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Play Furniture Evolutions

I’m making musical shakers with Gloria (18 months) and David (3 years), sitting on the floor of their small sitting room in a two-story semi-detached house in South London. Their mum Belinda sits with us, watching as the children drop dried corn into it their plastic bottle shaker.

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Get cooking with the Creative Chef

Fussy eating can be a very difficult part of family life. Children refusing certain foods can lead to unhealthy eating patterns, a loss of routine and is often linked to challenging behaviour in other areas…

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Re-claiming family space with the Clutter Inspector

“We’ve collected so much stuff as a family, things just pile up and I don’t even know what we have anymore”, says Sami. We’re standing in Sami’s family dining room, the large window sills and shelves…

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Sing your way to fitness!

I first met Prya when door knocking, she was on her way out to the baby clinic with her 6 month old baby Akansha. As I handed her a flyer and explained about the playgroup, she said ‘English not so much’. Next week I knocked again

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A new book!

Have you ever wondered what happens inside your body when you put off going to the loo? Well now you can find out in this fun story book aimed at children aged 4 – 7 years written by Sally-Anne Donaldson with Alina Lynden from ERIC, The Children’s Bowel & Bladder Charity.

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Kids AT work!

As employees arrived for the workday, kids in hand, they entered the colourful arts café for a day of family activities, inspired by the business’ key work: advertising and marketing…

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Play and display

Lead Creative Homes artist, Holly Dabbs, tells the story of how our hub sessions at L&Q’s Ira Court helped turn a nondescript stairwell into a ‘Magnificent World’.

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Family visit to the V&A

This half term our sister company Tea Dance for Little People was at the Victoria and Albert Museum taking families on an exciting interactive adventure to explore the Willow Pattern.

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Pathways to Play

An important part of what we do at Curious Families is help link families to further support from other Home, Health or Play services. This can mean support with things like housing, employment or health care, but equally access to local play and cultural venues.

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Our Impact Report, 2020

2020 – what a year, right? What will cultural activity look like for families in 2021 and beyond? Will organisations like TDLP & Creative Homes survive, with cultural venues and festivals unable to guarantee to open in 2021?

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Punk It Up! Museum of London

Be transported on a musical time-travelling journey from the Victorian era into the future. Experience the sounds of the cello and the clarinet, immerse yourself in an eclectic mixture of London sounds…

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A Christmas Carol - Museum of Docklands

Characters lead families through interactive scenes across the whole venue, where they can enjoy the spaces, the traditional story and interact with musical ghosts and parlour games, for a full flavour of a Victorian Christmas.

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The Camouflage Unit –Imperial War Museum

Join the Camouflage Unit, a team of creative designers and illusionists with specialist skills in the art of deception and illusion, in this immersive family event. Get code-breaking, don desert disguises, witness some mirror ‘magic’ and help the team make models that were used to take part in a series of deception operations…

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