Our Halloween Visit To Bluebell Farm
The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a struggle for me health wise. Cue half term – of course it always happens when you are not feeling at all your best!
After an awful day on Monday, barely making it out of bed, the mum guilt was high. Although we were doing lots of fun things together at home – movies, crafts, colouring, board games etc, I really wanted to get outside with the kids and have a fun day out.
I checked out a local farm that isn’t too far from our house and discovered they were doing lots of Halloween themed activities including a Halloween trail and a pumpkin patch! I kept it a secret from the boys and roped in my mum to join us for the day.
We headed over just before lunch and paid £17 entry to the farm for the four of us which included access to the farm, the Halloween trail and both the boys got to choose their own pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. My mum also paid £1 each for two bags of animal feed (one two legged and one four legged).
The boys were super excited when we got there so we let them run off some energy on the park and in the sandpit while we sat down and had a cuppa! Everybody serving was super friendly and they were reasonably priced. There were lots of tables for people to sit at while children played which was nice, and in the Summer I am sure it is filled with people with picnics.
We then set off to see the animals and the boys really enjoyed feeding them, especially the greedy goats, the turkeys and the hugest rabbit we ever did see! There was lots of animals to see and it was nice to see all the animals had names. Riley even found a sheep called Riley which he thought was great!
It was then time to enter the Halloween trail! We were given a map and were told we needed to collect stamps to help free the Witch (who was a good one) from the Boggart! We were told the trail would take around half an hour which was about right (we maybe took a little longer) and that it wasn’t suitable for pushchairs or wheelchairs which I had already read on the website. Due to all the rain, the trail was very muddy and wellies were recommended. Luckily I had already seen this on the website too, so we were all prepared!
The boys really enjoyed looking for all the stamps and the trail was well thought out and lots of fun. There were plenty of photo opportunities along the way and it was definitely very muddy, which I think Riley loved the most! The corn maze was fab and the boys really enjoyed trying to find their way through this (there was an alternative route to miss this out if you didn’t want to go round it).
We finally reached the end of the trail and we did it – we had collected all the stamps, said the spell and saved the witch – yay for us! Next up we headed down to the pumpkin patch and the boys explored until they found the most perfect two pumpkins for us to take home.
We walked back up to the farm and let the boys have fifteen minutes on the bouncy pillow before heading back to the car with rumbling tummies and rain clouds looking ominous.
All in all a fabulous time was had by all and I would highly recommend Bluebells to everyone! There is also a large cafe and a play hay barn which we didn’t have chance to explore today but will do on a return visit. I was super pleased with the price for what was available to do and we were all suitably shattered by the end of the day! The staff were all very friendly and we will be back for sure in the future (after putting Riley in the washing machine!).
Check out the Bluebell Farm and Dairy website here to find directions and further information
The Spoonie Mummy 
Definitely looks like Riley enjoyed the mud! This sounds fab, and I love the skeleton cut-out as that made for a great photo 🙂
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Yes there were loads of fab ‘Selfie Spots’ dotted around. It was a fab adventure!
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Sounds like you had a great day out and the price seems very reasonable for all of you #FamilyFun
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It really was with everything that is included I think! We had a great time, thankyou x
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This looks like a great day out! I love photo opportunities! Hope you’re feeling better next week #familyfun
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Thankyou! Yes the boys loved it, would race over and say take a photo, take a photo! Little posers x
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This looks like so much fun! Lovely photos! #HoneybeeLinky
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Thankyou! It really was a fab day x
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What a lovely day out. What fun feeding the animals too.
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This looks wonderful, especially when the farm animals are included. Perfect for Halloween fun! Happy halloween X #honeybeelinky
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Happy Halloween to you too! The animals were lovely and the boys really enjoyed feeding them x
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Looks like you had a really great day out. I love that Riley found a sheep with the same name, my two would have loved that. I hope you’re feeling a bit better now x
Thank you for joining #FamilyFunLinky
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Such a cool day out to have together! I love the funny bones peep hole thing (what do they call those?? Mind has deserted me!). I love the fact that the weather is just right for still going out and enjoying times like these, I hope it stays this nice for the rest of the year! Thank you so much for joining in with the #HoneybeeLinky lovely, see you at the next one I hope! xxx
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Thankyou! They called them #selfiespots and they were a few different ones around, not sure of the actual name of the peep hole things (we will go with that!). Will see you next week for sure xx
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