This month, celebrate Easter with egg hunts across the capital, meet David Shrigley’s giant Mantis Muse in the Horniman conservatory, check out the latest in experimental game design at Somerset House and go on an immersive Minecraft adventure with Fever.

* To be updated as more events are announced *

Egg hunts and Easter-themed fun

The Lindt Gold Bunny Hunt at Hampton Court Palace runs from 29th March to 21st April. Roam through lush gardens, matching the names of influential characters to the distinctive red ribbons adorning every Lindt gold bunny statue. Once you’ve found them all, claim your Lindt gold bunny treat. Free with paid entry.

Museum of Brands is running a Hop, Skip & Seek! event from 31st March to 21st April. Embark on a scavenger hunt through the Time Tunnel to discover a variety of iconic Easter-themed mascots and vintage characters. Find them all to win a treat. Free with paid entry (kids go free during the holidays).

London Zoo’s Zoonormous Egg Hunt is back from 5th-21st. Collect the missing letters from your trail card, crack the secret password to gain access to a secret end location, make your golden promise to wildlife and collect a tasty treat. Free with paid entry.

Hobbledown Heath Easter Egg-Splorers runs from 5th-21st and will include a chance to meet the Easter Bunny in his burrow, follow a golden egg trail and an Easter egg trail, a Bunny Bonanza including bunny-hop dancing, Hobble Hood archery and lots more. Free with paid Entry.

The Easter Adventure Quest returns to Eltham Palace and Gardens and Down House, home of Charles Darwin, from 5th-27th. Find the clues hidden around the grounds, crack the code and enjoy a delicious chocolate reward. Paid, on top of paid entry.

Easter Egg Hunt at Morden Hall Park runs from 17th-21st. Grab an Easter trail sheet and a pair of bunny ears and complete the fun-filled tasks, ranging from welly-wanging to child-safe axe throwing and a lively ring-toss game. Once you’re done, collect your dairy or vegan chocolate egg reward. Paid.

Easter at Battersea Power Station runs from 18th-21st. Indulge your sweet tooth at the Chocolate Station Market, take part in basket decorating and spring-inspired felt animal-ear creating, unleash your inner Easter on the Bungee Trampolines, get creative with free face painting, or take a spin on the Bumper Cars. Free/paid.

Chelsea Physic Garden’s Popular Little Artists Easter Trail is back from 18th-21st. Explore the garden, fill out the trail booklet and receive a chocolate treat. Children will also get the opportunity to participate in a fun craft workshop. Choose from Good Friday, Easter Sunday or Easter Monday. Paid plus paid entry.

Easter Egg Trail at Cutty Sark runs from 18th-21st. Follow the trail to spot hidden eggs around the ship. Collect all 11 letters on each egg and unscramble the secret nautical code. Once you’ve cracked the code, head to the Cutty Sark café under the hull to claim your chocolatey treat, courtesy of Tony’s Chocolonely. Free with paid entry.

Chiswick House and Gardens’ Easter Family Trail is on from 18th-21st. Pick up your trail booklet from the Kitchen Garden and start your adventure through the grounds. Follow the map to find the mega eggs, answer the questions and unscramble the code, then collect your Love Cocoa chocolate prize. Paid.

Friends of Streatham Common are running their annual Easter Egg Hunt at Streatham Common Rookery on the 19th. The hunt is aimed at young children, who are invited to collect an activity sheet and solve the clues around the Rookery before collecting a small prize. Free.

Festivals, workshops and events

Royal College of Nursing’s Nurses and All That Rubbish! family event takes place on the 5th. Create your own recycled artwork to go in a mini-exhibition, join in with family storytelling, create and customise your own nurse’s uniform and explore the fun-filled exhibition trail. Free.

Head to Southbank Centre on the 5th for Saturday Sessions With BAC Beatbox Academy. Designed to teach ages 5-11 and their families the foundations of beatbox sounds, this high-energy workshop promises plenty of singing, rapping and vibes. Free.

UNIQLO Tate Play: Bruce Asbestos, S/S 2025 will be the next family holiday workshop to pop up at Tate Modern from 5th-21st. Join the fashion parade and create an outfit using paper, card and paint. When you’re ready, show off your weird and wonderful design on the runway to a special soundtrack by British grime artist Snowy. Free.

Supertato arrives at Kew from 5th-21st. Based on the bestselling books by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet, this fun-filled event invites kids to join Supertato’s Super Squad, thwart the Evil Pea and save veggies in distress. Don’t miss the dressing-up zone to snap a photo with Supertato and his friends. Free with paid entry.

There’s lots on at the National Maritime Museum this Easter, with drop-in workshops every day from 6th-20th. Choose from storytelling, junk modelling, puppet making, paper ship folding, pebble decorating, flower painting, poetry performances, leaf rubbing and more. Free.

There’s lots on at Big Penny Social this Easter. The popular Bounce House is back from 7th-11th. Then, on the 12th, Hullabaloo’s Bees Knees Up presents an immersive theatrical adventure for the whole family. Then on the 20th, the Easter Family Disco promises bubbles, interactive games and more. Paid.

The Foundling Museum is running four workshops for 5-12s this Easter. Choose from clay hospital making in Clay Architects on the 8th, clay plate design in Picture Plates on the 9th, stop-motion animation in Animated Portraits on the 10th or fantasy museum design in Secret Museum on the 11th. Paid.

London Museum Docklands is running a series of workshops to coincide with the opening of its new Mudlarking exhibition this holiday. Choose from Rising River Pop-Up Cards and Meet a Victorian Mudlark from 8th-17th, Foreshore Finds from 9th-16th and Mudlarking Mementoes from 10th-14th. Free.

There’s lots on at the National Gallery’s new Roden Centre for Creative Learning from 8th-17th. Take a Decoding Pictures Tour, then take inspiration from José María Velasco’s paintings to create your own paintings, explore an immersive Mexican landscape and draw your own still-life artworks. Free.

Two Temple Place is hosting six family workshops this Easter. Choose from Print Making with Ultrakolor Studio on the 8th, Seasonal Veg Harvest on the 10th, Mapping Your Endz on the 12th, Super Shoes on the 15th, Painting Celebrations on the 16th and Building Cosy Homes on the 18th. Pay what you can.

David Shrigley’s The Mantis Muse sculpture will be in the Horniman Conservatory from the 8th-21st, with a host of workshops themed around it. Choose from drawing and colouring, family yoga, screen printing and stories and crafts. Free to visit/some workshops paid.

April Holidays: Shape Your World runs from 9th-11th at the V&A. Make a plush toy to take away with you and join dance artist Kirsty Purnell for a playful workshop inspired by the natural world. Those with 0-3s can also take part in a child-led, non-structured multi-sensory play session. Free.

Walthamstow’s It Takes a Village play cafe is hosting a Wig Workshop for ages 2.5 and up on the 10th. Every ticket gets you your own colourful wig to play with, along with plenty of brushes, clips, extensions and accessories with which to create endless weird and wacky hairstyles. Paid.

Museum of the Home’s Spring Family Day 2025 is on the 10th. Join artist Sadegh Aleahmad to craft vibrant props and explore how they interact with light and shadow. Take over the Mini Playhouse, stage your own light performance, build imaginative dens and use torches to project your creations. Free.

Head to the Design Museum on the 11th for Doodle Day inspired by Tim Burton. Create your own exquisite corpse drawing book with artist Josie Britton, learn to draw a self-portrait in the style of Tim Burton with artist Mark Connolly, create and play with spooky shadow puppets and craft a storytelling mini-theatre. Free.

Somerset House is hosting its family-friendly Now Play This! day on the 12th. Head down and explore the Boardgames & Books Nook, play folk games, take part in an 8-Bit Music Workshop, make your own solo role-playing game, join in with an audience-led choose-your-own-adventure game and lots more. Paid.

Wish, Make and Celebrate! is at the V&A on the 12th. Dive into prompts and play with materials at different stations to explore creative ways to look after, care and hold your feelings. Together, create a collection of wishes and celebrations, helping to create connections between families. Free.

Artist Christina Rose Brown will host Easter Art Workshop: Flower Transfers at the Fitzrovia Chapel on the 16th. Taking inspiration from the spring blooms, create abstract and painterly prints using colourful, natural dyes extracted from fresh flowers, before further embellishing them with fun materials. Paid.

The Horniman Spring Fair Will be held on the 19th. Head down for circus skill practice, traditional fete games, an Easter bonnet parade, a bubble show with Bubbleology, DIY spring basket making, a spring time disco with DJ Danny Nutt and lots more. Paid.

Head to Leighton House on the 19th for Family Fun: Spring Flower Secrets. Learn about the ways that cultures throughout time have given meaning to different types of flowers, then create your own bouquet of handmade, papercraft flowers full of hidden messages. Paid.

Family Studio: Cut and Paste Films will be at the RA on the 27th. Children of all ages and their families are invited to join artist educator Eva Jonas and create a film that relates to a dream or memory, drawing inspiration from artist Tacita Dean and working on top of photographs. Free.

Film & Theatre

There’s loads of inspiring new theatre on at artsdepot this month. Highlights include The Baddies, based on Julia Donaldson’s book, for ages 3+ from 4th-6th, Claytime by Indefinite Articles for 3-6s from 16th-17th and Dizzy O’Dare’s The Giant Balloon Show for ages 5+ on the 27th. Paid.

The Enchanted Cinema: Ghibli’s Forest is showing at the Horniman on the 5th-6th. Become part of a pop-up orchestra and create sound effects and a musical soundtrack for a selection of Studio Ghibli favourites. Bang turtle drums and strum a lyre harp along with an ensemble of other interesting musical instruments. Paid.

This month, Barbican’s Family Film Club showings will include Notebook Presents: Children’s Cinema +10am pre-film collage-making workshop on the 5th, Paddington in Peru on the 12th, LIAF Amazing Animated Shorts for 2-7 year olds on the 19th and Spirited Away + Pre-film Origami on the 26th. Free.

V&A will host BSL Performance: The Little Prince on the 11th. Follow the journey of a young Prince as he travels through the universe in this live theatrical performance that mixes movements inspired by mime, cabaret and BSL signs with animation to create a story to be enjoyed by all audiences – deaf and hearing. Paid.

Exhibition openings

NHM opens its Fixing Our Broken Planet Gallery from the 3rd. Packed with contemporary science from world-leading researchers, the new gallery explores practical, nature-based solutions to topics such as the food we eat, the energy we consume, the stuff we use and the impact of all of this on our health. Free.

Fever’s Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue arrives in Rotherhithe from 4th April to 29th June. Embark on a daring quest to save the villagers. Explore seven Minecraft rooms, using a handheld Orb to chop down trees, collect resources, fight mobs and build your way through the escape portal. Paid.

Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s lost Treasures opens at London Museum Docklands from 4th April to 1st March 2026. Step into the shoes of a mudlark and explore the foreshore, uncover more than 350 mudlarked objects and learn how mudlarks identify and curate their personal collections. Paid.

Cats in Cartoons will be at the Cartoon Museum from 5th April to 7th September. From Garfield to Simon’s Cat, and Krazy Kat to Bagpuss, the exhibition will spotlight some of the greatest cats to grace our comics and newspapers, exploring why people love cats so much and what cats tell us about life. Included with paid entry.

Morris Mania: How Britain’s Greatest Designer went Viral will be at Morris Gallery from 5th April to 21st September. The exhibition will showcase the versatility and lasting influence of Morris’s designs in popular culture, with patterned items including everything from a waving cat from Japan to Wellington boots. Free.

The Power of Trees is at Kew from 12th April to 14th September. The exhibition will showcase intricate botanical illustrations to a groundbreaking video installation by Finnish visual artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila, and invites visitors of all ages to reflect on their own connections with trees. Free with paid entry.

1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader opens at Wellcome Collection from 17th April to 16th November. Through film and sculpture, this playful exhibition will address the fundamental right to communicate and explores new possibilities for understanding between signed and spoken languages. Free.

The popular David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) show is back at Lightroom from 30th April to 29th June. Using large-scale projection, the artist will take viewers on a personal journey through 60 years of his art. Paid.

Under-5s

Design Baby: Sculpt and Play will be at the V&A on the 2nd. Explore sculpture with your little ones through shape, weight, balance, space and texture. Play with trollies, push soft pom-poms through holes, build shapes, bend twisty tubes and lots more. Free.

Head to Newington Green’s Brags & Brams on the 4th for Paint Misbehavin’ for New Parents. Explore your creativity in this inclusive art class for adults, where bringing your baby is actively encouraged. Artist Christina Rose Brown will introduce you to different artists and techniques to create your own original works of art. Paid.

RIBA Baby: Animal Architecture runs on the 9th. Led by storyteller and musician Paul Rubinstein, the session invites under-3s and their carers are to explore the incredible world of Animal Architecture through music, storytelling, and interactive fun. Free.

The RA’s monthly Early Years Studio workshop for under-5s runs on the 16th. This month, join artist Amy Leung to mix, layer, experiment and experience colour in a multitude of ways. The studio space will be full of materials, objects and textures that can be used for child-led play and inquiry. Free.

SEND-friendly

The Together Space is hosting not one but four free events this month, including an Easter Holiday Play Scheme for both children with SEND and mainstream children from 7th-10th, Easter Family Play Events funded by Waltham Forest on the 9th and 16th, and its regular Together Space Pop-Up on the 27th. Free.

Autograph’s monthly Free Family Workshops for Children with SEND runs on the 16th. Children with SEND and their families are invited to get involved in a creative play session exploring the senses – playing with textures, light, sculpture and a variety of art materials. Free.

Young V&A’s Sensory Friendly Studio for Families is on the 17th. There will be a range of creative activities, including printing using natural ingredients and paint, drawing with organic forms and shadow play, and children are free to explore in their own time and at their own pace. Free.

Sensory Friendly: Design and Draw with Light will be at the V&A on the 19th. Design, make and draw using lightboxes and overhead projectors. Play with light and dark, reflections, shadows, and colours. Create and experiment using a mixture of different art materials to make colourful projections in the space. Free.

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