A bumper day of events has kicked off the tenth annual Family Learning Festival in Bradford.

Museums, libraries and other venues join together to stage the festival, giving parents and children the chance to learn new things.

Many of this year's activities have a space-age theme.

Families flocked to the National Science and Media Museum today, where astronaut Tim Peake's capsule is still on show.

Holly McCulloch, who works at the museum, said: "The kids can come in and make Mars rovers for themselves, we have a testing area so they can see how fast they work and see how they look.

"We've got mission patches, so they can make badges just as Tim Peake wore. Upstairs we have rockets, there's straw rockets and push rockets, where they can launch them at the Moon or Soyuz and there's also astronaut training."

She added the half-term week was expected to be busy, with the Soyuz space capsule still drawing visitors.

While the astronaut himself was only in Bradford for a day last month, families can still learn about his historic mission to the International Space Station.

James Hewitson, 38, took his sons Stanley and Leander along to the museum.

He said: "I've not been here for 25 years and it's great that there's all these free activities - lots of people seem to be enjoying themselves."

While Judy Steel, 64, and her son Chris Steel, 43, said they were having a great time at the museum.

Activities take place at the museum every day throughout the festival, which begins today and runs until Sunday, October 29.

And there's also plenty to keep everyone entertained at Bradford City Library, which is offering alien-themed activities on its 'Super Saturday'.

Susan Brewster-Craig, Development Officer for libraries, said: "It's Family Learning Week across the country, so we always join in every year. This is our tenth year, so we are very excited that we have managed ten years.

"We're trying to encourage parents to work with their children a little bit more on exciting and fun things. It helps the children to develop with the parents joining in.

"The first thing we started was a alien competition, because the theme of this festival is 'staying in touch'.

"We asked the parents to do one drawing and the child was to do the other drawing, so they are all working together as a family and learning together.

"We've got lots of activities happening here, we've had loads of families come down."

There has also been storytime sessions, 'alien laughter' workshops and youngsters have also been able to make alien planets, postcards and face masks.

She added: "The response has been really great, we've got a whole week of things going on as well."

Other events throughout the week will include Aliens Love Underpants shows for children up to the age of six. These are based on the books by children's author Claire Freedman and will be held at libraries across the Bradford district.

The Peace Museum will host workshops on Thursday and Friday, while at Kala Sangam in Forster Square, visitors can see the fantastical Indian folktale The Magic Fish and take part in a family dance workshop.

Artist Jonny White will be leading activities at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Lister Park, Manningham.

And The Impressions Gallery in City Park is hosting From Bradford with Love, offering people the chance to take part in a pop-up photo studio as part of their show.