Eureka! The National Children's Museum, Halifax
Discovery Road
Halifax
HX1 2NE
Eureka! makes play a priority for Playday, 4 August
Article published on 28 July 2010
The right to play is a priority at Eureka! The National Children's Museum, where Playday, the national day celebrating children's right to play on 4 August, is being observed in style.
For Playday 2010, Eureka! is encouraging visitors to engage with the Playday theme, ‘Our Place' and make Eureka! their very own place to play with a fun and free line-up of activities. From painting with spaghetti, to creating a cardboard city or a scarecrow, battling in wacky races or just clowning around with circus props and face paints, children and their families will be able to celebrate their right to play in a welcoming and engaging environment.
It won't just be the Eureka! visitors taking part either, as all Eureka! staff will be getting out of the offices and into the museum for a refresher course in play. The activity builds on the success of Playday 2009, which saw all Eureka! staff having the chance to ‘give it a go' on museum activities.
Outside the museum, everyone will be able to play in their own way on the Beach, in the park or on the new Wonder Walk outdoor trail. Throughout the museum, play will also be encouraged using imaginative activities designed to promote creativity. Children might ‘get messy' painting with cooked spaghetti or making cornflour gloop, ‘get adventurous' with a Circus Skills workshop, ‘get building' and create a cardboard city or miniature go-karts, or ‘get crafty' and make hats and scarecrows. Families will also be able to follow a trail around Eureka! and find out what makes it ‘our place' for the staff and visitors.
Liz Smallman, Head of Learning at Eureka! said: ‘Celebrating Playday is important for us at Eureka!. For us here at the museum, every day is an affirmation of a child's right to play. To take part in a national event celebrating play, at the same time as hundreds of other local community places and organisations, and to know they're supporting the same message is empowering for us and our goals'.
Playday celebrations at Eureka! come as part of PlayFest, the festival of play happening all summer long. Children visiting Eureka! for PlayFest have been able to take advantage of the Eureka! Annual Pass offer, giving 12 months free unlimited admission with the purchase of a day ticket, to return for the changing events and themes taking place throughout the summer.
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