May 2024 half-term: family-friendly events in Sale
What family-friendly events are on in Sale during May 2024 half-term?
The Selfish Giant © Paul Blakemore
The Selfish Giant
🗓️ Saturday 25 May (2pm and 4pm) and Sunday 26 May (11am and 2pm)
📍 Waterside, Sale M33 7ZF
💸 £12.50 adult | £10.50 child
Grinter is a giant. She lives happily alone in her huge cold house, surrounded by her huge snowy gardens, enclosed by her high, frost-covered walls. She shuts out the world, because long ago, the world shut her out, and so she hides, safe and quiet in her peaceful, icy home. Outside the towering walls of her enormous garden, the world has been changing and there is very little green left. One day, the children - tired of playing on hard roads and grey rooftops - find a chink in the giant's wall and climb through, changing the course of the children’s and Grinter's lives forever.
Powerful storytelling, captivating puppetry, beautiful design, enchanting music and a sprinkling of magic sums up this very special show.
Let's get creative!
🗓️ Saturday 01 June, 11am-3pm
📍Sale Library
💸 FREE - drop-in event
Trafford turns 50! Celebrate with a day of craft and creativity at Sale Library.
The event kickstarts Sale Festival with a poetry workshop, storytelling from Sale's independent bookshop B For Butterfly Books and theatre performance from Spotlight School of Speech and Drama. Plus, live music, kids crafts and more!
© Art Table
Father's Day art workshop
🗓️ Tuesday 04 June, 1-2pm
📍 Everything 4 Presents, Unit 24, Stanley Square, Sale
💸 £12
At this art workshop hosted by Art Table, children will produce a Father’s Day portrait to take home, with skin tone and defining features, designed especially for their dad, pops, grandad, stepdad or the special male in their life. Customise with glasses, beards, a beanie and more using textiles and paper craft. Each portrait will be unique.
Suitable for ages 4+ (under 5s to be accompanied by an adult), children over 5 can be dropped off and looked after by fully DBS-cleared art tutors.
© Peak at Trafford Watersports Centre
School Holiday Adventure Club
Monday 27 to Friday 31 May
Trafford Watersports Centre, (inside Sale Water Park) Rifle Road, Sale M33 2LX
Special Offer: If you book the full week (5 consecutive days) use code MAYTRD24 at checkout to get 5 for the price of 4 at £198 or day passes available, £49.50 per day.
From kayaking to bushcraft, Peak Activity at Trafford Watersports Centre has a wealth of activities throughout their five-day school holiday club. The packed itinerary can include canoeing, navigation, paddle boarding, fire-lighting (safely!), archery, kayaking and orienteering. Definitely a holiday camp for kids who like to be active!
Sale Sports Club Half Term Multi-Sports Camps
🗓️ Tuesday 28 - Friday 31 May and Monday 03 - Friday 07 June
📍 Moorlands Junior School (M33 2LP) and Firs Primary School (M33 5EL)
These multi-sport camps across two Sale-based locations are open to children aged 4 to 15 years. Children will be divided by age and ability to ensure an environment that encourages maximum skill development.
Superheroes disco with Everything4 and Comic-Con © Everything4
🪩 Comic-Con Superhero Discos
🗓️ Saturday 08 June, 10.30-11.30am | 11:45-12:45 | 1-2pm
📍 Everything4, Unit 24 Stanley Square, Sale M33 7XZ
💸 £11 general admission, £40 for a family ticket (four people) + booking fee
Join Everything4 and Sale Comic-Con for an explosive hour of partying with some of your favourite superheroes!
All this, plus, the usual places to keep children entertained in Sale will be open, including Bean & Brush Family Art Cafe, Minikin Paint a Pot Art Cafe and the Walton Park miniature railway will be running on Sunday.
