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31 Best Activity Centres In Devon
Devon splits its activity centres into making and doing. The making half is large, mostly indoor and heavy on ceramics: It takes in Happy Glaze Pottery, Something Lovely Pottery, avo craft cafe and Arty Boat. The doing half heads outside to Dragon Archery and OSKC Watersports, and takes the weather with it.
Of thirty-one listings, twenty have indoor space and sixteen have outdoor, which means a fair number offer both. That overlap is the useful part: it gives you somewhere to go when the plan changes at nine in the morning.
Top activity centres in Devon
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Activity Centresavo craft cafe
Activity CentresHappy Glaze Pottery
Activity CentresSomething Lovely Pottery
Activity CentresDragon Archery
Activity CentresArty Boat
Activity CentresGo Segway
Activity CentresScribbleton
Activity CentresPoppins Pottery
Sports & ActivitiesThe Barn Indoor Climbing Wall
WaterOSKC Watersports
Activity CentresSplat Attack Adventure Play
AdventureGo Ape Haldon
For an older child who has grown out of craft sessions, Player Ready Plymouth is the sort of listing worth a look, and the archery and watersports entries hold teenagers better than anything with a brush in it. Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival also appears in this category, which is a reminder to check dates rather than assume a venue.
Activity Centres in Devon: FAQs
Making or doing. How do we choose?
Ask who you are trying to please. A craft session is calm, seated and forgiving of a wide age range, and it produces something to take home, which matters more to children than adults expect. An outdoor activity gives a better story but needs cooperation, decent weather and a child old enough to follow instructions from someone who is not you.
What works on a wet holiday afternoon?
The ceramics and craft studios, which is where most of the Devon indoor capacity sits. They are also the easiest thing to arrange at short notice with a group of cousins or holiday friends. Ring rather than turn up on a wet day in August, because these are exactly the places every other family has just thought of.
What should we ask before booking a watersports session?
Minimum age, expected swimming ability, what is provided and what you bring, and what happens if the weather turns on the day. Those four questions settle most of it. Pack a full change of clothes per child plus towels, and be honest about your youngest's confidence in water rather than optimistic, since a bad first session puts a child off for years.