Creative Activities for Kids and Families

Using your imagination and items from South Shields Museum & Art Gallery you can create your own wonderful, original stories. 

10 different inclusive musical activities to help you write songs, play with sounds and make your own instruments, all using things you can find around your home.

Make your own sensory sea tray to explore the wonders of the deep blue from your home. 

Imagine going on a journey across the seven seas! Sailing across wide open oceans, with no land in sight, as you hunt for treasure!

If you have visited the Polar Worlds gallery at the National Maritime Museum, you may have spotted a friendly penguin 'chilling' and waiting to meet you. Percy the Penguin is an Emperor Penguin, all t...

Fancy having a go at creating your own moving, doodling robot during the Easter holidays?

Follow artist Ciara Callaghan as she shows you how to make your own natural dyes and bring life to fabrics with a pop of colour!

Join in with artist Rachael Coward in this free video where she shows you a selection of drawing exercises. 

In this free tutorial learn about an easy printing process that you can try without any specialist equipment. With just a few bits from your recycling bin you can create beautifully textured collograp...

Join artist Rachael Coward in this introduction to monoprinting, the most basic type of printmaking that you can easily do with materials that you can find at home.

Mix & Match – The playful family hunting game

Join us for Sunday Afternoon Art and make your own grotto inspired by Alexander Pope's grotto in Twickenham.  Make textures and add them to your own mini-grotto. The activity is designed for chil...

Sunday Afternoon Art is our monthly creative activity for families with children aged 4 plus. Activities are designed for you to do together as a family. This month we have worked with poet Adam Kamme...

Women's History Month, celebrated each March, is the opportunity to celebrate and highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society.

There are many different water gods and goddesses across many different cultures. In this activity we are inspired by two Nigerian goddesses, Yemaya and Orisha. Listen to Ese from Black SuperSheroes t...

This activity is about Women in history who studied botany.

What does the bassoon sound like? How many keys does it have? Why is it fun to play? Find out the answers to these questions and much more with RSNO Principal, David Hubbard, in his Beginner's Guide t...

Join us at your leisure for our creative, six-part dance series for young people: Dancing all over The Place! 

Explore tropical islands and undiscovered planets each month from your living room. Our online early years theatre offerings bring affordable, on-demand theatre and play to your home at the touch of a...

The Devonshire Educational Trust at Chatsworth have developed a range of fun and engaging family activities to encourage you to connect across generations while enjoying the health and wellbeing benef...