Slaithwaite Moonraking Festival of Light 2025:
Half term
children’s activities

Come and get involved!
Please book these directly with the organisers.
A New Leaf Children’s Book Club
Moon themed book activities for children 6-11 years old Bargain books sale and licensed bar for accompanying adults.
Please book in advance at A New Leaf Bookshop hello@anewleafbookshop.co.uk or call 07967 149274
Sun 16th Feb 4 – 6pm
FREE ENTRY
Empire House, Lewisham Road HD7 5AL
Ruddi’s Cafe
19 - 21 Station Road, HD7 5AW
All classes 9.30 – 11am For children 5 years and upwards £12 per child including a snack. 50p per booking goes to the Moonraking Festival
Mon 17th Feb Cupcake Decorating
Tue 18th Feb Slime Making
Weds 19th Feb Old School Cake Decorating
Thur 20th Feb Pizza Making
Fri 21st Feb Moonraking Milkshake Making Classes
Always sell out fast so please don’t delay in booking Call 01484 766050
Arty Explorers
Carr Lane, HD7 5AG Half term storytelling, imaginative play and themed arts and crafts classes themed around the story By the Light of the Moon. For babies through to KS1 aged children.
Book online at www.artyexplorers.co.uk
Experience Community Moon Crafts
Make moons on sticks and moon phase hangings. Adults and children welcome. Local organisation helping disabled people to access the outdoors through a range of inclusive walking, cycling, conservation and arts activities. Free session, donations very welcome.
Fri 21st Feb 1 – 4pm
Basement of Slaithwaite Civic Hall, New Street, HD7 5AB
Please book in advance in.colne.valley.land@gmail.com
Yorkshire Education Service Tuition Moonlit and Moonstruck! Workshops
Join teachers Charlotte and Martin for a creative workshop where children will produce stories, plays, poetry, illustrations and performances inspired by Moonraking. Prizes for the best contribution!
Weds 19th and Thur 20th Feb 10 – 11.30 am
YES! Tuition Centre 6 New St, HD7 5AB
£20 for 1 child additional friend/sibling £10 (please bring your own snacks)
Book at info@yestuition.co.uk or call 01484 844222/07403 624995
Moon and Imagination! at The Clay Mill Pottery Studio
Britannia Mills, HD7 5HE
Join in with exciting clay workshops for families – choose from Tiny Moon Landscapes, have a go on the pottery wheel and festival themed sculptures!
From £10
Booking info@theclaymill.co.uk or ticketsource.co.uk/the-clay-mill
Moonshine ‘Window Pictures’ Family Workshop - Window lanterns
Make window lanterns with Zoe, using colourful tissue paper and black card, each family will create beautiful window lanterns to display at home for the festival.
Weds 19th Feb 1 – 2.30pm
Globe Arts Studio Carr Lane/New Street HD7 5AG
£8 per person
www.globearts.org.uk/kids-families/moonshine-window-lanterns
Moonraking Shadow Crafts at Acorn & Pip
Pop in for Moonraking crafts, play and a cuppa any time over the half term week and get creative by making your very own shadow puppet theatre using recycled materials to take home. Then, don’t miss the performances by The Watershed Youth Theatre from 5pm on Moonraking evening.
Acorn & Pip 6 &7 Carr Lane, HD7 5AN
More information www.acornandpip.com/pages/cafe
Moonshine ‘Window Pictures’ Family Workshop - Vinyl Float Glass
Join Zoe, using a piece of float glass and vinyl stickers in a variety of colours, design your moonshine decoration – will it be a landscape or a pattern?
Sat 22nd Feb 1 – 2.30pm
Globe Arts Studio Carr Lane/New Street HD7 5AG
£8 per person
Canal and River Trust Canoe Taster Session
Have a go with some family friendly rafted canoeing as part of the Festival. Join in with first-come-first-served 30-minute rafted canoeing sessions. We will try and fit as many people as possible onto the water throughout the day. Please wear clothing and footwear that you don’t mind getting wet.
Thur 20th and Fri 21st Feb 11am – 3pm
Lock 21/back of the Fire Station
£5 per person card or cash Suitable for all aged 8 and upwards
Questions to gordon.mcminn@canalrivertrust.org.uk
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