Celtic Harmony Camp – So much to discover

During the Easter Break, we wanted to get along to some new activities. Everywhere was having some sort of Easter special event, so we sort of looked at what would be most interesting and new for our family. That’s when we found Celtic Harmony Camp, which aims to engage children in learning about pre-history. As we have some teenagers, we felt that a half day at Celtic Harmony Camp was best for us, though they do have timed activities going on throughout the day.

When we arrived, we checked in and got our little Dragon Egg Hunt paper, along with some information on the remaining timed activities for the day. The Dragon Egg trail had us looking for hidden blue eggs, in trees and other areas around their forest, jotting down what Ogham ruins were on the eggs themselves. This trail actually took us around a few activities that we could do in our own time, the first being clay egg making. There were laminated instructions on the table, which were easy to follow, with plenty of supplies. We made our eggs, which Amelia very much enjoyed, then continued on the trail. The next sort of area included a bunch of riddles that were tricky, some of which Kai got involved in as he was the only one to solve. There were more eggs to jot down along the way!

The next activity we made it to at Celtic Harmony Camp was basket weaving, which was very, very challenging. They did have a guide that was helping us, who was very patient, but it was one of those things that are just a bit tricky. Amelia managed to make hers completely before we headed off to the drumming session. This was one of the events that was at a specific time. We find that often these sort of time events are too young aimed for our lot, but the drumming was actually perfect. The person running it, Wolf, spent a lot of time showing us the drums, giving drums to everyone, and then dividing us into sections so we can rift off each other. The general vibes and feel of the drumming lesson was fantastic – we all really got into it! Robin and I also did some face painting at the side of the room, which was very casual, where you could look at symbols and paint them onto your faces.

After drumming, we darted back out to continue the dragon egg trail, finding the rest of the eggs and doing their little spear hunting activity. Kai showed us all how he was able to throw the sticks right through the holes inside the various animal cut-outs, which was fun and totally distracted us from our last egg. Celtic Harmony Camp’s dragon egg trail ended at a big nest, where we tied a little bit of fabric onto it, and saw the last egg. we then went into one of the buildings to figure out what our ruins spelled, unscramble the word, and get a little polished gemstone as a prize. It was a little tough solving the riddle, but again the staff were amazing.

We then went to the bracelet making room, where Amelia, Robin and I twisted together some easy to make bracelets and Kai and Dann took a look at the artefacts that could be found in the area. The last session of the day was friction fire starting, which we very much wanted to see, so we went to the tent. Everyone cheered Wolf on as he attempted to create friction fire, but in the end Bran had to help him – we did end up seeing a large fire! A little story was told, with some fantastic story-tellers, and our day ended.

Celtic Harmony Camp is something a little different, but it’s very clear a lot of love is put into everything. I like how laid back the entire thing was. It was easy to do the activities at our own space and enjoy what we wanted to enjoy. All of the staff clearly love working there too, which always helps.

You can check out our other Days Out to see what else we’ve been up too!