Creatacon

Creativity x Science at Creatacon 2026!

Creatacon Family Day

Come join us for a fun-filled family day at LCB Depot! Get ready for a day of creativity!

FREE creative family fun on Sat March 14th, 12noon @lcbdepot

This month we’re exploring science and creativity!

🌳 Take-a-way Tree!

📷 Disocver the magic of analogue photography

💿 Make art with centrifugal force!

👾 Experiment with light, sound, and storytelling

🤖 Robots, Yarn, Lasers, Badges....

and more!

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Whats involved...

🌳 Take-a-way Tree! Bring a loo roll, take away a sapling and grow a tree!

💿 Pedal Powered Paint Spinning. Create your own unique Painting on an old LP using pedal power with @cycloneworks_

📷 Cyanotype Printing. Create blue & white Images by using UV light and a chemical reaction between iron salts & sunlight. With @leicesterlofi

👾 Intro to game development. Experiment with music, pixel art, and making interactive stories. With @sidefestltd

🔦 Colourful shadows and lightbox pixel art. Blend and shape light to create colourful shadows and wall-sized pixel art. With @sidefestltd

⚙ Imaginative Inventions. Design and then make a new invention! itsa bitsa/blue peter style!

⭐ Clay and Big Draw. Space themed Big Draw, create planets, stars and spaceships out of clay with @brainartuk

PLUS

🤖 Robot challenges. Fancy a robot challenge? Go head to head in our robot challenge and see if you can win!

📛 Badge making come design and make your own pin badge

🧶 Yarn wrapping and collage Come and decorate a laser cut bird with collage and wool wrapping.

🌻Fabric wrapping laser cut flower wands. Come and wrap a laser cut flower to create a magical wand or wallhanging

With @leicesterhackspace

AND

🍔 Get delicious lunch and refreshments from @grays_lcbdepot special family menu

🎨 LOADS more family activities at venues across the Cultural Quarter as part of @cqearlies

🛺 FREE Rickshaws between venues from @rideleicester

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Activities are FREE but if you can book a free ticket via the link below so we've got an idea of numbers that would be great

Cultural Quarter Earlies are free drop-in activities for toddlers to ten year olds (and their grown ups) across Leicester's Cultural Quarter on the 2nd Saturday of every month at Phoenix, Two Queens, Leicester Print Workshop, LCB Depot, Curve + and Central Library

Follow @cqearlies to keep up to date and signup for the mailing list at https://linktr.ee/culturalquarterearlies