The Southbank Centre is the place to be this half term, with plenty of high-energy fun to fill you with the joys of spring.
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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, 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, 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.
Few things incite fear in the hearts of school-age parents like the unreasonably long summer ‘break’ and the ensuing juggling act. While I’ve yet to solve the universal holiday-childcare conundrum, I have come up with a list of genuinely fun-sounding family activities, so your kids might just leave you alone long enough to fire off some emails (or just sip your iced latte in peace).
This month, celebrate Lunar New Year across the capital, launch your own album at the Whitechapel Gallery, get stuck into the Southbank Centre’s inspiring Imagine Festival, and explore two new child-centric exhibitions: the Horniman’s Robot Zoo and Young V&A’s Making Egypt.
This month, come Face to Face with an Es Devlin installation, immerse your baby in a mesmerising world of light, and step inside Now’s interactive sock exhibition.
Spellbinding light trails, magical grottoes and ice rinks aplenty can only mean one thing… IT’S CHRIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAS!
This month, be dazzled by fabulous firework displays, follow a larger-than-life trail of topiary figures and take part in a mass tarot-inspired play-in.
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