13 dated events coming up in and around Ashton-under-Lyne & Tameside, Greater Manchester. Collected from the organisations running them, not from anyone paying to appear.
Join our playful sessions and meet new friends, explore the library spaces, learn new rhymes and songs and enjoy some sensory play in our Bounce and Rhyme Sessions.
Tameside's Northern Lights Lantern Parade through Ashton town centre, with giant puppets and dancers. Collect lanterns made at the half term workshops from Ashton Old Baths from 3pm. The parade sets off at 5pm.
Come and join the fun at Failsworth Library’s Lego Club.
George's 'Tiny Tots' baby, toddler and carer, stay and play group.
The full production: the Cockfields Express train to the North Pole, a Christmas Village, a North Pole post office, a private grotto visit where Santa hands over a golden coin to swap for a toy in his toy shop, the Enchanted Forest, biscuit decorating in Mrs Claus's Kitchen, an elf show with Build-a-Bear, and Santa's reindeer stable, then the rest of the farm park for the day. Full prices are steep, but selected early dates are up to 45% off and the discount shrinks as Christmas gets closer.
Bring the whole family along and enjoy some shared story time and guided reading activities.
Little Reads is a fun, interactive workshop using songs and stories to explore children’s picture books.
Bring the whole family along and enjoy some shared story time and guided reading activities.
Little Reads is a fun, interactive workshop using songs and stories to explore children’s picture books.
Bring the whole family along and enjoy some shared story time and guided reading activities.
Little Reads is a fun, interactive workshop using songs and stories to explore children’s picture books.
Bring the whole family along and enjoy some shared story time and guided reading activities.
Little Reads is a fun, interactive workshop using songs and stories to explore children’s picture books.
Places you can turn up to whether or not anything is on.
Tameside's free canal-side museum, with a walk-through 1920s street and a play zone for under fives. Closed Mondays, open bank holidays.
Tameside's all-rounder on the Ashton and Stalybridge border: a big sandpit playground, summer water fountains, a boating lake, a miniature train, crazy golf and an aviary. Free to get in, pocket money for the extras.
A 200 acre hilltop above Hyde with views across Manchester to the Welsh mountains on a clear day, and a proper hill for a kite. Very little else, and that is the point.
A council-run indoor adventure centre in Droylsden: Clip 'n Climb walls, a 54 metre crawl-through cave, a high ropes course hung from the ceiling, bouldering and soft play, at leisure-centre prices. Weekends and school holidays only for most of it.
A 26-lane Hollywood Bowl on Ashton Leisure Park, billed as Manchester but in Ashton. Bumpers, ramps and light balls for small bowlers, an arcade and diner, and eat, drink and bowl from £8.50 each.
Tameside's fun pool, with a wave machine, a wild water rapids ride, bubble beds and the Red Ripster slide. Only open for fun sessions on Thursday and Friday evenings and at weekends, and they sell out.