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Free Christmas workshop at the Contemporary Applied Arts

Posted by Maria

What I love about London is that if you look well enough you find plenty of free activities to do with kids like the fabulous workshop for children aged between 6 and 12 offered by the Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA).
The Make It – Magical workshop is inspired by the gallery’s current exhibition Mystery, Magic [...]

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Tate Kids: resources online for young artists

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The Tate Modern is one of our favourite places, whenever we are in London we wander down to the South Bank and have an early morning visit so we avoid the really busy time. In view of an imminent trip to London I was looking around the Tate Modern website for any interesting exhibitions and [...]

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A kids’ mag that is all about science, art and fun

Posted by Maria

Science doesn’t need to be boring or difficult, it can be colourful and artistic and that’s exactly what the OKIDO magazine for children aged 2 to 7 is all about.
Beautifully illustrated this kids mag focuses on art and science by developing science ideas and notions through play, art projects and experiments that are both educational [...]

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Fun day out at the Natural History Museum

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I took my 5 yearl old boy to the Natural History Museum yesterday, It was actually our second visit but he enjoyed it much more this time because he’s that little bit older and also going through the dinosaur phase. We had a lot of fun guessing which bones bolonged to which dinosaur and then reading the [...]

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The arty science project

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This science project is so pretty that I just had to share it! Bear in mind that the author is a 5 year old who tells the story of a little drop of sea water that warmed by the sun rises and turns into vapour and finally into a cloud. Then this white cloud goes on [...]

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Visit to The British Museum

Posted by Maria

We are in London for a few days; every time we come I try to do those things we don’t get to do back in Sardinia. Today we left the house just after rush hour and made our way to the British Museum to see the mummies. I tend to tackle big museums in phases; [...]

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