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.
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This month, explore two dazzling winter light trails, immerse yourself in Jonathan Baldock’s new Mithraeum installation and rediscover the brilliant REPLAY recycled playground.
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.
Scare yourself silly this Halloween with petrifying pumpkin carving, fearsome fancy-dress balls, ghastly ghost hunts and creepy crafts.
This month, behold Mike Kelley’s soft-toy installations, immerse yourself in the wonderfully weird world of Tim Burton and check out north London’s newest role-play cafe.
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).
This month sees the return of Frieze Sculpture, Colourscape and the London Mural Festival, plus newness in the form of an unseen Yayoi Kusama infinity room and an East London play cafe.
Design paper playgrounds, build cosy dens and rave the summer away in an artist-designed indoor neighbourhood made for child-led play.
If Jesus managed to survive 40 days and nights in the desert with no food, then we can probably survive 40 days and nights of no school.
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