Trip to Smithills Farm

I Love being off in the Easter holidays, being able to spend valuable time with the kids. Haaris is at 'that age' now where he doesn't want to spend as much family time with us, he either wants to be out with his friends or playing on his X box so when I had made plans to take a trip to Smithills open farm in Bolton I knew it would just be me and Zahra, perfect girly day!

We get up extra early as I knew the farm would be busy with it being holiday season, the farm is only a 30 minute trip from our house and there is ample parking on site!

When we reached the farm it was extra busy, it cost us around £18 for entry, that was for both of us and included an Easter egg hunt, a donkey ride and some feed for the animals, we had packed our own picnic therefore we didn't have to worry about extra expense for lunch or snacks.

Zahra was super excited to visit Pets corner, and was given the opportunity to feed one of the baby Lambs! haha we ended up getting attacked by 3 of them!

We also got to hold baby chicks, hamsters and rabbits, oh and stroke a huge owl!

The farm is huge, so much to see and do, there is a Lovely park on site and during Easter the have an inflatable bouncy castle and slide, as it was the Easter holidays this was really busy!

We found a nice quiet spot to have our picnic lunch.

Not only is the farm fun but it's also educational, we learnt names of baby animals and how cow's are milked. Zahra was fascinated!

The Easter egg hunt was fantastic, it took place in the woodland area and families had to find eggs and special Easter treats hidden in the woodland area! So much fun we got a small hatching chick and 3 chocolate treats!

Before leaving the farm we stopped off for delicious ice cream!

we had so much fun we will definitely be back!

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