Make & Take Thursdays - all summer long
Find your ways to play with our summer crafts and heritage train rides - bonus activity on 4 September
Historic Event
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Dates
28 July 2022 (historic event)
4 August 2022 (historic event)
11 August 2022 (historic event)
18 August 2022 (historic event)
25 August 2022 (historic event)
1 September 2022 (historic event)
4 September 2022 (historic event)
About
Make Thursday a Stephenson day. Bring your youngsters down to the museum on Thursdays during the summer holidays where they can explore our wonderful collection of vintage trains. They can also try their hand at our craft activities with a different theme each week. Activities suitable for all the family.
Heritage trains departing:
11.30am, 12.30pm, 2pm & 3pm
28 July
All about Signals
Learn all about the job of a train signaller. Make your own flags and whistle and have a go at signalling your own train.
4 August
Animal Masks
Different animals live in the countryside next to our train track. Make your own animal masks of one of these animals living nearby.
11 August
Railway Puppetry
Design and create your own train driver puppet.
18 August
Make a Book
Make and decorate your own mini wildlife book, using the cover and illuminated pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels to inspire you. (Find out more about the Lindisfarne Gospels, which will be on show at the Laing Art Gallery this September, here, and the Laing's summer events programme here.)
25 August
Tracks Ahead!
Trains usually follow different tracks to get them to their destination. Have a go at creating and painting your own train tracks.
1 September
Rock Painting
Design and make a rock painting, inspired by the trains or nature around you.
**4 September - bonus Make & Take activity**
Black Umfolosi
To coincide with a visit from a cappella band Black Umfolosi, we'll be making African style masks.
Make & Take Thursdays - all summer long is part of our Ways to Play series of free or low cost family activities during summer 2022. Find other Ways to Play across our venues.
Ways to Play is sponsored by Tyne & Wear Metro
Funders
Tyne and Wear Metro
