BrightonScience Festival’s special sciency
Half term programme – October 24 – November 1
Please, if you find some new sciency, crafty, cookery, pottery, hands-onish activities, click on
Richard@BrightonScience.com
and send them to us. We know there are hidden gems out there – we have found some already!
It’s Party time in Preston Manor!
In the splendid surroundings of the Victorian manor house in Preston manor, central Brighton, we present the kinds of games Lewis Carroll might have played there, and inspired scenes in his Alice books, plus illusions, like growing and shrinking, nonsense, time travel, puzzles, riddles, paradoxes and more, carefully adjusted for every age range, from children to grandparents. We’re here to feed your curiosity – to make you curiouser.
Thursday October 29th 10.00 – 5.00 (last entry 4.00)
Preston Manor Preston Park BN1 6SD Entry free with house ticket
To find out more, click on the pic – – for tickets, click HERE
De La Warr Pavilion present
SPACE EXPLORERS! IN ASSOCIATION WITH UK SPACE AGENCY
Saturday 24 October 2026 – 12.30 + 3.30
Blasts you on an epic journey around the planets. Zoom past the Sun, dodge swirling storms on Jupiter, glide by the rings of Saturn and venture out to the icy giants at the edge of our solar system. Along the way you’ll uncover brilliant planet facts, jaw-dropping discoveries, and the secrets of what it takes to explore space for real.
Tickets £19.50, £20.50, £68
De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill On Sea TN40 1DP
Tickets £19.50, £20.50, £68 (fees incl.)
HALF TERM DIG SCHOOL
Fishbourne Roman Palace
Chichester PO19 3QR
Roman Army Week
The Palace is seeking new recruits to enlist in its Roman Army and learn what it takes to become a fully-fledged soldier, activities every day for the trainee Roman soldiers. Once signed up, soldiers will don a uniform, train with sword and shield, and learn to write Latin and play Roman board games
Times 10.00am – 4.00pm From Monday 26th – Friday 30th Oct
Suitable for ages 7+ Tickets £1 per child, plus entry: from £7.50
Event information HERE
Moree on Sussex Past’s events HERE
Escape Rooms
You are locked in a room. The only way to get out is to solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues, hints, and strategy to complete the objectives at hand. Sounds like torture? Actually they are great fun. They run just about every day, all day. Sessions last from 30 mins to 1 hr. Pick between:
Pier Pressure
33 Upper North St., Brighton BN1 3FG Daily from 10.00 am
Details and booking HERE
Escape the Vault
Presuming Ed’s, 115-116 London Road, Brighton, BN14LJ
Daily from 10.00 am Planning and Booking HERE
BewilderBox
The Brunswick, Brighton, BN3 1JF
Planning and Booking HERE
Cluetivity
(Outdoor escape room, as it were, using GPS and fancy techy stuff. It’s for older kids; plus spare a couple of hours for it!
Planning and Booking HERE
Solve the City
Stalk the streets of Brighton, armed only with an app, and a parent or two.
Planning and booking HERE
Go Completely Pots
The Painting Pottery Café
31 North Road Brighton BN1 1YB
Runs daily pottery painting sessions. See website HERE for details
Plus a Kids Holiday pot throwing taster session on Thursday 26 Oct. 11.00am – 3.00pm
Paintpots
39 Trafalgar Street Brighton, BN1 4ED
Monday-Saturday 11am – 6pm
To find out what’s on, Telephone: 01273 696 682 and tell Vicky you’re from the Brighton Science Festival and she’ll take the kids down to see how the kiln works!
email paint.pots1@gmail.com
website is HERE
Art-ful Pottery
71 Rowlands Rd, Worthing, BN11 3JN
Mostly for adults, but THIS looks interesting for kids,
Monday-Saturday from 10am
Amberley Museum
Always lots happening! Their October Half Term Fun includes
Herstmonceux Science Centre
The best science playground in the UK, if not the world, weaving amongst the magnificent telescopes of the Observatory, (which also runs regular events).
Plan a day out HERE
And include their free SPOOKY SCIENCE talks:
every weekend in October and throughout East Sussex half term holiday for some spooky fun!
Your daytime visit includes:
A Spooky Science Show
Bewitching Bat Trail
Shocking Electricity exhibits in our eeriest dome.
As well as all the usual science fun!
Don’t forget to stop by the cafe for some creepy coffee and scary sweet treats.
FREE with entry to the Science Centre – book HERE
Arundel Museum and Art Gallery
Mill Road Arundel West Sussex, BN18 9PA 01903 885866 office@arundelmuseum.org
A great museum, with a special half-term workshop:
Adventures with LEGO on 28th October. 2.00 – 3.30 £5
Knepp Rewilding
Since they began rewilding in 2000, life has poured back to Knepp, including nightingales, turtle doves and purple emperor butterflies – some of the rarest creatures in Britain. Roaming herds of cattle, ponies, pigs and deer shape the land, creating dynamic scrubland, wild meadows, wetland and wood pasture. Knepp is a story of hope, showing how nature can bounce back if we let it.the estate, near Horsham, is open to explore, with 16 miles of footpaths, tree platforms, bird hides, deer, Exmoor ponies, Tamworth pigs, longhorn cattle and white storks.
At other times of the year Knepp runs a very child-friendly “Rewild Your Child” programme: bushcraft, fire-lighting, wildlife tracking and building mini-beaver dams. Maybe not at this time, but at any time it’s exhilarating. FIND OUT
Archaeodiscovery
Hove Museum of Creativity
Hosting events all year, all through Half Term and beyond. Almost beyond belief. Set aside an hour on their site to plan your year, but include the photography, the makes . …. FIND OUT ……. and of course Alice in Funderland – (of which more HERE)
Sussex Wildlife Trust
Too many activities to list! Browse to your heart’s content, select carefully, then go to everything! HERE