With the museum moving to an £83m new home and me giving birth to an 8.3lb baby, I was keen to find out how well we’d gel.
Activities
I was picturing a room full of sponges with a couple of people in costumes bouncing around helping the babies climb into buckets.
Natalie Zervou is an artist-educator and the founder of Starting With Art. She lives in Camden.
There’s an in-store bench where you can sit and peruse the vast range of books with a massive cuddly tiger for company.
Children are encouraged to think independently and collaborate to create walkways, see-saws and slides using diverse materials.
The Corner House is less a play cafe and more a small, well-planned city in which to play, eat, drink, meet and learn.
This steamy Sunday sanctuary is abundant in lush greenery and Andie McDowell’s apartment in Green Card vibes
What?: Seven-acre inner-city playground occupying the site of the former London Foundling Hospital. If you’ve ever been to the Foundling Museum you’ll already know the story of Captain Thomas Coram, the philanthropist who founded the hospital in 1739 to house and care for the countless abandoned children living on the capital’s streets
What?: The last time we attempted a parent-and-child dance activity it didn’t end spectacularly well. This was more down to personal circumstance, that being my general dislike of clubbing – which had somehow completely slipped by mind – and Bab’s crappy mood on that particular day
Fount is the parental utopia you’ve always dreamed of but never believed could exist because life just isn’t that kind
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