climbers and creepers

Climbers and Creepers is within Kew Gardens, so unless you have memberships (highly recommended as they quickly pay for themselves and can be done at the door) you have to pay to get in to the gardens. After that, the activity itself is free. Climbers and creepers started as a one year exhibition some years ago but was so successful that it is now permanent. it is basically an outdooor and (mostly) indoor play area themed on botanics. You can do lots of running around up and down big flowers and seed pods, act as a bee pollinatig, see real ants in an antery (? you know what I mean). There’s loads to exhaust the little ones, say up to about age 7 or 8 and from 2 – 3 and it is one to repeat. There is a café next door to get a coffee and to buy sanwiches for lunch though i always recommend taking your own. There are also butterflies. At half term and school holidays there are usually free activities going on there again linked to the botanic theme so do check the Kew website. We must have been 9 or 10 times and its a good place to take little friends as it is contained.