New Delhi, May 10 -- Summer brings with it a certain ennui-there is a sudden break from the whirlwind daily routine of school. Friends too seem to be away on trips with family or engaged in enrichment classes. However, why not spend this time simply exploring different interests and having fun along the way? Creative practitioners across the country are offering activities-from walks and micro fairs to book clubs, movie evenings, art and craft sessions-to add a certain vibrance to languid summer days.

Each summer, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art organises 'Craftopia' for kids aged 6 to 14. This year, the theme promises to whisk you away in a time machine along ancient trade routes, workshops of scribes and royal courts where board games we...