Family workshops and special events

During the school holidays we run workshops, gallery games and quizzes for children aged three to twelve.

All children must be accompanied by an adult and pre-booking is essential If you need any further information on any of the these events please call our Museum staff on:

• Tel: 01509 233754

 Workshop times

There will be one workshop session lasting one hour starting at either 11am or 1:30pm.

Costs are £3 per child, unless stated differently.

Read below for more information on our workshops, gallery games, quizzes, tiny-tuesday sessions and special events.

Changing room - under fives activity space

With sensory activities, dressing up, games, quizzes and more – come and try out our new activity space!

The upcoming themes for our under-fives activity space are:

• Loogabarooga! Saturday 13th October – Tuesday 6th November

Gallery games and quizzes

• Magical Illustrations
  Saturday October 13 – Tuesday November 6
  The Loogabarooga Festival is in town! Come and have a go at our fun gallery game inspired by our current exhibition.

  FREE - Usual opening times

Workshops

• Poppy Suncatchers
  Saturday November 10, 11am - 12pm
  Join us this remembrance weekend and create your own poppy suncatcher to take home!
  £3 per child. Suitable for children aged 3 and above, booking essential.

Tiny Tuesdays

• Tiny Tuesday Special: Super Stories
  Tuesday October 23, 10.30am - 11.30am
  Everybody loves a story! Come and have a go at this art and craft session just for little ones and be inspired by tales old and new!
  £2.50 per child, under-fives only – suitable from 12months upwards
  Booking essential

• Tiny Tuesday Special: The Fabulous Fair!
  Tuesday November 6
  Loughborough Fair is nearly here! Have a hunt around the museum for things you might find at the fair, how many can you spot?
  Free gallery game for under fives
  Usual opening times

Special Events

Charnwood Museum is part of the Loogabarooga Festival and will be hosting a number of events throughout the festival.

• The Big Bookcase 
  Thursday October 18 - Tuesday October 23 
  Come along to Charnwood Museum and create a book to go on our BIG Bookcase! Help us build our living library of reading memories by contributing a book cover of your own design to our bookcase!
  FREE activity for all ages. 
  Usual opening times

• The art of comic screenprinting workshop
  Thursday October 18, 11:30am 
  This fascinating free event is suitable for anyone interested in Comic Art.
  John Patrick Reynolds, the only screen printer with permission from DC Thomson, the publisher of The Beano, to use its fabulous archive of images in his work will give a talk about the process he uses from comic to paper.

  John discovered about 15 years ago that comics were a perfect fit for screen printing. The medium is good at producing flat vivid colour and bold outline – just right for the stylised nature of comics. All the images – or versions of them – that he uses to produce his screen prints have started life in comics and are presented to be appreciated in their own right, independent of the stories they come from.
  Free entry but you must pre-book your place

• The Imagination Station with Gemma Denham
  Friday October 19, 1:30-2:30pm
  Have a go at creating your own exploding squash books with local illustrator gemma denham and create some comic characters to fill them with
  £5.00 per child, ages 6 and above
  Booking essential

• The Imagination Station with Andrew Everitt
  Saturday October 20, 1:30-2:30pm
  Learn some basic illustration techniques from spot the dog illustrator andy and create your own halloween characters!
  £5.00 per child, ages 6 and above
  Booking essential