A lot of us remember very happy Easter Monday Fun Days at the Farm. Sometimes it poured with rain and sometimes it was perfect summer weather. But people came and enjoyed the activities - the Easter Egg Hunt, the Easter Bonnet Parade, the Tombola, the Face Painting, the Cafe heaving with people, the trees laden with blossom, and most of all the animals!

Fond Memories of Fun on the Farm

Here are a few pictures of fundays on the farm with some inspiration for your Easter Bonnets. And a reminder to have a go at our virtual egg hunt.

Easter Bonnets

We hope that you will be making Easter Bonnets even if you can't parade round the Farm this year, and we'd love you to share them with us so we can share with you and there will be prizes for those who have been judged the best!.

Here's some suggestions for how to make bonnets:

Freightliners New You-Tube Channel Freightliners City Farm https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGwjPm_p4x87kp3jhASNGpw

New videos

Making paper flowers https://youtu.be/3M1ItKJeY3s

Make an Easter bonnet https://youtu.be/X5fqbSrQfZM

Decorating a bonnet https://youtu.be/GojQtOq_NOA

Recycled bonnet https://youtu.be/AwXcVqHfjWk

Please send / post Easter Bonnet pics / videos for the parade through twitter, facebook, instagram using #FreightsBonnetParade or by email to administration@freightlinersfarm.org.uk

We will put clips and photos together to create a montage parade and share. Let us know if you do not want your picture shared you can still send it to us.

Please share with your friends and relations and remember

We're looking for innovation, imagination and fun not specialist materials.
Any hat shape goes so crowns, caps and even top hats if you can manage it as well as bonnets all welcome.
Adults join in the kids will love it but you will too!!!

Every entry wins a Freightliner's Farm Bonnet Parade Certificate which you can bring to the farm to claim a small prize when we're able to open again.

Virtual Egg Hunt

We've come up with an idea for a virtual egg hunt. On Monday morning at 11am we will post a video with a day in the life tour of the Farm. As staff show you some of their daily activities watch out and count how many hidden eggs you can find. We'll give you more instructions on how to vary the game for different ages and you can post your answers to our facebook group or email them in. Everyone who enters will be awarded an Egg Hunter Certificate for their efforts.

Easter Monday Fun

Checkout our Youtube Channel Freightliners City Farm for ideas for your bonnet and join the parade on Monday.
Look out for hidden eggs on our virtual Farm Easter Egg Hunt

Finally, thank you so much for all your encouraging messages and those of you who have made donations, we are very, very grateful.

Remember you can get in touch with us by email to administration@freightlinersfarm.org.uk at anytime.

Take care of yourselves and each other.

From All at Freightliners

And very finally here is a pig in the field, we missed them last time and the others were still being too nosy to catch them on camera.

Five Ways to Help

Like many others who have been affected by the unprecedented impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the farm faces significant challenges. We need to

maintain the farm, care for the animals and garden without our volunteers and a significantly reduced staff team to help reduce the transmission of Covid-19 and survive on a much reduced income,
find and establish ways of enabling people to continue to benefit from access to the farm whilst practicing social distancing
raise sufficient funds to deal with a significant loss of expected income. We would be hugely grateful for any support you can give.