Story Explorers: Face Painting and Craft Session
As part of our series of launch events for the Story Explorers exhibition, we will be offering a programme of free sessions for children and families:
Thursday 19th February
Family face-painting pop-up to get you ready to explore the jungle and go to outer space!
Friday 20th February
A family-friendly crafting pop-up to get you all ready to explore the jungle in our exhibition. Create your own jungle-themed mask on our animal mask table. Or design a whole NEW animal at our crafting station.
Saturday 21st February
A family-friendly crafting pop-up to get you all ready to explore our exhibition. In this session, decorate and colour-in your very own light-up planet!
This event is co-produced by the young producers at Elliot Hudson College, with the British Library and Leeds Libraries.
A free family-friendly event recommended for children aged 3 to 8. All children must be accompanied by an adult. No booking required – just drop in.
This is a Leeds Libraries event, to keep up to date with further events please follow us on social media @leedslibraries and sign up to Leeds Libraries Newsletter for Children and Families: bit.ly/FamilyLibraryNews
We are always happy to welcome you, find your closest library or get in touch: libraries.leeds.gov.uk
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