Free things to do in London with kids: June 2025
Welcome to the June 2025 edition of our posts on free things to do in London with kids! Here we round up a selection of free things to do in London in June 2025!
Before we dive in, please note that while all activities listed here are free to attend, some may require advance booking or free tickets to manage capacity. We strongly recommend checking the official websites of any venues or events you’re interested in before making your journey, as opening times and entry requirements can change.
Please be aware that we are not affiliated with any of the venues, organisations, or events mentioned in this guide. We don’t specifically endorse any particular activity – every family is different, and what works brilliantly for one might not suit another. This guide aims to help you discover new possibilities, but the final choice of activities should always be based on your family’s interests, children’s ages, and comfort levels.
We know that lots of events require pre-booking and can fill up quickly, which is why we’ve published this post early. We will keep adding to it as more free things to do are released. So do keep checking back!
Let’s explore what London has to offer for families exploring London in June!
What: Minigolf by Craig and Karl
Details: Canary Wharf’s iconic 9-hole minigolf course, designed by artists Craig Redman and Karl Maier, is coming back at Montgomery Square! This vibrant, one-of-a-kind course is perfect for a fun day out with the kids or some friendly competition with colleagues. Best of all, it’s free to play! Just visit the event stewards to grab your clubs and balls. Designed for all ages and skill levels, it’s an experience everyone can enjoy.
Where: Montgomery Square, Canary Wharf
When: From Friday 4 April
Who: All ages
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What: The King’s Cross Dinosaur Trail
Details: Dinosaurs have been spotted in King’s Cross! Families and adventurers of all ages are invited to embark on a new trail to find them all. Grab your map from Lightroom and look for strange clues to discover the dinosaur’s whereabouts. Once you have answered all the questions, head back to Lightroom and show your completed map to receive a prehistoric surprise.
When: Friday 2 May – Tuesday 30 September 2025, 10am every day, closing at 5.30pm on Sunday to Wednesday, and 7.30pm Thursday to Saturday.
Who: All ages
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What: Film Club
Details: Join at Canada Square Park for our summer Film Club running throughout June, July, August and September. With films spanning all genres, whether you’re in the mood for a rom-com, a sing-along, Bollywood, or Hollywood, you’ll find it at Tuesday and Sunday evening screenings. Family films will also be back on Saturday mornings, offering the perfect start to a weekend with the kids. June films include: Ready Player One, Wild Robot, Forrest Gump, Finding Nemo, Mrs Doubtfire, Wicked, Moana 2, The Hunger Games and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit.
Where: Canada Square Park, Canary Wharf
When: Throughout June 2025
Who: All ages
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What: Summer by the River: Movie nights
Details: Tuesday night is Movie Night at the Scoop. Join every Tuesday throughout the summer. for a blockbuster schedule of new and classic family-friendly favourites. June films include Mufasa: The Lion King, Paddington in Peru, and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.
Where: The Scoop at More London
When: Throughout June 2025
Who: All ages
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What: Rock & Rhyme
Details: Poet and performer Arji Manuelpillai and jazz rock guitarist Matt Smith have teamed up to create an unforgettable show full of energy, rhythm, and fun. Sing along to timeless favourites like Old MacDonald, Wheels on the Bus and Sleeping Bunnies all with a fresh, exciting twist that will have both children and grown-ups bopping along. This interactive performance blends poetry, rap, and music for a tongue-in-cheek rock show perfect for little people.
Where: Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf
When: Sunday 1 June 2025, 10.30, 12.30 and 14.30
Who: Ages 0-5
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What: Moomin 80: Everybody Is Welcome!
Details: Come and join for music, storytelling and a party fit for Moominvalley as we celebrate 80 years since the publication of the first Moomin book.
Where: Southbank Centre
When: Sunday 1 June 2025, 12.00-16.00
Who: Ages 4-11
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What: Mythical sea masks
Details: Explore the mystical world of ocean deities from around the globe! Create a mask with paper plates and collage materials while learning about Yemaja (Yoruba), Sedna (Inuit), and the Māori Taniwha. Discover seafarers’ superstitions and the offerings they made for protection.
Where: National Maritime Museum
When: Sunday 1 June 2025, 14.00-16.00
Who: All ages
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What: Secret 7″ Colouring Experience with Samme Snow
Details: Take part in a 30-minute creative session, where you’ll explore freehand drawing, collaborative artwork, and playful illustration. Inspired by Secret 7″, Samme’s freehand designs will bring together music, art and vinyl culture – inviting visitors to create a colourful tapestry.
Where: NOW Gallery
When: Sunday 1 June 2025, various sessions
Who: All ages
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What: Wonderful Wildlife Weekends
Details: Join to explore ponds and surrounding areas to discover the wildlife that lives at Camley Street Natural Park. Toads, tadpoles, woodlice and worms are just a selection of the animals that you might discover! Activities will include using nets to look at animals found in the pond and looking under logs to see what minibeasts you can find as well as seasonal craft activities.
Where: Camley Street Natural Park
When: Sunday 1, 8 and 29 June 2025, 13.00-15.00
Who: All ages
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What: Play Beach Volleyball and Badminton
Details: Enjoy a rare opportunity to play outdoor beach volleyball in the city this Summer. If volleyball isn’t your thing, badminton is also available to play!
Where: Merchant Square, Paddington
When: From Monday 2 June 2025. Bookings are from 9am – 3pm from Monday to Thursday, and 9am – 5pm on Friday with the latest booking being at 5.00 – 6.00pm
Who: All ages
Find out more here.
What: World Ocean Day
Details: Celebrate our brilliant blue planet this World Ocean Day at the National Maritime Museum. Meet ocean experts, enjoy live music and science shows, play fun ocean games and get stuck into craft activities: we’ve got plenty to float your boat! This year the event will also celebrate the reopening of Ocean Court, the largest space in the National Maritime Museum and the place to connect with our watery world.
Where: National Maritime Museum
When: Saturday 7 June 2025, 10.00-16.30
Who: All ages
Find out more here.
What: Drop-in Design: The Circulation Department
Details: Fancy wearing a sculpture on your head, your shoulders or your arms? Where else could you wear it? Join artist Gayle Chong Kwan to create your own wearable art inspired by your senses. Use images from the V&A, recycled packaging, and add colours to make your art.
Where: V&A
When: Saturday 7 – Sunday 8 June 2025, 12.00-18.00
Who: Ages 5+
Find out more here.
What: Eid on the Square 2025
Details: Trafalgar Square will be filled with activities for all ages. Rumi’s Cave – Spearhead Creatives brings together comedy, percussion, and creative writing in an interactive tent. Halal Tourism Britain returns with their Muslim Museum of Britain experience and guided tours of Muslim history around the Square. The WAW Creative Arts Family Zonewill host a range of creative workshops. Visit the immersive WAW Community Interactive Arts Tent, meet Omar and Hana, enjoy Eid-themed walkabouts and lantern making from Alif New Beginnings. There’ll also be henna and a wide variety of global food and market stalls to explore.
Where: Trafalgar Square
When: Sunday 8 June 2025, 12.00-18.00
Who: All ages
Find out more here.
What: Hear it Live!
Details: After an incredible performance of ‘Fading Memory’ during February’s Late we welcome back musician in residence and dizi flautist Daniel Tsz-shing Lei. Daniel will be accompanied by renowned percussionist Beibei Wang for an afternoon of musical fusion, combining traditional Chinese and western elements with contemporary styles.
Where: Horniman Museum
When: Thursday 12 June 2025, 15.30-16.00
Who: All ages
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What: WordPlay: Singing Together
Details: Discover music, stories and play designed to encourage creativity, communication and connection for under-fives and their grown-ups.
Where: Southbank Centre
When: Friday 13 June 2025, 10.15: 0 – 2 years and 11.30: 3 – 5 years. If you have children across both age groups, the 11.30am session is recommended.
Who: Under 5s
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What: SENsory Sailors
Details: Disabled children, children with additional needs and their families are invited to a monthly session at the National Maritime Museum led by disabled creatives. Explore the Museum’s collections, enjoy the opportunity to be creative together as a family, and meet other local families.
Where: National Maritime Museum
When: Saturday 14 June 2025, 11.00-12.30
Who: Sessions are tailored to children under 13 years. Siblings under 13 years old without SEND are welcomed.
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What: Summer Screens: Family Gaming
Details: Come along to free Family Gaming sessions where you can play Mario Kart or Just Dance on our big screens. All of the gaming events are free to take part in, simply come along and the friendly stewards can explain the rules. Player numbers are limited and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Where: Canada Square Park, Canary Wharf
When: Saturday 14 June 2025 – Just Dance 2024, 13.00-16.00 and Saturday 15 June 2025 – Mario Kart 8, 13.00-16.00
Who: Ages 5+
Find out more here.
What: Family Event: Collage Club
Details: Collage Club is a workshop series celebrating the art of cutting and sticking! Embracing hands-on techniques and using scissors as a drawing tool, Collage Club is perfect for anyone keen to flex their creative muscles and get making without having to produce perfectly proportioned, boring drawings. Each session features a range of activities including speed-collaging and collaborative image-making, and every workshop is packed with top notch magazines and colourful paper for participants to rip, snip, glue and stick into something brand new.
Where: Petrie Museum
When: Saturday 21 June 2025, 11.00–14.00
Who: All ages
Find out more here.
What: Refugee Week: Threads of Joy and Community
Details: Come along to a day of family-friendly workshops and performances to celebrate Refugee Week, inspired by themes of joy and small acts of kindness. Including an opportunity to contribute a clay bird towards a communal flock of birds created by refugee groups from Salusbury World charity, a unique hip hop and West African dance performance, and an informal pop-up performance and music workshop.
Where: V&A
When: Saturday 21 June 2025, 11.00-16.00
Who: Families
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What: Sensory Friendly: Design and Draw with Light
Details: Come along to our Sensory Friendly: Design and Draw with light, a monthly workshop for neurodiverse visitors of all ages and their families. Join this session to explore drawing and designing with light!
Where: V&A
When: Saturday 21 June 2025, 11.00-16.00
Who: Ages 5+
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What: Festival of Stuff: Stratford Extravaganza 2025
Details: Join for a large-scale, drop-in and completely free Festival dedicated to all things materials and making at the Institute of Making Stratford! From captivating demonstrations and exciting hands-on making activities, to live music and unorthodox culinary stalls, together we’ll explore the sheer joy of stuff. Investigate wind like never before. Try your hand at a wide range of blustery activities: from panpipes to propellers and Bernoulli balloons to hot air balloons. Fuel a Stirling engine with steam, strut a ‘wind-o-graphy’ catwalk and marvel at our electric hovercraft track.
Where: Institute of Making Stratford
When: Saturday 21 June 2025, 13.00-17.00
Who: All ages
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What: Tots at the Docks
Details: Dive deep in the river, stack cargo, put on a puppet show or build the tallest tower! Tots at the docks is an unticketed, drop-in play session.
Where: London Museum Docklands
When: Wednesday 25 June 2025, 10.30-14.00
Who: Under 5s
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What: All the Creatures, Big and Small
Details: An invitation to the children of London to come and meet THE HERDS up close, at Coram’s Fields, a space dedicated to children’s play and exploration. Within the park setting, children will join in puppet making, creative play, and even try some puppetry.
Where: Coram’s Fields
When: Saturday 28 June 2025, 10.00-12.30
Who: Under 16s
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What: Family Event: Buzzing About Wasps with Jaquie
Details: For Insect Week 2025 the Grant Museum is exploring the world of wasps. So much more than picnic pests, they are builders, hunters, socially fascinating creatures and, above all, essential to the environment. Inspired by research from the Sumner Lab, the Grant Museum collection and THE HERDS.
Where: Grant Museum
When: Saturday 28 June 2025, 10.00–13.00
Who: All ages
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What: Hands on Armour: Mighty Mirrors
Details: Mirror, mirror on the… battlefield? Discover how mighty mirror plates shone across the battlefields of India and Iran. Try on real and replica armour, with the help of our Hands on Armour volunteers.
Where: Wallace Collection
When: Saturday 28 June 2025, 13.30-16.00
Who: Ages 5+
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What: BST Hyde Park Open House
Details: Open House returns this summer for 8 amazing days of activities and FREE entry in the heart of Hyde Park! Activities include the opportunity to sit in a variety of trucks and diggers, tennis session, cricket coaching and outdoor cinema.
Where: Hyde Park
When: Monday 30 June 2025, 12.00 onwards
Who: All ages
Find out more here.
And don’t forget to also check out our post The ULTIMATE list of free things to do with kids in London which provides plenty of ideas of things to do in London that are free and always available.