What’s on at the weekend? – 14, 15 February 2015 (and half term)
There’s plenty of fun to be had around town this week. We’ve selected our highlights – from a children’s festival to book-swapping, food cravings to exploding plants…
Read MoreImagine Children’s Festival, 9 to 22 February 2015
One of the best things about the otherwise uneventful month of February is the Southbank Centre’s annual Imagine Children’s Festival. For two whole weeks the Centre’s venues are swarming with little people who come to enjoy the live music and theatre, take part in workshops, experience interactive installations and meet their favourite authors and illustrators.
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 7, 8 February 2015
This weekend: escape the cold, embrace the cold or learn a new skill…
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 31 January, 1 February 2015
This week, head indoors for Museum- and Gallery-based family activities or head outdoors to explore a winter garden…
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 24, 25 January 2015
If Christmas and the January sales cleaned you out, here are some ideas for free family activities this weekend…
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 17, 18 January 2015
It’s pretty chilly outside right now, so here are our top ideas for inside entertainment this weekend…
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 20, 21 December 2014
This weekend, Christmas shopping and other festive fun…
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 13, 14 December 2014
This weekend, in no particular order: an Olympic Christmas, Gamelan Chimes, unique gifts, Christmas past and dolls houses…
Read MorePlanes 2: Fire & Rescue
The winter cold and flu season has hit us with a vengeance, so what better week to receive a copy of Disney’s Planes 2: Fire & Rescue (just released on DVD) to keep us entertained? OK, so we’ve never actually seen the first Planes movie but MJ loves Cars and Cars 2 and the Planes films are basically a spin-off that continues the franchise in a similar vein. Plus, we’ve been exposed to (and by various means have acquired) so much Planes merchandise over the last couple of years that the main character, Dusty Crophopper, was already a household name for us.
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 6, 7 December 2014
This weekend: pose with Lego Santa and his reindeer, head to city farms for a Christmas Fair and a Winter Market, or just stay near home to shop local…
Read MorePlanes 2: Fire & Rescue – Blu Ray Giveaway
The follow-up to last year’s smash hit Disney movie Planes is out on DVD and Blu Ray on Monday (1 December 2014) and to celebrate Disney has let babydaytripper have a copy on Blu Ray to give away. The film shows the journey of world famous racer Dusty Crophopper as he joins an elite fire and rescue unit and learns what it takes to become a true hero.
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 29, 30 November 2014
This weekend, get interactive with LEGO, go to a rave party, eat a record-breaking cake and meet children’s illustrators…
Read MoreScience Museum Store Pop Up, Bluewater Shopping Centre
If you’ve been struggling to keep your children entertained whilst trailing around looking for unusual Christmas gifts, the Science Museum has come up with the solution. Its first ever pop-up store in the Bluewater Shopping Centre combines a range of the Science Museum’s top innovative and quirky products with live experiments and demonstrations of gadgets, robots and remote control.
Read MoreIt’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – Southbank Winter Festival and Covent Garden
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around London, with decorations springing up and lights gradually being switched on.
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 22, 23 November 2014
This weekend stroll in Enchanted Woodland, feed reindeer, be a renegade, see celebrities or head to a Winter Wonderland…
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 15, 16 November 2014
This weekend heralds the arrival of Christmas Markets. Elsewhere, listen to Town Hall Tales, try your hand at zoology, or go on another Paddington themed adventure…
Read MorePaddington Trail
There’s a Paddington movie out in November and, in celebration, 50 statues of everyone’s favourite Peruvian bear have popped up all over London.
Read MoreWhat’s on at the weekend? – 8, 9 November 2014
Free stuff to do this weekend in London: go on a bear hunt, watch a parade, celebrate Diwali, see that poppy installation…
Read MorePaddington: Illustrated and Animated – House of Illustration
Early indications suggest that you will not be able to escape Paddington Bear in the run-up to the launch of the first Paddington movie on 28 November. Not only have we been spotting decorated Paddington statues around town this week, but the House of Illustration in King’s Cross is also currently home to a new exhibition starring the diminutive Peruvian bear.
Read MoreBlood Swept Lands and Seas of Red – Tower of London
This week we joined the hordes of people visiting the Tower of London to see the flood of ceramic poppies installed to mark the centenary of the First World War. Regardless of whether you approve of the installation or agree with its detractors, it’s hard not to be both impressed and moved by it when you visit in person. The poppies will be removed gradually following Armistice Day. Details here
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