Summer holiday fun at Bridgewater – 2024
Join the fun and frolics with Shaun this summer as he learns top tips about how to grow scrumptious fresh food from the garden to keep him in great condition.
Enjoy a mini-musical adventure and interactive storytelling, go on a welly walk for little explorers, and have a go at making your own Shaun model at a claystation drop in session.
Find the Flock by hunting down the three decorated sculptures of Shaun in the garden.
Family trail
Daily, Saturday 20 July – Sunday 1 September 10am – 6pm, self-led trail
Daily, Saturday 20 July – Sunday 1 September 10am – 6pm, meadows
Find Shaun by searching for him with friends and family in the ‘Hide and Sheep’ zone and use Aardman’s free interactive, augmented reality app to bring Shaun to life in 3D, pose for a photo opportunity and complete the stamp collection.
Daily, Saturday 20 July – Sunday 1 September 10am – 4pm, Orchard Gardens
Join us for our very own Shaun the Sheep inspired sports day – Shaun’s O’Lamb’pics. With Shaun hopper races and much more.
Thursday 25 and Tuesday 30 July, Tuesday 6, Friday 23 and Tuesday 27 August
1pm – 3.30pm, Middle Wood Events
Join us for an exciting model making activity where you can make your very own clay Shaun the Sheep.
Recommended for ages 6+
*£2 per person; please pre-book
Space Chickens
Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 July 12noon, 2pm and 3pm
Space Chickens is our brand new Puppet Van launching spring 2024! This is a madcap adventure following a chicken who is sent to space, with environmental themes and about the joy of growing things.
Colour the Clouds Storytelling: The Great Bridgewater Adventure
Wednesday 24 July, Friday 9 and Wednesday 28 August 11am, 12noon 1.30pm and 2.30pm, Middlewood event space
Join Colour the Clouds this summer for an RHS Bridgewater Garden adventure. Shaun and his friends are visiting RHS Bridgewater over the summer to learn how to create his very own veg patch back at Mossy Bottom farm, but after a long day in the kitchen garden, when everyone has gone home Shaun and his pals like to explore the rest of the garden… and that’s when the real adventure begins.
RHS Bridgewater’s Walk About Garden
Sunday 21 and 28 July, Thursday 1, Friday 16 and Tuesday 20 August and Sunday 1 September 11am, 12noon 1.30pm and 2.30pm, in the garden
With her wheelbarrow, seedlings, plants and ukulele, Bobby will delight children with her gentle interactive walkabout theatre, chatting to families, sharing her gardening songs, and explaining how her plants grow, from the tiniest seeds to the most beautiful flowers.
Circus Raj
Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 August
Times TBC, in the garden
Rajasthan is home to the elite street circus performers from this fascinating region’s legendary entertainment communities, who combine their amazing skills. The cast of aerialists, acrobats, musicians, slack-rope walkers, giant puppets characters and the eye-watering displays by their fakir, present a colourful, vibrant, fast-moving extravaganza of intrigue, drama, feats of daring, music, laughter and surprise.
Craft workshops
Wednesday 31 July, Thursday 8 and Thursday 15 August 10.30am–12noon, and 1pm–3pm, Middlewood event space
Make your own Shaun the Sheep using recycled toilet rolls.
PIanting workshops
Planting lambs lettuce
Friday 26 and Monday 29 July, Wednesday 7, 14, 21 and Thursday 29 August
10.30am–12noon, and 1pm–3pm, Middlewood event space
Sow Lambs lettuce to take home with you.
Suitable for all ages
RHS Garden Bridgewater, Occupation Rd, Worsley, Manchester M28 2LJ
T – 0161 503 6100
