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Holiday Activities
Enjoy either half- or full-day children's workshops in the school holidays. Develop a skill or explore Soane's treasures with specialist guidance. - Workshops are suitable for children aged 7+
- Whole-day workshops run from 10:30am until 3:00pm
- Half-day workshops run 10:30am-1:00pm or 1:30pm-4:00pm (please specify when booking)
- Please ensure that your children arrive promptly for the activities
- All materials are provided
- Children must bring their own lunch for whole-day workshops
- £15 for whole day, £8 for half day, payable in advance (concessions available)
Booking is essential - contact Satinder Bhatti on 020 7440 4263 or at sbhatti@soane.org.uk Miniature Museum Wednesday 4 August (whole day) After exploring the Museum together, choose your favourite space and recreate your own version in miniature, using an exciting range of materials. Caroline Dorset
Self Portraits and Spectacular Frames Thursday 5 August (2 x half day) Discover the family portraits Sir John Soane displayed in his home and the stories behind them. Create a self portrait and decorate a frame to display it in. Rosie Fuller
Ceramic Tiles Tuesday 10 August (whole day) Using the wonderful variety of patterns in the Museum as inspiration, design and paint your own Sir John Soane's Museum ceramic tiles. Caroline Dorset
Cast away! Wednesday 11 August (2 x half day) Create your own clay relief sculpture, then make a plaster cast from it to take home - inspired by decorative friezes and fragments in the Museum. Caroline Dorset
Make a Mini Model Mummy Thursday 19 August (2 x half day) Investigate the sarcophagus of Seti I and discover why some ancient Egyptians were mummified after they died. Make a miniature model mummy to take home. Rosie Fuller
Glowing Glass Friday 20 August (2 x half day) Don't look through the windows, look at them! Explore the Museum's stained glass windows, investigate colours and light, and create a suncatcher to hang in your window at home. Rosie Fuller
Momentous Monuments Wednesday 25 August (whole day) Be inspired by Britannia, John Soane's model of a colossal monument that could have been one of Britain's greatest ever structures, if only it had been built! Then design and build your own great monuments. Lucy Grace Trotman
Fabulous Furnishings Thursday 26 August (2 x half day) John Soane often bought artefacts linked to people he admired. Whose chair would you like to buy? Why not design furniture for your heroes with all the trimmings a hero needs?! Lucy Grace Trotman
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Friday 30 July 2010
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