May Half mini letter 2025

🎉 Half Term Adventures! Family Fun in and Around Cambridge 🐾🗺️  

Looking for ways to keep the little ones entertained this May half term? We've rounded up some brilliant family-friendly events happening in Cambridge.

All events (and many more…) can be found in the Events in Cambridge calendar. 

Happening everyday: 

• Cambridge Nature Festival is running, with events planned everyday till the 30th June

• Trail at Anglesey Abbey, inspired by the book Ben Plants a Butterfly Garden.

• Botanic Garden’s Mystery History Family Trail is on till the 27th, and will be followed by Bee School Summer Adventure – SELF-LED TRAIL from the 28th

• Under the Sea @ Cambridge science center

• Weekly opening schedule @ the Warehouse 

Saturday (May 24)

• Meet the cows at Wandlebury (10:30 am - 12:00 pm)

• Join the family fun skate at Chesterton Sports Centre (2pm) 

• Brown Dwarf stars and Rogue Planets @ Institute of Astronomy (10:00 – 12:00) 

• Family Drop-in craft @ Cambourne Nature reserve (10:00 am - 3:00 pm)

Sunday (May 25)

• Learn how to make a bird box with Cambridge Makers

• Create something artistic at Studio Sunday at Kettle’s Yard (Relaxed session: 12-1, main event: 1-4pm

Monday (May 26)

• Try archery in Wimpole

• Dance at Family Zumba in Storey’s Field Centre

• Learn block printing on textiles at Cambridge Makers

Tuesday (May 27)

• Explore the world of fossils at Sedgwick Museum

• Watch the Dinosaur that Pooped at the Corn Exchange

• Design your tiles at Huntingdon Library

• Eco-Friendly Crafts at Cherry Hinton Library (10:30am)

• Pond Dipping at Wicken Fen (10:30am, 11:45am, 1:30pm, 2:45pm) 

Wednesday (May 28)

• Print with Veggies at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden

• Climb a really big tree at Wimpole

• Help a robot learn to spell at the Centre for Computing History

• Explore the science of sound at the Whipple Museum  (3pm)

• Wild in the Woods: Family Pond Dip & Walk in Cambourne (10am)

• Pond Dipping at Wicken Fen (10:30am, 11:45am, 1:30pm, 2:45pm)

Thursday (May 29)

• Explore the science of sound at the Whipple Museum  (3pm)

• Build an electronic dice at the Centre for Computing History

• Disability Friendly Opening at Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (10am)

• Animal Antics at Museum of Classical Archaeology (2pm) 

• Big Tree Climbing at Wimpole Hall (9am–5pm, £25)

• Wild in the Meadows: Family Pond Dip & Adventure Walk at Trumpington Meadows (10am)

Friday (May 30)

• Learn the history of video games (2pm)

• Discover dirt through outdoor play at Wicken Fen

• Explore Earth's Earliest Animals at Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (10am)

Saturday (May 31)

• Check out the Cambridge County Show

Sunday (June 1)

• Visit a real watermill from the 17th century

• Learn about ancient peat remains in Wicken Fen

• Unwind through family yoga at Satyam Yoga

• World Reef Day Storytime at Cambridge Central Library (3pm, Free)