Five of the best things to do with kids in Birmingham this summer from just £10.25

COME July, Birmingham will be in the global spotlight when it hosts the Commonwealth Games.

But does our second city have enough action to keep a family entertained on a summer holiday city break?

We put it to the test.

(Oh and take note, Tory MP Heather Wheeler, Brum isn’t “God awful” – it’s awfully good…)

Block booking

The Legoland Discovery Centre, west of the city centre, keeps things wonderfully simple with a main area that lets kids loose amid thousands of bricks.

My eight-year-old throws herself into building the best possible car to race down a ramp, while her younger sister experiments with switching clothes and hairstyles on Lego figures.

Around this, things get much more ambitious.

The Kingdom Quest ride has the girls shooting rocks out of trolls’ hands with lasers and then there’s Miniland, an impressive scaled-down city, with marvellous models of Edgbaston cricket ground and Warwick Castle.

Tickets cost from £22.95pp at .

Educational hit

THE Science Garden at Thinktank is full of pulleys to tug, levers to yank and water fountains to balance plastic balls in.