Holiday activities for kids - Museum

The range of activities includes fossil hunts on the beach, model making, dinosaurs, archeology and embroidery with computers.

All are suitable for children between eight and twelve. Whole families are invited to the beach fossil hunts which take place in the evenings.

Booking is required for the indoor classes and a fee will be charged for these with a special discount for those booking places on all three events.

The series starts tomorrow with Alison Hawkins of the Embroiderers' Guild leading a Young Embroiderers' Workshop at the museum from 10.30am until 3.30pm.

The workshop is designed to encourage and interest children in textiles by using themes and designs from the museum's collections The theme will be "designing on a computerised sewing machine."

The cost is 3 to non-members of Young Embroiderers. Those attending are advised to bring a packed lunch.

A free family beach safari will leave the Sea Angling Club at the foot of Galley Hill at 6.30pm on Wednesday.

No booking is required but beach shoes or wellington boots are suggested. Children should be accompanied.

There is another on Thursday, August 22.

Hidden on Pevensey Marsh is the lost village of Northeye. Before it fell into disuse, the medieval village had a manor, was a smugglers' haunt and had links with Battle Abbey.

The Northeye Discovery Class meets in the museum education room on Thursday, August 8 from 10.30am until 12.15pm under Stephen Calladine Evans and costs 3.

The Dinosaur Discovery Class meets in the education room on Thursday, August 15 from 10.30am under museum curator Julian Porter and costs 3.

Build your own De La Warr Pavilion! Town Mayor Cllr Peter Fairhurst leads a model-making workshop on Thursday, August 29 from 10.30 until 12.15. The cost is 3.

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