Public days
Racecourse tents, town squares, the Giant's Trail. The feed already holds those dates. We point there and stay quiet.
Newcastle · travelling
Bear Necessities
Where Bears Come To Life!
We come to you!
Bear necessities is an unique Teddy bear making & crafts experience where children can create a new & make magical memories. We cater for birthdays, events, schools and group bookings.
Today's diary, Wake the Giant, and live offers sit on Facebook — we do not keep a second calendar here.
Where bears come to life
Party Invitation Desk
A Saturday at your place
Write the invitation. You send it to [email protected]. Nothing leaves this page until you do.
The party
The venue is yours.
There is no shop to find and no hall of ours to book. The party happens where the children already are — your living room, your hired hall, your classroom.
We arrive with the bears, the stuffing and the certificates, and for one Saturday your place is the party venue.
The making
They are not hand stuffed.
A machine arrives. A heart goes in. A certificate leaves with the bear. That ritual is written on the packages page — not claimed as a Facebook photograph.
- 01The machine
The machine arrives at your room. The stuffing is the experience — not sewing at a bench. Children watch their chosen bear fill out with cloud-soft fluff.
- 02The heart
The red satin heart. Every bear gets a heart put inside before it is closed. That is the moment where every child makes a wish.
- 03The certificate
The official adoption. Every bear leaves with its adoption certificate. Filled in by hand with their new name and ready to take home.
The packs
Little Ted, Big Ted, Colour Your Bear.
- Little Ted10-inch bearHeart insert · adoption certificate£10.50 per childMinimum 12 for a mobile party
- Big Ted16-inch bearHeart insert · adoption certificate£15.99 per childMinimum 12 for a mobile party
- Colour Your Bear16-inch bear + shirtExtra 16-inch for the birthday child · Aromabeary scent for them£16.50 per childMinimum 10
Call-out from £35 depending on location. Sand art £3.50 a child if you want the extra table — mess kept to a minimum. Both from the site, not the feed. One-day bundles such as Wake the Giant live on Facebook.
Fair day · living-room floor
The same machine. Two kinds of Saturday.
Your Saturday
A hall, a school, a home. The machine that stands in a racecourse tent stands in a house in Newcastle.
The circuit
County Down is the venue.
Newcastle is home. The route runs through every parish between the bay, the racecourse and the lough — wherever you gather the children.
An indicative map of the Bear Necessities summer circuit in County Down: Newcastle as home, Downpatrick Racecourse inland to the north, Rathfriland to the north-west, Warrenpoint Town Square south on Carlingford Lough, the Mournes between Newcastle and Warrenpoint, and an unlocated private hall.
- Newcastlehome
- Downpatrick RacecourseJuly
- RathfrilandAugust
- Warrenpoint Town SquareAugust
- Your hallprivate Saturday · unlocated
The party venue that travels to your door.
Custom teddy bear making workshops, heartfelt adoption ceremonies and magical memories across County Down.
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