School holiday activities

Bring the Paint Presents: Multibrush VR with MBD

Immerse yourself in the boundless creativity using VR drawing app Multibrush!  Join Leicester-based storytellers MBD for an exciting hands-on virtual reality experience at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery. With the innovative VR drawing app Multibrush at your fingertips, the canvas becomes your playground!

• 11.30am – 3.30pm at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
• Booking is required - suitable for 8 years and above

Bring The Paint Street Art Festival

Family friendly events including spray can upcycling workshop, demolition drawing derby activity, drop in DJ sessions and more 

• 11am - 4pm at LCB Depot

Spring crafts

Do it yourself activities including a treasure hunt, word searches and colouring.

• Drop in during opening hours at Hamilton Library

Bring the Paint Presents: Multibrush VR with MBD

• 11.30am – 3.30pm at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
• Booking is required - suitable for 8 years and above

Islamic Art: Family Ebru Workshop

Come along and join artist Ferdous Hussein to make your very own ebru marbled paper. Ebru is an ancient Turkish method of marble painting and uses authentic, natural colours.

• Session from 12noon - 3.45pm at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
• Booking required - Suitable for children age 5+

Make the most of your Bank Holiday Monday, explore a museum or get active at a leisure centre.

• Babies learning together
  • 10am - 11.30am at Belgrave children, young people and families
  • 10am - 11.30am at Thurnby Lodge children young people and families centre
• Beaded Creatures
  Create your own beaded creature
  • 1pm - 4pm at Highfields Library
  • Booking required, telephone 0116 454 0320 to book
• Creative Cathedral
  Pop into the Cathedral and join in our crafty and creative fun. (Children must be accompanied at all times)
  • 1.30pm – 3.30pm at Leicester Cathedral
• Garden Delights
  Visit the museum and see it's beautiful garden in full bloom. Bring a picnic and take part in the garden games. Enjoy Butterfly and garden themed crafts, a garden trail, and much more. Refreshments available.
  • Drop-in between 11am and 2.30pm at Newarke Houses
  • Tickets £4 online; £5 on door - accompanying adult free
• Railway Day
  Come and enjoy the Abbey Pumping Station and have a ride on Leonard the Steam Locomotive in action. Train rides cost 50p cash only, to be paid on the train.
  
  • 11.30am – 4pm at Abbey Pumping Station
• Spring crafts table-top activities
  Do it yourself activities such as colouring, word searches, board games and arts and crafts.  Activities may differ at each library. 
  • Drop in during opening hours at Beaumont Leys Library
• Felt Purse - Make a felt purse
  • 1pm - 4pm at Evington Library
• Stay and Play 
  • 10am - 11.30am at Bewcastle children young people and families centre
  • 10am - 11.30am at St Matthews children young people and families centre
  • 1pm - 3pm at Saffron children young people and families centres centre

• Arts and crafts workshop - make windmills and dreamcatchers
  • 12noon - 3pm at The Brite Centre
  • Booking is essential, telephone 0116 454 0280 to book
• Arty party!
  Get creative and messy with all our arty materials this half term holiday! Bring along a t-shirt or a glass jar to decorate and enjoy the beautiful gardens as they burst into bloom.
  • 11am – 3pm at Belgrave Hall
  • Tickets: Child (under 16): Online booking £4, On the door (cash only) £5 Accompanying adult: Free
• Babies learning together
  • 1pm - 2.30pm at Netherhall children young people and families centre
• Farmyard crafts
  Come and make your own farmyard animal puppet or tractor, using the templates provided. As well as themed colouring sheets. 
  • 12noon to 2pm at Fosse Library
• Felt pet – sew your own felt pet
  • 1pm - 4pm at Highfields Library
  • Booking required, telephone 0116 454 0320 to book
• Funky feet wacky wheels
  Join us at Abbey Park for the return of Funky Feet and Wacky Wheels, a celebration of walking and cycling to mark the end of National Walking Month and the Walk Leicester Festival.  Bring the whole family for a day of fun activities, including decorating shoes, bikes, and scooters at the 'bling station,' prize giveaways, followed by a grand parade around The Oval.
  • 11am - 2pm at Abbey Park
  • Further information at www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk
• Hey diddle diddle crafts
  Take part in some wax resistant painting, make spoon puppets and paper swans
  • 2pm - 3.30pm at Pork Pie Library
• Paper crafts
  • 11am - 1pm at Belgrave Library
• Pen Pots - Make your own garden themed pen pot.
  • 1pm - 4pm at New Parks Library
• Spring crafts - crafts, colouring and wordsearches
  • 2pm - 3pm at Aylestone Library
  • 1pm - 4pm at Central Library
• Stay and Play 
  • 1pm  - 2.30pm at Beaumont Leys children young people and families centre
  • 1pm - 3pm at Saffron children young people and families centres centre

• Animal and nature craft activities
  • 2pm - 4pm at St Matthews Library
• Babies learning together
  • 10am - 11.30am at Highfields children young people and families centre
• Creative Cathedral
  Pop into the Cathedral and join in our crafty and creative fun. (Children must be accompanied at all times)
  • 10am - 12noon at Leicester Cathedral
• Commotion in the ocean
  Join us for a day beside the sea.  Meet a cast of fishy characters including Cali the larger than life octopus and his good friend Captain Barnacle, two friendly colourful Lion Fish on stilts named Lionel and Leona, plus their friends. There will be a free seaside-themed craft workshop to enjoy and a treasure trail to complete.
  • 11am - 3pm at Haymarket Shopping Centre
• Discover in a Day!
  Calling all young adventurers aged 6-10 years - Join us for an unforgettable day of learning, crafting, and eco-conscious fun! Nupur Arts proudly presents Discover in a Day, in partnership with Leicester Museum & Art Gallery as part of our Eco Arts programme!
  • 11am – 3pm at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
• Forest school - stay and play
  • 10am - 12noon at New Parks children young people and families centre
• It’s clay time
  Come and play with clay at the Guildhall this half-term! Be inspired by the objects you see in the museum or bring your own ideas and create an item using air-drying clay, and other craft materials to take home. Follow the museums trail. Bring an apron, handwipes, and an empty ice cream tub, to carry your creation home.
  
  • 11am – 3pm at Leicester Guildhall
  • Tickets: Child £4 (Online) £5 (cash on the door) Accompanying adult: Free
• Pop-up Museum at Haymarket Shopping Centre
  Join Leicester Museums at Haymarket Shopping Centre and discover museum objects in the Cabinet of Curioisities. Including a 6-million-year-old fossil, a taxidermy crocodile, a collection of insects and many more treasures to inspire curiosity and wonder!
  
  • 11am - 4pm at Haymarket Shopping Centre
• Stay and play
  • 9.30am - 11am at Netherhall children young people and families centre
  • 1pm - 2.30pm at Bewcastle children young people and families centre
  • 1pm - 3pm at Highfields children young people and families centre
  • 1.30pm - 3pm at Belgrave children, young people and familiese
• Table games fun - take part in tabletop and board games.
  • 1.30pm - 3pm at Rushey Mead Library
  • Booking is advised - telephone 0116 454 0380

• Babies learning together
  • 10am - 11.30am at Belgrave children, young people and families
• Stay and play
  • 10am - 12noon at Eyres Monsell children, young people and family centre
  • 10am - 12noon at Braunstone children, young people and family centre

• Leicester Riverside Festival
  One of Leicester’s biggest free festivals celebrates its 25th Anniversary, in partnership with De Montfort University (DMU).  With fun on and off the water, there’s plenty to entertain the whole family.   Further information is available at Riverside Festival - Visit Leicester
• Spring crafts - crafts, colouring and wordsearches
  • 1pm - 4pm at Central Library

• Leicester Riverside Festival

• Spring crafts table-top activities - Do it yourself activities such as colouring, word searches, board games and arts and crafts.  Activities may differ at each library.  Drop in during opening hours at:
  
  • Hamilton Library
  • Knighton Library
  • New Parks Library
  • St Barnabas Library
  • Westcotes Library
    
    
• Woodland Mural - Colour in a creature and add it to the scene.
  • Drop in during opening hours at Beaumont Leys Library
• Landmarks of the World Treasure Hunt - Find all the landmark pictures and win a fun pack and bookmark.  
  • Drop in during opening hours at Beaumont Leys Library