NHM Readers Recommend: Best Places to Visit Father Christmas with a One-Year-Old

In November 2018, a NHM Reader asked: “Where are the best places to visit Father Christmas in the Basingstoke area for a 1 year old? I’ve seen loads of places advertised but don’t know where is recommended?”

Thank you for all your responses, they are listed below in no particular order.

Please bear in mind that listings may change in subsequent years, but hopefully they will still be a good base point for your own research.

All opinions are the readers own and are not that of NHM.

NHM Readers Recommend: Best Places to Visit Father Christmas with a One-Year-Old

Wendy said, “Proteus would be well worth a visit at that age, then I would just do festival place for the present and photo op, your looking at £10 minimum for almost all other Santa’s.

Charlotte said, “4 kingdoms is always brill have taken my son since he was a baby and now he’s 4.”

Samantha said, “We took our 9 month old last Christmas to the Santa in Festival Place. Did the job and you didn’t pay for all the other bits. On reflection, perfect for the age but probably once they hit 18 months plus you’d be looking for a bit more of an ‘experience’.”

Mary said, “At Proteus the show is interactive and sensory, made especially for little ones. You move around the space so little ones aren’t expected to sit still for long stretches. Here’s a link: http://www.proteustheatre.com/whats-on/the-magical-christmas-toy-shop Santa will feature but it’s very gentle and not a one on one grotto experience.”

Joanna said, “Active tots is good but is just outside of Basingstoke.”

Becky said, “We went to Miller’s Ark. Our little one was a little young at 8 months but the doggie there made her day!”

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All Our Own Crafts 2015 – Grand Opening this Saturday!

I’m soooo excited to see that the “All Our Own Crafts” team are back, even bigger and better than before!

Many of the 40 local crafters in the shop are NHM Readers and Supporters and I’m delighted to see that there are so many people involved.

Congrats to Tracy, Kate and the team and I’m sure it will be a HUGE success!

All Our Own Crafts 2015

A new POP-Up craft shop in Festival Place, Basingstoke will launch with a grand opening on Saturday 18th April 2015.

This project was devised by Basingstoke residents Tracy Braybrook and Kate Donohoe who originally opened All Our Own Crafts in October 2014 for 3 months, giving local residents a unique chance to retail their crafts within the busy shopping centre. This will be the second time All Our Own Crafts will be in the centre, with the shop opening in April.

Festival Place have granted the pop-up shop the use of an empty unit opposite Laura Ashley for a two month period. It will display the crafts of 40 local people.

All Our Own Crafts will hold a grand opening from 9am on Saturday 18th April 2015 with lots of fun activities within the shop.

Normal opening hours will be Monday to Saturdays 9am to 6pm and on Sundays 11am to 5pm.

For more information, visit All Our Own Crafts Website or their Facebook page HERE.

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New Shop Opening Oct 2014: “All Our Own Crafts”

I am so excited about the new All our Own Crafts shop opening!!!!

Most of the crafters displaying are women running their own business from home, so this is your chance to support your peers.

It will also be a great chance to get some unique Christmas presents sorted!

Several of the local crafts-people in the shop have featured on a Guest Post at  NHM over the years.

It’s so great to see that they are finally getting the recognition they deserve!

All Our Own Crafts

A new POP-UP craft shop in Festival Place, Basingstoke will launch with a grand opening on Saturday 11th October.

All Our Own Crafts, a project devised by Basingstoke residents Tracy Braybrook and Kate Donohoe after seeing the success of the All Our Own Work art gallery, gives local residents a unique chance to retail their crafts within the busy shopping centre.

The All Our Own Crafts Pop-Up Shop is situated opposite T K Maxx in the unit that was previously Millets.

Featuring the handmade work of over 20 local crafts-people, we will be displaying work from crochet to candles, children’s clothing, prints, glass, ceramics and much more.

We hope to be running workshops at our demo table so people can learn how to make their own crafts.

We will also have crayons and paper so Mums can browse whilst their little ones do some drawing. People are also welcome to pop in to do some knitting/ stitching  etc and have a chat.

We are having a preview week from Monday 6th where people can come in and browse and buy.

We’ll be adding more stock over the week leading to our grand opening on Saturday 11th with lots of fun activities for all the family.

This will run from midday-5pm.

We have this unit for a three month period only but it will be perfect for people looking for handmade, unique gifts for Christmas.

Most of our crafters accept bespoke orders and are happy to create custom items.

Normal opening hours will be Monday to Saturdays 9am – 5pm and on Sundays 11am – 5 pm.

For more information, visit All Our Own Crafts or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllOurOwnCrafts/