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Check out our round up of egg-cellent Easter fun from Bristol businesses, here to help keep your family entertained during the holidays under the current lockdown restrictions.
There are things to do come rain or shine, at home and out and about – from socially distanced treasure hunts to a virtual murder mystery.
Draw your favourite zoo animal and win a trip to see it
Which animals at Bristol Zoo Gardens and Wild Place Project have your kids missed seeing?
There's a great chance for under-15s to draw that animal and enter a competition to win free tickets to go and see it with their family, once the sites reopen from 12 April.
Take a photo or scan the drawing and share it on social media using the hashtags #BristolZooAnimalArt or #WildPlaceAnimalArt by 11 April. Check terms and conditions on the Bristol Zoo Gardens and Wild Place Project websites.
Image - Giraffes at Wild Place Project, credit Andre Pattenden
Pull up at the Parking Lot Social at Bristol Airport
The Parking Lot Social’s Easter Breakout event is taking place on the 14 and 15 April. Expect a drive-in entertainment extravaganza with an Easter panto, performances from stars of RuPauls Drag Race UK, a comedy night and movies.
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Image - The Parking Lot Social
Play detective with Sherlock in Homes 2: Murder on Ice
Can you solve the mystery of famous explorer Albert Ross’s icy death? Put your detective skills to the test in this online interactive murder mystery, where you'll have to interrogate suspects and team up to unmask the murderer. It's recommended for those aged 12 and over.
Check out more theatre experiences to enjoy from your sofa on the Bristol Old Vic At Home programme.
Decorate a butterfly for The New Room's Emerging Hope display
Using the butterfly as a symbol of hope, The New Room invites you to decorate print-at-home butterflies for their Emerging Hope project. You'll be able to see your finished designs on display in their city centre courtyard when the site re-opens this summer.
Image - The New Room
Join the Easter Bunny's egg hunt with Redgrave Theatre
Suitable for kids aged 2 to 10, the Easter Bunny is hosting his amazing egg hunt game via live stream, so you can join in at home. Little ones will be given riddles and clues to find the clue points, which you’ll receive instructions for setting up in advance.
The live stream lasts one hour and is taking place at 1.30-2.30pm on 27 March and 3-4pm on 3 April.
Chomp on choccy hoppers from The Coconut Tree
Between 2 and 4 April, you'll be able to order limited edition Creme Egg choccy hoppers to takeaway from Sri Lankan street food restaurant The Coconut Tree.
The hopper is a bowl-shaped pancake made from fermented rice flour and coconut milk. This one pairs a chocolate-flavoured hopper with a filling of melted chocolate, crushed mini-eggs and a smashed Creme Egg.
Image - The Coconut Tree
Try out Treasure Hunt Bristol
Explore Bristol in a new way with Treasure Hunt Bristol. Follow beautiful maps, solve clues and learn things you never knew about the city, all using your phone.
This is a great socially distanced alternative to your usual walks and the route is pushchair friendly, in case you’ve got some tiny members in your bubble.
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Go on a Big Spring Adventure at Bowood House & Gardens
There are two weeks of Easter fun planned in the gardens at Bowood House. Join them for the BIG Easter Egg Hunt from 1 to 11 April, cracking codes and unlocking an Easter basket.
Between 12 and 18 April, follow the Easter Bunny Trail, working out what word they've hidden to win a chocolate treat.
Meet an elephant family at Sudeley Castle & Gardens
Sudeley Castle is welcoming guests to its gardens for the first time this year, inviting you to discover a trail of over 30 enormous life-sized elephant sculptures against the backdrop of one of the country's most beautiful castles.
The trail is part of environmental art campaign CoExistence, which highlights the loss of biodiversity caused as humans encroach on wild spaces across the globe.
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Image - Sudeley Castle
Buy beautiful Easter gifts from Bristol Blue Glass
While you can't shop with them in person, you can still pick up beautiful pieces of glassware from Bristol Blue Glass online. They have vases perfect for filling with spring flowers as well as all kinds of jewellery, ornaments and glasses that make great Easter gifts in place of the usual chocolates.
Get crafty with the Royal West of England Academy
Kids can learn to make their own lockets using materials from around the house, shed or recycling box in this online Junior Drawing School workshop on 6 April. And the whole family can join a free live hedgehog drawing workshop, featuring a real-life hedgehog which you’ll meet over Zoom!
Sign the kids up for holiday cookery classes with Cooking It!
Holiday classes are back for Easter at this cookery school on Chandos Road. Kids will learn useful skills and exciting dishes, with classes ranging from cupcake chaos and Easter treats to Japanese food.
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Image - Cooking It!
Pick up Easter eggs from Papadeli
This Clifton deli has a lovely selection of premium Easter eggs, including ones by Chocolarder that are ethically produced and creatively packaged without plastic.
They’re also raffling a giant Easter egg in aid of The National Portage Association, a home-visiting educational service for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
Attend the first virtual Lyra: Bristol Poetry Festival
Lyra Festival is back for 2021 with a fully digital programme running between 15 to 18 April. Themed around Reconnection, expect events, readings, workshops, panel discussions, a poetry slam and more, featuring poets such as Dizraeli, Beth Calverley and Bristol's City Poet Caleb Parkin.
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Image - Lyra Festival
Take on the Easter trail at Stockwood Open Space Nature Reserve
There are 15 fluffy friends hidden on the Easter trail at Stockwood Open Space Nature Reserve between 7 March and 12 April, with the chance to win a prize if you find them all.
Experience an Easter Eggstravaganza at Old Down Country Park
There's another Easter trail happening over at Old Down Country Park, where all outdoor areas of the park will be open to play in and to see the animals.
Tick off our top spring walks
Eager to find new places for a wander around Bristol? Get inspiration from our rundown of 20 wonderful spring walks, which includes scenic routes, top bluebell spotting locations, stately gardens and more.
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Image - Westonbirt Arboretum, credit Johnny Hathaway
Experience #BristolFromHome
We’ve got even more fun things to do in our Bristol from Home hub: games, bingo and quizzes, virtual tours of Bristol attractions, colouring-in sheets, lists of film and TV made in Bristol, ways to beat lockdown boredom at home and a whole cookbook of recipes from the city’s best restaurants and cafes to recreate at home.
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Built in 1766, Bristol Old Vic is the oldest continuously working theatre in the English speaking world, and remains a place of joy, discovery and adventure to this day.
Hidden aware in the beautiful suburb of Clifton the Redgrave Theatre is one of Bristol’s most popular theatres hosting a wide variety of productions including operas, musicals, stand-up comedy, theatre and dance.
In recent years, Sri Lankan food has been having a moment, with The Times identifying it as a key food trend, and BBC Food attributing its popularity to 'most of the food world looking towards exciting new cuisines.'
Treasure Hunt Bristol will take you on a beautiful route, and send you to fab places, all at your own pace.
Bowood House & Gardens at Bowood Hotel Spa & Golf Resort
Walk in the footsteps of Kings and Queens at Sudeley Castle. Delve into a 1000 year history, explore award-winning gardens, indulge in luscious lunches, enjoy the adventure playground, and more.
The outlet stocks the famous, locally made Bristol Blue Glass, which is still created using traditional methods that date back hundreds of years.
Bristol's first art gallery, housing over 1200 works of art from 19th century to the present day, a coffee shop and a small gift shop.
Cooking it! is a fun and relaxed cookery school in the heart of Bristol, a stone’s throw from both the Whiteladies road and the Gloucester Road, in the trendy Chandos Road.
The deli is open for takeaway salads, savouries, bread, coffee, cake, frozen meals and all the delicious treats. To order hampers and frozen meals, cakes, catering, check out their shop or email info@papadeli.co.uk. Delivery available in Bristol with Good Sixty.
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