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New This Year!

Pleasance is launching a new children's area this year. With story hours, music, fun and games for all, make sure you stop by for an hour or two!

Including activities such as Story Hour and Monkey Music, the Kidzone is open from 10.30am - 6pm, and even when there are no scheduled activities, you can still play. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Timetable:
10.30am - 11.15am Monkey Music Workshop (aged 2 -5 years)
11.30am - 12.15pm Monkey Music Workshop (age 6 months - 2 years)
12.30pm - 1.30pm Free Play
1.30pm - 2.15pm Story Hour with special festival guests
2.15pm - 3.15pm Free Play
3.30pm - 4.15pm Story Hour
4.30pm - 6pm Free Play

Story Hour:
Pleasance's unique story hour takes place twice daily throughout the festival for children of all ages. Come and listen to your favourite story tale told by one of our festival special guests underneath the shelter of our giant teepee tent. For 45 minutes, let your imagination run wild!

Please remember that children must be accompanied by an adult at all times in the Pleasance Teepee.

Monkey Music:
Award-winning Monkey Music Workshops combine songs, rhymes and musical games and fun with percussion instruments for children aged 3 months - 5 years. They are held in Edinburgh throughout the year.

Timetable:
10.30am - 11.15am Monkey Music Workshop (aged 2 -5 years)
11.30am - 12.15pm Monkey Music Workshop (age 6 months - 2 years)

The cult rock’ n’ roll musical for 2 - 7 year olds is back!
Dude returns to Edinburgh following appearances at Glastonbury Festival. BYO Teddy Bear and join in the action.
Dude! Where’s my ticket?

**** The List
**** Sunday Herald

'The children are bouncing to that lost teddy bear beat' Time Out

'Fine example of children’s theatre' Sunday Herald

*Please note one ticket admits one adult and one child, any additional adults will need a separate ticket. Children must be accompanied by an adult, but adults can bring more than one child*

Monkey Music, the award-winning pre-school music group for children aged 3
months - 5 years across the UK and Ireland, will be running special
workshops in the Kidzone during the Festival. The 45 minute workshops
combine songs, rhymes, musical games and fun with percussion instruments
suitable for 3 months - 2 years and 2 years to 5 years. The children in our

Musical for children with puppets and actors. Max is moving home but he
doesn’t want to. he has a fear of the unknown. Maybe Duck, Pig, Hare, Rat and Frog will calm his fears? Based upon the ever popular illustrated books, Frog will touch young and old!

'Frog is an inspired creation' Guardian

'Enjoyed by parent and child alike' Mail on Sunday

Suitable for ages 4+

Gorgonzola! Jump on the second bus, the driver’s saved you a seat. Come and meet a bullfrog blues band, a clapped-out bison, a forgetful wolf – and a most unusual little mouse. A totally full-throttle adventure guaranteed to get you absolutely revved up.

'Dazzling... extraordinarily imaginative' Scotsman

'Brilliantly effective' Guardian

Enter the strange and bizarre universe of a wild balloon tamer where surreal and stupid things happen. Combining circus and comedy, performer and clown Danny Schlesinger creates an utterly joyous experience loaded with surprises and laughs. Warning! Features loud balloon pops!

'A master of his own particular brand of tomfoolery' The Stage

'Charming, poetic and skilful as it is silly, both full of heart and absolutely hilarious' Amanda Huotari, Celebration Barn Theater, USA

*Please note one ticket admits one adult and one child, any additional adults will need a separate ticket. Children must be accompanied by an adult, but adults can bring more than one child*

Monkey Music, the award-winning pre-school music group for children aged 3
months - 5 years across the UK and Ireland, will be running special
workshops in the Kidzone during the Festival. The 45 minute workshops
combine songs, rhymes, musical games and fun with percussion instruments
suitable for 3 months - 2 years and 2 years to 5 years. The children in our

The Foodiverse is at war: can Ice-Cream Man and his fruity friends bring peas?!
Smash hit dude! Where’s My Teddy Bear? creators serve up lashings of music, a sprinkling of puppetry and a huge dollop of hilarity in this delicious tale of dietary balance for ages 4 - 400