Whatever your child's interests, he or she will have amazing fun at Blunts Barn Activities. We have a huge range of activities to suit everyone. Whether it's chilling in the swimming pool, cooking up a crispy cake creation, roasting dampers over your own camp fire, creating an artistic masterpiece worthy of the Tate, firing an arrow just like Robin Hood, shooting down the Slippery Slide, conquering our bike obstacle course or building your own QE2 (or perhaps Titanic!), we really do have something for everyone.
Try it for a day, a week or come for the whole two weeks; we know they'll have so much fun they'll want to come back for more!
Set in a beautiful New Forest location, in the heart of the National Park, we make full use of our wonderful surroundings. We are passionate about ensuring quality, safe, and most importantly, fun activities for every child who spends time at Blunts Barn Activities. When you send your child to us, you can rest assured that not only are they having a brilliant time, but that they are also being cared for by highly experienced, qualified staff. All group leaders are DBS checked (formally CRB) and hold relevant qualications for the specialist activities they run, including first aid. We'll send your children home happy, proud of what they've achieved that day and ready for a full night's sleep!
The kids are on the go all day and love everything they do.
We are so lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world – just being here means at least half the job of entertaining the children is done already. And one of our favourite places to go is Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, just a couple of miles past Lyndhurst.
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Don’t worry, not ‘If you don’t tidy your room right now you won’t be going to that party on Saturday’ type consequences, but the silly parlour game of the same name.
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This post forms part of our Scavenger Hunt series – a ready-to-print-and-take-away list for you to organise your very own Scavenger Hunt, perfect for keeping children (and adults!) entertained and engaged in the great outdoors.
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Olympic sharpshooting at 20 paces.
Aim for the gold!
Bike rides to challenge every ability
Water? Check! Soap? Check! 110m of super-slippery plastic? Check!
Fancy a dip in our heated pool?
Li-Lo, Customs and Smugglers, Fox & Hounds, Stealth and many more. Hide, run, guard out on the forest.
Football, Uni-hoc, basketball, table tennis and all your other favourites. Develop your technique and pit your skills against the others!
Test your intrepid design against the stormy brine
Acid in the car park, bridge-building, wacky races...Will you help your team to win?!
Essential skills for the avid adventurer: Advanced campfire building, shelter/bivouac building, water collection, snaring and trapping. No more worries about being stranded on a desert island!
We have a huge array of all things arty & crafty for the budding artist. With a particular focus on natural art, what amazing creation will you take home?
From the famous crispy cake cow-pat to the simply delectable iced-biscuits, we've got cooking sorted. Perfect for a rainy day (although we hope they don't happen) but equally great in the blazing sunshine.
Are you rugged enough to take on the ramps, tabletops and seesaw?
Using just rope and wood, make a fantastic camp gadget. Can you set a world record with the catapult you've built? Can you build a bridge across the River Kwai? The only limit is your imagination!
Dam building
River crossings
Throwing Arrows and Ninja Stars
Command tasks
Scavenger hunts
Nature walks
Orienteering
Bouncy castle
These are just some of the activities we offer. On each day we run a set programme of activities, designed to give your child a range of different experiences across the day. There is often a degree of choice offered for some of the sessions (we call this ‘bases’). For an example programme, please click below:
If there is a particular activity your child really doesn’t want to miss, please let us know in advance so that we can suggest the best day(s) for your child to attend. As much as possible we accommodate such requests, though some of our activities are weather dependent so sometimes the programme has to change at short notice. In order to enjoy all the activities on offer, we advise that your child attends for a full week.
If, for some reason, you cannot access the online booking form then please do contact us.
Additionally, if you would like to still pay via a deposit/balance system then please contact us for more information.
If, for some reason, you cannot access the online booking form then please do contact us.
Additionally, if you would like to still pay via a deposit/balance system then please contact us for more information.
It was absolutely amazing, I was the slippy slide queen!
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FANTASTIC variety and children come home happily exhausted
...fun, outside activities, with opportunities you would not usually have to try new things
