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Kids' Self-led Activity - Wild Birthday Bash

1st-31st March 2024

Venue: RSPB Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve

Website: www.events.rspb.org.uk

RSPB Lochwinnoch is celebrating 50 years of providing a home for wildlife. To help them celebrate, some of the wildlife have decided to have a party. If you keep your eyes peeled as you explore the trails,...

Board Game Afternoon

14th March-20th April 2024

Venue: Royston Library

Website: www.glasgowlife.org.uk

Join Royston Library for Board game afternoons every Friday. It’s a free and a great way to spend the afternoon socialising and having fun. The session will run from 3.30pm to 4:30pm every Friday and...

The Great Big School Clean

15th-31st March 2024

Venue: Nationwide

Website: www.keepbritaintidy.org

Join the Great Big School Clean this spring and be part of the #BigBagChallenge - make a big difference to care for the places and the planet we love.  Once you’ve made your pledge, you’ll...

Wear a Hat Day

28th March 2024

Venue: Nationwide

Website: www.braintumourresearch.org

Join this spring-tastic, unmissable fundraising milestone – Wear A Hat Day arrives as the culmination of weeks of awareness and campaigning as part of Brain Tumour Awareness Month. This annual event...

Theatre & Cinema

Andy and the Odd Socks

29th March 2024

Venue: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Website: www.glasgowlife.org.uk

Straight off the TV and onto the live stage, Andy and the Odd Socks bring their brilliant madcap mix of songs, slapstick and silliness to life with a show to entertain all ages. Andy and the Odd Socks...

Big Feed Bairns x Golf It!

29th March-14th April 2024

Venue: Hogganfield Park

Website: www.golf-it.com/get-involved/events

Every weekend, and school holiday morning come up to Big Feed at Golf It! for kids breakfast menu’s, free games, music, cartoons on the big screen and more. There’s face painting, balloon twisters,...

Big Feed Easter Holiday Weekend

29th March-1st April 2024

Venue: Hogganfield Park

Website: www.golf-it.com/event/big-feed-easter-weekend/

Big Feed’s first Big Weekender of the year at Golf It! An amazing line up of traders including Base Pizza, Chulos Cookies, The Wee Taqueria and more! There’s Big Feed Bairns, Makers Markets, Live...

Kelburn Easter Adventures: Alice in Wonderland

29th March-14th April 2024

Venue: Kelburn Castle and Estate

Website: www.kelburnestate.com

Join Kelburn as they transform the forests into a whimsical, dream-like Alice in Easterland world. You will encounter various beloved characters from the iconic story, guiding you down the rabbit hole...

Theatre & Cinema

The McDougalls: Space Adventure

29th March 2024

Venue: The Gaiety

Website: www.thegaiety.co.uk

A singalong show for all the family, live on stage, created and performed by Ruairidh Forde & Ryan Moir. Join stars of stage and screen, Auntie Aggie and Max, as they fly past the planets on an intergalactic...

Wildlife Weans, Mugdock: The Great Egg Hunt!

29th March 2024

Venue: Mugdock Country Park

Website: www.mugdock-country-park.org.uk

Calling all younger children and their grown-ups! Explore the natural world through a series of fun Ranger led activities. Some of the Country Park’s birds have lost their golden eggs. Help search the...

FREE Family Easter Egg Hunt

30th-31st March 2024

Venue: Hogganfield Park

Website: www.golf-it.com/event/seven-lochs-easter-egg-hunt

Golf It! and Seven Lochs Wetland Park bring you a free Easter egg hunt around the Golf It! nature trails and Hogganfield Park between 10am and 12pm. Take the whole family down for some free Easter fun....

Theatre & Cinema

Gary Dunn's Monkey Madness Kids Show

30th March 2024

Venue: The Stand Comedy Club

Website: www.thestand.co.uk

A fun magic show for ages 5 to 95, with lots of giggles, gasps and good magic too! With his trusty sidekick Chico the Monkey, Gary performs silly tricks with bananas, bottles of pop and much more. Not...

Easter Puppets - Make It With SMPC

31st March 2024

Venue: Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre

Website: www.maskandpuppet.co.uk

Children and adults will have a wonderful time creating their very own rod puppet! Design your puppet from all of our colourful bits and bobs with our help, learn how to use it and give your puppet a name...

Mugdock Easter Activity Day

31st March 2024

Venue: Mugdock Country Park

Website: www.mugdock-country-park.org.uk

Take part in a variety of environmental and crafty Easter activities throughout the day. Easter Day events include Easter Sensory Sunday, Woodland Beastie Hunt and Pond Dipping. Booking essential via Eventbrite....

Hutchie Holiday Club

2nd-5th April 2024

Venue: Hutchesons’ Grammar School

Website: www.hutchesons.org

Packed with fun and adventure, the multi-activity programmes ensure the kids break is active and full of excitement in a safe, caring, nurturing, and stimulating environment where children feel valued...

Mugdock Sensational Safari: The Awakening

3rd April 2024

Venue: Mugdock Country Park

Website: www.mugdock-country-park.org.uk

Calling all active 8-12 year olds. As the countryside awakens from winter, explore the Country Park’s woodlands, meadows, and streams and look for signs of spring on this 3-hour adventure with the Ranger...

Theatre & Cinema

The McDougalls: Space Adventure

4th April 2024

Venue: Rutherglen Town Hall

Website: www.slleisureandculture.co.uk

Packed with singalong songs such as Zoom Zoom Zoom, We’re Going to the Moon, Aiken Drum and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - get ready to fasten your seatbelts and join in with this astronomical adventure....

Theatre & Cinema

The McDougalls: Space Adventure

6th April 2024

Venue: Beacon Arts Centre

Website: www.beaconartscentre.co.uk

Packed with singalong songs such as Zoom Zoom Zoom We’re Going to the Moon, Aiken Drum and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Go dressed as an alien or astronaut - you can download a craft kit from their website www.mcdougallstheatre.com

Open Sundays

7th April 2024

Venue: Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust

Website: www.gvvt.org/guided-tours

Open Sunday events allow you to explore the Garage and see 140 buses, coaches, fire engines and commercial vehicles, many of which are fully restored and operational, with other awaiting or under restoration....

Spring Explorers

8th-11th April 2024

Venue: National Museum of Rural Life

Website: www.nms.ac.uk

Spring Explorers school holiday activities are back at the National Museum of Rural Life and include Spring Planting in the learning centre, Farming Fables in the theatre and Mystery Objects in the tools...

Theatre & Cinema

Exciting Science

9th April 2024

Venue: Beacon Arts Centre

Website: www.beaconartscentre.co.uk

With fun and fact-filled experiments, watch in amazement as they recreate a volcanic eruption; turn a vacuum cleaner into a missile launcher or take aim at you with their smoke blaster! So, stand clear...

Forest School - Cooking on the Fire

10th April 2024

Venue: Mugdock Country Park

Website: www.mugdock-country-park.org.uk

Venture into the wilds of Mugdock to find dead wood, build a fire and cook something on it. For 8-12 year olds. Booking essential via Eventbrite.

Mugdock Sensational Safari: Drumclog Moor Adventure

10th April 2024

Venue: Mugdock Country Park

Website: www.mugdock-country-park.org.uk

Calling all active 8-12 year olds. Discover the far reaches of the Country Park on this adventure across moorland and through woodland. Look for tracks and signs, build shelters and dam the stream on this...

Forest School - The Tiny World of Mugdock

11th April 2024

Venue: Mugdock Country Park

Website: www.mugdock-country-park.org.uk

Discover the wee wild creatures that live on land and in the water at Mugdock. For 8-12 year olds. No parents required!

Shō and the Demons of the Deep

12th-13th April 2024

Venue: Platform

Website: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com

Shō and the Demons of the Deep is a visual adventure story about overcoming fear, climate crisis and how the actions of one generation can affect the next. Inspired by the picture book of the same name....

Theatre & Cinema

The Three Little Pigs

12th April 2024

Venue: Beacon Arts Centre

Website: www.beaconartscentre.co.uk

Join the three pigs as they excitedly leave the family sty in search of new adventures! Will they make a pig’s ear out of it, or will they raise the roof? It’ll take brains, bravery and curly-tails...

Theatre & Cinema

Artie's Singing Kettle Greatest Hits

13th April 2024

Venue: The Town House, Hamilton

Website: www.slleisureandculture.co.uk

Artie is bringing the original Singing Kettles packed full of clues to his Greatest Hits. “Spout, handle, lid of metal, What’s inside the Singing Kettle?” A whole bunch of songs that will take adults...

Theatre & Cinema

Paddington in Concert

13th April 2024

Venue: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Website: www.glasgowlife.org.uk

STUDIOCANAL and Raymond Gubbay Limited are pleased to present Paddington TM in Concert. Based on Michael Bond’s much-loved books, cherished by families since 1958, the charming story follows the misadventures...

Theatre & Cinema

Kidz Bop Never Stop Live Tour

14th April 2024

Venue: Theatre Royal Glasgow

Website: www.atgtickets.com

Sing and dance along with the Kidz Bop Kids as they perform today’s biggest hits, live on stage including “As It Was,” “About That Time,” and many more. This is the ultimate pop concert for kids...

Theatre & Cinema

Oliver!

23rd-27th April 2024

Venue: The Lyric Club at King's Theatre

Website: www.atgtickets.com

Oliver! is a musical with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, based on the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. A classic musical with a timeless story and memorable songs. It is sure to be a hit with...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

28th April 2024

Venue: Mugdock Country Park

Website: www.mugdock-country-park.org.uk

This screening is within Mugdock Theatre, in the main Courtyard, which can be accessed via Spider Monkey's Coffee Shop. 11am-1.15pm.

Kids' self-led activity – Spring Super Spotter Scavenger Hunt

1st-31st May 2024

Venue: RSPB Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve

Website: www.events.rspb.org.uk

Take part in this fun self-led activity to see what wild discoveries you can make. Use your wildlife spotting skills to see how many creatures on your activity sheet you can find, discover cool stuff about...

Theatre & Cinema

Dreamcoat Stars

3rd May 2024

Venue: Beacon Arts Centre

Website: www.beaconartscentre.co.uk

The concert includes everyone’s favourite West End and Broadway classics, Les Misérables, We Will Rock You, Dirty Dancing, Hairspray, West Side Story, and the toe-tapping Jersey Boys. Relive all your...

Theatre & Cinema

You Choose

4th May 2024

Venue: Beacon Arts Centre

Website: www.beaconartscentre.co.uk

Based on the brilliant book by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt Nonsense Room Productions (Shark in the Park and Hairy Maclary Shows) bring you an interactive musical show for all the family. But in this...

Theatre & Cinema

Disney's The Little Mermaid

16th-18th May 2024

Venue: Beacon Arts Centre

Website: www.beaconartscentre.co.uk

Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories and the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a beautiful love story for the ages. This fishy fable will capture your heart...

Woolly Weekend

18th-19th May 2024

Venue: National Museum of Rural Life

Website: www.nms.ac.uk/woollyweekend

Head to the museum for a weekend filled with all things woolly. Meet alpacas and speciality breeds of sheep, see a shearer at work with the museum’s Scottish Blackface flock, enjoy live craft demonstrations,...

Theatre & Cinema

Strictly Come Dancing - The Professionals 2024

19th May 2024

Venue: SEC Glasgow

Website: www.sec.co.uk

This exhilarating show will showcase the exceptional talent of 12 of TV’s beloved professional dancers, supported by incredible singers and a live band, all performed within the wonderful world of glamour...

Big May Bank Holiday Weekend

24th-27th May 2024

Venue: Kelburn Castle and Estate

Website: www.kelburnestate.com/events

Join Kelburn for their Big May Bank Holiday Weekend Event. Fun for all the family, tickets will go on sale April 15th. To find out more information call 01475 568 685 or email admin@kelburnestate.com.

Kilbryde Hospice’s Sunflower Walk

3rd-28th June 2024

Venue: South Lanarkshire

Website: www.kilbrydehospice.org.uk

Kilbryde Hospice invite your primary school, nursery, childminding group, or children’s community group to take part in their Sunflower Walk for 2024! The children walk round your grounds or route in...

Theatre & Cinema

Awful Auntie

6th-9th June 2024

Venue: King's Theatre

Website: www.atgtickets.com

Following their acclaimed productions of Gangsta Granny, Billionaire Boy and Demon Dentist, Birmingham Stage Company are proud to present a fabulous new production of David Walliams’ amazing adventure,...

Art Attack

Venue: Summerlee

Website: www.culturenl.co.uk/art-attack-summerlee-2/

A wide range of arts activities on offer including drawing, painting, clay modelling, sculpture making, printmaking and more! Ages 7 – 12 years. 10.30am – 12.00pm Saturdays from 28th January – 24th...

Autism Friendly Hours

Venue: Glasgow Science Centre

Website: www.glasgowsciencecentre.org

The science centre is an exciting place, bustling with loud sounds and bright lights which are lowered and the lights are softened to allow adults and children with autism, or other neurodiversities, to...

Clip 'n Climb at Kelvin Hall

Venue: Glasgow Club at Kelvin Hall

Website: www.kelvinhall.org.uk/play-and-climb/clip-n-climb-at-kelvin-hall/

Enjoy an exciting day out full of empowering, action-packed challenges for everybody! There are climbing challenges available for all abilities, and the truly brave can take on the Leap of Faith! (to take...

Curious about Glasgow

Venue: Glasgow Central Station

Website: www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk

Are you curious about Glasgow? Take one of the self-guided walks with a treasure hunt theme – looping around the better-known sights, as well as some of the more unusual and quirky ones, which combined...

Elder Park Junior Parkrun

Venue: Elden Park

Website: www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk

Parkrun organise free, weekly, 2km junior timed runs which are open to everyone, free, and are safe and easy to take part in. Please register before your first run. The aim is to have fun. Please go along...

Explore!

Venue: Glasgow Science Centre

Website: www.glasgowsciencecentre.org

Make a splash with sound, avoid detection by a thermal camera and strike a pose with colourful shadows. Located on the first floor of Glasgow Science Centre, the Explore! gallery is filled with over 50...

Family Play with Mackintosh at The Willow

Venue: Mackintosh at The Willow

Website: www.glasgowlife.org.uk

This new activity, delivered by Glasgow Life & MacIntosh @ The Willow, is a new weekly play and arts & crafts session in the heart of Glasgow. Children age 5-12 & adults can play together to experience...

Fun at Briarlands Farm

Venue: Briarlands Farm

Website: www.briarlandsfarm.co.uk

There’s loads to do at Briarlands to keep your wee ones entertained, from jumping pillows to football golf; tractor and trailer rides to archery. They also have sessions for petting the guinea pigs and...

Go Quest Adventures - Glasgow

Venue: Glasgow City Chambers

Website: www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk

The Glasgow Quest is a fun and engaging way to explore the Merchant City area from a whole different perspective. Think walking tour, meets treasure hunt with an escape room twist! See the city's highlights,...

Meet Santa at St.Enoch Square

Venue: St Enoch Square

Website: www.st-enoch.com/meet-santa-at-st-enoch-centre

Santa’s elves will be on hand to welcome families and help little ones write their letter to Santa before meeting Santa in his magical Grotto and receiving a special gift. £10 from every ticket sold...

Post 5 Play at Netherton Community Centre

Venue: Netherton Community Centre

Website: www.glasgowlife.org.uk

Post 5 Play sessions are free and fun sessions for all primary school aged children. Packed full with games, arts & crafts and S.T.E.M activities for everyone to enjoy. No booking required but places may...

Space Zone

Venue: Glasgow Science Centre

Website: www.glasgowsciencecentre.org

The Space Zone forms an immersive walkway through the solar system towards the entrance of the Planetarium. Observe the planets under a different light and learn fascinating facts about our cosmic neighbourhood....

Try Skating: Indoor Skating (Inlines and Quads)

Venue: ARC Health & Fitness

Website: www.tryskating.com

Open skating every Sunday from 10.40am to 12.30pm. Skate for fitness and fun, everyone welcome from all levels of ability from beginnner to expert. For skate hire pre-book on 07766 117365.

Victoria Junior Parkrun

Venue: Victoria Park

Website: www.active-together.org/directory/victoria-junior-parkrun

Victoria junior parkrun, Glasgow is completely free, fun, and friendly weekly 2k event for 4 to 14 year olds held every Sunday at 9.30am.

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