Family bodyboarding with Wavehunters
19 & 26 October and 1 November - 3.30pm.
Find out session times for the Kids' Zone, family drop-in sessions, early supper offerings and FAQ's for your upcoming stay.
Sunday to Thursday
Toddlers (6m-2yrs): 8.30-10am OR 10.30-12pm and 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm
Kids (3-8yrs): 8.30-10am OR 10.30-12pm and 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm
Friday and Saturday
Toddlers (6m-2yrs): 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm
Kids (3-8yrs): 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm and 6-9pm
XA Club (8-12yrs): 6-9pm
Make the most of some child-free time. Lunch with a sea view, take a treatment or your pre-dinner drinks - we'll take care of the rest.
Book through our app or with our Kids team kidszone@watergatebay.co.uk
A full programme of Julia Donaldson inspired fun
For Toddlers and Kids:
Calming ‘Under the sea’ Yoga
Join our sounds of the sea percussion band
Tiddler beach scavenger hunts
Bubble wrap and shell printing
For XA Club (Friday & Saturday):
Get competitive with a series of story themed games and challenges
Cinema Club with nachos, pick ‘n’ mix and milkshakes
For Toddlers and Kids:
Join us for a Gruffalo yoga adventure
Make, bake and taste some ‘Gruffalo’ crumble
Bring the Gruffalo characters to life through junk modelling, music and dance
Explore woodland inspired sensory tuff trays
For XA Club (Friday & Saturday):
Use your golden tickets to come and help our ‘Oompa Loompa’s’ create some chocolatey treats
Cinema Club with a Roald Dahl inspired ‘buffet’ and movie. Think Wonka pick ‘n’ mix, goose liver donuts and George’s Marvellous drinks station
For Toddlers and Kids:
Whale yoga, music and movement – can you make your own whale music?
Learn about sea life conservation through our sensory tuff trays
Interactive snail and whale puppet making and storytelling
Get creative with some beach art storyboards and snail inspired snacks
For XA Club (Friday & Saturday):
Get competitive with sports themed games, challenges and a quiz
Bringing the spirit of American Football to our Cinema Club special ‘Remember the Titans’ and game time snacks – hotdogs, popcorn and milkshakes.
For Toddlers and Kids:
Join ‘Tiny the T-Rex’ for a yoga adventure in the dinosaur park
Create some tasty Pterodactyl’s through fruit and biscuit art
Dig out your inner archaeologist for some beach fossil hunting (should this be palaeontologist???)
Thinking about our emotions and making artwork about our thoughts
For XA Club (Friday & Saturday):
Let them eat cake! Celebrate MacMillian’s cake and coffee morning with a traditional bake-off
Calling all mad hatters – join us down the rabbit hole for our Cinema Club with a screening of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
For Toddlers and Kids:
Insect inspired food art
Making our own living wormeries
Superworm comic strips and story capes
Wiggly worm sensory exploration
For XA Club (Friday & Saturday)
Rustle up some autumnal treats for our harvest bake-off
Celebrate world animal day with our Cinema Club treat of ‘Born to be Wild’ with nachos, pick ‘n’ mix and hot chocolate.
For Toddlers and Kids:
Fire breathing dragon yoga
Creating clay dragons and fire gloop
Music and movement puppet dances
Learn to fence like Sir Gadabout, whilst making your own swords and shields
For XA Club:
Join us for International Astronomy Day with our space themed challenge and quiz night
Explore the depths of outer space through our Cinema Club. Kick back with ‘Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy’ and snacks that are out of this world.
Make your own natural ‘broomstick’ paintbrushes
Story sequencing with story pebbles and story spoons
Designing and making magic wands
Balancing experiments through seesaw inspired challenges
Live music in the Living Space Snug, colourful happenings firing up young minds in the Kids’ Zone and even a DIY hot chocolate station for everyone to enjoy, find out what's going on in the Bay this October half term.
With Halloween weekend falling in half term, get ready for a selection of ghostly goings-on for everyone to get their fangs into.
Toddlers: 3.30-5pm
Kids: 1.30-3pm OR 3.30-5pm AND 6-9pm
XA Club: 1.30-3pm AND 6-9pm
Roald Dahl’s phizz-whizzing fun:
DT Challenge – Using pulley systems to make your own ‘glass’ elevators.
Willy Wonka Playdough workshops – think strawberry-wiffle, mint-fizzwangler and blueberry-snozztastic.
Chocolate Quiz night
Creating our own mischievous tricks
DT challenge Junk model upside down houses and making glue from milk
Concertina crocodile puppets
Junk model crocodile seesaws
Experimenting with camouflage
Making our own wormeries and investigating worms
Try to make a peach fly using helium
Design and test a parachute for a peach
Potion making using the most delicious or disgusting smelling ingredients.
Wand whittling
Potion and spell books
Slime Lab – making, handling, stretching and blowing
Sherbet making without the sour faces
'Bubbleology’ Have a go at making the teeniest/humungous bubbles and bubble caterpillars
Magic Mocktails – colour changing and blindfold taste testing
October half term
31 October: Halloween Spooky Science Lab Party
· 1.30-3pm: Early Halloween party for little mischief makers *Fancy dress encouraged
· 3.30-6.30pm: Face Painting in the Snug *3 years plus
· 5-6pm: Spooky Early Supper in the dining room. Gruesome grills and dastardly delights *Fancy dress encouraged
· 6-9pm: Wacky Science parties for our older crazy scientists. *Fancy dress encouraged
Everyday: 19 October - 3 November
Time: 5pm-6pm in The Dining Room
Price: Under 2yrs - £4, 3yrs+ £15
A three-course buffet with complimentary unlimited tea for the adults. Think Taco Tuesdays and Fish Fridays with a build-your-own ice cream station.
Book on the app or with our team tellus@watergatebay.co.uk
Subject to availability, we have a baby monitoring camera and tablet we can provide for your room. On its own private network, the tablet will work across all three of our restaurants and areas of the hotel.
For babysitting requests, complete our enquiry form.
Prices
2hrs: £35
3hrs: £52.50
4hrs: £70
Same-day cancellations: £35
Beginner lessons, learn how to pop up to your feet, available for ages 7 years and older.
Private lessons for the whole family, or one on one tuition.
Two-hour group lessons are £45
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