Alternative activities for Easter holidays 2019
And before you knew it, the Easter holidays are here. Feeling underprepared? We’ve got you covered with our guide to the alternative activities for Easter holidays 2019, including family and child-friendly design, architecture and art activities to keep everyone entertained.
Skill Up: Functional Furniture, RIBA, London
Through teaching drawing and model-making skills, this workshop aims to educate young people aged 15 to 18 about the built environment. Participants will put what they learn into the design and making of a multi-functional table. Something we wish we could do.
Saturday Club: Welcome to London, New London Architecture, London
New London Architecture, the independent centre for London’s built environment, has launched a new Saturday club for young people, teaching them about the buildings that make up their city. This interactive workshop is an introduction to master planning of sorts, with participants designing plans for an area and learning more about how London’s development has been shaped over time.
Easter Holidays, Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire
A host of free family activities makes up a busy Easter programme at the Hepworth Wakefield this year. ‘Art Pods’ offers families the opportunity to get creative surrounded by pieces in the gallery; ‘Ceramic Journeys’ uses Magdalene Odundo’s show ‘The Journey of Things’ as a starting point for teaching children how to make simple pots, while printmaking courses introduce young ones to the work of Hepworth and Moore before letting them try block printing.
Wild About Wight, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
Explore the natural environment of East Wight with the help of artist Hannah George at a creative pop up celebrating the woodlands, beaches and bird hides of the area. And, if you’re on the lookout for a RIBA Award-winning family home in the area, be sure to make a viewing for The Sett, currently for sale via The Modern House.
Easter Forest of Figures, Tate St Ives, Cornwall and Mega Models, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Running until 6th May at Tate St Ives is the first UK retrospective of Egyptian-Canadian artist Anna Boghiguian, whose work features large installations and papier-mache sculptures exploring the human condition. A workshop inspired by her process will see children under 12 years old create a paper sculpture to be added to a ‘Forest of Figures’ in the Clore Sky Studio.
A similar format will be put on at Tate Liverpool, where Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s ‘Liverpool Mountain’, a towering pile of variegated blocks in Mermaid Courtyard, provides the source of inspiration for a workshop offering the chance to create balancing structures of different materials.
Golden Tapes, Turner Contemporary, Margate
In 1977, scientist Carl Sagan selected music he thought represented the sounds of Earth to be included on two golden phonograph records sent into space on Voyager 1, now the most remote man-made object in the universe. Artist and musician Dan Scott will lead a family workshop to help you select sounds, music and words onto a tape you’d like to be sent into space inspired by the project.
Life on Another Planet, Design Museum, London
In a similar cosmic spirit, the Design Museum is asking ‘What might we need to live on another planet?’ The answer will be up to you as you draw, colour and make paper models of interplanetary spaces to eat, sleep, work and learn.
Spring Season Fun From Landscape to Orbit, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset
We’re seeing a theme develop here. Another family-friendly Easter activity focused on space, Hauser & Wirth in Bruton, Somerset, are inviting families into a digital theatre planetarium to explore landscapes on Earth and beyond.
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