How many different ways do you play? Maybe you enjoy getting creative with Lego or prefer to be outside playing football. Do you like choreographing a song and a dance or would rather choose to challenge your brain with a crossword?
This summer we’ve come up with five different ways for you to play at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal…
- Drop the Lego, pick up some loose part blocks and let your imagination run wild building your own version of an abbey.
- Take your shoes off and play in nature, following along a bare foot nature trail.
- Join in with an active play session in a new Movement Monday play station… You could be playing football, riding a bike or wanging a welly.
- Play through performance as you take to the stage in Quebec and perform your song and dance with instruments, puppets and costumes.
- Be creative and make your own games using the logs and chalk boards in Swanley Grange
Think you’ve seen it all? Think again…
There’s so much to discover at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal you could visit every week and discover something different.
- Get crafting in Swanley Grange. Drop in every Tuesday and Wednesday of the summer holidays from 11am – 3pm.
- Become an abbey adventurer and discover all the hidden corners of the abbey. Can you hear an echo in the cellarium? How many staircases can you find? Look up and see if you can find hidden faces.
- Be a water garden explorer. Climb up to the banqueting house and look out across the different views. How many straight lines can you see? Can you copy the shapes of the statues?
- Are you brave enough to walk through the deep, dark serpentine tunnel to explore the woodland on the High Ride Path
Here are our top 5 unmissable moments…
- The play area. Less than two minutes from the visitor centre is a huge nature play area where inquisitive little minds can be let loose to play.
- The Banqueting House. Climb up to the Banqueting House and find some traditional games like croquet ready for you to play.
- Fountains Mill. Head to Fountains Mill and learn about how the Mill supported the running of the abbey. See the water wheel moving and have a go at ringing the bell.
- The deer park. Wander away from the abbey and into the deer park to see how many deer you can spot.
- The restaurant. Feeling peckish? You can’t avoid a trip to the restaurant, whether you’re looking for a main meal, a light bite or even an ice cream!
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal is open daily 10am – 6:30pm (last entry at 4:30pm) and there’s no need to book, just come along and have fun in the sun. For everything you’ll need to know – visit Visiting Fountains Abbey with kids | National Trust
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