CHEPSTOW Museum will be hosting a number of activities over the Easter period for youngsters.

Painted eggs - not the chocolate kind - and several Easter bunnies will be dotted around the building's exhibits for eagle-eyed visitors to find in the return of the annual egg hunt.

Museum curator Anne Rainsbury said: “The spirit of a hunt is fun and challenging for everyone, and we hope that adults will enjoy doing this together with their children. It also makes people look harder at the objects in the displays and to think about what they are and how they were used."

"We hope that even very young ones will be helped along and that this will be fun for families to do together."

Visitors will also have Easter-themed puzzles to take home and the chance to enter a special competition to create a design for a decorated egg.

The museum is open every day, from 11am to 5pm on Mondays to Saturdays, including all the Bank Holidays, and from 2-5pm on Sundays.

Admission will be free to these events.

On Thursdays April 13 and 20, the museum's drop-in-and-make craft afternoons will take place at Chepstow's Drill Hall from 2pm-4pm.

Staff provide visitors with some initial ideas, help, templates, and materials and then you can make them your own with your creative ideas.

Suitable for children of all ages, but children must be accompanied by an adult.

Due to budget pressures, donations are being asked of £2 for children over three years towards the cost of materials and refreshments.