This month, follow egg, bunny and elephant trails across London; help create a collaborative installation at Tate Modern; and immerse yourself in a jurassic jungle at the Brunswick Centre.
Community and collaboration is the theme of the Southbank Centre’s egg-cellent Easter programme, which includes theatre, dance, play and art workshops, plus free activities all the family can enjoy.
This month, take your favourite toy to the theatre, pet a weird menagerie in an even weirder museum, and immerse yourself in a world of fairytales.
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).
The capital’s most innovative, aesthetically pleasing, exciting and often downright weird children’s playgrounds.
Experienced playworker, Childhood and Youth expert and all-round excellent human Kerri Burton rounds up the capital’s coolest adventure playgrounds.
Meet Woody and Buzz in Andy’s bedroom, immerse yourself in Chiharu Shiota’s web-like installations and accompany the Jolly Postman on his morning round.
This month, explore a luminous dreamscape in Canary Wharf, see the City of London lit up in glorious technicolour, and experience London’s new pop-up planetarium.
This month, meet children’s poet Michael Rosen, immerse yourself in a giant arts-and-crafts art installation, and dance along to Golden at a KPop Demon Hunters party.
This month, check out banging fireworks displays across London, experience the last days of Pompeii, explore Wes Anderson’s vast archive, and learn how to morris dance in your own homemade costume.
Spellbinding light trails, magical grottoes and ice rinks aplenty can only mean one thing… IT’S CHRIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAS!
This month, befriend Ryan Gander’s animatronic animals at Camden Arts Projects, explore London Zoo’s new children’s role-play centre, and embark on a spooktacular illuminated Halloween trail.
This month, discover Dulwich Picture Gallery’s long-awaited children’s play pavilion, immerse yourself in Serpentine’s new video-game commission and explore Regent’s Park’s annual sculpture park.
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