What's On: October Half Term - Halloween Entertainment
23 October to 31 October 2010
There are skeletons rattling and spooky story-telling this Halloween at Blenheim Palace! 'Funny bones' our resident spooky skeleton has lost his body parts in 'The Maze of Bones'! Can you find them rattling around the world's largest symbolic hedge Maze this Autumn Half Term? Are you brave enough to meet our resident story teller Bill Spectre and Colin - The Crow-in-the-Know at weekends?
From 23rd - 31st October the Marlborough Maze, situated at the Pleasure Gardens, will be transformed into a 'Maze of Bones', with a challenge to find all 10 body parts that make up our spooky skeleton. A spooky miniature train ride from the Palace brings you to the Pleasure Gardens where an additional spooky hunt called 'All things Halloween' will also be available. Come along and try one or both hunts if you date!
You can have a go at Pumpkin 'Jack-O-Lantern' making in the Garden Café by purchasing your own pumpkin to gouge out and create a spooky design to take home with you. Spooky face painting available, or why not petrify your closest friends or family by decorating your own piece of scary pottery with 'Pottering About' from 11am - 4pm most days, except the 31st October which will run from 11am to 2pm. Pottering About will be offering new ways to decorate the pottery, this year there will be 3 ways to decorate and take home with you - no need to wait for them to be glazed and fired! Hand / Foot Print Service will also be available throughout the week please email marcella@potteringabout.co.uk to make an appointment. Additional charge applies for pottery and pumpkin activities.
A spooky family tour will be available daily inside the Palace throughout the half term week (except Sunday). Hear how the night guards were spooked by the shadows in the dead of night; was it the candle light playing tricks on them? Have you met our ghostly guide Grace Ridley in the visitor experience 'Blenheim Palace: The Untold Story'?
Come and listen to Bill Spectre tell scary tales with spooky props, about the presence of Henry II's girlfield Fair Rosamund who came to a sticky end in the grounds of Blenheim Palace! For the very first time of the world's only mind reading crow, 'Colin-the-Crow in the know' will provide Blenheim Palace with its very own Rooky Horror Show. Each performance will last between 20 and 30 minutes (times tbc).
