483 Summer holiday Events for Kids in London 2026

Updated August 2026 — Plan ahead with 483 family events for Summer holiday in London, including Airfix Model Club and Caribbean Takeover, and more.

Updated August 2026

Kids activities in London

• Daily Capuchin Monkey feeding time keeper talk, 3:00pm — 1 Jan 2026 · Battersea Park Zoo · Ages all-ages
• Daily asian short-clawed otter feeding time keeper morning talk, 11:00am — 1 Jan 2026 · Battersea Park Zoo · Ages all-ages
• Daily Oxford Sandy & Black Pigs feeding time keeper talk, 1:30pm — 1 Jan 2026 · Battersea Park Zoo · Ages all-ages
• Take One Picture 2026 — 1 Jan 2026 · National Gallery · Free · Ages all-ages
• Mini Golf by UrbanCrazy — 29 Mar 2026 · Horniman Musuem · Ages all-ages
• Play in the Park — 31 Mar 2026 · Royal Parks · Free · Ages all-ages
• Family Activities: IWM North — 6 Sept 2025 · Imperial War Museum · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16
• Spies, Lies and Deception — 29 Nov 2025 · Imperial War Museum · Free · Ages all-ages
• Summer Holiday Family Activities: IWM London — 20 Dec 2025 · Imperial War Museum · Free · Ages all-ages
• Daily Ring-Tailed Lemur feeding time keeper talk, 12:00pm — 1 Jan 2026 · Battersea Park Zoo · Ages 0-5, 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Future of Food — 1 Jan 2026 · Science Museum · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Daily asian short-clawed otter feeding time keeper afternoon talk, 2:30pm — 1 Jan 2026 · Battersea Park Zoo · Ages all-ages
• Events — 1 Jan 2026 · Battersea Park Zoo · Ages 0-5, 6-11
• Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends — 12 Feb 2026 · V&A · Ages 0-5, 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Our Story with David Attenborough — 14 Feb 2026 · Natural History Museum · £20 · Ages all-ages
• The Jolly Postman — 14 Feb 2026 · Postal Museum · Ages 0-5, 6-11
• Family Day — 15 Mar 2026 · Old Royal Naval College · Ages all-ages
• Project Coral and the Journey of Hope — 17 Mar 2026 · Horniman Musuem · Free · Ages all-ages
• Fairy Tales exhibition — 27 Mar 2026 · British Library · Ages all-ages
• Play in the Park: Kensington Gardens — 31 Mar 2026 · Royal Parks · Free · Ages 0-5, 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Depot Guided Tours — 31 Jan 2026 · London Transport Museum · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Light and Magic | Tate Modern — 26 Feb 2026 · Tate · Free · Ages 0-5, 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art — 20 Mar 2026 · Imperial War Museum · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16
• Art deco season — 1 Aug 2025 · London Transport Museum · Ages all-ages
• V&A Photography Centre: drop-in tours 2026 — 9 Feb 2026 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Klaus Weber: Thinking Fountains — 14 Feb 2026 · South Bank Centre · Free · Ages all-ages
• American Photographs — 14 Jun 2025 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16
• Volunteer Insights: 10 Minute Talks at IWM North — 16 Sept 2025 · Imperial War Museum · Free · Ages all-ages
• Volunteer Talks & Activities at IWM North — 16 Sept 2025 · Imperial War Museum · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Lasting Impressions: Women Printmakers 1900 – Now — 27 Sept 2025 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• The Spell or The Dream — 12 Oct 2025 · Somerset House · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts — 28 Oct 2025 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Photography Now — 15 Nov 2025 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• dRMM: Building from Forests — 25 Nov 2025 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Adobe Creative Residents On Display — 2 Dec 2025 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• DEBUT at Brunel Museum – Secret Concert Series — 4 Dec 2025 · Brunel Museum · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• National Art Library and Archive talks Monday at 14.00 — 12 Jan 2026 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16
• Sound baths in nature — 1 Feb 2026 · Kew Gardens · £30–£40 · Ages 12-16
• National Art Library and Archive talks Monday 11.30 — 2 Feb 2026 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Turner Prize 2025 | Cartwright Hall Art Gallery — 25 Feb 2026 · Tate · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16
• A History of the Catwalk — 4 Mar 2026 · V&A · £45 · Ages 12-16
• From Object to Art craft workshops — 7 Mar 2026 · Royal Museums Greenwich · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Guided tours of Longford Castle — 19 Mar 2026 · National Gallery · £20 · Ages 6-11, 12-16
• Halima Cassell — 21 Mar 2026 · Tate · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Photopoetry — 23 Mar 2026 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• The Coming of Age — 26 Mar 2026 · Wellcome Collection · Free · Ages 12-16, all-ages
• Hurvin Anderson — 26 Mar 2026 · Tate · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art — 28 Mar 2026 · V&A · Ages 6-11, 12-16
• Metalworking Now (2026-27) — 31 Mar 2026 · V&A · Free · Ages 6-11, 12-16, all-ages
• Tai chi at Kew — 1 Apr 2026 · Kew Gardens · £27.5–£178.2 · Ages all-ages
• Applications Are Now Open For ‘Arcadia: Outside’ — 2 Apr 2026 · Stanley Arts · Ages all-ages