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Family activities

Get creative, learn something new and have fun with our activities for families

Creative Connections

Unleash your creative side with activities inspired by different areas of the Royal Collection.

Decorative and delightful

Rectangular cabinet veneered with ebony and set with three pietra dura panels of flowers and birds, the central panel incorporating high relief pietra dura fruit; bordered with premiere partie boulle marquetry on tortoiseshell. Fitted with three doors con
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Fantastic flowers
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A chicken challenge
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Collection of Faberge Eggs
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An egg-stravaganza!
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Close photograph of tulips in a garden
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Bringing the outside inside
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Royal toys
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Royal teddy bears and toys

Painting pictures

face of old woman from John Riley's painting
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Put yourself in the picture
Preparatory oil sketch for 'George III, Queen Charlotte and their Six Eldest Children'
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Spot the difference
The Memorial of Lord Darnley
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Looking for details
Interactive
Imagined conversations

Lost in the Library

Pages from The Tempest
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Inspired by Shakespeare
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Mainz Psalter
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Magnificent Mainz Psalter
Alice's adventures in Wonderland
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Book of Kings
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A Persian hero

Captured on camera

Collage designed by Alexandra, Princess of Wales
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Creative collage
Wedding group in Estremadura, Spain c.1858
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Setting the scene: Photographic portraits
Tableau of the seasons
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Living pictures
Hand-coloured photographic print of horse and trappings presented to Queen Victoria
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Living in colour

Amazing archives

page from Queen Victoria's diary
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Queen Victoria's diary
painting of Queen Charlotte
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Queen Charlotte
pressed flowers
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Queen Victoria's pressed flowers
Queen Victoria's paper dolls
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Queen Victoria's paper dolls

Put it on paper

Painting and sketch of a knight from Albert Edward's teaching sketchbook
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Sketch like a prince
drawing of hands by Leonardo da Vinci
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Hands-on art

Inspiration

image of drawings and pens
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Art for wellbeing
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