Techniquest Glyndŵr

I dragged my two nieces to techniquest in the summer and while they quite enjoyed it, I thought it was fantastic. As long as your children are curious and want to explore what is on offer they, and you will have a fantastic time here. There are a number of stand alone pieces to play with such as rolling your ball around the black hole or trying to release treasure from the chest. There are bigger exhibits like the hall of mirrors as well as interactive sessions with the staff such as when we all crowded into a huge tent while the solar system was projected on the walls and the staff took us on a tour of the universe. great for the little kids and the really big kids too.

A great hands on science place for children of all ages. This is just what children want in a day out — things to press/​turn/​touch. For slightly older children the rooms are full of puzzles and challanges, but even todlers won’t get bored as they can explare the rooms of their own accord. Some of the puzzles even get the adults stuck. It is also really cheep. Under 4s are free and if you go on their website they often have bogof entrance vouchers!

An indoor hands on science centre for kids of all ages Techniquest has things to challenge absolutely everyone. The shadow room is fantastic, there are puzzles galore and the best bit has to be an inside out jigsaw puzzle. Simply put the enormous pieces back inside the box. Theres only 7 of them how hard can that be? Well actually its a lot easier than the billiard ball jigsaw which only has 3 pieces. How hard can that be? Well after 20 minutes of not swearing out loud I had to ask a passing 4 year old for help.
Their birthday parties are superb too. You cater them yourself so theres no astronomical charge for food and they run a special hands on workshop just for you and your party guests. We were issued with an raw supermarket egg, a cheap plastic drinks cup, paper, scissors, sellotape, glue, a balloon and a few feathers and given ten minutes to create a safe environment so that when the egg was dropped from 1 metre in the air onto the floor it wouldn’t break. The supervising parents got together and became quiet studious and scientific creating a hot air baloon type structure complete with crash pad under the cup, unfortunately they’d forgotton the helium. Result — a broken egg and much giggling from the kids. The children on the other hand had opted for the more is less approach and simply screwed up the paper and stuck it round the egg with an entire roll of selotape before borrowing the adults tape and attaching the remaining bits to decorate it. End result Children 1, adults 0. Best of all the birthday child gets a free annual pass so you can go back again and again and again.

We have just held my son’s 7^th birthday party at the techniquest centre and I must say it was great. I was not sure what to expect but all the children loved it. You are taken around a number of rooms which all have activities in them and then they get to do a project/​experiment. We also had food there and it was great day.