Looking for ways to engage your kids during the summer holidays?
We’ve collated 120+ fun and educational FREE resources to keep your kids busy and learning this summer.
We have resources for all ages and topics including Art, English, Music, History, Geography, Architecture and Science. These resources vary from creating puzzles online to fun quizzes, mindful art, creating mosaics, designing a coat of arms and making bird feeders.
There’s something for everyone, no matter the weather!
Museum of London
The Museum of London gives students a new perspective on our thrilling capital!
Museum of London’s collection directly supports the curriculum, with so many FREE resources covering the Stone Age and Great Fire of London and many more. These fun videos, interactive games and quizzes are perfect activities for your kids to do at home in the holidays.
Ages: 5-11
Subject links: History, Art & Design
Resources:
Stone Age Skills Educational Video
Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Quiz
Great Fire 1666: A Minecraft Experience
Great Fire 1666: An Interactive Story
Great Fire of London Educational Game
Puppetry in the Primary Classroom Video
The Beatles Story
The Beatles Story have linked the story of The Beatles, their early lives, fame and combined creativity to selected areas of the National Curriculum: history, literacy, art and music to actively encourage and involve children in their own learning.
The Beatles Story offers many FREE resources, we have selected the best resources your children can do at home this summer.
Ages: Suitable for all ages
Subject links: History, Art & Music, Literacy, Geography
Resources:
Create an Instrument Music Resource
Can You Create Magazine Articles?
Here There and Everywhere Resource
Songwriting 2 English Resource
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The New Art Gallery Walsall
The New Art Gallery Walsall presents, collects and interprets historic, modern and contemporary art in innovative and challenging ways.
Education is at the heart of everything they do, promoting the use of visual arts as an educational tool to inspire, excite, and develop skills, knowledge and understanding. With an aim to provide an excellent model of accessibility to reach the broadest possible audience.
Ages: Suitable for all ages
Subject links: Art & Design, Architecture
Resources:
Making Hand Books Educational Video
Building a Balancing Structure
Victoria Art Gallery
Victoria Art Gallery is the public art museum in Bath. It is run by Bath & North East Somerset Council and houses its collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.
The Gallery was named to celebrate Queen Victoria’s sixty years on the throne. It includes over 1,500 decorative arts treasures, including a display of British oil paintings from 17th century to the present day with works by Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones Barker and Walter Sickert.
Victoria Art Gallery has some great at home activities from beautiful puzzles to creative writing and Sgrafitto art technique.
Ages: Suitable for all ages
Subject links: History, Art & Design, Literacy
Resources:
Bath Time Travellers – Creative Writing
WWT London Wetland Centre
London Wetland Centre provides unique opportunities for learners of all ages and abilities to get close to wetland wildlife from the UK and across the world.
They include a range of interactive resources that can be used to enhance learning from making bird feeders to bug hotels and binoculars.
Ages: 5-11
Subject links: Science, Art & Design, Geography, PSHE
Resources:
Make Your Own Bird Feeder Activity Resources
Marvellous Minibeasts Resources
Make Your Own T-Shirt Shopping Bag Activity Resources
Make Your Own Lego Bird Table Activity Resources
Identification and Classification Resources
Make Your Own Bug Hotel Activity Resources
Make Your Own Binoculars Activity Resources
Make Your Own Water Cycle in a Jar Activity Resources
Make Your Own ‘Eggy-Cress’ Animal Activity Resources
Make Your Own Plastic Bottle Bird Feeder Activity Resources
Beckford Tower
Built between 1826 and 1827, Beckford’s Tower is an extraordinary building that was once home to one of the greatest collections of books, furniture and art in Georgian England and now stands as the only surviving example of William Beckford’s great architectural achievements.
Beckford Tower offers some great creative resources where your children can create their own coat of arms, design their perfect garden and build a toilet roll tower, plus many more activities to keep them engaged this summer.
Ages: 7-14
Subject links: Art & Design, Architecture
Resources:
Songs and Rhymes to Sing at Home
Historic Environment Scotland
Historic Environment Scotland tap into more than 5,000 years of Scotland’s story with free visits, events and learning resources. Their resources will provide your kids with some great fun activities they can sink their teeth into at home.
Ages: 3-14
Subject links: Art & Design, Architecture, History
Resources:
Make a Mini Catapult with Craft Knight Video
Make Your Own Jousting Champions Video
Playing with the Past: Playful Pack for Little Learners Game
The Roman Baths
The Roman Baths, at the heart of the City of Bath World Heritage Site, consists of the remarkably preserved remains of one of the greatest religious spas of the ancient world. The city’s unique thermal springs rise in the site and the Baths still flow with natural hot water.
The Roman Baths offer a diverse selection of resources from word searches to creating mosaics to mindful art activities.
Ages: 5-14
Subject links: Art & Design, History, English
Resources:
The Great Roman Britain Challenge
Roman Festivals – Goddess Flora
The Great Roman Britain Challenge 1
Roman Soldier to Saint – The Story of St George
Bath Time Travellers – Normans
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Herschel Museum
The Herschel Museum of Astronomy is dedicated to the many achievements of the Herschels, who were distinguished astronomers as well as talented musicians.
It was from this house, using a telescope of his own design that William discovered the planet Uranus in 1781.
The Herschel Museums’ free resources encourage kids creativity in writing, painting and creating whilst teaching them more about space and poetry.
Ages: 3-14
Subject links: Art & Design, History, English, Astronomy
Resources:
No 1 Royal Crescent
No. 1 Royal Crescent is a museum which has been decorated and furnished just as it might have been during the period 1776-1796.
The rooms feature historic furniture, pictures and objects that reveal what life was like for Bath’s fashionable residents.
No. 1 Royal Crescent has some fun baking recipes, colouring activities, puzzles and designing projects. Your kids are sure to learn something new from these fun and creative resources.
Ages: 7-18
Subject links: Art & Design, History, English, Home Economics
Resources:
Georgian Paper’s Dress-Up Dolls
Colouring and Making Worksheet
National Videogame Museum
The National Videogame Museum is where you can experience the past, present and future of play in this interactive, family-friendly museum, home to a hundred playable game exhibits, workshops and game creation stations.
The NVM wants to get everybody making and learning videogames! Through their learning programmes, they want to inspire people of all ages to explore their creativity, improve their STEM skills and have fun whilst learning!
Ages: 7-18
Subject links: Art & Design, Computing, Design & Technology
Resources:
Create Your Own Pixel Art Character Design Worksheet
Getting Started with Pixel Art Video
Getting Started with Bitsy Video
British Airways i360
Move the classroom to the skies with a school trip to British Airways i360.
British Airways i360 offer a fun selection of free resources covering reflection and symmetry, spot the difference, how to use a compass and many other fun activities.
Ages: 5-11
Subject links: Geography, Maths
Resources:
Reflection & Symmetry (Part 1)
Reflection & Symmetry (Part 2)
Compass Directions Worksheet (Part 1)
Compass Directions Worksheet (Part 2)
UK Parliament
UK Parliament’s award-winning Education and Engagement Service offers a wide range of free resources and services for teachers and school children, linked to the UK curricula.
These free teaching resources include a huge selection of educational videos from introducing parliament to Guy Fawkes and so many inbetween.
Ages: 7-18
Subject links: Citizenship, History, Politics, English
Resources:
UK Parliament and World War II Video (Secondary)
World War One and Parliament Video and Resource
Who is in the House of Lords? Educational Video
Magna Carta for the 21st-Century Video
Introduction to UK Parliament Video
UK Parliament and World War II Video (Primary)
Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night Video
Museum of Bath Architecture
If you have ever wondered why Bath is such a beautiful city full of eighteenth-century buildings and sweeping crescents, classical architecture, Roman history and more modern structures. Plus, how it was designed and built, then this is the first place you should visit.
Explore the rich architectural history of Bath as it was transformed from a small medieval town to the world-famous Georgian city through these free resources your kids can enjoy from the comforts of their own home.
Ages: 7-18
Subject links: Art & Design, History, Geography, Maths, Design & Technology
Resources:
LEGO Architecture Challenge 1: Scale
LEGO Architecture Challenge 2: Repetition
LEGO Architecture Challenge 3: Symmetry
LEGO Architecture Challenge 4: Mass
LEGO Architecture Challenge 5: Buildings for Entertainment
LEGO Architecture Challenge 6: Spacing Columns
LEGO Architecture Challenge 7: Pediments
LEGO Architecture Challenge 9: Symmetry Part 2
The Bath Heritage Plaque Challenge
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Fashion Museum Bath
The Fashion Museum Bath holds a world-class collection of contemporary and historic dress.
The Museum of Costume was opened in the Assembly Rooms 1963. It was founded by Doris Langley Moore, a designer, collector, writer and scholar, who gave her famous private collection of costume to the city of Bath.
These free resources include a variety of fun creative activities where your kids can make a chunky bangle, origami, colour in clothes, learn how to stitch and do a fun fashion inspired word search.
Ages: 7-16
Subject links: Art & Design, Fashion & Textiles, History
Resources:
Straw Weaving – Make a Chunky Bangle
Knitting and Stitching Worksheet
Summary
We know the summer holidays can be tough as a parent but we have loads of FREE resources to help keep your kids busy, creative and learning.
From videos to colouring in, word finds, baking, designing telescopes and making bangles, there is something for everyone.
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