IT'S time for the Easter egg challenges, which are taking place at Blenheim Palace, The Oxford Bus Museum, and Cogges Manor Farm Museum.

To celebrate Easter, Blenheim Place has created a great Easter egg challenge, that takes children through a world of tales, trails, and family fun, as they follow the trail through the beautiful Pleasure Gardens this weekend.

This is the fourth Easter Egg Hunt organised by the palace, which have given it a bug theme this year.

Children who complete the trail will receive a delicious Tumbling Bugs chocolate egg gift.

The park gates open from 9am, and the Easter Egg Challenge takes place from Friday, April 6, to Monday, April 9. For further information, phone 08700 602080.

The Oxford Bus Museum, Long Hanborough is staging an Easter Chick Hunt on Easter Sunday.

Children who manage to find the chicks hidden throughout the museum will collect an Easter egg as a prize.

For further details of this event, which opens at 10.30am to 4.30pm, phone 01993 883617.

The special Easter programme, organised for the whole family at Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney, begins on Saturday with Easter bunny trails, and a whole host of exciting family activities, including Easter card and peg doll-making sessions.

On Easter Monday, the museum is holding a Bread & Bunny Day, which will encourage visitors to meet the bunnies, and make their own bread bunny in the farmhouse kitchen. There will be a bunny trail too, and visitors can make up an Easter basket in the tea room. Opening hours on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday Bank Holiday are from 12pm to 5.30pm.

For further information, call 01993 772602.

And for those who love visiting gardens, the village of Kencot has an open gardens day on Easter Monday, from 2pm to 6pm.