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Three excited young children sit behind a table full of colourful pots. The middle child holds up a piece of card with different coloured beads glued to it to form a pattern.
Three excited young children sit behind a table full of colourful pots. The middle child holds up a piece of card with different coloured beads glued to it to form a pattern.

Children & Families

Enjoy art and culture as a family with lots of fun activities for children from Sunderland Culture.

Learn & Create with our venues

Arts Centre Washington
Children in a dark room hold pieces of colourful plastic up to lights.

Arts Centre Washington

Entertain the kids all year-round with family theatre, craft clubs and more.

Arts Centre Washington
National Glass Centre
A group of children and adults stand behind a barrier and watch as molten glass is poured out of a metal ladle and into a dish of sand.

National Glass Centre

Enjoy a day out with the family at National Glass Centre and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art – family spaces, activities and workshops.

National Glass Centre
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
A young child sits on the floor is front of a shallow red container that has large plastic beakers and test tubes. They are pouring a colourful liquid from one beaker into another.

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

Discover a family fun during the school holidays – from themed crafts to activity trails.

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

Learn & Create at home

Creative Challenge: Rainbow Beads
A grey cardboard frame with colourful paper tube beads strung from one side to the other to form a wavy rainbow.

Creative Challenge: Rainbow Beads

Recycle scrap paper, magazines, newspapers and more to create your very own beaded creations at home!

Creative Challenge: Rainbow Beads
Creative Challenge: Rainbow Rocks
A grey, round rock painted with a colourful rainbow and a patch of flowers sitting on a black background.

Creative Challenge: Rainbow Rocks

Create your own colourful, rainbow rockery. Using this worksheet, you can decorate real rocks from your garden or make your own using paper mâché!

Creative Challenge: Rainbow Rocks

Upcoming events for Children & Families

Canny Coal Trail
A child wearing a white and black striped top, sitting down and writing with pencil and paper.

Children and Young People's Activities

Canny Coal Trail

24 Feb – 15 Mar 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Coal Face Family Backpacks
Free
A child wearing a dark green and white striped top, holding a pair of scissors.

Children and Young People's Activities

Coal Face Family Backpacks

24 Feb – 15 Mar 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Winter Sparks: Jewellery Making
Sold Out
Two images sat side by side. The one on the left shows a handmade necklace made with multi-coloured beads of different sizes and patterns sat on a camouflage t-shirt. The one on the right shows a child's hand and wrist held out to display two bracelets made up of different coloured, sized and shaped beads.

Children and Young People's Activities

Winter Sparks: Jewellery Making

This workshop is full. 

 

24 Feb 2025

7-11

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City-wide

History Mondays: Canny Coal Crafts
Free

Children and Young People's Activities

History Mondays: Canny Coal Crafts

24 Feb 2025
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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Animal Sandcasting
Limited Availability
A fused glass hedgehog

Children and Young People's Activities

Animal Sandcasting

25 Feb – 22 Apr 2025

5+

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National Glass Centre

Winter Sparks: Get Animated
Free
A close-up of a tablet on a stand, showing a stop-motion animation in progress. The tablet screen displays a colourful drawing of a rocket ship surrounded by stars and planets, with an orange flame coming from the bottom of the rocket. A person's hand is visible, placing or adjusting a paper cutout of the flame on the drawing. The physical drawings lay beneath the tablet, and small additional cutouts are scattered around the scene.

Children and Young People's Activities

Winter Sparks: Get Animated

25 Feb 2025

7-11

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City-wide