Summer holiday 2025 weekly themes, scroll down for set daily

activities which take place Monday - Friday in addition to the

weekly themes...

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W/C 14th July - Animal management week. This week we'll be setting eggs in the incubator, grooming ponies, washing tortoises and getting stuck right into animal care!

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W/C 21st July - Natural art week will be a marvellous exploration of creative expression through nature. We will excavate raw clay, make feather mobiles, paint canvas landscapes and make our own natural dye. 

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W/C 28th July - It's time for another wet and wild water week! bring a towel and spare clothes or swimmers for water battles, slip 'n' slide, guinea pig and lizard washing, trough cleaning and even some watery marbling art.

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W/C 4th August - Animal environment week. We will learn how to make beds and hay nets for ponies, design and build epic guinea pig mazes, make a bug hotel to take home and so much more.     

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W/C 11th August - Bring your hat and sunglasses for beach party week! We will order a few extra tones of sandpit sand, put out the deck chairs, invite Freddie and Maverick our lizards and George and Tango the tortoises. We will make lashings of home made lemonade and enjoy an ice lolly with our feet soaking in the paddling pool ocean.

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W/C 18th August - Roll up, roll up for the fourteenth year in a row circus week has been voted back as everyone's favourite summer week theme. Of course there will be ponies with ostrich feather hats, clowning, magic, gymnastics and

​a sprinkling of mind reading psychic guinea pigs!

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​W/C 25th August - Our last week before the summer break will be great games week.  We will go on cryptic clue treasure hunts, design our own board games, play traditional on-foot gymkhana games and much more!

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Manor Farm Slimbridge itinerary;

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Everyday all our visitors will get to meet, feed and care for the animals on the farm while enjoying plenty of crafts and other activities! 

 

As always Mondays will be tractor and machinery related, Tuesdays we will be rural crafts day, Wednesdays will be about adventure and expedition with Thursdays being our ever popular pony day and on a Friday we will end the week with a farewell bonfire.

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Manor Farm at Wickselm House itinerary;

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At Wickselm House we bring an exciting taste of farm life to Berkeley each and every holiday. There will be ponies, sheep, bunnies, guinea pigs, baby chicks and unusual mini beasts to handle and meet everyday and plenty of planting, growing and learning about rural life against the backdrop of a splendid country Manor House.

 

On Mondays a surprise animal will visit, Tuesdays will be rural arts and crafts day, from egg blowing to willow weaving. On a Wednesday we will throw ourselves in to the great outdoors. Each Thursday will be all about green fingers and farm to fork with Fridays seeing a visit from our beloved Shetland pony when he can be groomed

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