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Spring Explorers

The National Museum of Rural Life's Spring Explorer school holiday activities are back... come long and explore both indoors and outdoors this April!

Spring Explorers

About Spring Explorers

8th Apr 2025 to 11th Apr 2025
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National Museum of Rural Life
Wester Kittochside Philipshill Road, East Kilbride G76 9HR
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Free with museum admission and Annual Pass
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Our Spring Explorers family activities are back, and this time they’re all about pollination! Get hands on with seeds, soil and planting. Sign up for storytelling, and visit musical light sculpture In Bloom in the Garden Detectives gallery.  

Hands on activities
Times: 10:30-2:30 & 13:30-15:30, drop-in
Location: Learning Centre

Sunflower planting
Use our paper potting tools to make your own pot from newspaper and plant a sunflower seed to take home.  

Make a Seed Bomb
Make your own seed bomb from mulched paper and wildflower seeds, then take it away to seed bomb a green space near you.  

Soil exploration station
Learn all about soil and take part in some free play at the soil station. Using our mini trowels and forks, find out what’s inside our soil patch.

Storytelling
Times: 11:00-11:20, 12:30-12:50 & 14:00-14:30, sign up on the day
Location: Theatre

Join our storyteller for familiar rhymes, songs and lots of joining-in opportunities in one of three 20-minute sessions, perfect for under-fives and their adults.

In Bloom
Location: Garden Detectives gallery

Musical light sculpture In Bloom represents a plant being pollinated. Play and interact with the sculpture for a unique light and sound experience for all ages.

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