Rhyme times, toddler sessions, stay and play and everything else that genuinely works with a pre-schooler across the North West.
A wolf-pack sculpture trail around the wonkiest Tudor house in England. Cross the moat, count the wolves, and let the hall's crooked floors do the entertaining.
Walk through a pair of giant lungs, meet a supersize brain and follow the digestive system to its logical conclusion. New gallery, runs to December.
Regular story and rhyme time sessions for children under 5.
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.
Join us at our weekly bounce and rhyme event.
Runs on 18 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Free drop in for stories, songs and rhyme.
Runs on 6 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Runs on 6 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Songs and stories for children under 5 and parents/carers.
Regular stories and rhymes group for children under 5 and their grown ups.
Regular story and rhyme time sessions for children under five.
Join us at our weekly bounce and rhyme event.
Baby Bubbles and Rhymes is a free interactive children's event aimed at children aged 0-5 years with the use of musical instruments and play activities such as parachute play and ball pool.
Come along and enjoy rhymes, singing, musical instruments and bubbles.
Runs on 6 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Stories for tots under 5 and their grown-ups
Our regular event aimed at children under five and their parents/ carers.
Perfect for 0, 4’s explore songs, rhymes, stories and sensory play in our Bounce and Rhyme sessions.
Join us at our weekly bounce and rhyme event.
At baby clinic, families can discuss any health issues and have their child weighed and measured.
Join us at our weekly bounce and rhyme event.
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.
Runs on 6 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Join us at our weekly bounce and rhyme event.
Parents, carers and children under 5 are invited to join us for a free play session (term-time only) Oldham Libraries
A six week course that enhances bonding and attachment between you and your baby.
Come and join us at our pre-school sessions that let your little ones get in touch with nature and explore Brockholes.
Six miles of lights along the prom from the big switch-on night to early January. Drive it, walk it, or catch a heritage tram through the middle of it, which is the version kids remember.
Runs on 10 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Join us for our monthly pre school meet at Foulshaw Moss nature reserve.
Fancy dress, a dance floor and party music a fortnight before the main event, with the usual park rides included. The warm-up for Ottersghoul later in the month.
Three weeks of Halloween on a working farm on Stockport's edge: a pumpkin patch, a Halloween village and the animals and play areas that are there the rest of the year. Small children get more out of this than they do out of anything with a jump scare in it.
Pick your own out of the field at the farm, four pounds a pumpkin on top of normal entry. You choose it yourself rather than lifting one off a pallet, so expect muddy hands.
The quieter version, on term-time weekdays before half term starts. Same farm, same pumpkins, a fraction of the people.
The toddler-sized Halloween week: a ghost train, a craft workshop and a not-too-scary show with Jack and Sally, pitched at children still too small for the main event.
Take part in a joyful day of stories, theatre, music, dancing, crafts and family fun.
Jack Skellington's Halloween Town takes over the park for half term: a 25-minute live show six times a day, a pumpkin parade twice daily, and the go-karts, soft play and adventure golf included. Marshmallow toasting, Trick or Treat Street and the VR ride cost extra.
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.
A Halloween trail the children drive themselves, in mini Land Rovers. Tatton claim it is the only drivable Halloween trail in the country, and whether or not that holds, a five-year-old at the wheel is the part that gets talked about.
Tatton's half term Halloween trail through the gardens, pitched at families rather than teenagers. It runs the length of the break and shuts on Mondays, which catches people out every year.
Steam trains along Preston Riverside with ghostly goings on aboard, both days of the Halloween weekend. A train that is going somewhere beats a queue for a photo with a witch.
A Christmas experience at Otterspool running on selected dates from 28 November through to Christmas Eve, including both November and December weekends plus 21 to 24 December. Popular weekend slots sell out early, so booking ahead is worth doing.
Every town with something dated coming up, busiest first.