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Summer Holiday Activites - Peterborough Museum

Summer Holiday Activites - Peterborough Museum
Start Date: 01 Aug 2008
End Date: 31 Aug 2008
Event type: Arts & Crafts, Activity
Time: All day
Costs: Not Known
Website: http://www.peterborough.gov.uk
Contact email: museum@peterborough.gov.uk
Venue: Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery
Street: Priestgate
Town: Peterborough
County: Cambridgeshire
Postcode: PE1 1LF
Description
Peterborough Museum have a range of craft activities with an art theme running throughout the holidays.

Each weekday there will be a craft workshop each morning with more detailed activities, as well as drop in crafts throughout the day. The crafts will be as follows:

 

         
Craft Workshops
10:30am 12:30pm only
Weekdays
General craft activities
Offered all day
Weekdays
Week 1
Monday 28 July -
Friday 1 August
Glass Painting
Stained glass windows
Colour waves
Week 2 
Monday 4 August -
Friday 8 August
Butterflies and Dragonflies
Wool winding bugs
Peacocks
Week 3
Monday 11 August -
Friday 15 August
Giant flowers
Design Crazy 1970`s wall paper/ clothes
Bits and pieces bird bank
Week 4
Monday 18 August -
Friday 22 August
Spectacular Specs
Sun Visors
Beaded headbands
Week 5
Tuesday 26 August -
Friday 29 August
Magic Masks
Windmills
Elmer the Patchwork elephant

 

We also have a crime themed trail around the Museum building (cost 50p per child).

 

We also have some super weekend events. Join us on Saturday 9 August to Meet the Police. Find out what the police do, with displays on modern policing and police methods. Demonstrations, giveaways and much more. Event in association with the British Transport Police and Cambridgeshire Constabulary.

Our big summer event is Heroes & Villains over the August Bank Holiday weekend, Saturday 23 - Monday 25 August. Meet some of the most notorious villains and greatest heroes from both fact and fiction. Meet Robin Hood, discover more about Batman, come face to face with villains as varied as Dick Turpin, Blackbeard, Darth Vader and a Dalek! A free talk will be held at 7.30pm on Saturday by Stuart Orme on Jack the Ripper (adults only, pre-booking advised)