Easter activities for kids in London

Borough Market is hosting a virtual festival to bring the springtime Easter vibes to you with a weekend of streamed workshops. Bread Ahead bakery will making hot cross this Friday at 2pm, so make sure you get the ingredients you’ll need in advance. There’ll also be drawing and storytelling activities for kids, just follow the market’s insta page to see what’s coming up. 

Whether it’s finding inventive ways to entertain increasingly furious children in lockdown, or keeping yourself away from TV in the evenings, there’s a lot of pressure to be ‘creative’ right now. To try and make lockdown a little more bearable, artists Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Gillian Wearing, Michael Landy and others have come together to create a downloadable activity book. It’s called ‘Art Is Where the Home Is’ and you won’t need any specialist materials. Plus it’s completely free. 

The Design Museum’s new calendar of online events might help restore some sanity in lockdown. Last week, the museum is launched a weekly ‘lesson plan’ with activities for kids that will be streamed on Instagram Live. It features a ‘Crowd Sourced Wall Lesson Plan’ for the homeschoolers, and a workshop on how to make your own rocking horse, which sounds like a lot more fun. If you’re feeling crafty, you can learn how to make an Easter lamb carton, right here. 

London chocolatier Paul A Young has put together a step-by-step guide on how to make Creme Eggs – or as he’s calling them, ‘fondant eggs’. Admittedly, you will need an egg mould, but who hasn’t got one of those lying around? As well as that, you’ll need chocolate, fondant icing (that’s for the gooey stuff in the middle) and ideally some kind of yellow food colouring. You’ll probably need to do most of the baking, but the kids will love the finished product. 

JK Rowling’s Wizarding World website has launched a new ‘Harry Potter at Home’ online hub, with hundreds of games, how-tos and activities for Potterheads – and they’re free for all users. Learn to draw a Niffler, keep the kids occupied with Potter puzzles and challenge your Gryffindor knowledge with a quiz about Harry’s first year at Hogwarts.