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<\/a>For the seven days of the Spellbound Festival there\u2019s the chance to get crafty making spooky spiders, have a go at the hilarious games such as lob the ghost, catch the witch or traditional apple games and concoct a witch\u2019s potion on the Recipe for Disaster Trail around the reserve.<\/p>\nExtra spellbinding activities over the weekend of Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th October include face painting to add the finishing touches to fancy dress costumes and spooky owls will be swooping in for Mantella Environmental\u2019s Owl Display. On Sunday 25th, show off your monster moves at Jump Jiggle and Jive\u2019s Hallowe\u2019en Hooley, four fun-filled, interactive dance parties between 2pm and 4pm with plenty of Hallowe\u2019en themed props for children and adults too.<\/p>\n
The frighteningly good fun continues on Friday 30th<\/sup> and Saturday 31st<\/sup> October with Hallowe\u2019en treats including face painting, giant creepy crawlies with Mantella Environmental and Monster Mash Discos packed with spooky hits and fireside storytelling in the roundhouse.<\/p>\n Throughout the Spellbound Festival week there\u2019ll be spot prizes for the best dressed little monsters and visitors to Castle Espie can enter into a prize draw to win a family pass to meet the GIANT LEGO Brick Animals and LEGO Brick Workshop tickets in February and March 2016.<\/p>\n Entrance to the Spellbound Festival is included in the cost of admission and free to WWT members and under 4\u2019s. For a full event programme including timings for individual activities go to wwt.org.uk\/castleespie\/spellbound or contact Castle Espie on 028 9187 4146. WWT Castle Espie Wetland Centre is open every day from 10am to 5.00pm, parking is free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feeling brave? This Hallowe\u2019en half term, visitors to Castle Espie Wetland Centre can enjoy a whole host of Hallowe\u2019en activities for little monsters at the Spellbound Festival from Saturday 24th to Saturday 31st October. For the seven days of the Spellbound Festival there\u2019s the chance to get crafty making spooky spiders, have a go at … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10254,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions\/10254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}