£16 for an online home science experiments for kids course

Find out how to entertain and educate your kids using household items

What do you get?

• Discover 50 different experiments you can do at home
• Learn cool science facts and theory behind the experiments
• Study online from anywhere
• ICOES accredited

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If you’ve come up with a variety of engaging ways to educate your kids during the lockdown, we salute you. If not (yeah, us too), you need to check out this course. You’ll be armed with 50 science experiments that you can do in your own home, mostly using everyday items, as well as the theory behind them. Not only will you be able to entertain the kids for hours, but you’ll educate them at the same time. Oh, and you can enrol now for just £14 – win-win-win.

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Alight here for your weekend adventure Be first in line to explore a transport treasure trove at London Transport Museum’s Depot Open Weekend Fast track yourself to fun for all the family with this summer’s London Transport Museum Depot Open Weekend on July 13 - 14. Home to more than 320,000 transport-related objects, this is a great opportunity to explore behind the scenes and delve deeper into the Museum’s magnificent collection. Along with learning a thing or two about trams, trains and buses, visitors can chat to costumed characters, jump aboard the Bus King puppetry theatre bus and singalong at live music sessions. For the quieter commuters among us, there’s transport-themed face painting, LEGO train track building or you can take a ride on the Depot’s very own miniature railway. And just like on TfL, the best part is that kids get to go free. More Info - Booking

7 London parks you can barbecue in this summer - Time Out

Sun’s out, buns out. We pick the London hotspots where you’ve got a green light to grill

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London Fields always got packed and seriously smoky on a balmy day – and it’s had an impact on the park. Because of damage, rubbish and air pollution, barbecue use is suspended for summer 2019.

Come summer, cooking dinner on a grill in the great outdoors is one of life’s simple pleasures, and you don’t need to head out of the city to indulge in a barbecue. Just make sure you don't scorch the grass and put your rubbish in the bin when you’re done, okay?

Most of London’s lush green spaces are reserved for picnics only, but there are some major parks and local gardens where you’re officially allowed to fire up the BBQ. Here are the best spots in London where it’s totally chill to grill.

Photograph: Alena Veasey/Shutterstock.com

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Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Holborn
Central London parks aren’t just for stuffing sarnies into your face at lunchtime. You can barbecue in most Camden parks and this huge flame-friendly public square (the biggest in London, no less) is no exception. Work off the meat with a post-picnic tennis match.

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Waterlow Park, Highgate
Grill the day away on this gentle grassy slope. Dubbed a ‘garden for gardenless Londoners’, this scenic north London park welcomes fair weather feasting. Drool over your barbecued banquet, while enjoying views of the city skyline.

Photograph: Peter Moulton/Shutterstock.com

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Caledonian Park, Holloway
Get your alfresco flame on in this petite patch of green. The Islington park is home to community gardens and an imposing Grade II-listed clocktower. Handy for keeping an eye on those Linda McCartneys. There’s nothing worse than burnt bangers.

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Highbury Fields, Islington
The sound of sizzling sausages fills the air at Highbury Fields whenever the weather allows. For fancy barbecue fare and punchy marinades, stock up at Godfreys butchers just north of the park.

It is worth checking this one out before lighting up, though. Islington Council are currently consulting on limiting the barbecue area of the park to just one section, as well as implementing a 9pm curfew for the summer.

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Russell Square, Bloomsbury
Russell Square might be better known for lost tourists and academics on their lunchbreaks than baps and burgers, but it’s also a prime central spot for summertime smouldering.

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Burgess Park, Southwark
Sausages with a view of The Shard? Yes please! Burgess Park is a grand green space stretching from Camberwell and Walworth to Peckham and the Old Kent Road, with scenic lakeside barbecue areas. Always grill responsibly – scorched grass and litter isn’t a good look.

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Cantelowes Gardens, Camden
Cantelowes Gardens is a secret suntrap away from the Camden crowds. There’s a skate park, play area and plenty of grass for firing up the barbie. If you need supplies, look no further than Phoenicia, an amazing Mediterranean food hall, for healthy barbecue inspiration.

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A tropical Pineapple Gin Parlour is popping up in London – and the drinks are free Pick a foodstuff, any foodstuff. Chances are, there’s a day dedicated to it. From macarons to milk, sushi to soda, there’s likely a vaguely tenuous reason to cram yourself full of your favourite treat at some point during the year. On Saturday June 1 it’s the turn of the pineapple – and to mark International Pineapple Day, That Boutique-y Gin Company is hosting a toast to the spiky-yet-sweet fruit.

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Time Out - Discover the world’s most exceptional minds

A stroke of genius From Florence Nightingale to Leonardo da Vinci, learn about history’s extraordinary innovators at the British Library Intrigued by history’s great thinkers? Want to get to grips with the evolution of writing? You might not be able to travel back in time, but the British Library has got the next best thing – two exhibitions that celebrate incredible works by equally astonishing innovators. Writing: Making Your Mark explores the origins of writing and follows centuries of human innovation. From note-taking to 21st century digital devices, this interactive exhibition will let you get up close and personal with James Joyce’s collection of notes for ‘Ulysses’, Florence Nightingale’s notebooks and typography by the Russian artist El Lissitzky. Plus, you’ll also get to discover more about Mozart’s spectacular compositions and Alexander Fleming’s ‘eureka!’ moment. But not only that, the British Library is hosting a second, landmark exhibition this summer. Since it’s the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, you’ll also get a chance to pore over the incredible notebooks of this artist, inventor and all-round genius at Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion. Ready to pique your curiosity? Writing: Making Your Mark runs until August 27 and Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion, opens on June 7. Bag tickets now. INSPIRATION THIS WAY