IT'S cold, it's wet, and just a little bit dank but look on the bright side there's no school!

To keep yourself occupied why not try a few of these 'indoor' events that are taking place during the Half Term Week.

Theatre Rites: Beasty Baby, Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, tomorrow, 11am and 1.30pm. £4.95. 01206 500900.

GETTING the Half Term off to a good start is this perfectly good puppet show from one of the country's best loved companies.

Mayhem and laughter reign as three people embark on a wild adventure to bring up a very mischievous but totally loveable child.

Little Mix Experience, Mercury Theatre, Balkerne Gate, Colchester, Monday, 2pm. £15. 01206 573948.

AS the name suggests if you're a fan of the popular all girl-group, then check out this tribute group singing all their classic hits from Wings, Black Magic and Love Me Like You.

Clay model making and trampolining, Leisure World, Cowdray Avenue, Colchester, Monday, 1.30pm (clay model making), Tuesday, 11.30am and 12.30pm (trampolining). £6.50 (clay modelling), £5.20 (trampolining). 01206 282000.

NOT together! Although that would be a brilliant Half Term Workshop. No there's plenty of activities running throughout the week at Leisure World but the week starts off with a chance to do some clay modelling followed by two trampolining sessions for the Olympic somersaulters of the future.

The First Hippo on the Moon, Mercury Theatre, Balkerne Gate, Colchester, 2pm and 4pm (Tuesday) and 11am and 2pm (Wednesday). £13.50 plus concessions. 01206 573948.

BASED on the picture book by David Walliams and Tony Ross, this theatre extravaganza comes from the Les Petits Theatre Company, the people behind Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs.

Expect plenty of fun and humour as well as puppets, music and a giant space race to the moon.

Fairy Garden Workshops, Unit B9 The Seedbed Centre, Wyncolls Road, Severalls Industrial Estate, Colchester, Wednesday, 10.30am and 12.30pm. £15.95. 07814232061.

THE small but perfectly formed Away With The Fairies will be running a special session to help budding designers create their own mini-horticultural wonderland for little people.

Have fun choosing the animals, fairies, little houses and of course toadstools to complete your idyllic magical garden.

Video Games with Scratch, Signals Media Centre, Victoria Chambers, St Runwald Street, Colchester, Friday, 10am to 3pm. £35. 01206 560255.

LAST but by no means least fancy yourself as the designer of the new Flappy Birds? Then let Dave Norton and Scratch help you make your very own 2D video game.

Aimed at children nine and over, Scratch lets you learn the basics of programming, allowing you to make simple 2D arcade games and share them online, via the scratch website, or pop them onto a USB and play them at home.