Go ‘eggsploring’ with the National Trust this Easter

Once again the National Trust has teamed up with Cadbury for its Easter celebrations this year.

Cadbury Easter Egg Trails will be taking place across Cheshire from Fri 3 – Mon 6 April, and you can go ‘Eggsploring’ at Dunham Massey, Lyme Park, Little Moreton Hall, Quarry Bank Mill and Hare Hill Garden.

Where’s that egg? A young visitor at Dunham Massey puzzles over her Easter Egg Trail c National Trust images

Spokesperson for the Trust, Debbie Peers said “You don’t automatically think of a link between chocolate and conservation – but this is exactly what happens with our Cadbury Easter Egg trails. Each time  a child or family takes part in a trail, it goes to support our work around the conservation and restoration of the buildings and outdoor spaces we look after. Easter is by far the most popular event in the Trust’s calendar – so we hope this year will be no exception!”

The fun continues after the Easter weekend with Easter holiday family activities focussed around the outdoors. Highlights include sack racing and other traditional games at Lyme Park, making a bird’s nest and planting seeds at Dunham Massey, archery and Tudor games at Little Moreton Hall and woodland trails in Hare Hill Garden.

On your marks…get set… contestants line up at Lyme Park for an Easter holiday sack race c National Trust images

You can also discover Lyme Park’s ‘Spooky Spaces’, create your very own spring picture using ink block prints at Quarry Bank, learn how to make up a Tudor four poster bed at Little Moreton Hall, and help Dunham Massey’s servants bake cakes in the Edwardian kitchen.

For full details of National Trust Easter activities across Cheshire and the North West go to www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nwspring. You can find out about a Cadbury Easter Egg Trail near you at www.eastereggtrail.com

Try a game of traditional skittles as part of Easter holiday fun at Little Moreton Hall c Emma Williams