Families

Come and meet this giant commission by Lily Mixe, alongside Young Creatives X RNLI.

Make your mark in our Clore Learning Studio with the Chalk Stream. Our Clore Learning Studio has been transformed into a Chalk Stream. Designed for play, alongside the children’s art library of over 400 books and regular workshop programme.

Fun-filled drawing sessions for little ones!

Join us for a free morning of creative fun, exploring a range of materials and activities to engage and learn with your baby.

Discover the stories behind the artworks during our fun, hands-on Family Highlight Tours.

Come and create at our free, drop-in family workshops for ages 12 and under.

Join us for a free morning of creative fun, exploring a range of crafting activities to learn with your child.

Margate Bookie is back! Discover all Margate Bookie Schools Day, Big Weekend and Children's Bookie events taking place at Turner here. There'll be readings, in conversations and workshops for schools, families and adults alike.

Enjoy your favourite nursery rhymes and songs with storytellers bringing them to life.

Join author and illustrator team Lucy Strange and Pam Smy as they share the secrets behind their ghostly new series Lockett & Wilde’s Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries. 

Get ready for a hilarious and creative comic book event as audiences join time-travelling penguins Pablo and Splash on their adventures.

Join illustrator Garry Parsons for a dinosaur draw-a-long. Learn how to draw the star of The Dinosaur That Pooped series, written by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter.

Prepare for a wild ride with beards, cats, the unexpected and some very short verse, with his latest book, The Pocket Book of Pocket Poems.

Join Margate's own Crab Museum as they attempt to answer a series of bottom-related questions in their new book A Natural History of Bums.