Things to do in N.E with a 5 year old and a 4 year old

[Mickdundee]

Dippy the Natural History museum dinosaur is on tour at the Great North Museum (was Hancock). That's within walking distance from the Discovery museum, so you could do both museums in one day. You need to book a slot online if you want to see Dippy.

My youngest loves dinosaurs so that could be a very good shout!

 

[Roger]

Beach if weather is alright?

Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Glass Centre, Fans Museum. If they can handle IKEA I am sure they can handle a few hours in museums.

Beamish might take more than one day as well, and once you have paid once you can go back as much as you want.

 

[b1gals]

We’ll be stopping at Craigies Farm or similar in Edinburgh on the way down, so they can endure an hour or so of Ikea shopping.

Try East Links Family Park near Dunbar - ideal for kids that age

 

[HABA87]

Dippy was disappointing in a plain room IMO. Still worth a look.

The rest of the museum is canny for what it is.

 

[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

My youngest loves dinosaurs

A Gallagher bro concert?

 

[HABA87]

Broom House Farm is free to kill a couple hours.
Hall Hill farm isn't free, but is class.

Dunno about October like.

 

[joemcdokes]

Dinnar about that in October. Getting blasted in the face with sand whipped up from strong wind isn't the best crack for a 4 and 5 year old either.

October is normally a great month, still no coat right into the middle of it.

 

[Keith S30S]

A bit old school but buy a loaf, take them up Penshaw Monument. Come down cross the road take them into the County Park and head to the lake. Feed the ducks / birds. Then on the way back to the car park take them on the play ground.

Head down to the beach for lunch. Fish and Chips or Martinos for a snack indoors.

Head to Shields, take them on the fair. There's a boating lake if the weather is very good.

Bad weather? Take them to Marsden Grotto.

It might not be very modern but the kids will enjoy it. The weather being good would be helpful.

 

[Red]

Take them to the beach.

edit. Just seen its in October, keep them away from the beach

 

[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

A bit old school but buy a loaf, take them up Penshaw Monument. Come down cross the road take them into the County Park and head to the lake. Feed the ducks / birds. Then on the way back to the car park take them on the play ground.

Head down to the beach for lunch. Fish and Chips or Martinos for a snack indoors.

Head to Shields, take them on the fair.

It might not be very modern but the kids will enjoy it. The weather being good would be helpful.

Fancy that mesel - can you adopt me?

 

[Mickdundee]

A bit old school but buy a loaf, take them up Penshaw Monument. Come down cross the road take them into the County Park and head to the lake. Feed the ducks / birds. Then on the way back to the car park take them on the play ground.

Head down to the beach for lunch. Fish and Chips or Martinos for a snack indoors.

Head to Shields, take them on the fair.

It might not be very modern but the kids will enjoy it. The weather being good would be helpful.

You shouldn’t feed ducks bread - no nutritional value and fills them up too much.

 

[DH1]

Angel of the North for half hour then saltwell Park which is a 5 minute drive away with animals in cages and a couple of play parks etc

 

[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

You shouldn’t feed ducks bread - no nutritional value and fills them up too much.

Nah, it helps them float.

Angel of the North for half hour then saltwell Park which is a 5 minute drive away with animals in cages and a couple of play parks etc

Lost mag children?

 

[Keith S30S]

You shouldn’t feed ducks bread - no nutritional value and fills them up too much.

Well buy something more healthy for them, google it...

 

[joemcdokes]

Take them to the beach.

edit. Just seen its in October, keep them away from the beach

You can have a shit day at a beach in July.

 

[Some Random Guy]

I tried to teach the 5 year old how to play Mariokart on the SNES mini. It didn’t go well. Surprisingly she was pretty good at Super Punch Out.

f***ing SNES man. Since you're living in 1992 buy them some pogs then get them naff naff t-shirt from geordie jeans.

 

[joemcdokes]

f***ing SNES man. Since you're living in 1992 buy them some pogs then get them naff naff t-shirt from geordie jeans.

Less dangerous than clackers.

 

[Mickdundee]

f***ing SNES man. Since you're living in 1992 buy them some pogs then get them naff naff t-shirt from geordie jeans.

Retro gaming is the future. At least I thought so until I witnessed a 5 year old trying to use a wired control pad like a steering wheel!

 

[Some Random Guy]

Retro gaming is the future. At least I thought so until I witnessed a 5 year old trying to use a wired control pad like a steering wheel!

We enjoy retro games because we are nostalgic for them.

To the bairns it's just welfare Mariokart. I still say super Mario World is the best Mario though.

 

[TheWanderer]

We’ve booked 2 nights away during our school October hols, staying at the Holiday Inn beside the Metro Centre.

We thought we had it all planned out - Tuesday slow drive down, stop on Edinburgh and a wander around the Metrocentre/Ikea; Wednesday Beamish and show the kids where their grandparents grew up and where their great-grandparents used to live; Thursday SOL Stadium tour.

However, we’ve discovered that the SOL tours only run Friday-Sunday so we now have a day free. Any suggestions what we can do?

We were thinking the Discovery Museum but we’d probably want to combine it with something else in central Newcastle to make a proper day of it. Or is there anything spectacular that we don’t know about?

Bet the kids can’t wait for that holiday!