Morning, London! Happy Thursday. Hope St Patrick's Day treated you well. Whether that was a Guinness, a quiet nod to the date, or absolutely nothing at all, all valid.
Right, things are moving. Tomorrow is the spring equinox. Officially. Clocks go forward a week on Sunday. And Easter holidays kick off the week after that. It's all happening at once.
Which means next week's issue is the Easter special, packed with things to do across the city with the kids. A few good ones already in this week's listings below to get you started. Let's get into it.
Finally a splash of yellow!
..LONDON SNIPPETS..
Bits that caught our eye
🏆 London just topped the Europe family destination rankings. U.S. News & World Report named London the best family destination in Europe for 2026. Free museums, parks, Harry Potter, the lot. You already live here. Quietly smug moment. Full story
🦊 A London fox smuggled itself to New York. A two-year-old red fox somehow boarded a cargo ship in Southampton, survived a 3,400-mile crossing, and was discovered by US Customs officers when the ship docked in New York. He's now living at the Bronx Zoo. "He seems to be settling in well," said the zoo. No word on what his plan was, but clearly he had one. Full story
🐝 Britain's first elephant shrew pups born at a UK zoo. Called "the Snootlets" by keepers, the tiny mammals look like a cross between a mouse and a miniature anteater. Related to elephants despite being the size of a golf ball. Full story
..LONDON ARCHIVE..
Always moving, always London.
🐴 Piccadilly Circus, c.1900. Horse buses, no neon, no screens. The fountain is already there but Eros hasn't been added yet. Quieter, somehow, despite the chaos.
Piccadilly Circus, circa 1900
🏛️ Ludgate Hill, 1920. St Paul's still dominating the skyline. That railway bridge cutting across the street was one of London's most complained-about eyesores for decades. They finally knocked it down in 1990.
Ludgate Hill, circa 1920
..BRAIN BITES..
Wow your kid, and outsmart the other parents
London Fact: London is home to over 10,000 urban foxes. 🦊 They roam streets, gardens and parks after dark, completely unbothered by city life. If you live a bit further out, you’ve probably had your bin turned over.
Fun Fact: Flamingos are only pink because of what they eat. 🐦 They are born grey, and over time their diet of shrimp and algae turns them pink. Take that away and the colour fades back to pale. Eat your greens.
..EVENTS SCOOP..
What’s on this week?
🎭 The Everywhere Bear @ Little Angel Theatre
Date & Loc: until Apr 19, Islington N1
Julia Donaldson’s heartwarming tale comes to life with music and expressive puppetry as a lost classroom bear sets off on a big adventure.
Age: 3–8 | Price: From £13.50 | Info
⚔️ Vikings: The Immersive Experience @ Dock X
Date & Loc: Ongoing, Canada Water SE16
A life-size forest, a real Viking longship and 360-degree projections fill a warehouse in Canada Water. From £19 for kids. Runs until end of May so no need to rush, but weekends will fill up.
Age: Everyone | Price: from £19 | Info
👻 Ghosts & Ghouls Family Tour @ Shakespeare's Globe
Date & Loc: Mar 19–Oct 31, South Bank SE1
Guided spooky family tour of Shakespeare's Globe taking in the site's darker history. Starts mid-March and runs all the way through to October half-term.
Age: 10+ | Price: from £21 | Info
📚 South Ken Kids Festival @ Institut Français
Date & Loc: Mar 19–24, South Kensington SW7
Nine days of children's literature brilliance, Axel Scheffler drawing live, Michael Rosen doing interactive poetry, plus animation workshops and the chance to help make an actual film.
Age: Everyone | Price: No cost | Info
🌱 Museum of Edible Earth @ Somerset House
Date & Loc: Mar 19–Apr 26, Strand WC2R
An exhibition about geophagy, the practice of eating earth for health, ritual and culinary benefit. Guided tasting sessions are part of it. Pay what you can.
Age: Everyone | Price: No cost | Info
🍦 Cinderella Ice Cream Seller @ Polka Theatre
Date & Loc: Mar 19–29, Wimbledon SW19
A new Cinderella musical with live music, ice cream and theatrical magic. Perseverance, princes, palace balls, glass slippers and soft serve, fairy tales with maximum dessert content.
Age: 5–10 | Price: £14 | Info
🐑 Counting Sheeps @ Artsdepot
Date & Loc: Mar 19 (Thu), North Finchley N12
Two sheep who reckon they're experts at sleeping are wide awake. Gentle, sensory, musical bedtime chaos for tiny ones who have strong opinions about nap time.
Age: 0-3 | Price: £16 | Info
🥁 Mini Morris: Birthday Band @ William Morris Gallery
Date & Loc: Mar 19 (Thu), Walthamstow E17
Make a colourful tambourine at the William Morris Gallery. For 2 to 5s, on a Thursday, and free.
Age: 2–5 | Price: No cost | Info
🎺 Bugsy Malone the Musical @ Pump House Theatre
Date & Loc: Mar 19-22, Watford WD17
Two rival child gangs, a 1920s showdown, whipped-cream splurge guns and a composer who also wrote The Muppet Movie. Good chaos from a genuine cult classic. Note: Outside London.
Age: Everyone | Price: £6 | Info
😊 International Day of Happiness Kid’s Craft @ Wood Street Library
Date & Loc: Mar 20 (Fri), Walthamstow E17
A simple after-school craft session where kids can make something cheerful to celebrate International Day of Happiness.
Age: All ages | Price: No cost | Info
🎤 Baby Broadway @ Churchill Theatre Bromley
Date & Loc: Mar 20 (Fri), Bromley BR1
Songs from hit musicals and films with bubbles, puppets and dance moves from West End singers. Short and gentle enough for very small children, fun enough for their older siblings.
Age: 0–7 | Price: £7 | Info
🛹 Sisters 360 @ Half Moon Theatre
Date & Loc: Mar 20-21, Whitechapel E1
Inspired by the Hijabi Sisters, real-life skateboarders from Hull. Funny, heartfelt stage show about belonging, sisterhood and daring to try. For 8 to 12s.
Age: 8–12 | Price: £9 | Info
🎨 Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art @ IWM
Date & Loc: Mar 20–Nov 1, Lambeth SE1
New exhibition at the IWM exploring wartime London through art. Has a stamper trail to keep kids engaged with the paintings. Free, and it runs until November.
Age: Everyone | Price: No cost | Info
🧵 Family Day: Cosy Critters @ William Morris Gallery
Date & Loc: Mar 21 (Sat), Walthamstow E17
Weave a cosy bed for a dragon, songbird or bunny on a cardboard loom. Free family day at the William Morris Gallery on a Saturday.
Age: Everyone | Price: No cost | Info
🐭 Hickory Dickory Dock @ Lyric Hammersmith
Date & Loc: Mar 21 (Sat), Hammersmith W6
Slapstick glove puppet adventure built around the nursery rhyme you already know. That song. Yes, that one.
Age: 3–8 | Price: £12 | Info
🐰 Boppin’ Bunnies @ Woolwich Works
Date & Loc: Mar 21 (Sat), Woolwich SE18
An interactive music session for babies and toddlers where little ones can sing, dance and try out percussion instruments along with the musicians.
Age: 0–5 | Price: From £6 | Info
🎶 Move & Groove with Planet Play @ Chickenshed Theatre
Date & Loc: Mar 21, Barnet N14
Adults get an achievable workout while little ones get live music, puppets and laughter.
Age: 0-3yo | Price: £9 | Info
🐉 Book Reading and Draw-Along with Alex Barrow @ Young V&A
Date & Loc: Mar 21 (Sat), Bethnal Green E2
Hear If I Had a Dragon read aloud, then join illustrator Alex Barrow to draw your own fiery creations.
Age: 3–8 | Price: £5 | Info
🦸 Thumbelina: Tiny But Mighty @ Upstairs at the Sydenham Centre
Date & Loc: Mar 21-22, Sydenham SE26
Hans Christian Andersen meets the Marvel franchise in a musical about the world's smallest superhero and her battle with a villainous arthropod.
Age: Everyone | Price: from £4 | Info
🎪 Easter Adventures @ Claremont Landscape Garden
Date & Loc: Mar 21–Apr 12, Esher KT10
Claremont's Victorian Circus Easter trail, find the strongman, tightrope walker, fortune teller and other circus acts hidden in the garden. Trail includes bunny ears and chocolate egg; normal admission applies.
Age: Everyone | Price: from £3.50 | Info
🐰 Lindt Gold Bunny Hunt @ Hampton Court Palace
Date & Loc: Mar 21–Apr 12, East Molesey KT8
Gold bunny statues representing historical characters hidden around Hampton Court Palace.
Age: Everyone | Price: from £14.5 (under 5 free) | Info
🪿 Gozzle Trail @ WWT London Wetland Centre
Date & Loc: Mar 21–May 31, Barnes SW13
Self-led trail inspired by the children's book Gozzle, with illustrated boards across the wetland encouraging exploration.
Age: 5–8 | Price: from £10 | Info
🧸 Your Toys @ Unicorn Theatre
Date & Loc: Mar 22–Apr 12, Southwark SE1
Kids bring a toy, lend it for the show and watch it perform on stage alongside other borrowed toys.
Age: 5–9 | Price: from £15.5 | Info
🐯 The Tiger Who Came To Tea @ Beck Theatre
Date & Loc: Mar 23-24, Hayes UB3
A tiger turns up, eats everything in the house and leaves. The Olivier-nominated stage adaptation of Judith Kerr's classic.
Age: 3+ | Price: £16.50 | Info
🌶️ Red Hot Chilli Peppers Baby Concert @ Kitchen Jam
Date & Loc: Mar 24 (Tue), Stratford E20
A baby-friendly gig with live music, nursery rhymes and a few familiar tunes for the grown-ups.
Age: 0–2 | Price: Varies | Info
🦎 Menagerie in The Museum: Petting Zoo @ Viktor Wynd Museum
Date & Loc: Mar 25 (Wed), Hackney E8
Ducks, reptiles, insects and possibly something furry in the basement of the Viktor Wynd Museum. See the collection, then handle the animals.
Age: Everyone | Price: £16 | Info
🌈 Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat @ Winston Churchill Theatre
Date & Loc: Mar 25-27, Ruislip HA4
Fifty local young performers take on the biblical story via rock, calypso and a very famous coat. Neighbourhood kids giving it everything.
Age: Everyone | Price: from £11 | Info
⛸️ Disney on Ice: Into the Magic @ OVO Arena Wembley
Date & Loc: Mar 25-29, Wembley HA9
Mickey, Elsa, Moana and the rest of the crew on ice at Wembley.
Age: Everyone | Price: from £36 | Info
🐰 Alice in Wonderland @ Riverside Studios
Date & Loc: Mar 27–Apr 12, Hammersmith W6
Lewis Carroll's rabbit-hole adventure brought to life with enchanting puppets and a kaleidoscope of colourful sets.
Age: 5+ | Price: from £22 | Info
🧚 Fairy Tales @ British Library
Date & Loc: Mar 27–Aug 23, King's Cross N1C
The British Library opens a fairy tales exhibition with books, original illustrations, theatre costumes, puppets and pop-ups. Opens late March and runs to August.
Age: 3-10yo | Price: £11.50 | Info
🌸 Hello Spring! Community Fair @ Walthamstow
Date & Loc: Mar 28 (Sat), Walthamstow E17
A relaxed local fair with a makers market, free activities for kids and the promise of tea, coffee and cake.
Age: All ages | Price: No cost | Info
🐉 Zog @ Watford Palace Theatre
Date & Loc: Mar 28-29, Watford WD17
The clumsy dragon from Donaldson and Scheffler crashes and burns his way through Madam Dragon's school.
Age: 3+ | Price: £16 | Info
🏰 Easter Egg Hunt @ Ham House
Date & Loc: Mar 28–Apr 6, Ham TW10
Easter trail through the Ham House grounds inspired by the British Civil Wars, with activities for the whole family.
Age: Everyone | Price: from £3.50 | Info
🌹 Romeo and Juliet Workshops @ Shakespeare's Globe
Date & Loc: Mar 28–Apr 11, South Bank SE1
Practical family workshops bringing Shakespeare's love story to life through games and activities over Easter.
Age: 9–11 | Price: £13 | Info
🧝 Gnome Trail @ Headstone Manor
Date & Loc: Mar 28–Apr 12, Harrow HA2
Find the gnomes hidden around the manor grounds, solve their puzzle and earn a prize. Simple premise, kids will take it extremely seriously.
Age: Everyone | Price: Free with adm. | Info
🥚 Percy vs Mr Fox: The Great Egg Hunt @ RAF Museum
Date & Loc: Mar 28–Apr 12, Colindale NW9
Mr Fox has nicked Percy's eggs. Follow the indoor trail through the RAF Museum to find ten hidden letters and crack the mystery.
Age: 3+ | Price: £5 | Info
🐔 Spring Time at Lewis of London
Date & Loc: Mar 28–Apr 12, Barnet EN5
Chicks to hold, lambs to pet, egg hunts, duck races and seasonal ice cream under cover in the Farmyard Marquee. A solid Easter farm day out.
Age: Everyone | Price: from £5 | Info
🌸 Eggstravaganza: Easter Family Festival @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
Date & Loc: Mar 29 (Sun), Dulwich SE21
Easter trail, bunny ear crafts, live wildlife drawing, badge-making and face painting at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Age: Everyone | Price: TBC | Info
💨 Easter Family Day @ Brixton Windmill
Date & Loc: Mar 29 (Sun), Brixton SW2
Treasure hunt for a chocolate treat, free Easter craft workshops all afternoon, and guided windmill tours.
Age: Everyone | Price: No cost | Info
🦖🕺 Dino Disco for Kids @ Natural History Museum
Date & Loc: Apr 4, South Kensington SW7
A family-friendly silent disco inside the museum, complete with headphones, dancing dinosaurs and multiple DJs to choose from. Big energy, big smiles.
Age: 6–12yrs | Price: £20 | Info
🌌 Astronights @ Science Museum
Date & Loc: Apr 24, South Kensington SW7
Not cheap, but quite special. Sleepover at the Science Museum with space-inspired workshops and shows, then sleep among the exhibits.
Age: 7–11 | Price: £80 | Info
📚 Children’s Book Readings @ Well Walk Theatre
Date & Loc: Wed and Fri, Hampstead NW3
Storytime at the theatre bookshop with tales read aloud by house performers. Sessions run in English and French.
Age: All ages | Price: No cost | Info
🦸 Superhero City Adventure @ Kensington Gardens
Date & Loc: Ongoing, Kensington Gardens SW7
A self-guided outdoor adventure where kids follow clues around the park, solving puzzles and completing missions to become city superheroes. Easy to start anytime.
Age: 4–8yrs | Price: £6 | Info
🗡️ Samurai: Myth and Reality @ British Museum
Date & Loc: Daily, Bloomsbury WC1B
The real story behind Japan’s legendary warriors. It explores how the samurai rose to power, shaped Japanese society and became one of history’s most enduring myths.
Age: 7+ rec | Price: No cost for under 16s | Info
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