| WHATS ON 2010 DAILY ENTERTAINMENT From Sun 8 Nov to 1 Apr 2010 Open daily 10am to 4pm Closed Christmas Day (25 Dec), Boxing Day (26 Dec) and New Years Day (1 Jan) Join us at Kent Life and go wild in the indoor and outdoor adventure play area's, also spot our naughty geese on the pond and journey through the farmyard. Explore our period decorated houses including a Victorian Farmhouse, WWII cottage and 1950's home. Try our special winter warmers menu in the Tea Room including delicious cheese or beans on toast for only £1 per slice. Membership Passes are valid. | From Fri 2 April to Sat 6 Nov Open Weekends & Holidays 10am to 6pm, Weekdays 10am to 5pm Have a fun-tastic time and go wild in the indoor and outdoor adventure play areas. Farm-tastic timed daily activities include cuddle corner, ferret racing and NEW for 2010 pig football. Also face painting*, FREE tractor trailer rides and all our fam animals including our horses, donkeys, goats, cows, pigs, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, sheep, ducks, geese, mice, chickens and our ugly cunni cunni pigs! Coming soon in May!! Have a go on our brand NEW junior quad bikes* and... why show your creative flair in our brand NEW paint-a-pot studio* and... have a ride on our donkey's* around their paddock. | EVENTS 2010 FEBRUARY February Half Term Sat 13 to Sun 21 February 10am to 4pm You are invited to open your eyes and minds to the wildlife around Kent Life by following the newly created Wildlife Discovery Trail. The trail is the latest addition to our 28 acreas of fun which already exists, offering both old and young even more family fun than ever before. See our horses, pigs, goats donkeys and sheep and have a FREE tractor trailer ride (subject to availibility). Search for the wooden piggies hidden around the grounds and win a yummy treat. Click here for more info. |  | APRIL | Spring into Easter Fri 2 to Sun 18 April 10am to 6pm There has been a baby boom at Kent Life, come along and meet all the cute baby animals on our farm during the Easter Holidays. See our adorable piglets born here at Kent Life earlier on in the year, can you count how many we have? Also see our two new Kids... no not a child, a baby goat, silly billy! Have a go at bottle feeding our baby lambs and if your lucky see one being born. Also tiny chicks, ducklings and gosling to greet you on your arrival at Kent Life. Click here for more info. |  | PEPPA PIG at Kent Life!
Sat 10 & Sun 11 April 10am to 6pm Hey kids, guess who's coming to Kent Life?... Peppa Pig!! She will be joining the team for her first ever appearance at Kent Life. Peppa Pig will be meeting and greeting all you wonderful children at intervals throughout the weekend. And in honor of Peppa Pigs arrival, watch the brand new Pig Football, pick the winning team and win a sticker! also join in with the popular Pig Racing with our new little piglets. Click here for more info. Peppa Pig © Astley Baker Davies/E1 Entertainment 2003 |  | MAY May Day Celebrations Mon 3 May 10am to 6pm
Bring in May! and Watch the annual parade & crowning of Kent Life's beautiful May Queen and her Princesses. Watch the traditional dancing around the May Pole by a local school and Morris Dancers performing at intervals throughout the day. Lay back and enjoy the sounds of the Coal to Music Steam Organ. Watch the Blacksmith working away in the real forge and see Bella our Shire Horse platted in her lovely colours. Click here for more info. |  | Bug & Nature Week
Sat 29 May to Sun 6 June (Bank Holiday Mon 31 May) 10am to 6pm Have you ever held a cockroach or a giant snail? Be grossed out and come along to Kent LIfe's first ever 'Creepy Crawley Cuddle Corner' and be hands-on with many different bug and insects species. Also go on an exciting storytelling adventure around our brand new Wildlife Discovery Trail with the Kent Life Entertainments Team and see if you can spot all the animals on your journey, find them all and win a yummy treat! Click here for more info. |  | JUNE | Dad's Day Sun 20 June 10am to 6pm Calling all dads... today is your day to be treated... but your treat will have to be earned in the test of strength tornament! Do you think your strong enough to race over the line carring two heavy bales of straw or do you think you can be on the winning team in the grand tug of war... also rope the kids in... literally, in the three legged father-child race!! All dad's accompanied by their child(ren) get in HALF PRICE!! |  | JULY/AUGUST Fun in the Sun at Kent Life
Sat 24 July to Mon 30 Aug (BH) 10am to 6pm Go wild this summer! And enjoy our FREE timed daily activities including Cuddle Corner, Ferret Racing, Piglet Racing and Pig Football and Tractor Trailer Rides. Other paid activities include the Junior Quad Bikes*, Paint-a-Pot Studio*, Donkey Rides* and Face Painting*. On Bank Holiday Monday (30 Aug) bring your pooches along and enter them into the Fun Dog Competition and see if they can win a rosette or even the honorable Judges Choice 2010. Click here for more info. |  | SEPTEMBER | Maidstone's Original Beer & Hop Festival excluded from Membership Pass Saturday 11 (10am to 8pm) & Sun 12 Sept (10am to 6pm) FREE!! Pint of beer for all over 18's. Join us in the beer tent and try a large variety of rare and more commonly seen real ales and ciders and lagers on tap and bottled, and not forgetting all those with a sweater tooth...there will be Pimm's, wine and spirits available too. Get into the festival atmosphere all weekend long and listen to more live and local bands and accoustic artists than ever seen before at Kent Life! Don't forget to try our sought after annual Cobtree Mild ale, brewed using our very own hops! and have a wander around our Traditional Hop Picking, see the last working coal fired Oast house in Britain in full production and enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of a bygone years, with traditional hop picking by hand all weekend. Meet the Tally Man and Pearly Kings and Queens and more characters from Kent's past. | | OCTOBER | Apple Weekend Sat 9 & Sunday 10 Oct 10am to 6pm
Watch the traditional method of making fresh apple juice using our antique cider press. The apples are cut, crushed and pulped to make this delicious juice for you to buy and take home. Also on sale is a wide variety of new and historic varieties of eating and cooking apples, grown in our orchards. Have rest and enjoy a varity of local ciders in our Village Bar, watch the Blacksmith at work in his forge and join in with the traditional Morris dancers. Click here for more info. |  |
| Spooktacular Fun Sat 24 to Sun 31 Nov 10am to 5pm The screams you hear at Kent Life will be of delight and not fright during the Spooktacular Half Term Holidays... Bring your children to a safe place to trick-or-treat, knock on the doors of our historic homes and see who is lurking behind them... only if you dare! ha ha ha! Be grossed out in the 'Creepy Crawley Cuddle Corner' workshops, where you can be hands on with spine-chilling spiders and hair-raising rodents. Join the hunt for 13 wooden ghost hidden around our grounds, find them all and win a yummy treat! Be brave and go on an spooky storytelling adventure around the eery Wildlife Discovery Trail. Make and take home a Halloween creepy craft* and enter our daily fancy dress competition - including all your grown ups! the best dressed will win a special prize!! Have your face painted* as an ugly witch, scary skeleton or a grosume monster!! ha ha ha! scare you there!! Click here for more info. | | NOVEMBER Bonfire & Fireworks Spectacular! excluded from Membership Pass Sat 6 Nov 4:30pm to 8:30pm (last admission 7:30pm)
Be amazed by fire breathers lighting our grand roaring bonfire at 7:15pm and join in the count down to our annual spectacular musical firework display at 8pm. Join us in this momentous celebration in marking the end of a great summer season and the beginning of our winter festivities. The evening will be entertaining for all ages with a spooky tunnel of doom, children's fairground rides* and glow stick galore*. Click here for more info. |  | WINTER OFFER | 7 Nov to 1 April 2011 10am to 4pm During the winter months let the kids burn off some energy in the exciting indoor and outdoor play areas and also try our special winter warmers menu including delicious soups, fresh sandwiches and luxury hot chocolates with marshmallows to thaw you out! Don't forget our period decorated homes including a Victorian Farmhouse, WWII cottage and 1950’s home are also open. Membership passes are valid. Click here for more info. |  | All activities are subject to availability and adverse weather conditions. *Additional fees apply WIN! | To be in with a chance of winning this great prize and have a year of unforgettable family fun all you have to do is pick up a competition form from our Play Barn or Shop on your next visit and drop it into one of the boxes also located in the Play Barn and Shop. Terms and Conditions - The draw will take place weekly and winners contacted soon after.
- By entering you are agreeing to receive regular updates from Kent Life and associated third parties.
- The winning pass can be a new pass, an extension of a current pass or transferred to another person only if agreed by the winner.
- For your entry to be valid all sections of the competition slip must be filled in.
| As a precaution please avoid touching our animals and remember to wash your hands before eating. There are hand sanitisers available on every animal pen and hand washing facilities in all the toilets and the farmyard. |
