As sleepovers go, Dino Snores at London's Natural History Museum must surely be one of the most exciting available.
Parents with children aged between 7 and 11 are invited along to this (almost) monthly event, with the next one lined up for 17th May, 2013.
Beginning at 7pm – after the museum has been emptied of the daytime visitors – and running all the way through to 10am the next day,
Dino Snores entertains kids with plenty of fun activities.
These include:
a
torch-lit trail through the museum's famous dinosaur gallery,
a live show called
Revenge of the Minibeasts about creatures that like to bite and sting,
Dino Design where children have a chance to design your own T-shirt (which can, of course, be taken home),
and
the sleepover itself, which involves bedding down for the night in the Central Hall in the shadow of the museum's extraordinary Diplodocus skeleton.
There's yet more fun the following morning with a live show featuring Animal Man
Nick Spellman.
On the way out of the Natural History Museum children will be presented with a bag of goodies to show off to friends.
If the May event is fully booked by the time you make it to
the ticket website, it's not a problem – Dino Snores takes place once a month most months, so simply pick another date.