Mini mariners - under 5s program
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Creative and educational activities for 2-5 year-olds and their parents/carers.
Explore the galleries, sing and dance in interactive tours with costumed guides. Enjoy creative free play, craft, games and story time in our themed activity area.
Booked playgroups welcome.
Online bookings essential.
*Entry to Mini mariners includes access to exhibitions that are within the tour. During school holidays it also includes access to our Kids on Deck activity space.
If you plan to buy a See It All ticket and wish to join the tour, please reserve your space by emailing booking@sea.museum or book at the front desk on the day.
June - Alphabet Animals
Tuesdays 3, 10, 17 and 24
Saturday 14 and 28
A is for anemone, Z is for Zebrafish. Take a journey through the alphabet of all things furry, feathered and finned as we spot amazing animals in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.
Enjoy touch tours with creature specimens, movement, music, games, craft and free play in our themed activity space. Make your own block printed bag, animal puppet or hat to take home.
July - Tick, Tock and Twinkle
Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29
Saturdays 13 and 19
Explore nautical navigation- how we find our way at sea through creative play -nursery rhymes , touch tours, music making, stories and movement. Learn about how stars, distances and clocks help us keep from getting lost as you travel through the museum galleries with your character guides. Make your own tell the time peg-clock, a captain's hat or star garland to take home.
August – Pirates Ahoy
Tuesdays 5, 12, 19 and 26
Saturdays 16 and 23
Let's follow the treasure map around the museum to find the secret treasure cave. Learn how to sing, dance and scrub the deck like a pirate. Then you can decorate your own pirate hat or parrot puppet to take home and enjoy some special pirate science experiments.
