Seeing Santa at Willows Activity Farm

Willows Activity Farm in London Colney is just up the road from us yet until the other weekend, we had never been (and after Steve’s hospital stay, we almost didn’t make it this time but luckily fate worked in our favour and we managed to go). We, plus a handful of other bloggers and their families, were invited to visit and try out their Santa Spectacular experience. We took Em’s son Ben along too and here is what we got up to…

First of all, we all gathered together to find out what we were doing for the day. I caught up with Lilinha for the first time in ages and finally got to meet the beautiful Sian and her gorgeous family after many years of talking via social media! We then made our way to the beginning of the Santa Spectacular experience. We queued up to meet Santa which was fantastic – Willows Activity Farm really pulled out all of the stops. There aren’t any pictures of me and Jack with Santa as Steve didn’t think to take any but we do have a fantastic shot of Steve and Ben with Santa. The whole process that goes into meeting Santa was so magical – the children each have a red token which they hand to Santa’s Elves before visiting Santa and telling him what they want. He then gives them a magic key and they post the key in a box to be allowed into the toy shop to choose ANYTHING they want. Let me tell you, telling a child they can have anything they want leads to a lot of time spent with them choosing!

After all the children had seen Santa and chosen their toys, it was time to visit the brand new elve’s Teddy Bear Workshop where the children could create a bear. This was something that they both loved although we did have to help them quite a lot as it was quite fiddly and they, especially Ben, are still so tiny! Each child received a certificate with their bear which they could take home to keep and there was even the option of buying outfits for your bears too.

The rest of the day was completely up to us – there were still plenty of Santa/Christmas themed things to do such as the ice skating but if we wanted to, we could also go off and visit the animals, ride on the tractor etc. With so much planned, we had to refuel and armed with the food voucher Willows kindly gave to us, refuel we did. Our food was super yummy and as you can see, the boys really enjoyed theirs!

After our filling lunch, it was time to visit the animals. After all, when you visit a farm you have to go and see the animals, right? We spent plenty of time in with the animals, buying some feed for them and even cuddling them when it came to the guinea pigs…

Jack loves visiting the farm and he already wants to make this a regular occurrence with Ben – he loves animals and he finds something so exciting every time about visiting a farm. After spending some time with the animals, the boys wanted to ride on the tractor wagon thing and so we ventured out to find it. We just missed it and waited patiently for the next time it came around which wasn’t too long after. The wagon was playing Christmas songs all the time, the person driving must really love his job. The boys loved sitting on it and even sat on Steve’s lap at one point so they could see more of what Willows Farm had to offer.

All in all, we had a fantastic day enjoying the Santa Spectacular at Willows Activity Farm. Hurry, its still on until the 24th – trust me, you will love it! You can find out more here.

We were gifted free entry to the farm and its events for this post