Hobbledown

Enjoy a mysterical adventure at Hobbledown. Meet our animals, play in the Barn, go down our mine and have fun in the party cottage.

Schools Visits

Hobbledown is an excellent day out for school or group visits and the Hobblers want to make sure the organisers can enjoy the day as much as the children. That starts with us offering you all the resources you need to make the most of your visit. We want this day to be easy to organise and stress free. 

To get the most out of your visit we know you need to plan ahead. We help by offering teachers a complimentary pair of tickets to visit us at Hobbledown prior to your school visit, once a booking has been paid for.

We also have a helpful sheet listing all the practical information that you can download and hand out to the other teachers in your group.

We know that children learn more when they are fully immersed in a subject. Their engagement and attention levels are heightened, which in turn magnifies the effort they put in and the wonderful results they achieve.  That’s why the Hobblers have found their own real-life, grown-up teacher who has created a range of activities and fun stuff for your children to do.  We are continually adding more plans and activities  so please keep checking the website. Schools can download all of this to use at Hobbledown.

Key Stages 1 & 2
 Activities at the Farm

• The Hobbledown Quest is a treasure hunt that will take the children around the park searching for items after working out the clues on the quest activity sheet. The quest links directly to the story of Hobbledown and is a great way to encourage children to explore the park.Download the Hobbledown Quest here
• The Skibbler Quest. The children will need to be alert and use their map reading skills to complete this activity. 10 Skibblers are on the park and the Hobblers need your help in finding them all. Download the Skibbler Quest here
• Help the Hobblers. Huck needs you help in finding the location for the missing ingredient to a secret potion that will help cure the Professor and Eliza. The only problem is everything is written in a secret language that needs to be deciphered.Download “Help the Hobblers“
• Animal Trail. There are educational boards for all the animals at Hobbledown and this trail encourages the children to explore our park for the animals mentioned on the trail and find the missing information about them which will be on the educational boards.Download “The Animal Trail“
• Nature Trail. This trail encourages the children to explore our park for all things natural. You will require a pencil and a sharp eye. Download “The Nature Trail“
• Hobbler Trail. This trail is more of a spotter sheet. It encourages the children to explore our park for some of animals and find the missing information about them which will be on the educational boards as well as asking them to keep an eye out for some of the more unusual objects around the park. Download “The Hobbler Trail“