🌷 Spring is in the air and, of course, event and activities happening during the Easter break reflect that with egg hunts, spring trails, easter crafts, lambing and more...   

🐰 Easter Hunts and Trails

Harpenden Easter Egg Hunt
Friday 3rd April 2026
Harpenden's annual easter egg hunt organised by the Friends of Harpenden Academy and taking place on Harpenden Common on Good Friday.  Tickets are now on sale.

Easter Bunny Hunt - Highfield Park Visitor Centre, St Albans
Wednesday 1st April 2026
No need to book, just turn up for this hunt with an Easter-related prize. £6 per child.

Easter Egg Hunt - Shaw's Corner
Thursday 2nd - Monday 6th April 2026
Follow the trail to claim your easter egg. £3.50 per trail. Booking required.

Easter XPlorer - Stanborough Park
Friday 3rd - Friday 10th April
A free trail around park.  Pick up a map and answer from the kiosk.

Easter Egg Hunt - Dunstable Downs
A fun trail celebrating the Easter tradition of orange-rolling, with 10 fun racing stations! Complete the trail to claim your chocolate egg.  £3.50 per trail.  No need to book.  Just turn up.

Zoonormous Egg Hunt - Whipsnade Zoo
Saturday 28th March - Sunday 12th April 2026
Seek out special eggs around the zoo while learning about egg-ceptional species along the way. Reveal the code at the end to be rewaded with a tasty treat.  Included with the cost of zoo admission.

Easter Signs of Spring Trail - Knebworth House & Gardens
Friday 3rd April - Monday 6th April 2026
Pick up your trail sheet and follow the clues as you walk through the Gardens, spotting signs of Spring along the way. Once the trail is complete, head to the shop to enjoy a small chocolate treat as a reward.

Easter Quest - Wrest Park
Saturday 28th March - Sunday 19th April 2026
Follow the Easter trail, hunt for eggs and answer questions along the way to earn a delicious chocolate reward.. £2 per child plus admission.

Boretta Bear's Easter Egg Hunt - Jordans Mill - Jordans Mill
Saturday 28th March - Sunday 12th April 2026
Explore and follow clues to find ten birds. Match each bird with their coloured egg and see how many you can find. Complete the activities on your trail sheet and help Boretta Bear find clues written on all the golden eggs hidden in nests around the site to reveal a special Easter message and claim a special prize.  £4 per trail. No need to book.

🐣 Easter-themed Events

High Beeches Bunny Hop Easter Event
Saturday 21st March 2026
Join our Bunny Hop for a fun Easter egg hunt and challenges, garden party-style games, crafts, face painting, glitter tattoos and disco. Plus bar, cake and gift stalls. Tickets are £5 per participating child. A full size egg is included with every ticket. Booking required.

Page One Book Hour - Easter - Harpenden Library
Thursday 2nd April 2026
Book chat and Easter craft activities. £4.40 per child.  Booking required.

Glaze Time Easter Pottery Painting - The Old Cock Inn
Inn on the Green - Wednesday 1st April and Wednesday 8th April 2026
The Old Cock Inn - Thursday 2nd April and Thursday 9th April 2026
Fancy getting creative over the Easter holiday? Like to spend some quality time with your children (or friends) away from devices? Perhaps make some personalised gifts. Booking recommended.

Games & Glue - High Street Methodist Church
Thursday 9th April 2026
Will include Easter-themed craft tables.  Drop-in. £3 per child (£1 for under 5s but there will also be a dedicated Stay & Play session for pre-schoolers on Friday 10th April) 

Shenannygans Hopping Easter Special - Redbourn Methodist Church
Wednesday 1st April
Easter crafts, toys, garden & Easter egg hunt for ages 0-10. £7 per child (under 1s free). Booking required.

Easter at Stockwood - Stockwood Discovery Centre
Thursday 2nd April - Sunday 5th April 2026
Free Spring trail around the garden, Egg hunt (booking required) and Easter crafts (booking required). 

Easter Montessori Play (1-2yrs) - The Nest
Tuesday 31st March 2026
A special Easter Montessori play session with crafts, egg hunt and chocolate treats. Booking required. 

Easter Montessori Play (2-5yrs) - The Nest
Wednesday 1st April 2026
A special Easter Montessori play session with crafts, egg hunt and chocolate treats. Booking required.

Easter Week - Woodside Animal Farm
Saturday 28th March - Sunday 6th April
Activities include - egg hunt, meet the animals, egg collecting, animal feed making, den building.

Afternoon Tea with the Easter Bunny - Burston Garden Centre
Wednesday 1st April 2026
Join us for a very special Kids' Easter Afternoon Tea! Booking required.

Easter Eggstravaganza - Willows Activity Farm Easter
Saturday 28th March - Monday 6th April 2026
An egg-cellent day of family fun including our Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Grotto, Easter arts and crafts, meet adorable animals, pig racing and lamb bottle feeding demonstrations.

Easter Circus - Mead Open Farm
Friday 28th March - Friday 10th April 2026
As well as all the fun of the circus, bottle Feeding Lambs will also be back, and complete the Easter Trail and enjoy a chocolatey treat.

Easter Eggstravaganza - Aldenham Country Park
Saturday 28th March - Sunday 12th April 2026
Easter Egg Hunt, Meet the Easter Bunny, Interactive Easter Shows, Tractor Trailer Rides, Small Animal Petting, Lamb Bottle Feeding and much more.

Children's Easter Event - The Olde Watermill Shopping Village
1st - 4th April 2026
Each child will take part in a creative craft activity, plant their own sunflower to take home, and follow our Easter trail to search for hidden clues. After the activities, it's time to burn off some energy on our three bouncy castles with plenty of bounce time for everyone. No need to book. £7.99 per child.

🐑 Lambs and Lambing

VIP Lambing Experience - Standalone Farm
Weekends 14th & 15th March, 21st & 22nd March and 28th & 29th March 2026
In a small, intimate group, your personal farmer guide will lead you into a private, barriered lower barn to observe nose to nose with newborn lambs. 

Lambing Days @ Watergate Farm - Watergate Farm
Weekends 21st & 22nd March and 28th & 29th March 2026, 3rd - 6th April and 10th - 12th April 2026
Visitors can hold the lambs and see a modern sheep farm at work. With over 2000 sheep to give birth, it is a great chance to see lambs being born, taking their first few steps and suckling their mothers for the first time.

Lamb Bottle Feeding - Aldenham Country Park
Saturday 14th February to Monday 4th May 2026
This gentle, hands-on experience allows adults and children to get up close, help feed our friendly lambs, and learn more about life on the farm

Lamb Bottle Feeding - Church Farm Ardeley
Saturday 14th February to Sunday 10th May 2026
Join us for lamb bottle feeding this spring. This is a unique and memorable experience for people of all ages.

🥚 You can find even more Easter-holiday events including family theatre, educational shows, crafts, outdoor fun and hands-on discovery on our What's On page. And we are continuing to add more as we find them, so do keep checking back.  If you are looking for something on a specific day - take a look at our diary view, or if you just want to browse what's on then switch to event list view.

And don't forget about all the listings in our Holiday Clubs & Classes section where you will find a whole host of different activities where you can drop-off and leave the children to have fun, get active an dmake new friends for an hour or two or even a day.