Fun Things To Do This Easter Holiday in Buckinghamshire
2026-03-09T18:17:43Z
The Easter holidays have a lovely kind of energy about them. Spring is (finally) starting to show up, the days are a bit longer, and there’s that feeling that everyone is ready to get outside again. Of course, two weeks with the kids at home can still feel like a lot to fill.
The good news is you don’t need a packed schedule or expensive days out to make the Easter break enjoyable. A few local adventures, some fresh air, and the occasional chocolate egg usually does the trick.
Here are some simple, realistic ideas to help you make the most of the Easter holidays in Buckinghamshire.
Family Friendly Events in Bucks
Easter is one of the best times of year for family events in Buckinghamshire. From Easter egg hunts and craft workshops to family trails and outdoor activities, there’s plenty happening across the county.
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Art
Teens Easter Workshop: Visual Poetry Making
Poet Ayşe Kongur will be leading a fun and imaginative workshop with teens on visual poetry using old typewriters from her collection and bygone graphic reproduction techniques, dry transfer letters, markers, technical pens, compass and collage
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Monday 30th March
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10:30am
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1pm
📍 Queens Park Arts Centre and Limelight Theatre
💷 £16
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Teens Easter Workshop: Zine Making
Graphic designer and life-drawing tutor Ayşe Kongur will be leading a fun and imaginative workshop with teens on zine making using old typewriters from her collection and bygone graphic reproduction techniques such as dry transfer letters, markers, technical pens, compass and collage
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Tuesday 31st March
🕰️
10:30am
-
1pm
📍 Queens Park Arts Centre and Limelight Theatre
💷 £16
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Easter Holiday Pottery Workshops For Children
Join tutor Emma Bowden to make wonderful clay sculptures
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Wednesday 1st April
🕰️
10:30am
-
1pm
📍 Queens Park Arts Centre and Limelight Theatre
💷 £16
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Easter Holiday Workshop For Children: Woodland Creatures Collage
Young artists can brush up their painting, drawing and collaging skills in this class with art tutor Lindsey Grexhammer
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Wednesday 1st April
🕰️
1pm
-
4pm
📍 Queens Park Arts Centre and Limelight Theatre
💷 Free
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Easter Bunnies At Discover Bucks Museum
Decorate a wooden easter bunny and create a home for it using a variety of different materials
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Thursday 2nd April
🕰️
10am
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2:30pm
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Hatching Eggs At Discover Bucks Museum
Make a pop-up jack-in-a-box egg to take home for the Easter holidays! What will hatch from YOUR egg? (This craft is inspired by our new Sew Dainty exhibition: upgrade your craft ticket to explore it for yourself!)
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Friday 3rd April
🕰️
10am
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2:30pm
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Create! Easter Family Workshops
Be inspired by our Destination Amersham exhibition and create your own souvenir snow globe card from collage materials.
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Thursday 9th April
🕰️
1:30pm
-
3pm
📍 Amersham Museum
💷 £3
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Easter Holiday Club In High Wycombe (Haf) – Art Activities For 8–12 Year Olds
Our Easter Holiday Art Club in High Wycombe is part of the HAF (Holiday Activities and Food) programme, offering holiday activities for children aged 8–12 during the Easter holidays
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Friday 10th April
📍 Wycombe Arts Centre
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Make Easter Egg-stra Special With A Visit To Milton Keynes Museum
The hunt will be on at Milton Keynes Museum this Easter, as youngsters search for hidden eggs which lead the way to yummy chocolate rewards - and no-one will go home empty-handed
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Friday 10th April
🕰️
10:30am
-
4:30pm
📍 MK Museum
💷 £12
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Roald Dahl Children's Gallery
Come and discover the famous Roald Dahl Children’s Gallery, a space bursting with interactive displays and engaging activities inspired by Roald Dahl’s wonderful stories that encourage learning through play. Children can step inside the Giant Peach, explore sound with the BFG and crawl through Fantastic Mr. Fox’s tunnel. They can appear in their own drawings on TV and even freeze their own shadows! Come along and explore for yourselves.
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Sunday 12th April
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12pm
-
4pm
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Art School Foundation 12+
A fun and dynamic course designed for young people, offering an inspiring introduction to the fundamentals of drawing, painting, and creative practice. Perfect for those who love art at school, want to build confidence, or are thinking about developing their skills further.
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Monday 13th April
📍 Wycombe Arts Centre
💷 £7.50
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History and heritage
Saxon Opening Day
Join us for a vibrant opening celebration featuring talks, storytelling, and hands-on crafts
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Saturday 28th March
🕰️
10am
-
5pm
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Hopping Lambs And Jumping Rabbits At Discover Bucks Museum
Learn how to make a moving Easter-themed picture to take home for the Easter holidays
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Monday 30th March
🕰️
10am
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2:30pm
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Quiet Opening SEN Family Friendly Morning
Explore the museum in your own way. Sensory Discovery Bag, quiet space activities and handling objects and art equipment available to enjoy the museum at your own pace and in your own way.
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Tuesday 31st March
🕰️
9:30am
-
11:30am
📍 Amersham Museum
💷 Free
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Eggcellent Science At Discover Bucks Museum
How do you make a bouncy egg? Can an egg survive being catapulted? Find out the answers to these questions and more with our Easter science workshop during the holidays as we delve deep into egg-related science with fun, hands-on experiments.
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Wednesday 1st April
🕰️
10:15am
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11:15am
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Eggcellent Egg Hunters At Discover Bucks Museum
Hunt for easter eggs in one of the oldest buildings in Aylesbury: explore our museum, complete Easter challenges and earn yourself a sweet reward this Easter!
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Monday 6th April
🕰️
10:30am
-
11:30am
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Saxon Baskets At Discover Bucks Museum
Learn how to make a woven yarn basket to take home
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Tuesday 7th April
🕰️
10am
-
2:30pm
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Saxon Saucer Brooches At Discover Bucks Museum
Dress like a Saxon by making yourself a Saxon saucer brooch take home
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Wednesday 8th April
🕰️
10am
-
2:30pm
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Saxon Carvings At Discover Bucks Museum
Try your hand at carving like a Saxon with our soap-carving workshop
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Thursday 9th April
🕰️
10am
-
2:30pm
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Saxon Clay At Discover Bucks Museum
Experiment with clay to create your very own Saxon tile or coil pot (or something else entirely
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Friday 10th April
🕰️
10am
-
2:30pm
📍 Discover Bucks Museum
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Other Events
Easter Fun @ Elim Hope Church Lane End
A wonderful afternoon of fun for all ages on Easter Saturday afternoon, with Easter crafts, woodwork, Messy Play, biscuit decorating, a puppet show, Easter trail and chocolate egg and gift for all children
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Saturday 4th April
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2pm
-
5pm
📍 Elim Hope Church Lane End HP14 3EJ
💷 Free
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Easter Egg Hunt
Celebrate the arrival of spring with a fun-filled Easter Egg Hunt at GXCA on Monday 6 April
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Monday 6th April
🕰️
From
1:30pm
📍 GXCA, Gerrards Cross
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Easter Holidays At Go Ape Wendover
Escape the ordinary and head to Go Ape Wendover, set among the rolling woodland just outside Aylesbury, for an unforgettable outdoor adventure.
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Friday 10th April
🕰️
10am
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2:30pm
📍 Go Ape Wendover
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The Great Eggscape – Cliveden Easter Egg Hunt
The mischievous eggs have escaped! Bring the whole family along, grab your bunny ears and hop into action
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Sunday 12th April
📍 Cliveden
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The Ramblin Roots Revue 2026
In association with Clubhouse Records, Inside Out Talent and Empty Room Promotions, The Ramblin’ Roots Revue has become for many one of the UK’s most eagerly anticipated and best loved weekends of americana, roots and alt-country in the musical calendar
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Sunday 12th April
📍 The Venue, High Wycombe
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Theatre
Junior Youth Theatre - Spring Term 2026
Join our Youth Theatre and make friends, learn new skills, and discover the magic of performing
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Monday 30th March
📍 Wycombe Swan
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Senior Youth Theatre - Spring Term 2026
Join our Youth Theatre and make friends, learn new skills, and discover the magic of performing
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Monday 30th March
📍 Wycombe Swan
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Rapunzel
Let your hair down and get tangled in a brand-new musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale
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Saturday 4th April
🕰️
2pm
-
4pm
📍 The Elgiva
💷 £18
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Peppa Pig's Big Family Show
Peppa Pig and friends are back in their brand new live stage show! With a new arrival on the way the whole family are busy getting ready
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Sunday 5th April
📍 Wycombe Swan
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Dinosaur Adventure Live-Danger On T-Rex Mountain
A dinosaur show 65 million years in the making… Are you ready for the BRAND NEW adventure? Join our intrepid rangers on a quest to recover the data crystal, restore power to the island and save the dinosaurs!
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Monday 6th April
🕰️
2pm
-
4pm
📍 The Elgiva
💷 £20
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Outdoor
Family Easter Fun At Dundridge Manor
Bring the whole family and enjoy a day packed with Easter fun. Children can take part in our Easter Egg Hunt, with every child receiving an Easter Egg and a certificate for completing the trail.
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Sunday 29th March
🕰️
11:30am
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3pm
📍 Dundridge Manor
💷 £5
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Hartwell Nurseries - Easter Egg Trail & Grow Your Own Seed
Join us over the Easter weekend for an egg-cellent Easter Egg Easter Egg Trail and Grow Your Own seed activity
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Monday 6th April
🕰️
10am
-
2pm
📍 Hartwell Nurseries
💷 £3
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Buckingham Bunny Hunt
Pick up a trail map from Buckingham Tourist Information Centre in the Old Gaol to find all the bunny shapes displayed in shop windows.
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Monday 13th April
🕰️
10am
-
4pm
📍 Buckingham Old Gaol
💷 Free
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Workshop
Backstage Youth Theatre Spring Term
Are you interested in theatre and have a passion for all things backstage? Are you aged between 14–19? Then our Backstage Youth Theatre programme could be for you! Wycombe Swan’s Backstage Youth Theatre programme is looking for young people keen to take part and learn more about what goes on behind the curtain at a theatre performance
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Monday 30th March
📍 Wycombe Swan
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Meet… And Eat… The Rose Family!
Join us for a fun, hands-on family nature workshop exploring the amazing Rose Family!
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Monday 30th March
🕰️
10:30am
-
12pm
📍 Amersham Museum
💷 £8
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Triple Threat Groups Day
Triple Threat Productions are delighted to present their annual Groups Day, celebrating amateur Dance and Musical Groups for performers aged between 4 and 21 years.
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Sunday 12th April
📍 Wycombe Swan
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Sports
Fun Fest Marlow – Bourne End Easter Club
Fun Fest Marlow – Bourne End gives children a choice about how they spend their holidays
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Friday 10th April
🕰️
8am
-
6pm
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Easter Egg Hunt At Wycombe Museum
The mischevious Easter Bunny has hidden eggs around the museum garden! Help us find them all and claim your prize!
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Sunday 12th April
📍 Wycombe Museum
💷 £3.20
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Education
Easter Hunt - Family Trail
Help! Birds have escaped from our exhibition and hidden their eggs around the museum. Can you help us find them all?
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Sunday 12th April
🕰️
11:30am
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4pm
📍 Amersham Museum
💷 £2
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Music
The Craufurd Arms Community Easter Trail
Wolverton music hub The Craufurd Arms is hosting an Easter Community Trail with a difference - and by taking part you will be helping to raise the volume at the much-loved venue in Milton Keynes
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Sunday 12th April
📍 The Craufurd Arms
💷 £2
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Get Outside and Enjoy Spring
After months of winter, Easter is the perfect excuse to spend a bit more time outdoors. Parks, woodlands and countryside walks are starting to look greener, and even a short stroll can turn into a small adventure.
A nature scavenger hunt, feeding the ducks, or simply letting the kids run around in a big open space can easily fill a morning. And if the weather behaves, a picnic always feels like the official start of spring.
Explore Somewhere Local
Sometimes the best days out are the simplest ones — wandering around a pretty town, stopping for a snack, and seeing where the day takes you.
If you’re looking for ideas, our local guides are a great place to start:
Each guide includes family-friendly spots, places to eat, walks, and little things you might not have discovered yet.
Keep It Relaxed
However you spend the Easter holidays, try to keep it simple and flexible. A couple of outings, some fresh air, and plenty of chocolate usually strikes the right balance.
And before you know it, the school bags will be back out and summer won’t be too far away ☀️
