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Easter activities for kids in London
Hop to it, folks – the first bank holiday weekend of the year is on the horizon. Easter 2013 takes place between March 29 and April 1. Both Good Friday (March 29) and Easter Monday (April 1) are bank holidays, which means there's a whole four days for important Easter traditions – like stuffing your face with chocolate. Whether you plan to make a bonnet, paint hard-boiled eggs or pursue the Easter Bunny for cocoa-based satisfaction, sort your Easter in London weekend now. Let's get cracking..
Easter at Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens Kew Rd, TW9 3AB
Fri Mar 29 - Sun Apr 14
Family activities over Easter include an Easter Egg Hunt (Mar 31), a chocolate-themed trail around the gardens, and chocolate workshops.
Sensational Butterflies
Natural History Museum Cromwell Rd, SW7 5BD
Fri Mar 29 - Sun Sep 15
The Natural History Museum's butterfly house returns. Visitors can come face-to-face with tropical butterflies and take part in games, activities and challenges that teach more about the sensory world of the fluttering creatures.
London Eye Easter Chocolate Factory
London Eye South Bank, SE1 7PB
Thu Mar 28 - Sun Mar 31
Take a rotation on the London Eye over Easter Weekend and you'll be met by Edwin the Easter Bunny. There'll also be stilt walkers and a free Hotel Chocolat egg for visitors.
Clapham Common Easter Funfair
Clapham Common The Avenue, SW4 9AS
Fri Mar 29 - Sun Apr 14
Dodgems, the waltzer, a carousel, white-knuckle rides and rides for kids. Wristbands cost £7.99 for riders over one metre tall, £5.99 for those under one metre.
Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels
Hammersmith Apollo 45 Queen Caroline St, W6 9QH
Sat Mar 30 - Mon Apr 1
Wallace & Gromit hit the road with their family show in which the audience is invited behind the scenes as Wallace prepares to perform his Proms commission ‘My Concerto in Eee Lad’. Animated scenes reveal the duo’s backstage exploits as the Aurora Orchestra keep the audience entertained with classical favourites. After the interval there's a screening of the film 'A Matter of Loaf and Death', with the soundtrack performed live.
Pop-Up Easter Petting Zoo
Paradise by way of kensal Green 19 Kilburn Lane, W10 4AE
Sun Mar 31
Kids can make some new furry friends – including ducklings, chicks and baby Easter bunnies – on the building's roof terrace.
Zippos Circus: Carnaval
Blackheath Common/Brockwell Park Norwood Rd, SE24 9AA
Thu Mar 28 - Tue Apr 16
Zippos' latest extravaganza is an action-packed two hours of high-energy acts spanning the globe.
Horniman Easter Fair
Horniman Museum 100 London Road, SE23 3PQ
Sat Mar 30 - Sun Mar 31
This weekend eggstravaganza includes an Easter Egg Hunt, the chance to browse and buy at an art and craft stalls, and a Bandstand Bunny Hop dance. Children can see and learn about real life rabbits as well as meet the Easter Bunny.
Egg-Tastic Easter Fun
V&A Museum of Childhood Cambridge Heath Rd, E2 9PA
Fri Mar 29 - Mon Apr 1
Take your pick from Bunny stories, games, Easter egg basket making and the obligatory egg hunt over the long Easter weekend.
Easter Airlift
Royal Air Force Museum Grahame Park Way, NW9 5LL
Thu Mar 28 - Fri Apr 5
For this Easter family event The Royal Air Force Museum looks back to Good Friday 1949, when the Berlin Airlift reached its height and more than 400,821 tonnes of food, coal and supplies were carried by over 689 aircraft, including RAF aircraft to the city, which had been cut off from the rest of the world by Russia.
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