Kids activities

Children's events and activities

This year’s Imaginate Festival, Scotland’s international festival of performing arts for children and young…
Even by Edinburgh standards, this seems like a fairly soggy start to the Fringe, especially as it has come…
''Five fabulous years – it’s just flown by – but the possibilities for this artform are endless and there’s…
The Consulate General of Japan in Edinburgh will again be running the painting competition, ‘Picture Japan’.
Because our passion for fairy tales starts at a young age, with the human mind intrinsically hard-wired to…
Seven years after its original inception, Donald Smith’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic…
He (or should that be "she") looks like someone who has had an unfortunate accident with a leaf-blower and a…
As in previous years, government heritage agency Historic Scotland will be marking Scotland's national day,…
Beginning with St Andrew’s Day and running through to Burns Night, the Scottish Storytelling Centre in…
With the Edinburgh Art Festival firming up its Summer programme of shows it's a good time to survey the…
Today marks the programme launch for the 30th edition of the Edinburgh International Children's Festival,…
There’s a wild adventure waiting for you at Holyrood Park!
A new exhibition at Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood looks at the challenges of parenthood over the years.
Imaginate, a year-round organisation supporting and developing theatre for young audiences, has announced a…
The Edinburgh International Science Festival has rebranded itself as "Edinburgh Science".
Barely have face paints been smeared off guisers’ faces, the last bit of grimaced pumpkin flesh been…
Around 15,000 people thronged along George Street yesterday to celebrate the start of Edinburgh’s Christmas…
Traditional carol concert which takes place at the nativity scene in St Andrew Square in Edinburgh's New Town…
Thousands of free tickets to historic visitor attractions from the Border Abbeys to Skara Brae and Maeshowe…
Prepare to be mesmerised by the uncanny illusionists from Edinburgh Young Carers in this free exhibition.