7 days out for dinosaur-mad kids

Start here. Inside the Elizabethan mansion in the middle of the deer park is Nottingham's natural history museum, and its Discovering Dinosaurs Gallery is the closest thing the city has to a proper dinosaur day. Kids 15 and under go free, and a single adult ticket covers repeat visits for a year, so you can do forty-five minutes of dinosaurs, a play park and the deer, and come back next month when they ask again. Outdoor trails and activity sheets stretch it into a full morning.

An outdoor adventure golf course in Basford where the theme is dinosaurs from the first hole to the last. It is the rare dinosaur thing that works for everyone: the six-year-old is there for the dinosaurs, you are there because the later holes are genuinely awkward. Under-13s need a paying adult with them and spectators cannot stand on the course, so plan on everyone playing. Cashless, pre-booking gets you priority, free parking with a 2.4m height barrier.

The other dinosaur course, on Trentside at Just Golf. Eighteen floodlit holes, which matters in winter: you can do dinosaur golf at half four in December and it feels like a night out. Grace's Coffee Shop is on site for the warm-up afterwards. Under-16s need an adult, and the venue is cashless.