Bear Essentials Cavan Schools Tours
Bear Essentials Cavan Schools Tours are located in the peaceful West Cavan countryside and are part of the Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark. We like children and teachers to be happy. All our school tours & workshops are fun, educational and customised to suit pre, primary & secondary schools. We also welcome any other youth or adult group to experience a memorable day out here at Bear Essentials Brackley Lake, Bawnboy, Co.Cavan.
While you with us you have the Silver Bear Centre, garden, picnic area and play ground just to yourself. Healthy lunch can be ordered at time of booking or you can just bring your own. For outside play bring your wellies & raincoat and may be a change of clothes.
Because we do have the largest collection of Teddy Bears in our Teddy Bear Gift Shop it is an experience for the children to see the shop as well. We do take some time to bring small groups into the shop to explain about the different teddy bears and how they are made. We make every effort to let all children have a good bargain for about €5 – €10.
Every school tour is different – tailored to suit your age group and special needs.
Good news: If you can’t come to us – we can come to you.
Customised Cavan School Tours
Our Cavan school tours are customers and every child goes home with their own Teddy Bear or Wildlife Animal. If you book for up to 48 kids we will do the workshop altogether. You be with us for up to 3 hours. Groups between 48 & 60 kids we can divide into 2 groups and facilitate two workshops on the day.
The children are ever so proud of their achievements and when they are leaving on the bus we are always told “Best School Tour ever, can we come again next year”. And yes we have had many schools who come again year after year. Sometimes classes or even small schools get together to be able to book as a larger group.
We also offer a Teddy Bear History Tour.
If you like to know more about Natural Habitat of Wild Bears click here to read more.
Looking after our teachers
Finally we do feel all teachers deserve a great school tour as well. We offer them or attending parents free coffee/tea and biscuits and we will help them with anything happening on the day. They also can make a bear at cost price. As much as we like them to be involved in the workshops we do let them have a break to wonder about for a while, especially on a sunny Irish day.
Thank you for our tour, we had a super day. We loved catching bugs and playing in the playground so much. Our favourite thing was making our own bears and animals. We will be bringing them back to school soon for a teddy bears picnic!