Creative Family Activities

From where to park your buggy to what’s on for your mini artiste, here’s everything you need to know about visiting Lowry with your family.

Lowry Family Christmas 2024

Celebrate the festive season at Lowry with a variety of family-friendly activities starting December 2, 2024. Children can embark on the Festive Elf Trail, design their own Christmas cards, and contribute to the evolving Festive Forest display. The Lookout area will feature new festive decorations, including a redesigned tent castle and updated book selections celebrating diverse seasonal events. Additionally, young visitors can craft their own Stick Man figures and enjoy themed coloring sheets.

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Creative fun for the whole family

We’ve created a weekly programme of activities for babies, under 5s, under 11s and other young audiences.

Weekly Term-Time Activities

Little Creatives

Bring your little ones along for a free, fun and engaging activity led by a professional early years practitioner. The session is for little ones aged 2-5 years but is designed so you leave with some pearls of parenting wisdom too. 

Tickets are a must and we ask that there's 1 adult for every 3 children. If this is a problem, please do let us know.  You can book tickets here.

We also ask that independent organisations leave these sessions for families only. We'd be happy to bring a session to your space instead.

For more info, email getcreative@thelowry.com.

Babies Playtime

Join our professional early years facilitator every week during term time for a free, 45-minute baby playtime class. There'll be lots of singing, lots of fun: 

10am class - for under 1s

11am - for ages 1-2

Please book a ticket for all grown-ups and babies coming along.

Welcome to The Lookout

Explore our dedicated family space where little ones can create and play to their hearts’ content. You’ll find it on the right-hand side as you walk through the main entrance and up the escalators - lifts are also available.

Feel free to spend as long as you like here. No pre-booking required. 

Feel free to drop in:

Tue-Fri, 11am-4.30pm

Sat&Sun, 10am-4.30pm

(Unless there's a pre-booked session going on. Check out our Activities schedule for more info)

The Lookout at The Lowry is sponsored by Carole Nash.

Facilities for Families

To make sure your Lowry visit really is fun for all the family, here are some things we do to make your life easier:

• Buggies are allowed in all of our Galleries.
• Buggies aren’t allowed in our theatres (except for access reasons) but we have buggy parks near all of our auditoriums.
• Breastfeed or bottle-feed anywhere you like.
• Baby changing facilities in all accessible toilets throughout the building.