Maidenhead & Windsor

Junior fossil hunters can bone up about their finds, hunt for living fossils and even come face to face with a velociraptor at a Dino-mite event at Braywick Nature Centre in Hibbert Road, Maidenhead on Sunday March 11 from 2pm to 5pm.

The blast-from-the-past experience has been organised by the countryside rangers as part of National Science Week and includes a mammoth range of fun and interesting activities:

# a walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs around Braywick Park on a hunt for living fossils

# fossil fans can take along their finds for guest palaeontologist Langan Turner to identify

# the chance to handle genuine dinosaur bones

# craft activities including cutting out a mammoth and making 'fossils'

# for the brave, a chance to see a velociraptor close up.

All children must be accompanied by an adult and places must be booked in advance on 01628 796227.

The cost is £5.50 per child with an Maidenhead Advantage Card; junior non-Advantage Card holders will be charged a daily entry fee of 60p. Adults go free.