This month, explore a LEGO play pavilion, uncover secret playgrounds, immerse yourself in a fairy wonderland and gorge on ketchup ice cream.
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This month, explore Do Ho Suh’s fabric architecture, come face to face with a giant Louise Bourgeois spider and lose yourself in Martin Parr’s sea of balloons.
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, 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.
Bella Boos is the only soft play I’ve ever been to that’s reminded me of going clubbing.
I have a (probably fairly unhealthy) fixation with play cafes and am always embarrassingly pumped when I hear about a new one popping up somewhere useful.
I would genuinely be more inclined to go if it was called Bertie and Boo’s Dystopian Nightmare (actually, that sounds awesome).
I’ve started to wonder how many other play cafes we’re missing out on because we haven’t happened to stumble across them on our way to something else.
Being able to wander unobstructed by other humans without having to worry about losing toddlers in a sea of legs made it much less stressful.
It is quite nice being able to look round a museum without every other bastard in London being there at the same time.
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