So, hopefully the storms will have subsided by next week and we’ll be able to venture back out to parks and playgrounds, but, even if they haven’t, there’s plenty to occupy busy little people. Here are a few of our picks for half-term entertainment.
Southbank Centre’s Imagine Festival has already been on since Monday, but the best is yet to come. Loads of events with big names from children’s literature, plus theatrical and musical productions and Dressing Up Days.
Much of the Brighton Science Festival is for older children – like the Lego robotics – but we’ll be going along to Okido’s workshops just down the road and also recommend Toys Arrggggh Us! de- and re-constructing ‘interesting’ toys.
As always, The National Trust has a gazillion things to do. Particularly like the sound of the Wild Wednesday Welly Walk at Cliveden, family cookery class at Waddesdon Manor, and bird box building at Fountains Abbey.
The National Children’s Museum, Eureka! is going out of this world for half term week with space-themed activities ranging from astronaut aerobics to making your own spacecraft.
Other inter-planetary activity can be found at the National Space Centre where you can build your own space station, take part in a mission and experience all the other amazing exhibits, including the fab planetarium.
Got a literary little one? Head over to the Roald Dahl Museum to make amazing objects based on Dahl’s characters – think BFG Diddly Dream Pots, Fantastic Mr Fox ears and Oompa Loompa puppets.
Arty kids will enjoy the colourful code workshops at Tate Liverpool, where they can work with artists to create artworks featuring hidden messages in Morse code.
Up at the National Museum of Scotland, they’re focusing on the Ice Age – go along to brush up on your cave painting techniques and make a mammoth mask.
Back in the capital, the London Transport Museum offers the chance to make your own pop-up creations, plus a wealth of child-friendly activities are available at the Family Station.
And the ever-reliable (and wildly popular) Natural History Museum allows brave little ones to get up close and personal with live creatures in a show about animal vision.
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