Dartington Crystal Glass (34 miles)
Great Torrington
Dartington Crystal Glass 'Around 200,000 people visit Dartington each year - A Great Day Out for all the family. Whilst here you will learn about the 40 years of history with Dartington Crystal at the Audio Visual Theatre, follow the Dartington Timeline from 1967 to present day, then watch the expert Master Engraving demonstration; even buy that special piece and have it personalised. You can then watch the live demonstration of Studio Glassmaking and try the many hands on activities we have to offer.'
Flying Saucers The Painting Pottery Cafe (42 miles)
Bristol
Flying Saucers The Painting Pottery Cafe Bristol's largest and only dedicated Painting Pottery Cafe. We've over 100 pottery items to choose from and sit and paint, and once fired, the items are fully usable. It's perfect for capturing baby's footprints or toddler's handprints, or just letting kids of ALL ages make their own colourful masterpiece.
Pixies Paint and Play (45 miles)
Teignmouth
Pixies Paint and Play Soft Play area and Ceramic Painting under one roof! The soft play area is for up to age 6 years and ceramic painting is for adults and children of all ages. We are the only place that you do pottery painting or fabric painting or decopatch in Teignmouth and the only soft play
Flying Saucers Pottery Painting Cafe (56 miles)
Warminster
Flying Saucers Pottery Painting Cafe is a pottery painting cafe. Simply pick your own pottery from our wide range of ready made pieces and paint and decorate it with your own design or pattern. There’s over 100 items to choose from, such as plates, mugs, moneyboxes, teapots or even a dinosaur or fairy!
ClayArt (64 miles)
Plymouth
ClayArt Paint Your Own Pottery Studio is an indoor activity and is great for sunny or rainy days. It is great fun for everyone and brings out your creative side!
Gone Potty Paint Your Own (67 miles)
Hereford
Gone Potty Paint Your Own You can have lots of fun painting your own designs onto pottery, making it personal to you and your family creating a unique gift for you to use everyday or to keep as a treasured memento.
Manic Ceramics (68 miles)
Hereford
Manic Ceramics Make and paint your own ceramic creations, with help from friendly, experienced staff.
The Creative Cafe (68 miles)
Narberth
The Creative Cafe We are paint your own pottery studio with a difference: where YOU can be the artist, whether you're artistic or not! Come and create your very own ceramic masterpiece in one of our three studios. We also produce high quality fingerprint jewellery in solid silver. Food and drink available.
Splash of Colour Ceramic and Craft Cafe (74 miles)
Salisbury
Splash of Colour Ceramic and Craft Cafe We are are ceramic café which is a walk in studio offering a wide selection of pottery from normal household pieces to fun and wacky things for kids. These are all white and unglazed just waiting to be painted with a design or picture.
Poole Pottery and Factory Outlet (74 miles)
Poole
Glazydayz Pottery (74 miles)
Ledbury
Glazydayz Pottery Paint Your Own Pottery - Great fun for kids, relaxing for adults. Choose from over 400 items - the biggest choice of any studio in the Herefordshire, Worcestershire & Gloucestershire area. Indoor kids' play area, plenty of free parking right outside our door, refreshments available
Eastnor Pottery and The Flying Potter (74 miles)
Ledbury
Eastnor Pottery and The Flying Potter is an indoor pottery studio where you learn how to make things from clay. Try the art of the potter’s wheel. Model your favourite animal or figure. Create a mug, bowl or vase. 100’s of exciting projects and pottery making techniques. Creative, fun and suitable for all ages and abilities.
Pick a Pot and Paint in the Cotswolds (74 miles)
Cirencester
Pick a Pot and Paint in the Cotswolds A family friendly ceramic studio based in a charming piazza of shops and boutiques in Stableyard, Cirencester. A perfect activity that both children and adults can enjoy together.
Brean Sands Funpark (21 miles)
Brean Sands
Brean Sands Funpark Outdoor theme park, over 40 rides & attractions, swimming pool, waterslides, family day out, free entry, the home of Sooty, South Westâs leading theme park, rollercoasters, 18 hole golf, family pitch & putt, food and bar venues.
Wookey Hole Caves (35 miles)
Wells
Wookey Hole Caves Britain's most spectacular caves. Valley of the Dinosaurs featuring King Kong - Magical fairy garden - Victorian Penny Arcade - Magical Mirror Maze - Hall of Crazy Mirrors - Cave Museum - Pirate Zap Zone - Big Top Restaurant
Exmoor Falconry and Animal Park (4 miles)
Porlock
Exmoor Falconry and Animal Park Parrot handling; Dog training; Natural Herbal Remedies; Care of your pets; Alpaca Walks and Animal Handling Sessions. Hawk walks, Falconry Days, Courses, Half days, Owl Hour.......
Tropiquaria (6 miles)
Watchet
Tropiquaria Free roaming birds and lizards in the Tropical Hall; wide collection of fish plus Tarantulas and Giant Millipedes in the Basement; outdoor animal enclosures plus indoor and outdoor adventure playgrounds!
Secret World (22 miles)
Highbridge
Secret World is a charity that specialises in the rescue, rehabilitation and eventual release of Britain’s orphaned, injured and sick wildlife. Visit the animals during their stay and get a close up look at the significant work they do. Only open on specific days of the year
Seaquarium (24 miles)
Weston-Super-Mare
Seaquarium Here you will discover the fascinating secrets hidden beneath the Severn Estuary and the sea beyond. Over 25 display tanks of sharks, rays and other creatures swimming gracefully past.
Cheddar Caves and Gorge (31 miles)
Cheddar
Cheddar Caves and Gorge Whatever the weather, Cheddar Caves & Gorge is the ideal day out destination for all the family. Prepare to be entertained, educated and enlightened! Our friendly staff will do all they can to make your day special and memorable.
The Fun Farm (21 miles)
Taunton
The Fun Farm An indoor barn café and play area so there are plenty of things to do in all weather situations - It's a great place for your children to learn about animals, and for a chance to feed them themselves
Animal Farm Adventure Park (21 miles)
Burnham on Sea
Animal Farm Adventure Park The full package: animal to pet and feed, indoor play barn, outdoor rides and a surprisingly wide range of activities and amusements, you're in for a good day!
Court Farm Country Park (28 miles)
Weston-Super-Mare
Court Farm Country Park Nationally award winning farm attraction set on real working farm. Animals, Adventures play, Indoor play barns, hands on fun, free tractor rides, maize maze, milking show, bottlefeeding. Open Easter to end of October. Great family day out in Somerset.
Ferne Animal Sanctuary (30 miles)
Chard
Ferne Animal Sanctuary Nature trails, picnic spots and the opportunity to see acres full of beautiful animals.
Noahs Ark Zoo Farm (36 miles)
Wraxhall
Noahs Ark Zoo Farm is a zoo and farm where you are able to feed some of the big zoo animals and handle some of our farm animals. We have 12 exciting adventure play areas, an indoor Animal Village and covered Animal Show Pens so you can enjoy a day out whatever the weather.
Museum of Somerset (21 miles)
Taunton
Museum of Somerset tells the county's story from prehistoric times to the present day using real objects combined with evocative films, sounds and images.
Somerset Cricket Museum (21 miles)
Taunton
The Blake Museum (21 miles)
Bridgwater
The Blake Museum A quaint museum boasting battle of Sedgemoor relics, a maritime Robert Blake room, John Chubb picture gallery and various education exhibits and temporary displays.
North Somerset Museum (24 miles)
Weston Super Mare
North Somerset Museum A family-friendly museum where you can find out about the area from pre-history to the present. Plenty of things to see and do.
Time Machine Museum (24 miles)
Weston-super-Mare
Time Machine Museum The displays range from the archaeology of the earliest inhabitants to the wildlife that you can find today. Other displays cover the local history of the area. The Seaside Holidays Gallery is a speciality of the museum, and the cottage next door is laid out as a landlady's lodging house of 1900.
The Helicopter Museum (26 miles)
Weston Super Mare
The Helicopter Museum The World's largest dedicated helicopter museum.
Weston-super-Mare's largest undercover all weather attraction.
A fun place for all the family, with a coffee shop, children's play area.
Chard Museum (32 miles)
Chard
Chard Museum Detailed and fascinating collections of exhibits about local history from the Stone Age onward including lots of Dening agricultural equipment, the story of John Stringfellow's powered flight in 1848 and James Gillingham's innovative prosthetics.
Somerset Rural Life Museum (34 miles)
Glastonbury
Somerset Rural Life Museum The magnificent fourteenth-century Abbey Barn is the centrepiece of the Somerset Rural Life Museum. The barn and the farm buildings surrounding the courtyard contain displays illustrating the tools and techniques of farming in Victorian Somerset. Unusual local activities like willow growing, mud horse fishing, peat digging and cider making are included.
Crewkerne and District Museum (37 miles)
Crewkerne
Montacute TV Radio Toy Museum (38 miles)
Montacute
Montacute TV Radio Toy Museum Be amazed by this huge fun collection! See nostalgic vintage radios and TVs, enjoy your favourite programmes through TV and radio related toys, books, games full size characters and more: a wonderful experience for all the family!
Fleet Air Arm Museum (38 miles)
Ilchester
Fleet Air Arm Museum - representing the flying arm of the Royal Navy. With four exhibition halls, over ninety aircraft and over 2 million records and 30 thousand artefacts the Museum is the world's second largest naval aviation Museum.
Wiveliscombe Open Air Pool (13 miles)
Taunton
Wiveliscombe Open Air Pool Heated outdoor pool with fun sessions and water walking (pre booking essential) where you cross the pool inside a giant ball!
Greenbank Heated Outdoor Pool (33 miles)
Street
Greenbank Heated Outdoor Pool 30x12m main Pool, semi-circular childrens Pool and separate Splash Area with fountains and water jets. Great idea if you're looking for great family days out in Somerset
Portishead Open Air Pool (37 miles)
Bristol
Portishead Open Air Pool A 33m heated outdoor pool situated at the Lakegrounds in Portishead, with stunning views of the Bristol Channel from the sun terraces.
Aj'z Play and Party Centre (19 miles)
Taunton
Aj'z Play and Party Centre We are a play and party centre located in the heart of Taunton. We open at 9.30am every morning and close at 6.00pm every evening, so there’s plenty of time to come after school!
Thanks for all the great things to do and Pottery Making and Arts and Crafts near Minehead with kids you keep sending in.
Now we have the easter and summer holidays fast approaching, we're trying to find the best days out and as many fun things to do with kids as possible, especially cheap and free family friendly places to visit this year - theme parks, waterparks and swimming pools, museums, indoor playcentres and softplay for toddlers, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, aquariums, horse riding, castles, steam railways, pottery making and ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, karting tracks, snowdomes, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, activity centres, outdoor play at the best local parks, ten pin bowling alleys and all the other best family tourist attractions, that you can visit at the weekend.
Also teachers may find the site useful for ideas for the best places to take their classes on school journeys with many historical and educational atractions listed
So, if you've been for great days out with the kids, or a school trip, which isn't shown above, just send in an email and we'll add it on so people visiting on holidays and all the other children in Somerset can enjoy the great day out as well.
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