🍿 Toddler Club: The Gruffalo’s Child + The Scarecrow’s Wedding (1-5y) 09.15 🐤
📍 The Everyman Cinema, St James Quarter
Also on Sat at 10.45 and Sun at 09.45.
🦀 Hello Beach (0-2y) 11.30 🐣
📍 Assembly George Square, The Crate
A sensory show for the littlest ones with some baby signing and adorable looking puppets. From the same crowd as Hello Birds with equally adorable puppets.
💡 Find Out Fridays 13.30-16.00 🆓
📍 National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street
These weekly drop-in sessions at the museum are back again for the new school term. There are different themes each week to drop into, this week is one for all your Dinosaur Detectives!
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✂️ Little Creative Morning 10.00-12.00 🆓
📍 Talbot Rice Gallery, South Bridge
”A family friendly hands-on creative morning inspired by Anne Hardy / Feelings”
🎼 Songwriting with Dads and Kids 10.00-11.00 🆓
📍 Gorgie Mem
Throughout August, the dads will be writing an original song with their kids then performing it at the Fringe on the 28th August. Just as always, very, very well done to Dads Rock! DADS! DADS! DADS! DADS! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
🎻 Family Concert (7-11y) 13.00
📍 Usher Hall
Only a few seats left way up in the gods!
🌳 Nature Play 09.30-11.30 🐤
📍 Saughtonhall Community Hall
Every Monday during term time, this weekly session starts back up on the 10th Aug after its summer break. It’ll generally take place in the nearby woodlands and will allow for some very wholesome, bonding time with your little one. Hunt for bugs, make mud pies, collect sticks and build dens. Plus the option to block book or do single sessions.
💬 Lingotot Spanish (0-5y) 10.30-11.30 🐣🐤
📍 Joy Tots, Ferry Road
I don’t usually include courses but I thought a wee 4 week Spanish playgroup might appeal to some of you! Starts today.
⛔ SOLD OUT! Messy Play (0-5y) 10.15-11.00 🐣🐤
📍 Edinburgh Printmakers, Dundee St
”In Messy Play we will use different materials to craft, draw, paint and discover textures, sounds, colours and shapes together. The sessions focus on early years foundational aspects of sensory development, giving babies and toddlers a space to engage freely with different sensorial stimuli.”
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🎵 Music Day! 13.00-13.30 🆓
📍 Book Festival
”What have music and books got in common? Find out with the Book Festival team, and help us use rhythm and simple instruments to make brilliant new poems. Everyone is welcome, and no experience is needed so come for the drop-in session, stay for the inspiration!”
🗣️ Teach Us Your Language 13.00-15.00
📍 Children’s Tent, Book Festival
Share your language with the other families in the Children’s Tent!
☘ I’m really wanting to reconnect with my own very broken Irish Gaelic and try teach my kids a cúpla focal so I’d absolutely love to hear from any other Irish parents in Edinburgh that might want to do the same… There’s a grand total of 3 of us keen so far so I’ll make a wee Whatsapp group más maith leat bualadh linn!
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