Sunday 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 AUGUST 2 - 5pm
Carnival Crazy
Carnival season is here and it’s your chance to test out your creativity and design your own themed carnival float. Use your funky fashion skills to design and make your own fantasy carnival costume - including headdresses, sashes and masks. Carnival musicians will create a truly celebratory atmosphere and each workshop will end with a fun carnival procession through the museum and onto the riverfront – weather permitting!

Sunday 13, 14, 21, SEPTEMBER 2 - 5pm
Ahoy There!
To celebrate the Thames Festival, kids can design and make their own flotilla of catamarans, boats and barges inspired by the Design Museum’s riverfront location.

The Ahoy There - Olympic Vessels workshop on Saturday 28 September, 2- 5pm, for 12 - 16 year olds, is free with museum admission (£5 for students). Visit young people for further information

SUNDAY 5, 12, 19, 26 OCTOBER 2- 5pm
Pop Goes Design
Inspired by the whirling psychedelic world of ‘graphic entertainer’ Alan Aldridge, we invite budding illustrators to join us in creating a large, collaborative, illustrated installation where ANYTHING can happen.

Taking a journey across the Design Museum Space drawings will travel from one piece of paper to another, in different and imaginative ways. People, creatures and objects that you create will fly over bridges, up and down mountains, through buildings and into outer-space. 2D will merge with 3D and transform a bare sky blue room into a strange and exciting illustrated world. What’s more, a team of professional illustrators will be on hand to demonstrate a range of drawing, collage and simple 3D paper construction techniques.

Come with us on a weird and wonderful Paper Walk. You never know where you might end up!
These special illustration workshops are part of the Big Draw, The Campaign for Drawing’s annual month of nationwide drawing events.

“… the workshop was a whole different experience from other workshops we’ve been to as it was led by industry experts and they really inspired my daughter to experiment and stretch herself. The materials were really high quality - the only thing was I wanted to participate too!”
Clare, mother of one, Waterloo

• Workshops are £4 per child and accompanying adults are £8.50, these prices include entry to exhibitions
• Children must be accompanied by an adult
• All creativity workshops are suitable for children aged from 5 to 11
• Booking is essential on 020 7940 8783 or tickets@designmuseum.org and payment is made in advance and is non-refundable. Please note that our telephone and email booking lines are staffed during office hours seven days a week
• Workshops start promptly at 2pm. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid delays at the Admissions desk
• Please come to the Admissions desk and then make your way to the Design Museum Space
• Our workshops are popular so please book as early as you can to avoid disappointment