Children and family events

Crafts, family drop-ins, and trails for children and families.

The Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum Children's Creative Writing Competition 2026

A blue background with stars dotted about and four objects, a costume, some toy soldiers and a Anglo Saxon broach.

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About the competition. The Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum are excited to announce the second annual Children’s Creative Writing…

Under 5's Autumn Craft session

A yellow background with the words Under 5's Autumn craft at the top and the museum logos at the bottom the image in the centre is of a circular shaped wreath with a cut out of a hedgehog in the centre it is decorated with Autumn leaves.

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Run by our wonderful volunteers Sue and Rachel this special session has been designed to encourage under 5's to be creative and to use nature in…

A special reading of Alice the Palace Postwoman

The image depicts a poster with a blue sky in the background and the edge of some leaves from a tree the bottom half is green to represent the grass. The text reads "Woodstock Library invites you to a very cheerful book reading of Alice the Palace postwoman meet the author and characters, Alice, Alfie and the palace parkland animals. Saturday 15 November. 11.00am - 12.00 noon in the Countryside Gallery. Design a stamp, colouring in raffle. Buy or borrow a book. Book signing.

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Join local author Denise Beaumont in the Countryside Gallery for a very special reading of Alice the Palace Postwoman on behalf of Woodstock…

Bells and Baubles

A yellow background with the words bells and baubles on and the museum logos at the bottom. The image shows two hand made bells with different designs in coloured pencils and four hanging paper baubles decorated with metallic crayons in designs taken from the Anglo Saxon objects in the museum.

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Join us in the Countryside Gallery on Festive Fayre weekend to create decorations inspired by objects in the Woodstock and Anglo - Saxon…

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