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park’s resident pixie before being rewarded with your own magical friend to take home. £5 per child. Age 8+. Booking advisable. 25 May–2 June Half-Term Activity Trail
TROSLEY COUNTRY PARK Waterlow Rd, Vigo, Meopham, Kent, DA13 0SG, 08458 247 600, www.kent.gov.uk/kentcountryparks
WILDERNESS WOOD Hadlow Down, East Sussex TN22 4HJ, 01825 830509, enquiries@wildernesswood.co.uk, www.wildernesswood.co.uk See website for lots of fun weekend activities including camp building, bushcraft, woodskills, storytelling and crafts. Pre-book; additional charges apply. 4 & 25 May & 31 May Woodland Monsters 6 & 31 May Castaway 26 May Robin Hood 27 May Super Shelters 27 May Fairy & Elf Gardens 28 May Survive in the Wild 29 May Woodland Baking 29 May & 2 June We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 30 May Make your own Firesteel 1 June Camp Building
NEARLY NEW SALES BUY IT BABY!
Baby and children’s fairs with nearly new sales 07958 762828, www.buyitbaby.co.uk 11 May, 1pm–3pm Otford Village Memorial Hall, High Street, Otford, Sevenoaks TN14 5PQ 8 June, 11am–1pm Chislehurst Christ Church Centre, Lubbock Road, Chislehurst BR1 5JJ
CHILDREN’s NEARLY NEW childrensnearlynew@hotmail.co.uk Baby and children’s clothing, nursery essentials and shoes. Free parking and free admittance. 20 May, 10am–12pm Belvedere (In partnership with St. Augustines Children’s Centre) Belvedere Community Centre, Mitchell Close, Belvedere DA17 6AA 17 June, 10am–12pm Bexley Hurst Community Centre, Hurst Road, Bexley DA5 3LH
NCT NEARLY NEW SALE www.nct.org.uk £1 per adult; members can enter 15 minutes early (bring membership card) 11 May, 12pm–1.30pm West Wickham The Assembly Rooms, Gates Green Road, Coney Hall, West Wickham, BR4 9JW, jacqui.bullard@sky.com 18 May, 10.30am–1pm Beckenham St John’s Church, 251 Eden Park Avenue, Beckenham BR3 3JN, nctsales-beckenham@hotmail.co.uk 18 May, 10am–12pm Erith Erith Christ Church, Erith DA8 3AN, nns@nct-bexleydistrict.org 29 June, 11am–12.30pm Orpington St John’s URC, Lynwood Grove, Orpington BR6 0BG, orpnns@hotmail.co.uk We have taken every care in preparing the listings in this magazine but sometimes events are cancelled or times changed, so please double check details before setting out.
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MUSEUMS
BANK OF ENGLAND MUSEUM Threadneedle Street, London EC2R 8AH, 020 7601 5545, www.bankofengland.co.uk/ museum 17 May, 5.30pm–9pm Museums at Night 17 May–19 November Cartoons & Caricatures This exhibition consists of published and unpublished material from the Bank of England’s own collection of prints and drawings and includes works by artists including James Gillray, John Tenniel and, more recently, Steve Bell. 28–31 May, 11am–4pm Money Talks Well known historical figures that feature on the Bank’s notes will ‘come alive’ to talk about their life and times. BROMLEY MUSEUM The Priory, Church Hill, Orpington BR6 0HH, 01689 873826, bromley.museum@ bromley.gov.uk Free family club first Saturday of the month. DARTFORD BOROUGH MUSEUM Market Street, Dartford, Kent DA1 1EU, 01322 224739, museum@dartford.gov. uk www.dartford.gov.uk/ museum Discover more about Dartford and its history with the help of children’s activity sheets. HORNIMAN MUSEUM 100 London Road, Forest Hill SE23 3PQ 020 8699 1872, www.horniman.ac.uk Until 24 November Amazon Adventure This exhibition mixes hands-on experiences with multimedia and live fish displays. You will also learn about the environmental dangers facing the Amazon and meet the people who live along its banks. 27–31 May, 11am–3.30pm Family Art Fun: May HalfTerm Celebrate creatures of the water and the air and make a butterfly or moth finger puppet to swoop and soar, or an underwater
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NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM Greenwich SE10, 020 8858 4422, www.nmm.ac.uk Weekly, free events, include Explore Saturdays, Discover Sundays and Play Tuesdays, 5 May Pirate Party Join in a pirate takeover in this fun-filled swashbuckling adventure. £12. Age 5+. 27–31 May Weave Together Create a giant alternative tapestry full of words, colours and patterns explaining why you love your favourite clothes
SCIENCE MUSEUM Exhibition Road, South Kensington SW7 2DD, www.sciencemuseum.org.uk 10am–6pm. Free; charges apply to some exhibitions, IMAX cinema & simulator rides. How much of you can be rebuilt? A new display in the Who Am I? gallery featuring an artificial human body – representing the most advanced medical prosthetics in development and on the market today.
LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM
Covent Garden Plaza WC2E 7BB, 020 7379 6344, www.ltmuseum.co.uk Entrance to the Museum is free for children under 16. Adult admission is £15 (£11.50 concessions) and tickets allow unlimited entry for a year. Children under 16 free (under 12s must be accompanied by an adult). Open 10am–6pm (last admission 5.15pm), Saturday– Thursday. 11am–6pm (last admission 5.15pm), Friday. 27 May– 2 June May Half-Term: Poster People Activities include: Storytime (11am & 2pm) Cedric Shopping Bags is on a trip around London but he can’t find any peace and quiet! Come and meet Cedric and the poster people he encounters on his journey. Find out about the stop that was missed, an adventure on the escalator – and see if Cedric will ever find somewhere to escape from the hustle and bustle. Open to all ages but most suitable for age 3–7yrs. Make and Take Craft Workshop (11.30am & 2.30pm) Work with air-hardening clay to create your own tiny Poster Person and bring it to life. Make it walk, dance, clap or wave and use it to tell your own stories, before taking it home to dry off. Open to all ages, but most suitable for age 4–12yrs.
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