22 July - 18 August 2021
We are now taking bookings for Summer Holiday Care 22 July - 18 August when we have 4 weeks of themed activities for a fantastic Summer.
Weekly plans:
22-30 July – Summer holidays and Travel
Celebrating the international diversity, food and language that Kidszone children and staff bring to the provision. Plus we know many families won’t have been able to go on their usual holidays so we aim to bring some holiday fun and experience to Kidszone too.
Activities will include:
- Making flags of the world - choose a place we have a link with or would like to visit
- Language exchange – learning how to greet each other in many different languages, children and staff are encouraged to share any languages they know and we will create a large mural of language
- Sun safety – do some sun experiments and learn how to be sun safe
- Passports of fun – create our own passports that get stamped when we try out a carousel of creative activities inspired by different cultures – indigenous painting, recycled bottle art (like Italian Murano glass) and sculpture, Japanese woodblock printing etc.
- Global picnic – prepare food from different countries to eat for a picnic lunch in our outdoors area
- Ice cool Summer snack – make our own healthy ice lollies
- Fruit kebabs – create a colourful kebab from fruit from all over the world (that you can buy in Withington!)
- Pizza workshop – working with a local pizza restaurant we will make dough, create our own ‘international pizzas’ and name them, cook them and eat them for lunch.
2 – 6 August – Olympic Spirit
Because the Tokyo Olympics are running during this week we wanted to have our own Olympic week combining sports and healthy eating.
Activities will include:
- Trip to Longford Park Athletics Track, Chorlton – the home of Trafford Athletics Club we will put on our own mini Olympics
- Range of outdoor sports activities across the week – javelin (foam ones), beach volleyball (using beach balls), standing long jump, pairs horse jumping (we create our own fences and course)
- Sports coach visit to Kidszone – hire local sports coach to do a multi sports session at the Scout Hut, tailored to different ages, warm up, skills coaching, team games and warm down.
- Snacks – we will theme the snacks to the Olympics too taking inspiration from Olympic athletes and sporting heroes’ favourite foods and recipes (e.g. Dina Asher-Smith, track athlete and Marcus Rashford, footballer)
9-18 August - Minibeasts and the Environment
Bringing natural history and science investigation to Kidszone and linking it to food, growing our own and bees and bugs in the garden.
Activities will include:
- Life cycles of butterflies – recreate the stages in paint, clay or collage
- Minibeast workshop – animal handling session with a bug handling roadshow
- Bees and food – series of activities to help children find out why bees are important and how they help us grow fruit and vegetables
- Trip to RHS Bridgewater, Salford – see the wonderful new gardens and learn about growing our own fruit and veg and see the bees in action
- Make our own wormery and bug hotels
- Go on a bug hunt around our garden and create a display of what was found
- Herb identification using the herbs grown in our front garden
- Make herb bread using the herbs and eat for our snack
- Minibeast Menus – Can you design a minibeast inspired dish?
- Then on a subsequent day we make the recipes and photograph them – and create our own Minibeast cookbook to share with families in print and online
And of course there will be board games, sports equipment, books and other toys available through the day and children can participate in as much of the themed activities as they wish.
Places are limited due to bubble groupings so we recommend you book as early as possible. We will be continuing with our current system of Covid safe procedures and bubbles will be based on a consistent group across each week. Priority will be given to bookings of 3 days or more. Book via our online enquiry form or by emailing
Summer Half Term Holiday Care - Creative Challenge Week
1 - 4 June 2021
We are now taking bookings for Summer Half Term Holiday Care 1-4 June when we have an amazing 4 days of Creative Challenges to take on!
Day by day plan:
Tues 1 June - Create a marble maze, take the chopstick challenge, bubble fun and team relay races involving carrying the most coloured water from A to B.
Weds 2 June - Self portrait painting and biscuit decorating plus origami challenges and large scale art project.
Thurs 3 June - Lego robotics workshop from Junior STEM taking place across the day and we will have a boat design, build and test challenge. Plus we will have a 'guess whats in the box' challenge
Fri 4 June - Geometric patterns with Hama beads, pioneering towers (spaghetti and marshmallows) team challenge, create an obstacle course then test teams over it plus a memory challenge game.
And of course there will be board games, sports equipment, books and other toys available through the day and children can participate in as much of the themed activities as they wish.
Places are limited due to bubble groupings so we recommend you book as early as possible. Priority will be given to bookings of 2 days or more. Book via our online enquiry form or by emailing