With half term just a week away, Falmouth’s National Maritime Museum has announced a series of family activities to help keep kids happy during the holiday.

The fun starts on Saturday, May 28 with the Safety at Sea Weekend. Two days of RNLI-themed activities will include safety at sea awareness films, demonstrations of life saving equipment, fun quizzes and a signal flag trail around the museum. Children can make their own mini rescue rocket to take home, after seeing if they can fire a safety line to save the shipwrecked crew.

Then, from Monday, May 30 until Sunday, June 5 visitors can take part in a week of traditional North American crafts, inspired by the Native American and Inuit canoes and kayaks in the museum’s collection.

Families can discover how to make their own spirit masks, hunting hats, mini totem poles and models of traditional canoes, plus find the animals and mythical figures hidden around the museum to create their own totem pole design.

There will be two storytelling events on Tuesday, May 31 and Thursday, June 2. The Tuesday follows Nicholas Dark-knees on an exciting adventure to three strangely inhabited islands, while the Thursday sees the return of Douglas Dapper, the story explorer. This half-term, Douglas is ‘inuit’ up to his neck discovering the wonderful world of the Native American and Inuit peoples.