Woodbridge's annual Free Easter Egg Hunt, which has for the past three years proved hugely popular with small children, will attract even bigger crowds this year. The event has been transformed into a major celebration of the arrival of Spring.

Kids attending the Woodbridge Spring Festival, which starts at 10.00am on Saturday 7 April in Elmhurst Park, will still be in the hunt for eggs, but this year they will be helped in their search by a big Easter Bunny. They will also able to enjoy a variety of new atttractions associated with Spring.

The favourite will probably be a Suffolk Punch mare with her new foal, Tanzi, born only on 8 February and already showing her own character.
However, Tanzi will have to compete for the children's attention with lots of other endearing animals.

Few will be able to resist the fluffy three-day old chicks, and all will fall in love with the herd of alpacas (some very young) from Paul Aylott's Melford Green Alpacas Farm.

All the alpacas, which are soft and gentle, enjoy children's attention, and Paul will show how their wool is transformed from fleece into clothing.

The children will see how plants grow from seeds and they will find out how the milk on their breakfast cereal gets from the cow to their table, through a "milking parlour" on the site.

For parents, one of the attractions will be that there will be free parking at the District Council offices on Melton Hill.

Children are advised to get their parents to the park for the start at 10.00 so that they can be sure of getting an egg. The Festival will end at 12.30.

The Woodbridge Children's Spring Festival is sponsored by Budgens, Boots, Les Chocolats Belges, The National Trust, Easton Park Farm and The Suffolk Punch Trust, and Woolworths.