A World Inside A Book: Gruffalos, Dragons & Other Creatures
The Gruffalo, Stick Man, The Highway Rat, Zog, The Smartest Giant in Town, The Snail and the Whale – just some of the many instantly recognisable characters created by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler over the years. They’ve just arrived at the fantastic Discover Children’s Story Centre in Stratford, so you can go along and meet them all. We already did just that, and it’s so brilliant that we can’t wait to go back again…
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Picturehouse Cinemas: Toddler Time Weekly Film Club
Picturehouse Cinemas have long been popular with those in the know for their weekly Big Scream film screenings for parents and babies under 12 months. We went along this week to try out their new film club, Toddler Time, designed to provide little ones with their first taste of the big screen…
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What’s on at the weekend? – 12, 13 January 2013
Snow forecast for this weekend? Warm up in a tropical world of butterflies, embrace the cold with ice sculptures, visit a new exhibition or see a storytelling performance…
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What’s on? – New Year’s Special Edition
Christmas is over for another year, but the New Year festivities are fast approaching. Here are some ideas to keep you and the family occupied until everything goes back to normal on 2 January 2013…
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Top Five Museums for Rainy Days
The bad weather’s been relentless the last couple of weeks and it’s been difficult to spend time enjoying any outdoor pursuits. Luckily, London is packed with fantastic, forward-thinking museums that have kitted themselves out with everything you need to keep the family entertained on rainy days. So this week we thought we’d share our top five rainy day museums with you:
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Discover Children’s Story Centre, Stratford
The Olympic and Paralympic athletes and crowds may have left the area, but there are still reasons to head to Stratford for a family friendly day out. Such as the Discover Children’s Story Centre…
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Olympic Park – visiting with a baby (Part 2)
You may recall that we first visited the Olympic Park in February (click here) to attend a test event at the Velodrome. This time, we didn’t attend an Olympic event, but had tickets to spend the day visiting the Olympic Park itself. It’s amazing how much work has been done since February to convert what was still mostly a building site back then into the final park. The result is overwhelmingly impressive, although there are a few areas where there’s room for improvement. Here’s how we rated our experience…
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What’s on at the weekend? – 16, 17 June 2012
If you are looking for family-friendly activities to celebrate Father’s Day this weekend, here are some highlights of what’s on in London – and who knows, it might not even rain…
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Olympic Park: visiting with a baby?
If you’re one of the lucky few who secured tickets for the London Olympics this summer, and you’re planning to take your baby along, here’s our take on visiting the Olympic Park. OK, so the park’s not officially open (or even finished) yet, but we managed to get hold of some tickets for the cycling test event at the brand new Olympic Velodrome this weekend and thought we’d share our experience of the facilities so far.
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Westfield Stratford City (when only retail therapy will do)
It’s all well and good setting out on cultural and/or educational babydaytrips, but sometimes only a spot of retail therapy will do. On those cold winter days where a trip to your high street would mean constantly adding and removing layers as you go in and out of shops, a shopping mall is the perfect solution. And so we ended up at Westfield Stratford City…
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