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Monday, April 7, 2025

Activity Breaks Abroad For Anniverseries, Birthdays, Celebrations & Hen and Stag events, Kids

I looked at an old brochure about children's activities at London's Cartoon Museum. I started thinking about ideas for weekend breaks, before and after conferences, weddings, weekends away:

Build a Bear 

classes for kids and expectant parents.

Bus Tours

Open Top Bus tours of the city. 

Card Games

Backgammon, Bridge, chess, draughts, monopoly, scrabble, snap, whist.

Ideal for the elderly, immobile, uncertain weather, winter.

Cartoons for kids. 

Cartoons for adults

Hire a cartoonist to draw all the guests - and put the pictures on the wall.

Hire a cartoonist to teach everybody to do cartoon portraits or themselves and each other.

Cookery Classes

Cultural/Heritage/National Trust Tour

Food & Drink

Breweries tours. For example, Guinness.

Chocolate exhibitions.

Chocolate Museums

Chocolate shops often run tasting or making events. 

Whisky Distilleries

Riedel Glass Demo



Reidel glasses are shaped to enhance the flavours of different kinds of drink.  The glasses are expensive and have the company name on the base of each glass. They also make elegant decanters.






Gold panning

Jewelery Making

Origami

Laughter

Laughter classes. 

Music

Jazz. Karaoke. Opera. Rock. Fancy dress Fifties Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties. 

Pottery Classes.

Pottery museums or seconds shops.

Religious / Multi-Faith Tour

Outlet Malls

Swimming and Diving Lessons

Aerobics in the water

Swimming

Diving

Check local hotels, swimming pools and country clubs.

Walking Tours of the City

Wine tours


Useful Websites

Build A Bear

https://www.buildabear.co.uk/brand-about-press.html

Create Cartoons

https://www.cartoonmuseum.org/free-resources

Pottery

https://pottery-london.co.uk/birthday-party-in-london

Reidel Glass Events

https://www.riedel.com/en-gb/events

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