6 Best Activities In Ilford

Go slime is indoors and hands-on, which is the right shape for that age when concentration comes in ten-minute bursts. Fullwell Cross Swimming Pool works if yours is confident in water. Valentines Mansion and Gardens carries indoor and outdoor space, so on a mild day it gives a small child grass to cross and somewhere to shelter when the novelty wears off.

Outdoor space is recorded against three of the six. Splash Park, Bounsea and Unicorn Magical Lake is the one aimed most directly at children playing outside, Aldborough Hall Equestrian Centre is listed in both columns, and the gardens at Valentines Mansion and Gardens are the reliable open-ground option. It is not a long list, but it is enough for a dry afternoon.

Rain barely dents this list — all but one entry has somewhere under cover — so a wet day here is an inconvenience rather than a cancellation. Cineworld London - Ilford is the straightforward one, Go slime gives younger children something to do with their hands, and Fullwell Cross Swimming Pool turns bad weather into an irrelevance. Check session times for the pool before travelling, as family slots do not run all day.