Easter holiday stuff

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Am about to leave Scotland for the week on holiday but noticed yesterday that Braehead have free crafty stuff on for kids - yesterday they were mask making and colouring in. Am not sure if they do stories too as were cusions round in a circle at a part. All free. Think the weather to be a bit pish this week so could be good.

Feel free to add any other Easter hol stuff that is on.

Edinburgh science festival has lots of free events on across the city. The botanic gardens have free craft drop in sessions too.

Glasgow Science Centre has some good coding stuff on I think. Although expensive.

The Science Centre annual pass is good value for small children, though, if you can afford the initial outlay.

Agree that science centre annual pass is great if you plan on a few visits. If youte only going once however, if you travel by train ( or even just go into nearest train station to buy a ticket for adult +child) then the science centre offer the "kids go free" scotrail scheme! One child per adult train ticket.
Have a look at the following link. Lots of places to use one of these tickets! www.scotrail.co.uk/offers/kids-go-free

The beach at Aberdour was fab. £1.50 to park all day and train station close too. They have a cafe, a wee ice cream place and nice toilets. Also spied a wee play park. Litter collectors walked round all day too. We werr there over 6 hours.

Yes we used to have the annual pass - paid for itself in 2 visits I think.

glasgowlass I didn't know about the kids go free offer - cheers!

You're welcome roughty. I only found out about it myself last summer! Lots of attractions accept the tickets. Has saved us a small fortune. (We usually drive but pop to local train station to buy adult&child ticket each for one stop..as long as ticket says "kids go free" on it then you're good to go!)

I didn't know about the kids go free to attractions either! That is good to know, thank you

If you travel by train, check out the Scotrail web site as you get free children's entry into lots of sites if you have a valid kids go free train ticket. Edinburgh zoo, Glasgow science museum and The National Wallace monument are 3 I can think of off the top of my head. But they have places all over Scotland involved.

Doh, missed Glasgowlass' post!

Oh, we have a family railcard, does that work, or do we have to get the kids go free? (Dont mind that, round Glasgow, as its often just me and ds. But further afield dh would be along so we would use the pass.)

I'm not sure momagain. I'm sure if you asked station staff they would be able to tell you, the ticket needs to say "kids go free" on it for the attraction to accept it as 'payment' for the childs entry. If not, then use family railcard to destination, but either in departure station or destination station buy an adult&child ticket for one stop(cheapest option) & use that as your kids go free pass. As I said previously, we do this all the time. You don't actually need to travel using the pass, as long as it's valid for that day then that's all that matters!

We were at the science centre last week on the train ticket offer and The kids go free promo has actually finished BUT because there has been no publicity about they are still accepting train tickets at the moment (must say kids go free on the tix).

I stupidly didn't think to ask when they were going to stop accepting them, I was just relieved when the guy said he could still take my tickets, so might be worth giving hem a call before you go