Primary Times - the definitive what’s on and where to go family guide of activities and events for children of primary school age. Things to do with your kids during the school holidays including arts and craft activities, music and theatre for children, parties, competitions, days out, and family attractions along with term time drama schools, dance classes, after school clubs and sports activities. Things to do at a place near you!
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Family Sundays
4th May-22nd June 2025
Venue: Warwick Arts Centre
Website: www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Join the family artists-in-residence every Sunday and spend time together as a family getting creative and having fun! Over the two seasons explore visual arts processes, music and dance, responding to...
Family Sundays - Summer 2025
4th May-22nd June 2025
Venue: Warwick Arts Centre
Website: www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Join the family artists-in-residence every Sunday and spend time together as a family getting creative and having fun! Over the two seasons explore visual arts processes, music and dance, responding to...
Ackers Adventure
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: Golden Hillcock Road, Sparbrook
Website: www.ackers-adventure.co.uk
Ackers Adventure is a super fun place for exciting outdoor activities. Imagine zooming down a dry ski slope on skis or a toboggan! You can also try climbing high walls, whizzing down a zip wire, or paddling...
Andrew Simpson Sailing and Watersports Centres
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: ASC Birmingham, 101 Genners Ln, Bartley Green
Website: www.andrewsimpsoncentres.org
Action-packed Watersports and Adventure Holiday Clubs for young explorers aged 5-15. Learn new skills, keep active and have fun across a huge range of activities. The centres have a fully qualified team...
Cannon Hill Junior Parkrun
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: Cannon Hill Park
Website: www.parkrun.org.uk/cannonhill-juniors
A free, fun, and friendly weekly 2k event for juniors (4 to 14 year olds). Free to join but please register before you first go along. The aim is to have fun. Go along and join in whatever your pace.
Cardboard Dreams
12th May-31st August 2025
Venue: Compton Verney
Website: www.comptonverney.org.uk
Responding to the extraordinary drawings in Towering Dreams as well as the architecture of Compton Verney, help create your own collection of architectural wonders by making models from cardboard to add...
Dippy in Coventry
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Website: www.theherbert.org
Discover fun facts about Dippy, the Nation’s favourite dinosaur from the Natural History Museum, along with close encounters with fossils from the collection. The Learning Team will share a short, interactive...
First Class Learning Tuition
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: Various locations
Website: www.firstclasslearning.co.uk
The First Class Learning programme aligns with the National Curriculum, helping students build confidence and develop essential skills. Being all paper-based allows students to show how they are learning,...
Kitty Cafe Birmingham
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: Unit 12 Grand Central, Stephenson Place
Website: www.kittycafe.co.uk
Be surrounded by adorable friendly felines as you tuck into some yummy cake and watch as these adorable cats explore the cafe. This is a family friendly venue with kids zone activities to download, print...
Kumon Free Assessment
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: Various venues
Website: www.kumon.co.uk
Kumon aims to help children of all ages and abilities become confident, independent learners who can thrive both at school and in their future careers.Join the over 3.5 million Kumon students worldwide...
Morning Explorers
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: Thinktank - Birmingham Science Museum
Website: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk
Morning Explorers is an accessibility program for autistic people and those with similar disabilities. Running on the second Saturday of each month, it offers some accessible adaptions to the museum experience,...
Quiet at the Aquarium
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: National SEA LIFE Centre Birmingham
Website: www.visitsealife.com/birmingham
On selected dates National SEA LIFE Centre Birmingham open their doors an hour early, with limited tickets available, to provide a quieter experience that aims to provide a more comfortable visit for those...
Stratford Butterfly Farm
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: Swan’s Nest Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon
Website: www.butterflyfarm.co.uk
Enjoy the unique pleasure of discovering hundreds of the world’s most beautiful butterflies flying in an exotic environment of tropical blossom with splashing waterfalls and fish filled pools. Situated...
The MAD Museum
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: The MAD Museum
Website: www.themadmuseum.co.uk
Interact with eccentric artworks, contraptions and machines, build marble runs on the giant MAD Marbles wall. The MAD Museum is completely sensory; experience a myriad colours, unusual sounds, flashing...
Woodland Disc Golf
12th May-6th July 2025
Venue: Wayfield Gorse, Gospel Oak Lane
Website: www.gillysdiscgolf.co.uk
The course meanders through 17 acres of beautifully maintained bluebell woodland. There is an orange course suitable for beginners with 12 holes of between 30-80 metres in length. This course is great...
Brick Dinos
31st May-7th September 2025
Venue: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Website: www.theherbert.org
Step back in time and explore the prehistoric world with Brick Dinos.Get creative with hands-on LEGO and Duplo play, design your own dinosaurs on a graffiti wall, and take home dinosaur-themed colouring...
Brake's Kids Walk
11th June 2025
Venue: Nationwide
Website: www.brake.org.uk
Take part in Brake’s Kids Walk to learn important road safety messages and shout out for children to have the right to make safe and healthy journeys. Sign up to take part in 2025 and receive your FREE...
AnimeCon
13th-15th June 2025
Venue: The NEC
Website: www.thenec.co.uk
The UK's largest Anime and Manga Festival AnimeCon is returning to the NEC, Birmingham. Get ready to shop till you drop and get creative and hands-on with Workshops. From learning to draw your favorite...
Bing's Birthday
14th-16th June 2025
Venue: Town Hall
Website: www.bmusic.co.uk
Join Bing and his friends Sula, Pando, Coco, Amma and of course Flop as they get ready to celebrate his special day in the brand-new live stage show, Bing’s Birthday! Things won't always go to plan...
In The Night Garden Live
14th-15th June 2025
Venue: Warwick Arts Centre
Website: www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka and friends are back in their fun-filled live show Igglepiggle’s Busy Day! Join Igglepiggle as he looks for his friends in the Night Garden by following their funny...
Magical Midsummer Stories at Baddesley
14th June 2025
Venue: Baddesley Clinton
Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/warwickshire/baddesley-clinton
Join storyteller Pyn Stockman and musician Marc Reck and be whisked away on a lively storytelling adventure with something for all the family. Expect to meet the Wild Fae of the Hills, shapeshifting hares,...
Family Explorers: Pond Dipping
15th June 2025
Venue: Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Website: www.birminghambotanicalgardens.org.uk
Join Conservation Ranger, Sila, to observe life underwater.Use your net to see what you can uncover – there’s more in the water than you might think! Explore pond biodiversity and find out about just...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
16th-18th June 2025
Venue: Belgrade Theatre
Website: www.belgrade.co.uk
Shakespeare’s most magical, fast paced, hilarious comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, will be performed in Oddsocks’ inimitable irreverent and knockabout style with live music, comedy action and even...
Pride and Prejudice
20th June 2025
Venue: Winterbourne Gardens
Website: www.illyria.co.uk/shows
Lizzy finds disdainful Mr Darcy detestable! Or does she…? Can she see beyond his pride – and could he overcome her prejudice – to consider a possible future together? Award-winning Illyria return...
Doze Under Dippy
21st June 2025
Venue: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Website: www.theherbert.org
A night of exploration and fun-filled activities for children aged 6–11 and their grown-ups. During the event you will take part in torch light tours of the museum, get creative with arts and crafts,...
Tatenhill Airbase Open Day
22nd June 2025
Venue: Tatenhill Airbase, Burton-Upon-Trent
Website: www.midlandsairambulance.com
Family-friendly open day packed with fun for all ages, including live demonstrations showcasing the crew’s lifesaving skills, charity merchandise stalls, delicious refreshments a raffle with great prizes...and...
Chitty Chitty Ban Bang
26th-29th June 2025
Venue: Warwick Arts Centre
Website: www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Based on Ian Fleming’s beloved children’s story and the classic 1968 film, this spectacular musical follows eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts as he restores a run-down racing car with his children....
Outdoor theatre - A Midsummer Night's Dream
27th June 2025
Venue: Baddesley Clinton
Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/warwickshire/baddesley-clinton
It’s Midsummer’s eve and deep in an enchanted forest mischief is stirring. The Fairy King and Queen are feuding, four runaway lovers are tying themselves in knots, and a troupe of quite appalling actors...
You Know My Mum
27th-28th June 2025
Venue: Birmingham Rep
Website: www.birmingham-rep.co.uk
You Know My Mum is a cheeky comedy about life and death for all the family. The story follows Bluey, a baby bird, and Alex, a 25-year-old woman with Down’s syndrome who is struggling with the death of...
Galactic Gathering - Festival of the Force
28th-29th June 2025
Venue: National Space Centre
Website: www.spacecentre.co.uk
Dive into interactive workshops and hands-on experiences designed to teach STEAM skills - the perfect balance of fun and learning.Explore the intersection of science, technology, engineering, arts, and...
Birmingham Pretty Muddy Kids
12th July 2025
Venue: Cofton Park, Low Hill Lane
Website: www.raceforlife.cancerresearchuk.org
Pretty Muddy® Kids is a fun-packed muddy obstacle course for children aged 6-12 (over 1.2m tall). The young fundraisers climb, crawl and slide their way around the course at their own pace, accompanied...
Bike4Life Ride Out and Festival
20th July 2025
Venue: Weston Park, Shifnal
Website: www.midlandsairambulance.com/events/bike4life-ride-out-and-festival-2025
The festival is the perfect day out for all the family with opportunities to meet celebrity VIPs, sample local street food, enjoy live bands and entertainment, plus there will be a fun fayre with kids’...