Easter egg hunts in London
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By Time Out Editors
Posted: Wed Apr 1 2009 -
Easter Egg hunts across town add a chocolaty incentive to get everyone out of the house. Here's our run down of the best ones happening across town this year
Battersea Park Children's Zoo There will be eggs hidden all over the Children’s Zoo – just pick up a quiz sheet at the entry shop and use the clues to find them. Worryingly, the organisers claim that the animals are guarding the eggs – fortunately the guards in question are more likely to be ring-tailed lemurs than, say, lions. All kids visiting the zoo wearing bunny ears score a free poster, and there are drop-in card-making sessions, too.
Battersea Park Children's Zoo, Battersea Park SW11 4NJ (020 7924 5826/ www.batterseaparkzoo.co.uk) Hunt: Apr 4-19. Card-making sessions 10.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-3.30pm, Apr 7 & Apr 9; £1 per child.
Sutton House This Tudor house in the middle of east London proper was built in 1535 by Sir Ralph Sadleir, a crony of Henry VIII. This Easter there’s complimentary face-painting in the grounds and an egg hunt with prizes courtesy of Cadbury’s.
Sutton House , 2 & 4 Homerton High Street, Hackney, E9 6JQ (020 8986 2264/www.nationaltrust.org.uk). Trail open 12.30-4pm, Apr 12 & 13. Adults £2.90, children 80p (National Trust members free). Trail cost £1.
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Hallelujah for Easter: Live Music and Easter Egg Trail Adults can relax and take in classical music including Handel’s ‘Messiah’ in the house where the German composer lived for 36 years, while kids can take part in an Easter egg trail with prizes for all participants.
Handel House Museum , 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, W1K 4HB (020 7495 1685/www.handelhouse.org). Noon-6pm, Easter Sunday. Tickets: No need to book, museum admission price for adults (£5)/ free for children.
Household Cavalry Museum There’s an Easter trail around this museum, with rabbits hidden among military uniforms – as well as free craft activities for kids at 11.30am during half term (Monday 16-Friday 20).
The Household Cavalry Museum , Horse Guards, Whitehall, SW1A 2AX (www.householdcavalrymuseum.co.uk). Apr 5-17. Adults £6, children (aged 5-16) and concessions: £4, family ticket (2 adults & 3 children) £15.00.
Imperial War Museum Join the Easter Eggsploration hunt around the Imperial War Museum – collect a special egg from the Information Desk and then seek out the shapes and symbols around the museum that can be used to decorate it. And win chocolate, naturally.
Imperial War Museum , Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ (020 7416 5000/ london.iwm.org.uk) Daily 10pm-6pm, Apr 6-17. Adm free.
Kenwood House Located to the north of Hampstead Heath, this former stately home will feature specially created Easter trails for children, starting at the house and then winding through the beautiful surrounding park – with tasty Easter prizes at the end.
Kenwood House , NW3 7JR (www.english-heritage.org.uk). Daily11.30am - 3pm, Apr 10-13. £1 per child.
Willows Easter EggstravaganzaTwenty minutes from St Pancras, this 500-acre former working farm near St Albans will host special Easter events including a hunt with coloured eggs stashed around the grounds – kids can swap them for chocolate – plus a bigger Bunny Hunt each day and children’s theatre from Katch 22. There’ll also be the usual year-round attractions such as daft duck trials, sheep shows, falconry, guinea pigs and a play barn.
Coursers Road, London Colney, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 0PF (0870 129 9718/ www.willowsfarmvillage.com). 10am-5.30pm, daily until Apr 19. Adults £11.50, children £12.50, under 2s free.
Ham House and Garden This seventeenth-century house boasts plush interiors, an impressive collection of art , textiles and funiture, and the original formal gardens. As well as an egg trail there will be a play area, storyteller and egg-and-spoon races.
Ham House, Ham Street, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey TW10 7RS (020 8940 1950/ www.nationaltrust.org.uk). Trail open 11am-3pm, Apr 12 & 13. Adults £9, children £5 (National Trust members free). Trail costs £3.
Osterley Park and HouseThe trail here winds through the spacious grounds – one of the largest green areas in West London – past the giant eighteenth-century neo-classical villa designed by Robert Adam and the sixteenth-century stable block that is the only remnant of the original Osterley.
Jersey Road, Isleworth, Middlesex TW7 4RB (01494 755566/ www.nationaltrust.org.uk). Trail open 12noon-4.30pm, Apr 12 & 13, (last trail starts at 4pm). Adults £7.60, children £3.80 (National Trust members free). Trail costs £2.50.
Red House, BexleyheathWhile the kids are off on the egg trail, in the play area or getting their faces painted, grown-ups can take time to explore the home of the renowned, Walthamstow-born craftsman and socialist William Morris. The building, which was designed and built by Philip Webb, contains stained glass and paintings by Edward Burne-Jones as well as examples of Morris’s furniture and fabrics.
Red House Lane, Bexleyheath, DA6 8JF(020 8304 9878/ www.nationaltrust.org.uk). Trail open 11am-4pm, Apr 12 & 13. Adults £6.90, children £3.90. Trails costs £1.
For more hunts at National Trust properties (in association with Cadbury’s) visit www.eastereggtrail.com.- Add your comment to this feature
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4 comments
I agree with Jen. I'm 28 and I love a good easter egg hunt. Would it be totally socially unacceptable for my boyfriend and I to join in one of these hunts?
Where are the ones for adults!? !
are there in any one is west london?
If you're down by the Southbank, there's also an Easter Egg hunt (for big kids and small ones) being held on Sunday 12th at Southbank Centre Square, as part of the Slow Food London Easter Market.