We have also partnered with our friends at Hull City Council’s Healthy Lifestyles Team and the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City Project to create a brand new Magical Museums health and wellbeing themed family activity pack designed by brilliant local designer Joseph Cox. The booklet is packed full of simple activities, inspired by our wonderful collections, that you can try at home as a family to take time out to relax, play, get active and have fun!

Download your free copy by clicking the image below…

Magical Museums Activity Book

Inspired by the gardens at Hull Museums, find out how to make your own nature log book to help you explore the outdoors.

Take 5 minutes out of your day for some relaxation with this guided meditation created with Kindmind.

Inspired by the World War Two collections at Hull Museums, learn how to make a simple healthy Wartime recipe at home.

Learn more about food and rationing during World War Two in this engaging character video inspired by Hull Museums Collections.

Inspired by the wonderful collection of toys and games at the Hands on History Museum, learn about some of the toys children played with in the past.

Hull City Council’s Healthy Lifestyles Team share some fun skipping exercises to try at home.

Learn how to make Viking-style flatbreads in this video inspired by the Hull and East Riding Museum collections.

Artist Lauren Saunders demonstrates some relaxing mindful drawing techniques that you can try at home.

Take 5 minutes out of your day for some relaxation with this guided meditation created with Kindmind.

Find out how to make your own Bronze Age style pot in this relaxing and fun art activity.

Learn about creating mixed media artworks in this beautiful, atmospheric video by artist Jessie Davies.

Inspired by the Imagination Library book Bedtime in the Jungle by John Butler, explore different animal objects in out museum collection.

Create a Collage Caterpillar inspired by the Imagination Library book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and the artwork The Archer by Eileen Agar.

Explore beautiful landscape paintings from the Ferens Art Gallery and learn simple techniques for creating your own artwork.

Take 5 minutes out of your day for some relaxation with this guided meditation created with Kindmind.

In this fun family art tutorial, artist Dom Heffer shows you how you can make your own sculptures at home inspired by the artworks of artist Lynn Chadwick that are in the collections at the Ferens Art Gallery.

In this fun family tutorial, artist Dom Heffer shows you how you can make your own sculpture inspired by Eduardo Paolozzi’s ‘Large Frog, Version II’ which is part of the collections at the Ferens Art Gallery.

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