Are you or your friends in any of these pictures ? If you are thinking about coming to the Fairy Fair, we thought you might take some inspiration from these photos of visitors to the photobooth at the last Real Halloween. With a bit of seasonal adjustment of course ! …
Here’s the Fairy Fair poster for 2016 designed by artist Sam Symonds. We hope you like it. Please note the new venue – Sennowe Park – which is really lovely. See some pictures here. The black and white bird with the orange beak is an oystercatcher. You can sometimes…
Can you help bring Flower Fairies to life ? We need to raise £1,050 to make three great new Wildflower Fairy costumes for the next Fairy Fair. If you visited the 2015 Fair you may have met Daisy, Dandelion, Cornflower, Bluebell, Poppy and Foxglove, and maybe made a wildflower of…
Yes real Jumble Sales* still exist. At least ours does. So please come to our Jumble Sale at Norwich Playhouse, 11am – 4pm Saturday January 16th. We’ll be enchanted to see you. Please let your friends know. You can help by printing out this poster and displaying it somewhere prominent.…
Update – November 25 2015 Some great news – after weeks of trying, our logistics gnomes have finally managed to rescue our most valuable tents ! They are now stored away safe and dry. (See The Fog story below). That’s our ‘Grand Medieval Rounds’. A couple of others are…
Here’s a video of the Parade of Animal Lanterns coming up the valley at The Real Halloween on Friday 30 October. Thanks to everyone who took part – we hope you enjoyed it ! Many thanks to all our Supporters for helping make The Real Halloween and the Fairy…
Parents and carers coming to The Real Halloween are advised to ensure that they and any children they bring do not wear shop-bought flammable fancy dress costumes. These can be classed as toys and not tested to the same standards as normal clothes. The risks of such costumes have been…
Have you seen this great video of the Parade of Lantern Animals from last year’s Real Halloween ? This is what you missed – and we hope it will be as successful this year ! Thanks to Visit Norfolk for the footage and Abbie Panks for the edit Please…
If in Norfolk you hear us talking about ‘owells’ it’s owls we mean. But do you know what sounds owls themselves make ? You may encounter some at Holt Hall during The Real Halloween so here are a few tidbits of owl natural history and folklore so you can brush…
Be sure not to get lost when you go down to the woods at The Real Halloween 2015 … Here’s our map to help you explore, find our Workshops and activities and discover the secrets of Holt Hall’s ancient woodlands. Don’t worry if you can’t print it now –…