OCTOBER HOLIDAY EVENTS

Join us on Saturday 10th July for our first ever Picnic at the Castle where we can celebrate the importance of family, friends and our community whilst reflecting on the events of the past year.
Bring along your blanket, order a picnic lunch box, enjoy family activities, listen to live music from the McAndrews sisters and help us to bury our time capsule.

Picnic Lunch with free admission – Adult £12.50, Child £10.00
Admission – Adult £10.00, Child £5.00

Adult Picnic Lunch Box to include:
Caramelised onion tart
Homemade sausage and herb roll
Finger sandwiches to include: ham & tomato, egg mayonnaise, cheese & pickle, smoked Scottish salmon & cream cheese
Crudities, tomato mayonnaise dip
Chocolate brownie
Raspberry bakewell

Children’s Picnic Lunch Box to include:
Homemade sausage and herb roll
Finger sandwiches to include ham, egg mayonnaise, cheese
Crudities, tomato mayonnaise dip
Chocolate brownie

Activities on the Day

Bunting Making
Let’s work as a team to design and decorate beautiful bunting flags. You can donate your bunting to help us to adorn the Castle grounds or you can take it with you to brighten up your home.

Painted Pebbles
Get busy with paints and to design your own unique pebble. You can use your stone to help us create a cairn in the Castle grounds or take it away to decorate your home or garden.
The bunting making and painted pebbles sessions are bookable and free with your admission ticket.

Word Puzzle Trail
Explore the Museum and Castle grounds solving clues and discovering the hidden letters to make a word and win a prize.

Our Rainbow Wall
Write your messages of reflection, hope and kindness to create a rainbow shaped tribute to our community.

Time Capsule
Help us to bury our time capsule containing items from 2020-2021 painting a picture of what life was like for the Perthshire community during the pandemic.

Build a Cairn
Bring a painted pebble or make your own at the Castle and join us as we stack the stones over our time capsule to create a colourful rock cairn in the grounds.

The McAndrews Sisters
Enjoy live music throughout the day from vintage vocal trio The McAndrews Sisters

This is a limited ticket event which will follow Scottish government Covid-19 guidelines

The poignant ‘D-Day: Soldiers of Sacrifice’ sculpture will be visiting The Black Watch Castle and Museum from Saturday 17th July until Monday 30th August – The first time the sculpture has visited Scotland.

Funded by the Heritage Lottery and commissioned by The D-Day Story museum in Portsmouth the sculpture commemorates the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings and provides a lasting tribute to the lives lost in the first 24 hours of the Normandy landings.

Renowned artist Alfie Bradley created the statue to represent Lieutenant Den Brotheridge. Lieutenant Brotheridge served with the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Second World War. He is thought to have been the first Allied serviceman killed on D-Day.

The structure is made from steel rods, steel sheets, welding wire, resin and 4,413 replica bullets. Each bullet representing his comrades in arms who fell in battle later that day. The soldier’s form is crouched down as if to throw a grenade, but instead he is releasing a dove; symbolising peace and acknowledging that these soldiers’ deaths were not in vain.

Explore the museum’s collection to discover some of the magnificent medals and eye-catching coins created to commemorate soldier’s bravery. Then join us to design and create your own.

To follow the recommended covid safety guidelines, we will take the actions below:

• We will have 4 tables per session. Sessions will last for 40 minutes
• Tables will have at least 2 metre distance between them and be fully cleaned between sessions
• Each table can have a maximum of 5 persons from two households (under 5’s do not count in these numbers)
• Each group/bubble will have their own supplies.

Ages 5+

77 years ago brave soldiers from all over the world waded ashore on the beaches of Normandy. Find out about this historic event and then have a go at making your own WW2 landing craft to take home.

To follow the recommended covid safety guidelines, we will take the actions below:
• We will have 4 tables per session. Sessions will last for 40 minutes
• Tables will have at least 2 metre distance between them and be fully cleaned between sessions
• Each table can have a maximum of 5 persons from two households (under 5’s do not count in these numbers)
• Each group/bubble will have their own supplies

Ages 5+

During WW2, The Highland Division became known as ‘The Highway Decorators’ because they painted their emblem wherever they went. Take inspiration from this iconic logo or use your imagination to create your own cross stitch design.

To follow the recommended covid safety guidelines, we will take the actions below:
• We will have 4 tables per session. Sessions will last for 40 minutes
• Tables will have at least 2 metre distance between them and be fully cleaned between sessions
• Each table can have a maximum of 5 persons from two households (under 5’s do not count in these numbers)
• Each group/bubble will have their own supplies

Ages 5+

The poignant ‘D-Day: Soldiers of Sacrifice’ sculpture will be visiting The Black Watch Castle and Museum from Saturday 17th July until Monday 30th August – The first time the sculpture has visited Scotland.

Funded by the Heritage Lottery and commissioned by The D-Day Story museum in Portsmouth the sculpture commemorates the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings and provides a lasting tribute to the lives lost in the first 24 hours of the Normandy landings.

Renowned artist Alfie Bradley created the statue to represent Lieutenant Den Brotheridge. Lieutenant Brotheridge served with the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Second World War. He is thought to have been the first Allied serviceman killed on D-Day.

The structure is made from steel rods, steel sheets, welding wire, resin and 4,413 replica bullets. Each bullet representing his comrades in arms who fell in battle later that day. The soldier’s form is crouched down as if to throw a grenade, but instead he is releasing a dove; symbolising peace and acknowledging that these soldiers’ deaths were not in vain.

Military gliders were used throughout WW2, whether that was dropping The Black Watch into the jungles of Burma or taking control of bridges on D-Day. Join us to make your own great glider and test out its flying ability.

To follow the recommended covid safety guidelines, we will take the actions below:
• We will have 4 tables per session. Sessions will last for 40 minutes
• Tables will have at least 2 metre distance between them and be fully cleaned between sessions
• Each table can have a maximum of 5 persons from two households (under 5’s do not count in these numbers)
• Each group/bubble will have their own supplies

Ages 5+