Families

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Family events

Little Explorers: Flying with Ada

Little Explorers: Flying with Ada

  • Family

6 December 2023, 11.00-12.30
Learning Centre Floor -2, Photography Studio
Free, booking required

Join our free monthly session for Under 5s. Explore the gallery and the collection with your family through stories, songs and making activities.

Little Explorers

Little Explorers

  • Family

17 January 2024, 11.00-12.30
Learning Centre Floor -2, Photography Studio
Free, booking required

Join our free monthly session for Under 5s. Explore the gallery and the collection with your family through stories, songs and making activities.

Make and create! 

Get creative with our free family resources

Seeing Me Seeing You

Seeing Me Seeing You
Activity pack (PDF)

Download our new photographic portraits activity pack, featuring lots of fun activities to do at home. 
BP Next Generation

BP Next Generation

Learn to draw and paint portraits inspired by our artist films.
Red Nose Day 2023

Red Nose Day 2023
(PDF)

Can you make a new, funny character to wear on Red Nose Day?
Champions of the World

Champions of the World
(PDF)

Champions of the World is our brand new activity book for children and young people.
Playful Portraits

Playful Portraits

Draw and make while discovering more about the Gallery’s Collection and these brilliant people.
Magical Journeys

Magical Journeys
(PDF)

Read our activity book of portraits and illustrations inspired by favourite writers
My Super Heroes

My Super Heroes
(PDF)

Read the Gallery’s first hospital activity book, including famous sitters from our Collection.
Art with Spark

Art with Spark
(PDF)

Join Spark to learn to create your own portraits.
Time Switcher

Time Switcher
(PDF)

Go on an adventure through history to meet famous faces around the Gallery.
Talking Heads

Talking Heads
(PDF)

3D portraits! Create 3D portraits of your family and friends.
Pop Up Gallery

Pop Up Gallery
(PDF)

Create your own 3D National Portrait Gallery. Draw portraits to include in your special exhibition.
Tudor and Elizabethan matching pairs

Tudor and Elizabethan matching pairs

Play our matching pairs game. Three levels of difficulty make it fun for the whole family.
Regency familiar faces

Regency familiar faces

Rearrange tiles to uncover sitters from the Gallery's Collection by playing our puzzle game.
Who do you think you were?

Who do you think you were?

Answer a few lifestyle questions about the period and discover your inner Elizabethan!