What's On

Use our What's On pages to help you plan your weekends or days away with the kids and family.

Events listed on the What's On pages are suitable for children of all ages Although we try to add as much information about the event or activity it is always best to visit the event hosts website. The link will be provided if we have it.

If you know of any event suitable for children that is not listed here, please let us know and we will add the activity. If you are an event provider you can add your own events by contacting us and we will provide a login.

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Extraordinary Measures

Venue: Belsay Hall & Gardens

Start Date: 01 May 2010
End Date: 26 Sep 2010
Art big and small at Belsay Hall. Come to a place where size is off the scale, where the miniscule is made massive, huge surroundings hide surprises and ancient buildings hold something new....

DinoMites: The A-Z of Dinosaurs

Venue: South Shields Museum & Art Gallery

Start Date: 12 Jun 2010
End Date: 26 Sep 2010
Travel back 150 million years and come face to face with baby and juvenile dinosaurs in DinoMites - The A- Z of Dinosaurs, from the armour that protects plant eaters like Polacanthus, to zoos, with...

Must-see exhibition - Build It!

Venue: Monkwearmouth Station Museum

Start Date: 17 Jul 2010
End Date: 26 Sep 2010
Since the 19th century, building and construction toys have been produced to stimulate and develop imagination and skills in children. Simple wooden building blocks led the way to more...

Wild Kids

Venue: Gibside

Start Date: 24 Jul 2010
End Date: 05 Sep 2010
Summer is set to be 50 times more fun for all the family at Gibside this year. That’s how many hassle free, fantastic value and wonderfully wild events are planned for the school holidays at...

The Chinese State Circus

Start Date: 25 Aug 2010
End Date: 05 Sep 2010
A breathtaking fusion of precision acrobatics, Shaolin martial arts, dazzling circus skills, colourful characters from Peking Opera, physical theatre and drama choreographed to an original music...

Adventures Week

Venue: Seven Stories

Start Date: 28 Aug 2010
End Date: 05 Sep 2010
Calling all wannabe pirates, atronauts and time travellers; come and sail the seven seas, explore distant planets with storytimes everyday at 11.30am and 2pm and craft activities throughout the...

Beamish Great North Steam Fair

Venue: Beamish Museum

Start Date: 02 Sep 2010
End Date: 05 Sep 2010
Relive the golden days of steam. Visiting locomotives are in steam at the Beamish Railway Station and Colliery and much more besides. With vintage vehicles, steam rollers, traction engines,...

Dahl Weekend

Venue: Seven Stories

Start Date: 11 Sep 2010
End Date: 12 Sep 2010
If you are mad for Matilda, crazy for Charlie or batty about the BFG, come and celebrate Dahl day with plenty of splendid storytelling and awesome activities all weekend!

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