Bake Off tent.
Take part in fruit and vegetable
printing.
Messy Play: Play with rice
pudding and cake ingredients.
Cookery: Make a jelly bean
bracelet and mini Angel Delight
cheesecakes.
Role Play: Join us on the set of
a cookery show.
Outdoor Games/Sports: Take
part in egg and spoon races and
play parachute games such as
fruit salad and popcorn.
Arts and Crafts: Make juggling
balls, a clown or circus hat, and
modelling balloon animals. Create a
paper tent craft, a rosette and
pasta lions.
Messy Play: Make and play with
peppermint oobleck.
Cookery: Make caramel popcorn
and strong man dumb bells.
Role Play: Circus Show with fortune
telling and tattoo parlour.
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Join in our Wacky jumping frog
game and practice your circus skills.
Arts and Crafts: Make clown
faces, cotton candy puffy paint
pictures and home-made face
paints. Design and create a ticket
booth and carousel horses. Take
part in balloon painting and make
flaming hoops to jump through.
Messy Play: Play with custard and
jelly and a circus sensory bin
Cookery: Make clown cupcakes
and cotton candy fudge.
Role Play: Circus Show with
fortune telling and tattoo parlour.
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Please join us for our Wacky
Parachute games such as washing
machine and Chinese whispers.
Challenge: Go bobbing for apples.
Arts and Crafts: Make a ring
toss game, cotton candy
playdough, and beanbags.
Create a silhouette trapeze
artist, a seal on a ball, and cup
clowns. Design animal masks
and circus character
bookmarks.
Messy Play: Circus animals with
foam and popcorn.
Cookery: Make candy floss and
clown cone hats
Role Play: Circus Show with
fortune telling and tattoo
parlour.
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Play your ring toss game, hooka-duck, and Pie Face.
Special Event: All Day
Splats Workshop
Join us for a Circus Town Workshop
and Show, run by the fabulous
team from Splats. Learn a variety of
circus skills and finish up with a
performance for parents and
friends!
Additional cost: £7 per child
Monday 31st July 2017
Theme: The Egyptians
Tuesday 1st August 2017
Theme: The Greeks
Wednesday 2nd August 2017
Theme: The Romans
Thursday 3rd August 2017
Theme: The Vikings
Friday 4th August 2017
Theme: The Victorians
Arts and Crafts: Make salt
dough cartouches, an
Egyptian collar and circlet,
and tin foil necklaces. Create
Scarab beetles from a plastic
spoon or paper plate, a
Pharaoh’s head dress, and
camels in the desert collage.
Learn to write your name in
Hieroglyphs.
Messy Play:
An archaeological dig and a
desert scene with the Great
Pyramids.
Cookery: Make mummy hot
dogs and pita bread.
Role Play: The Great
Pyramids.
Competition: Build the
biggest Lego pyramid.
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Who can wrap a mummy the
quickest? Play leapfrog and
hopscotch.
Arts and Crafts: Create a
paper plate Medusa head
and laurel crowns. Make a
shoebox lyre, Minotaur
masks, and Spartan shields.
Design your own
mythological creature, a
paper maché Greek vase,
and string labyrinths.
Messy Play: A minotaur’s
maze.
Cookery: Make tzatziki dip
and Medusa biscuits.
Role Play: Theatre role play
with puppets, mask making
scenery, costumes and a
stage.
Arts and Crafts: Make a
Centurion’s helmet, a shield,
and paper Roman sandals.
Design a mosaic, and salt dough
Roman coins. Create a serpent
bracelet, popsicle stick Roman
numerals, and a horse and
chariot craft.
Messy Play: A Roman road and
pipes, tubes and water play.
Cookery: Make Roman bread
and honey cakes.
Role Play: A Roman castle with
a banquet hall.
Competition: Who can wrap the
best toga?
Outdoor Games/Sports: Take
part in Hobby Horse chariot
races, prizes for the winners.
Arts and Crafts: Design and
create a Viking longboat, felt
Vikings, and a Viking ship
collage. Make clay Rune
charms and tube Vikings.
Create Viking shields, helmets,
and brooches.
Messy Play: Who can find the
most treasure whilst
blindfolded?
Cookery: Make Viking
Mandel-Eplekake (Apple cake
with almonds).
Role Play: Come and
experience life on a Viking
ship.
Outdoor Games/Sports: Test
how well our longboats float
and play the stone game.
Arts and Crafts: Make penny
spinners, Thaumatropes, and
peg dolls. Create popsicle
stick fans, Dickens style
silhouettes, and candlestick
telephones. Design pasta
bicycles and a cup and ball
game.
Messy Play: Play with red
white and blue rice.
Cookery: Make mini Victoria
sponge cakes and scones.
Role Play: Join us for a fancy
tea party.
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Take part in hoop and stick
races, playing marbles, and
skipping.
Special Event: All Day
Fitzwilliam Museum
Join us for a trip to the
Fitzwilliam museum. Take a
look at the exhibits and join
in with some of the
interactive activities being
run at the museum.
Additional cost: £5 per child
Monday 7th August
2017
Theme: Harry Potter
Tuesday 8th August
2017
Theme: Harry Potter
Wednesday 9th August
2017
Theme: Harry Potter
Thursday 10th August 2017
Arts and Crafts: Make
Hogwarts House banners,
Luna Lovegood glasses, and
balloon owls. Design a sorting
hat, stuffed felt characters,
and Hama bead house crests.
Create pom-pom pygmy
puffs, and create and play a
table Quidditch game.
Messy Play: Explore
Hogwarts’ Lake, complete
with mythical sea creatures
and murky green water.
Cookery: Make Polyjuice
punch and cockroach clusters.
Role Play: Explore our Four
House Common Rooms.
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Take part in the Harry Potter
scavenger hunt and play
Slytherin Charades.
Arts and Crafts: Make Harry
Potter glasses, a flying key
mobile, and tube characters.
Create Dumbledore’s beard
and paint house themed
paperweights.
Messy play: Potter’s Floo
Powder.
Cookery: Make house biscuits.
Arts and Crafts: Make salt
dough Golden Galleons, Silver
Sickles, and Bronze Knuts, and
a cornflour clay or Fimo owl,
cat or rat. Design your own
Patronus, a Marauder’s Map,
and a house tie or paperclip
bookmark. Create a miniature
Dementor. Make the Golden
Snitch, Quaffle and Bludgers
for our Quidditch tournament.
Messy Play: Explore our
miniature forbidden forest
and brew Potter’s potions in
the messy play tray.
Cookery: Make acid pops and
Butterbeer fudge.
Role Play: Catch a train from
platform 9¾.
Outdoor Games/Sports: Take
part in our Moaning Myrtle
game.
Competition: Join in with our
Harry Potter quiz, there will
be prizes for the winning
team!
Arts and Crafts: Make a
howler, a spell book, and a
paper bag Womping Willow.
Design the front page of the
Daily Prophet or New York
Ghost, a Ministry of Magic ID
card, and a sorting hat fortuneteller. Create Hogwarts House
friendship bracelets and a
Statue of Liberty.
Messy Play: Marvel at unicorn
blood.
Cookery: Make mini cheese
and pretzel broomsticks.
Role Play: Enjoy a banquet in
the Great Hall.
Special Event: All day
Milton Maize Maze
Come and join us for a funfilled day.
Children can take part in gokart racing, panning for gold,
duck racing, mini golf, skittles,
and jumping on the bouncy
castle. Do you dare take part
in the Triwizard tournament?
Compete for the Triwizard Cup
which is lurking somewhere in
the Maze, but beware not
everything is as it seems!
There is a new attraction
called Water Wars, so bring
spare clothes and a towel!
Additional cost: £8 per child
Theme: Harry Potter
Special Event:
Forbidden Forest
Come and join us for an
afternoon at Great Shelford
Park for our forest school
session. Make your own Harry
Potter broom stick, and take
part in stick whittling. Have fun
making mud and woodland
potions, make Aragog’s web,
and Hagrid’s hut.
Please wear suitable clothing
and footwear for woodlands.
Friday 11th August
2017
Theme: Harry Potter
Arts and Crafts: Make gold or
silver jewellery, a pom-pom
Niffler, and a paper maché
Basilisk or Aragog. Design a
save Dobby plaque, felt house
ties, and watercolour quotes.
Create character cushions and
Peter Pettigrew’s finger.
Messy Play: Troll snot and
Cauldrons.
Cookery: Make Butterbeer.
Role Play: Explore the Owlery
tower.
Outdoor Games/Sports: Take
part in our Wacky Quidditch
Game.
Competition: How many
flavours of Bertie Botts Every
Flavour Beans can you guess?
Special Event
Come to our Harry Potter
themed party. Be sorted into
houses by the sorting hat. Join
us for a feast in the Great Hall.
Come dressed as your
favourite Harry Potter
character - prizes for the best
costumes, plus Harry Potter
themed party games.
Monday 14th August 2017
Tuesday 15th August 2017
Theme: Under the Sea
Theme: Under the Sea
Arts and Crafts: Create a
celery fish painting, paper
plate stingrays and CD fish.
Make cupcake case oysters,
DIY coral, and coffee filter
rainbow fish.
Take part in star fish bubble
wrap printing, and design an
egg box crab.
Messy Play: Play in our
ocean blue Gelli Baff.
Cookery: Make starfish
cookies.
Role Play: A magical under
the sea world.
Arts and Crafts: Make a paper
plate whale, foil fish, and
springy turtles or crabs. Create
tissue paper seahorses, coffee
filter stingrays, and peg
sharks, whales or dolphins.
Design a tropical seashell fish
and a mermaid tail collage.
Messy Play: Play in our
underwater scene.
Cookery: Make tuna pasta to
eat for snack.
Role Play: A magical under the
sea world.
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Join us for our sea life
scavenger hunt around the
Wacky grounds.
Special Event:
Join us for an afternoon
playing in our paddling pool
and flying down the Wacky
water slide. Throw some
water balloons and splash
about.
Have a water fight and just
generally get absolutely
soaked!
Don’t forget to bring a
towel and swimwear
and/or spare clothes!
Wednesday 16th August
2017
Theme: Under the Sea
Thursday 17th August 2017
Theme: On the Beach
Theme: On the Beach
Arts and Crafts: Design egg
carton turtles, paper sharks,
and finding Nemo puppets.
Create scuba masks, tape
resist clown fish, and shower
cap jellyfish. Make Hank the
septopus and Nemo and Dory
handprints.
Messy Play: Soapy sea foam.
Cookery: Make Nemo
cupcakes.
Role Play: Underwater world
with a giant submarine and
octopus.
Outdoor Games/Sports: Join
in with some of our under the
sea themed team games such
as ‘clamming for marbles’,
‘under the sea relay’, or
‘jump the waves’.
Arts and Crafts: Build a junk
modelling lighthouse and
sand and sea shell photo
frame. Design flip flops, a
paper plate beach ball, and
take part in sea-shell printing.
Messy Play: A watery
paradise complete with sea
creatures and seaweed.
Cookery: Make pink
lemonade.
Role Play: On the beach.
Arts and Crafts: Make a paper
plate seagull, sand clay
handprints, and decorate
shells. Design a mini beach,
sand paper starfish and egg
carton ice cream cones. Take
part in making sand collages
and make a bucket and spade.
Messy Play: Make shaving
foam sand and play with water
beads.
Cookery: Make ice cream and
sand castle shortbreads.
Role Play: On the beach
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Please join us for water gun
painting, and a game of
volleyball or bulldog.
Competition: Join us in the
sandpit for a competition to
see who can make the best
sand sculpture. Prizes for the
winner!
Special Event: All Day
Newnham Park
Back by popular demand; join
us for a trip to Newnham Park
in Cambridge. We can go
swimming, play on all the
different equipment, and
have a picnic.
Don’t forget to bring a towel
and swimwear and/or spare
clothes.
Additional cost: £4 per child
Friday 18th August 2017
Monday 21st August 2017
Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Theme: Pirates
Theme: Pirates
Arts and Crafts: Make pirate
bandanas, a compass, and
pirate peg dolls. Create coin
rubbings, a newspaper pirate
hat, and swords and cutlasses.
Design a paper plate pirate,
and a Hama bead Captain Jack.
Messy Play: Digging for
treasure.
Cookery: Bake pirate ginger
bread men and make a fruit
desert island.
Role Play: A smuggler’s cave.
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Ahoy mateys! Get ready for
some pirate water games.
Every pirate likes a bit of
water!
Play ‘Man overboard’, ‘pass
the cannon ball’ ‘cannon ball
blast’ & ‘bail out the boat’.
Please bring a towel and a
change of clothes and/or
swimming costume. It’s going
to be wet!
Arts and Crafts: Make pirate
spyglasses, eye patches, and a
hook. Design a treasure map, a
perfect parakeet, and a tube
pirate. Create a skull and
crossbones sail and a treasure
chest.
Messy Play: An exploding
treasure chest.
Cookery: Make Rice Krispie
treasure chests.
Role Play: Pirate role play and
desert island.
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Parachute games such as sharks
and life guards and sunken
treasures.
Forest School (P.M)
Join us for our Forest School
session, this time with a pirate
theme. Create a natural 3D
collage of a pirate ship, make
your own treasure hunt scrap
book, or follow clues for our
summer pirate treasure hunt.
Can you build the best pirate
ship from natural resources, or
collect loot for your own loot
crown?
Wednesday 23rd August
2017
Theme: Pirates
Arts and Crafts: Make a
pirate medallion, a belt, and
pirate finger puppets. Create
felt parrots and a Captain
Jack Voodoo doll.
Messy Play: Boats on glittery
seas.
Cookery: Make golden Oreo
treasure.
Role-Play: Pirate role play
and desert island.
Special Event: All day
Shepreth Wildlife Park
This is a day trip from 10am4pm to Shepreth wildlife
park. Join us to visit all the
animals within the park,
including Red Pandas,
Caiman and Tigers.
Enjoy some animal
encounters, learn more
about the animals, and play
on the giant pirate ship.
Additional cost: £8 per child
Thursday 24th August 2017
Friday 25th August 2017
Theme: Pokémon
Arts and Crafts: Make
Pokémon evolution
kaleidocycle, Pokéball suncatchers, and tube Pokémon.
Create Pokémon stress balls,
masks, and Fimo Pokéballs
and characters. Design paper
plate Pokéballs and Pokémon.
Messy Play: Make and play
with Red Fiery Foam. Find the
Pokémon hidden among the
leaves and plants in the tray.
Snack: Pokémon Food Art.
Cookery: Make strawberry
Pokéballs and Jigglypuff
punch.
Role Play: A Pokémon Gym.
Outdoor Play: Going on a
Pokéball Hunt.
Competition: Who can design
the best Pokémon card and
can you make your own
catapult?
Theme: Pokémon
Arts and Crafts: Decorate
Pokémon baubles, ping pong
Pokéballs, and rock Pokémon.
Make Pikachu ears, a Pokémon
grid, and pom-pom Pokéballs.
Create felt Pokémon Pals, and
design your own Pokémon
trading cards.
Messy Play: Make fizzy Pokéballs
and hatch Pokémon eggs.
Cookery: Make Pikachu biscuits
and edible Pokéballs.
Role Play: A Pokémon Forest
where you can find any Pokémon
and a Pokémon Trainer Gym.
Outdoor Play: Join in with
capturing frozen Pokémon and a
Bean Bag Toss Game.
Special Event:
Please join us to take part in
various Pokémon activities and
games in the Older Area e.g.
Make Pokémon character cubes
boxes and colouring pages.
Play Pokémon Go around Great
Shelford and have pizza for snack.
Tuesday 29th August
Wednesday 30th August
Thursday 31st August
2017
2017
2017
Theme: Star Wars
Theme: Star Wars
Theme: Star Wars
Arts and Crafts: Make a
Arts and Crafts: Create an
Arts and Crafts: Make a
sponge print Death Star,
R2D2 paper craft, Darth
Yoda ears headband,
character finger puppets,
Vader bookmarks, and Yoda
squishy Storm Trooper
and galaxy scenes. Create
stick puppets. Make glow
heads, and mini Hama bead
an origami Naboo
stick lightsabers, paper plate
characters. Create a giant
Starfighter, a Jar Jar Binks
Death Stars, and popsicle
paper maché Death Star,
Jedi mind trick doll, and
stick Star Wars characters.
tube characters, and a
handprint and footprint
Design character silhouettes,
Chewbacca sock puppet.
characters. Design a
and build your own star piece Design your own poster for
flower pot Storm Trooper,
out of Lego.
the movies, and junk
C3P0, R2D2, or Darth
Messy Play: Make a Nebula in
modelling lightsabers.
Vader.
a jar and cloud dough.
Messy Play: Make and play
Messy Play: Make galactic
Cookery: Make Yoda Soda.
with edible moon sand.
gloop.
Role Play: Star Wars Space
Cookery: Make mini
Cookery: Make
Station with face painting and
lightsabers and Storm
Gingerbread Wookies.
space equipment.
Trooper Cupcakes.
Role Play: Star Wars
Outdoor Games/Sports:
Challenge: Take part in
Space Station with face
Please come and take part in
building Lego mosaics.
painting and space
our Jedi training academy.
Role Play: Star Wars Space
equipment.
Learn how to use lightsabers
Station with face painting
Outdoor Games/Sports:
in our training course,
and space equipment.
Join us for a Gungan water
discover the endurance,
Outdoor games/ Sports:
balloon fight!
balance and agility required
Join in with some of our
to become a Jedi as well as
Star Wars games such as
duelling Darth Vader.
Jedi VS Sith tag, and Star
Wars shape shifter.
Friday 1st September
2017
Theme: Star Wars
Arts and Crafts: Design felt
Chewy bookmarks, character
masks, and an origami R2D2.
Cookery: Make storm
trooper marshmallows.
Challenge: Take part in Star
Wars bingo.
Monday 4th September
2017
Theme: Star Wars
Arts and Crafts: Make
galaxy playdough, a BB8
headphone tidy, and a
Chewy paper portrait.
Design a spaceship or druid,
a princess Leia headband,
and peg people. Create egg
characters, and a mosaic.
Special Event: All day
Messy play: Delve into our
Light Cinema and
black galaxy water and
Coleridge Recreation Ground make play with Star Wars
Join us for a trip to the Light
moon dough.
Cinema to watch Despicable
Cookery: Make character
Me 3 (subject to availability).
sandwich biscuits, and an
We will then head over to
apple death star.
Coleridge Recreation Ground Role Play: Star Wars Space
where we will have lunch.
Station with face painting
The children can then play in
and space equipment.
the playground, paddling
Outdoor Games/Sports:
pool, and splashpad.
Take part in balloon
Don’t forget to bring a towel
lightsaber battles and
and swimwear and/or spare
games such as pass the
clothes.
droid, moon rock hunt, or
Additional cost: £6 per child
our starship relay race.