Chocolate, Cows & Crafts - Perfect National Trust!

The Easter Holidays are a fortnight away! Can you believe how quick it’s come round this year. Even the weather is playing up for it and giving up some gorgeous sunshine days. Its nearly 20 degrees this Wednesday!

One of our favourite events over Easter is to pop to our local National Trusts and do the eggs hunts. Not only are you guaranteed a some fun hours with the kids but you get to explore some of the most beautiful places in the UK. We’ve done these events throughout the south from down in Cornwall across Devon, Hampshire and more recently across Sussex ever since we had our eldest.

This year we’re venture to Woolbeding Parkland. They have their Easter Egg Trail on Sunday 5^th April and not only do you get the fun of the treasure hunt but you can join in with egg decorating & rolling, take a stroll along the beautiful River Rother, try your hand at the egg shy and egg and spoon race, face painting and more Easter crafts. Doesn't it just sound a fabulous way to spend the day? So of course we're packing a picnic and heading on down! Do come and join in!

Woolbeding Estate is just down the road from us in West Sussex and despite being tucked away has the most amazing horizons. After the stroll down the Rother you can explore in Woods and hunt out gruffalos or go for stomp across beautiful heathlands. The highlight of our walk! Not only have you amazing habitats and birds and insects but its also home to Galloway Cows and Sussex Cows. Chocolate & Cows & Crafts the perfect day out for our little boys!

Check out what else is on with the National Trust in your area over the holidays. You’ll be amazed!

Nymans, nr Handcross RH17 6EB, Tel: 01444 405250

Cadbury Easter Egg Trail: 3 - 12 April, 10.30am – 3.30pm, normal admission charge plus £2.50 per trail

Are you ready for a giant Easter hunt? Explore the hidden corners and secret paths of these beautiful gardens, which are full of spring flowers. Find the brightly coloured characters and you’ll be rewarded with a Cadbury chocolate Egghead prize.

Uppark, South Harting, Petersfield GU31 5Q, Tel: 01730 825415
Cadbury Eggsplorer Easter Egg Trail: 3 – 6 April, 10am – 5pm, normal admission plus £3 per trail.

Set on top of the South Downs, with amazing views and lots of space to run around in, Uppark is the perfect place for an Easter trail.  Track down giant flowers hidden around the garden as you follow the Easter egg trail clues, and you’ll receive a delicious chocolate Egg Head once you’ve finished. If it's breezy bring your kite and practice your flying techniques!

Bring along your own decorated hard-boiled egg and take part in the Great Uppark Easter Egg Roll.

Woolbeding Parkland, Woolbeding GU29 9RR, 01730 816638 extn 1
Cadbury Eggsplorer Spring Nature Trail, egg decorating, rolling and racing: 5 April, 10.30am – 3pm, £3 per trail

This quintessential English landscape of parkland, valley and meandering river is a pretty location for a traditional Easter egg trail.

There’s so much egg-related fun it’ll be difficult to know where to start: there’s crafty egg-decorating fun, and all sorts of competitions, from egg rolling and egg and spoon races, to possibly the UK’s first ever egg shy! Throughout the day, kids can follow the Cadbury spring nature trail along the River Rother, to claim their chocolaty Cadbury Egg Head.

Petworth House, Church Street, Petworth GU280AE Tel: 01798 342207
Cadbury Eggsplorer Easter Egg Bunny Trail: 30 March – 6 April, 10.30am – 4pm, £3 per trail, no additional admission charge

Follow Petworth House’s roaming Easter rabbit as he takes you on an exciting journey through this incredible 700-acre deer park. Solve the clues, and you’ll be rewarded with a chocolate bounty – your very own Cadbury Egg Head.

Petworth Park is over 500 years old; home to huge trees to hug and climb, as well lots of wildlife, including a herd of fallow deer. The park is so beautiful it was painted by Britain’s greatest landscape artist, JMW Turner; if you go into the house you’ll see the deer in one of his famous paintings in the Carved Room.

Slindon Estate village, Jubilee Orchard (next to the Forge shop), Reynolds Lane, BN18 0QT Tel: 01243 814730
Cadbury Eggsplorer Easter Egg Trail: 4 April, 10 – 1pm, £3, no additional admission charge

This trail starts at the Jubilee Orchard, next to the Forge village shop, then crosses pasture and enters Slindon woods, which are full of surprises. Join us in an EasterEggsploration to investigate these ancient woodlands, secret dips and hidden hollows, which in spring are full of bluebells and other woodland flowers. Solve the clues to claim your scrumpious Cadbury chocolate Egghead - it's a perfect way to spend your Easter Saturday morning.

To join in with the fun, visit www.eastereggtrail.com