11 dated events coming up in and around Prescot, Merseyside. Collected from the organisations running them, not from anyone paying to appear.
Half term at the safari park done in Halloween dress, with the drive-through reserve and the shows running as usual underneath it. The car is the ride, which suits children who have had enough of queuing.
Baby Bards is a 45-minute story and early phonics session for 18 months to 4 years at Shakespeare North Playhouse, every Tuesday until 15 December. £6 covers a child and one adult, with no booking fee.
Baby Bards is a 45-minute story and early phonics session for 18 months to 4 years at Shakespeare North Playhouse, every Tuesday until 15 December. £6 covers a child and one adult, with no booking fee.
Half term at the safari park done in Halloween dress, with the drive-through reserve and the shows running as usual underneath it. The car is the ride, which suits children who have had enough of queuing.
Runs on 7 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Starts at 2pm. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Prampushers is a toddler group welcoming all Parents, Grandparents, Auntie, Uncles and Childminders.
The safari after dark: an extended light trail through the Foot Safari with animal light installations and fire pits, and an optional Santa's Grotto where every child gets a large plush toy. The £9.95 is the starting price, and refreshments, rides and the grotto all cost extra, so budget for the add-ons before you promise anything in the car. Book before 1 November and marshmallow toasting is thrown in.
The playhouse's main Christmas show: a foot-stomping musical Christmas Carol set in a pub, where landlord Scrooge has banned music and laughter until the spirits come up from the cellar at midnight. Age guidance is 7 and up, so this one is for the older children.
Our annual spectacular fair with Christmas Cafe, stalls, crafts and grotto.
Runs on 8 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
A 40 minute interactive sensory Christmas show for ages 0 to 4 from Colour The Clouds Theatre Company: Eve likes calm and tidy, then a mysterious box lets festive chaos loose. Clowning, music and magic in the small Studio, and pay what you decide pricing from £5.
A 45 minute Christmas show for ages 3 and up from Wrongsemble and Gala Durham, about a boy who wants to be the fairy on top of the tree and has a lot of doubting baubles to win over. Live music, puppets and noisy storytelling in the Studio, over Christmas and New Year.
Places you can turn up to whether or not anything is on.
Knowsley's free local history museum, upstairs in Prescot Shopping Centre next to the library: watchmaking, pottery and coal mining, plus a kids corner with quiz sheets, trails and an apothecary chest to rummage in.
Bring the bikes or you will see one playground and go home. Knowsley's biggest park at roughly 220 acres, either side of Pottery Lane in Whiston, with playgrounds, a cycleway, a fishing pond and an outdoor gym.
A small play centre in the old Prescot Gospel Hall built for under-fives, with a role-play street, a soft play house with slides and a ball pool, and a baby corner. Weekday mornings only, closed Tuesdays, and adults go in free.
Drive through the reserve from the car, then the sea lion and birds of prey shows. Reviews are split on value, and several warn that families expect a full zoo and find fewer headline animals, so set expectations first.
8,000 square feet of frame over four tiers on a Prescot business park, built round a 20ft rocket, with a 25ft spiral slide, spinning poles and an elevated football pitch.
Prescot's playhouse has a proper family strand: weekly Baby Bards, short shows for the under-fives, half-term drama workshops for older kids and a performance garden outside. Better than it has any right to be for a town this size.