If you had 3 wishes... what would they be? Join this fun family workshop and make your own Magic Wishing Stick.
Choose a stick and give it magical properties by wrapping your hopes and dreams around it with colourful threads. Then, add beads and other decorations to make it into a truly personal treasure that holds all the best things for your future!
Aimed at children aged 6 years and up (with their adults also making their own wishing sticks!)
Enjoy storytelling sessions throughout the day with the wonderful Marion Leeper, get creative with river-inspired crafts, follow exciting trails, and help build a giant junk-modelled Ouse Monster in the museum garden.
Collect your free activity passport and earn a stamp from each venue to earn a prize!
Take to the water with special river trips offered by the St Ives Electric Boat Company, departing from The Waits. These boat rides will be available at a reduced cost for the day – tickets will be on sale from The Norris Museum.
Create 3D animals, birds, and plants using natural and recycled materials like twigs, small branches, cardboard, and plenty of imagination.
Take home your creation and celebrate the wild side of the Fens!
There must be at least one adult per table. Tickets numbers include adults - making their own creations!
Aimed at children aged 8 years and up. Booking essential.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Enjoy story time with these marvellous mammoth tales and handle a real mammoth tusk and tooth.
Make your own woolly mammoth puppet and create muddy mammoth art using sticks and mud.
Search for mammoths and explore more books and games in the museum garden.
Aimed at children aged 3+ but everyone is welcome. One accompanying adult to every three children required. Booking essential.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
In these fun, hands-on workshops, children and their adults will weave together, using found branches and twigs as mini-looms, along with recycled yarn and even hair grips as makeshift needles!
Discover the calming, ancient craft of weaving and take home your own mini masterpiece.
There must be at least one adult per table. Tickets numbers include adults - making their own creations!
Aimed at children aged 8 years and up. Booking essential.
Discover a different gallery trail each week from Thursday 24 July to Saturday 30 August at the Norris Museum in St Ives.
Complete each week to earn a variety of stickers to fill your summer sticker book – free!
The museum is open 10am to 4pm, Monday to Saturday.
This event is part of Summer at the Museums 2025.
Step into the sandals of the young athletes from the classical past and join the Great Greek Gymnasium. It's a fun-filled family event exploring the world of ancient sports.
Discover how the ancient Greek gymnasium was more than just a training ground - it was also a place of learning, a little similar to a school today, Try you hand ancient sports and get creative with sporty crafts. Get the whole family involved and play, learn and explore together.
Summer Holiday Fun at Denny Abbey and The Farmland Museum! This week: Inspired by the museum's Maker's Market (on the 25th), create crafts based on traditional skills and craftspeople!
Summer Holiday Fun at Denny Abbey and The Farmland Museum! This week: Spot wildflowers around the site and make your own beautiful floral crafts.
Summer Holiday Fun at Denny Abbey and The Farmland Museum! This week: Get crafty with colourful creations inspired by fruits and vegetables that you may find in the allotment.
