This month, help decorate a giant papier mache birthday cake and a colossal doodle apartment; play around with large moving art at Tate Modern and embark on an immersive adventure with Paddington Bear.
The capital’s most innovative, aesthetically pleasing, exciting and often downright weird children’s playgrounds.
Appalling weather? Kids bouncing off the walls of your tiny London flat? Fear not, there is hope in the shape of the capital’s myriad indoor playgrounds, from the most stylish play cafes and museum children’s galleries to the least awful soft-play centres we can think of (and, good God, there are some dreadful ones).
Experienced playworker, Childhood and Youth expert and all-round excellent human Kerri Burton rounds up the capital’s coolest adventure playgrounds.
This month, immerse yourself in a magical land of paper, check out the latest in experimental game design and watch a show about poo.
The most egg-citing Easter egg hunts, cracking fairs and parties, and Easter bonnet parade egg-stravaganzas.
This month, immerse yourself in the world of Biba, follow a larger-than-life guide-dog trail and meet Bluey the Blue Heeler pup at Kew Garden.
This month, meet the rotten Romans at the British Museum, lose yourself in the Southbank Centre’s Imagine Festival and discover all things Cute at Somerset House.
Parenting is equal parts brutal and beautiful, filled with euphoric highs and agonising lows, but having access to a wealth of inspiring and affecting exhibitions can at least go some way to making it easier (that, and ignoring anyone who tells you babies don’t belong in art galleries).
This month, celebrate the return of Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights trail, hang out with a gang of giant soft robots and do downward-facing dog with a posse of puppies.
This month,be plunged into the playful world of Robin Lynch, visit the world’s first inflatable museum and journey to the moon with Tom Hanks.
This month, enjoy an immersive twist on bonfire night, check out Assemble Play’s very playful exhibition and explore a fantastical pastel planet filled with bubbles.
Festive trails, immersive adventures, magical grottoes and captivating ice rinks; just a few of the reasons to be merry this Christmas.
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