Are you a young professional parent and your life is full of work and more? No time to organize a children’s party for your son or daughter? Fed up with all those screaming children in your house?
With my children’s parties out in the dunes your children will be able to explore new situations and experience new things they mostly never did before. And I will make you enjoy your child again! Let’s make a party what it really should be: a joyful event for you ánd your child!
Nature quest
Look for the ribbons and find your way in the dunes and do the quest! Pay attention and do some assignments, like looking for soil animals, play the predator-prey play, who sees a rabbit? And a lot more….
Knightly quest
Look for the ribbons and find your way in the dunes and look for the treasure of the Knight of Brederode! You will do some ‘Medieval’ assignments, and at the end you will have to find the golden treasure all by yourself!
Searching for traces from the past
Do you like (extinct) animals, get excited by searching for traces in the soil, like bones of animals, pottery shards and pipe heads? Book this party! Together with your friends you will do a scavenger hunt in the dunes and will look for traces from the past! Finds guaranteed 🙂
Beach party
Combine some parts as you wish: treasure hunt, looking for shells, shrimp fishing and making piles of sand. For endless playing joy at the beach! I will accompany the children, while you can relax on the beach…
Dune clean up tour!
Lots of children are shocked to see how much rubbish (plastic, bottles etc) people leave behind in the dunes. And they love to clean nature! Do you become one of the dune clean-up ‘members’? Pick up rubbish with your friends at the shores of lake Wed and see the world clean up! In the meantime we might spot rabbits or deer, who knows…
At the end there is a little present for all of you. The rangers of the National Park will be grateful…
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GPS-hike in nature
You will learn a lot about GPS and all it’s functions, you will do some different assignments with GPS. Meanwhile you enjoy walking in the dunes. Both in Kennemerduinen and in Amsterdam Watersupply Dunes. Including accompany and use of 2 GPS-devices.
Dropping in dunes GPS-hike
You will find your way into the dunes all by yourself with help of GPS from start till end. It is allowed to leave the beaten track, so this will be exciting! Maybe we will encounter some fallowdeer, and more…. I will accompany you on this cool hike / dropping. At the end your parents will be waiting for you! Including accompaniment and use of 2 GPS-devices. At several places along the Dutch coast: in the Amsterdam Watersupply Dunes, in Kennemerduinen and Middenduin, in the dunes near Hillegom, De Zilk and Noordwijkerhout (southern part of Amsterdam Watersupply Dunes) and also in The Hague! (Westduinpark).
Bunker hike in the dunes
Find your own way with GPS to the bunkers in the dunes. Do you dare to enter them? How many are there? What was their function? Explore them all during this exciting bunker hike. You can also decide to play your own game there, for example in 2 teams. In Amsterdam Watersupply Dunes.
Searching for traces from the past
Do you like (extinct) animals, get excited by searching for traces in the soil, like bones of animals, pottery shards and pipe heads? Book this party! Together with your friends you will do a scavenger hunt in the dunes and will look for traces from the past! Finds guaranteed 🙂
Clean up heroes
Do you hate rubbish in nature? Be active and do a nature clean-up tour together with your friends. Pick up all the rubbish you find. At the end there will be a delicious surprise for everyone. You can do this activity anywhere you like, so choose an area which suits you, e.g. Kennemerduinen, Haarlemmerhout, beach etc.
Searching for aquatic fauna
Are you interested in living nature, curious and not afraid of getting dirty and wet? Then I guess you will enjoy looking for animals in watersystems. With nets you can find out what is under the water surface: from algae to larvae of dragonflies and maybe even small fishes! At the end we will release all catches back into the water. Fun and interesting. You can do this at several ditches and ponds, e.g. Amsterdam Watersupply Dunes, Spaarnwoude etc.
Beach party
Combine some parts as you wish: treasure hunt, looking for shells, shrimp fishing and making piles of sand. For endless playing joy at the beach! I will accompany the children, while you can relax on the beach… Children of 8-12 years still like to play on the beach!
GPS-hike in the dark
Do you like an exciting hike in the dark? It is possible to do so in Spaarnwoude, in the dunes between Overveen and Zandvoort, and in the Westduinpark near The Hague. You will be ‘dropped’ somewhere out there (at the starting point), and you will have to find your way back all by yourself and your friends. I will accompany you; of course your parents don’t join us.
What will we see and encounter? If you like we can do some assignments or listen to a exciting story on a nice spot, watching the stars, or combined with an evening picknick. For adventurous and cool adolescents who want to do something else on their birthday party! At the end your parents will pick you up. If you like we can combine it with a small campfire at the end (NB. extra costs and not possible at all hikes). You can also combine this hike afterwards with a sleeping party at your home!
How does it work?
For all hikes applies: it takes 2 hours (sometimes a little more); maximum of 12 children (in some cases this could be more, but only in contact).
Date: starting time and place to start to be determined together with you.
Depending on age of the children parents join with zero, one or two adults. I will always accompany the group, and the group will stay together.
All childen on the hike are insured for injuries. NB. I am experienced in dealing with children with autistic features, please discuss the possibilities with me.
Ask non-commital more information.
Catering: if you want you can book a picknick in the field (I will cater), or give some food to the children by yourself, or you can organize something to eat in a neighbouring restaurant to conclude the children’s party, for example with pancakes.
Prices: All hikes in Zuid-Kennemerland: € 189,- incl. BTW for a group up till and including 8 children, duration 2 hours. More than 8 children? Then there will be extra costs of € 12 per child. Picknick: € 8 per child. Mini campfire to conclude some of the hikes: € 60,- extra. Hike in The Hague? Then I have to charge € 75,- extra for costs and time for transport.
Conditions
Children who join me are insured to injuries. Nevertheless I would like it that parents join me (especially with younger children), so there will be ‘more eyes’ and so we can jointly decide what is OK for the children.
High risk activitities (like campfire and climbing trees) only in consultancy with you as parents. Older children like it when you will not join us! Everything to be decided by both of us, what is the best for your child.
In case of bad weather or unforseen odds you are allowed to cancel the activity without costs, or you can postpone it. When you cancel, you are responsible for an alternative yourself.
Just in case I become ill or other unforseen odds, I will try my best to find someone for replacement. If I don’t succeed, the hike will be cancelled (and you won’t pay anything).