Creative Activities for Kids and Families

Orleans House Gallery's See Saw (a session for under-fives) artists have been busy during lockdown creating alternative activities to do at home with a grown up.

🌎 Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! We want to save the world!👉 And there’s something everyone can do, are you ready boys and girls?🍄 Jerome the Gnome is here to help, to get us started ...

Create a city drawing by playing with perspective and different viewpoints of the city. In this drawing exercise, designed by artist Ibiye Camp, you will use rulers made from coloured card or car...

Build and decorate an obstacle based on your favourite play object in this activity by the POoR Collective. 

If you could have a plinth anywhere in the world, who would you like to display a statue of on top of it? Is it someone whose’ statue already exists? Is it someone you know? 

Shadows can be used to both create depth and add dramatic effect to an area of a building or to create an interesting pattern on the floor/wall which will draw the viewer closer. Many architects use s...

Cities are made up of lots of different layers and that is what makes a city a place of so many possibilities. So we ask you what different layers of a city makes a great city? Is it the building...

We experience our cities and the places we live in very personal ways and from many perspectives: your version of the city is unique and you’re the best person to tell stories about it. This exe...

Create a geodesic dome (newspaper igloo) in this activity designed by student architecture platform :Scale. Best done with siblings!

Is it possible to build a bridge without using anything sticky? No glue, no tape or no tacks? In this actvity designed by architecture firm AKT II, we will be building a bridge with lollipop sticks th...

We're thrilled to offer a series of workshops for children and adults while we're in lockdown which focus on building theatre skills!

Together - Apart: An Online Folded Paper Doll Workshop

Cardboard Sculpture INSPIRED BY TRAVEL - Due to recent restrictions, travelling for pleasure seems a distant memory or a whimsical fantasy. We were invited by The Royal West of England Acade...

We were very pleased to be a part of Pound Arts digital alternative to their Blue Sky Festival. To ensure people didn't miss out they launched Blue Sky & Beyond, an exclusively online festiva...

Home is…A Cardboard Construction Project

We were very pleased to be a part of Pound Arts digital alternative to their Blue Sky Festival. To ensure people didn't miss out they launched Blue Sky & Beyond, an exclusively online festiva...

Can’t find the time to trawl the internet looking for fun creative ideas for the young writers and illustrators in your household? Don’t worry, we did! We’ve been casting a huge net ...

Back in February the Southbank Centre welcomed the weird and wonderful dinosaurs of Erth’s Dinosaur Zoohere as part of the Imagine Children’s Festival. Inspired by this they have pulled to...

One of Southbank Centre's Creative Learning Partners, Kinetika Bloco are a young performance group of brass and woodwind players, drummers and dynamic dancers. As well as creating what’s been de...

Lockdown measures may have been eased in recent weeks, but many of us – especially those with children to entertain – are constantly looking for inspiration when it comes to activities to ...