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26th August 2025 - 29th August 2025
Dino Digs and Fossil Finds at Cromford Mills
Calling all budding palaeontologists! Explore the prehistoric world by making your own dinosaur skeleton art with foam and paper straws. Create crazy fossil and dino skeleton art that you can take home!
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26th August 2025 - 29th August 2025
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
🦕 Dino Digs & Fossil Finds at Cromford Mills 🦖
Weekday wonders: Dinosaur Hunter’s Explorer’s Trail! Dinosaur skeleton art
FREE ACTIVITIES – Calling all budding palaeontologists! Explore the prehistoric world by making your own dinosaur skeleton art with foam and paper straws. Create crazy fossil and dino skeleton art that you can take home! Hunt for our hidden Dino Bones around the Mill Yard on an explorer’s trail. All Free. Fun for all ages, running from Monday-Friday 11am-3pm and no need to book.
PAID FUN: Fossil hunt at the beach, Thursday 28th August
Time: 11am to 3pm
Price: £5
Timed sessions throughout the day, booking highly recommended.
Travel back millions of years at Cromford Mills with our fantastic fossil digging workshops! Budding palaeontologists will dig up REAL FOSSILS in our Cromford Beach. Find as many as you can and choose your favourite fossil to take home as a souvenir. What will you find? All ages welcome, booking in advance suggested.
To book any of the paid activities head to the Cromford Mills website.
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