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Educational, fun and dry!

A trip to the museum is always fun but now holds fond memories too.


It’s been a pretty wet Easter break here in Edinburgh. And we like many others found our way to the National Museum of Scotland with the kids. We are so lucky to have this educational, entertaining and dry venue available for free.

We have been coming here since before the Sketcher Twins could walk. I remember they loved the sensory musical room with the Chinese dragon and the dinosaur dog room upstairs. Umpteen coffee and snack breaks between running about chasing toddlers
I remember before that coming here and watching the fish swim around the grand hall.

This time we were there to see pottery from hundreds of years ago to inspire our own crafty creations back home.

There is always something new but I like seeing the familiar too. Saying hello to Dolly and marvelling at the printing press, oh and the Isle of Lewis chess set! So much to see, but I was very sad when the mini disappeared!

Just now the Science Festival is on and our two now big kids enjoyed making robots and testing them out.

National Museum of Scotland website.

Father’s Day at the National Museum of Scotland

FathersDay_MuseumLast week I was at the Father’s Day Family Takeover at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street, Edinburgh.

For the second year running Dad’s Rock and a huge number of local companies and volunteers took over the stunning venue to celebrate Father’s Day. I had a stall in the main hall this year from where I ran sketch tours and provided lots of drawing, painting and messy fun with my Edinburgh themed activity sheets.

 

The colouring in sheets were hugely popular, especially the Shore and Victoria Street. They were beautifully and enthusiastically coloured in by the parents as much as the children, so thank you to everyone who stopped by to mess up the table!!

 

My activity sheets went down so well I’ll be creating  an Edinburgh colouring book. More to come soon…

 

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See the Dad’s Rock website for their free summer events in 2015.