Kids activities
Edinburgh International Book Festival Picks
The Edinburgh International Book Festival pitches camp in Charlotte Square Gardens this year between 9th and 25th August, hosting a staggering 800 authors from around the world. The quality and range of authors always draws wide interest, and this year is no exception. Following the launch of ticket sales last month, heavy traffic made the web site inaccessible for a while and a good number of events have already sold out.
Leith Festival
150 events - theatre, comedy, music, workshops, fairs, and more - in 50 venues. 1 mile radius.
Search is on for Perfect Princess for 3D Panto
The King's Theatre is on the look-out for the perfect princess for its christmas pantomime.
The Lion of Kabul
Children's theatre company Catherine Wheels have created a highly entertaining production with Gill Robertson's dramatisation of a true story.
Meadows Festival
The Meadows festival is a free community festival with sporting activities, local bands,
Edinburgh International Book Festival
The temporary, tented village at Charlotte Square's Georgian garden, in the heart of Edinburgh's New Town, is the venue for the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Mary King's Ghost Fest
A series of ghostly walks and ghoulish events at a number of venues form this the fourth festival of infamous Edinburgh spirits.
Learn To Roll Your Own Compost at Compost Awareness Week
Families and individuals wanting to learn how to turn kitchen scraps into rich, dark compost are invited to a free Compost Fun Day at Seafield Community Recycling Centre this Sunday.
Edinburgh Zoo To Open World's Largest Chimpanzee Enclosure
Edinburgh Zoo will be opening the largest chimpanzee enclosure in the world on Friday 2 May.
Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival 2008
It's a new name for the festival formerly known as the International Children's Theatre Festival, but you can expect plenty more live entertainment for kids from theatre companies as far flung as C
Rope-climbing Robot to Unveil Wheels at Edinburgh Science Festival
Skeletron, the large, wiry robot that looks like a character out of the Terminator film franchise and is able to slide up a rope of its own accord, returns to the Edinburgh International Science Fe

