Reply ID 22935
05/08/2006 by lauram340
Hertford Museum! Loads of activitys on, most are drop in, there is a story playboat, loads of colouring in and cut out and make things going on excpeically with the school holidays on! just pop in and take a look!
Reply ID 22940
06/08/2006 by frazer
Hi,
I find quite a lot of things to do locally with my toddler and slightly further away if you have a car.
In and around Hertford:
Walking along the canalside and feeding the ducks.
The playground and sandpit on Hartham Common.
Visiting Hertford museum.
The castle grounds playground and feeding the ducks [thank heavens for ducks!!]
Woodson Park sports centre run sessions called 'Arty animals' that runs for an hour and also has a soft play session a few times a week.
Paradise Park [zoo] has a nice paddling pool and a soft play room if its raining that is good.
St Albans, Verulam Park, has a brilliant 'water spray pad' section over near the cafe. Its very popular!
Willows Farm, Colney, good playgrounds, cute guinea pigs running around lots to do there.
Ware, walk along the canal [feed the ducks.. again..] and they have an open air lido.
Royston, has a nice little park and a playground there.
Harpenden, has a brilliant indoor play place. I have not been yet but it has good reviews.
Audley End House, you can pay just to use the gardens. Plenty of space for toddlers to run around in [plus more ducks to feed...] It also has a great little train ride through the forest which our toddler loved. Its outside of the grounds [costs extra]
Kenwood House in Highgate. This is a brilliant place to go if you can get there [45 mins up the A1] Its a beautiful house set in lovely grounds which all becomes part of Hampstead Heath. If you walk for a mile you get to a brilliant playground which is all new and very big. Next to it is an outdoor childrens pool. They also have childrens entertainment on the bandstand on different dates in August and a lovely cafe with great pasta dishes and childrens food. I go here all the time and you can spend a whole day there and not get bored! best of all it is all FREE.[ not the cafe] The house is well worth looking around too, its all owned by the National Trust and is also FREE to look around.
NCT open house coffee mornings. I am hoping to host one or go along to one in the near future as there doesn,t seem to be one running in Hertford at the moment. Contact me if you want to come along.
Reply ID 22941
06/08/2006 by Willow
Wow thank you so much for the recommendations! There are certainly more than enough activities there to keep a 2 year old (my niece) entertained for 3.5 weeks. I used to live in Finchley Central & know Kenwood very well - but I haven't been back in over 7 years so a trip there definitely sounds like a great idea.
Thanks again both of you :)