{"id":20952,"date":"2023-01-24T19:39:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T18:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=20952"},"modified":"2023-01-24T19:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T18:39:34","slug":"playful-museums-festival-returns-to-causeway-coast-and-glens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2023\/01\/playful-museums-festival-returns-to-causeway-coast-and-glens\/","title":{"rendered":"Playful Museums Festival returns to Causeway Coast and Glens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Playful Museums Festival returns to Causeway Coast and Glens during February with a series of outdoor events, crafts and storytelling for children aged 3 \u2013 4<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Join the Museum Services team to \u2018Seek, Find, Speak, Create\u2019 at one of four local green spaces for an outdoor trail to explore nature\u2019s treasures followed by an indoor family craft workshop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-20953\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-2-725x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"773\" \/>Activities will be facilitated by The Hares Corner Cooperative, and, with help from Freddie the Squirrel, children will be encouraged to look for the signs of nature.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will have a chance to get creative together by decorating a frame representing nature using items gathered from the outdoors and museum collections.<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s work will then go on display in a week-long exhibition at Ballymoney Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The four sessions will take place from 10am-12pm in the following locations:<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 7<sup>th<\/sup> February, Roe Valley Country Park \u2013 Green Lane Museum;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 9<sup>th<\/sup> February, Anderson Park \u2013 Coleraine Town Hall;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 21<sup>st<\/sup> February, Megaw Park \u2013 Ballymoney Town Hall;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> February, Ballycastle Forest Park \u2013 Ramoan Parish Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The Playful Museum\u2019s Festival programme also includes a storytelling session for 3\u20134-year-olds with Colin Urwin from the Armstrong Storytelling Trust on Wednesday 8th February in Ballymoney Town Hall from 10am \u2013 11am.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to book your free place at any of the events please email <a href=\"mailto:cms@causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk\">cms@causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk<\/a> or ring Ballymoney Visitor Information enter on 028 2766 0230.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions are delivered with support from the NIMC Playful Museums Festival grant funding.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Playful Museums Festival returns to Causeway Coast and Glens during February with a series of outdoor events, crafts and storytelling for children aged 3 \u2013 4 Join the Museum Services team to \u2018Seek, Find, Speak, Create\u2019 at one of four local green spaces for an outdoor trail to explore nature\u2019s treasures followed by an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2023\/01\/playful-museums-festival-returns-to-causeway-coast-and-glens\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20954,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions\/20954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}