May Drop-in Designs & Performances @ the V&A South Kensington

Explore the collection through a series of fun activities designed for grown-ups and their little ones to enjoy together. 

Celebrate nature through puppetry and movement and use unexpected materials to make mosaics together. 

Build soft sculptures that capture your energy and much more!  Families of all ages are welcome!   

Drop-in Design: Shapes of Us By Artist Natalie Zervou

Create fabric sculptures with your family that express your feelings. Use fabrics and string with colours and textures that you like to make your artwork. Add your piece to a galley of sculptures and send your sculpture on a journey, zooming across the space. 

• Recommended age 5+. 
• Art Studio, Learning Centre. Level 0 

Pop-Up Performance: Fly Together By Rachel Sale

Come along to create a bird puppet from paper that captures the energy of your day. Choose a part of your bird that say something about you. Then have an opportunity to move around the space together, with one another and other families. Let us celebrate in the joy and power of the natural world!   

• Recommended age 5+.
• Raphael Court, Room 48a. Level 0 

Drop-in Design: Wishing Well By Ciara Neufeldt

Join us today for a wishing well activity! Gather and create a collection of wishes and celebrations on coins. Decorate the wishing well and create your own coin design as an offering to the well. Will you share your wish with your family, keep it a secret or say it out loud to help your wish come true? It’s up to you! 

• Recommended age 5+. 
• The Globe, Europe 1600–1815, Room 4. Level -1 

Design Baby: Soup! By Artist Natalie Zervou

Play with textural and experimental materials and mix them up with your little ones! Explore sculpted bowls of soup and spoons. Layer up fabric ingredients to make a new dish in a space where you are encouraged to play with your food. Let your child take the lead to explore the space and materials freely, at their own pace. 

• Recommended age 0-3. 
• John Lyon’s Community Gallery, Learning Centre. Level 0