The Kids Area Info Caravan is at the entrance to the Kids Area; collect a free FAMILY WHAT’S ON GUIDE to help plan your visit.
Kids Welfare are here too so stop by and collect a ‘phone number’ wristband. Families with kids under 16 can collect free wristbands for the Enchanted Garden here (not needed if you already have a Family Campsite wristband).
The Loft Baby & Toddler Tent caters for your youngest with soft play, baby changing & feeding…even baby bath-time. Meet other parents & take some time out. There are more activities and services for babies and toddlers in the Enchanted Garden.
Our local Greenpeace supporters group run a lovely café offering hot and cold food, home-made cakes, soft and hot drinks from breakfast through till dinner, with all profits going to Greenpeace.
The Kids Area is open from 10am till 6pm; it’s packed with activities and there’s always find something new to try. And best of all, everything except the funfair is free – there’s no charge for any workshops or activities so get stuck in and try everything!
Kids Theatre Tent & Live Shows
The Kids Theatre Tent has a full programme of live shows, song and dance workshops, puppetry, comedy, drama and more, including:
Internationally award-winning Wright & Grainger’s first family show, Granda Poseidon, is about feeling a bit lost and finding your way again. It’s a story about a seaside town, a retired god, and a kid. Expect storytelling, with songs, and post-it notes. For 7yrs+.
Get as strong as an ant! Teach a bee how to buzz! Professor Slug makes bugs feel better at his Latitude debut! An interactive show packed full of colourful puppets and catchy songs.
Help The Mad Hatter solve his continuous conundrums and soothe his sensitive soul in his journey through Wonderland in an interactive show with catchy songs and lots of audience participation.
With clowning, flying flour, slapstick and silliness for all ages, the Doughy Bottom Bakers serve up mayhem and mess while trying to give everyone they encounter a special treat, even if it’s not quite good enough to eat…!
Grab your cap, shades and chain and get ready for book bangers, epic rhymes and non-stop vibes with multi-award-winning rapping teacher and World Book Day ambassador, MC Grammar. STOP! It’s Grammar time!
Kelfx & Francis lead Breakdancing Workshop for children of all ages (under 16) and abilities, teaching the basics, showcasing skills and pulling everything together in a breakdance battle!
Imagine spending your life caring for something that simply doesn’t exist! Can The Dragon Whisperer defeat the evil queen to save these magical creatures? A tale of friendship, food and dragons from Jellyfish Theatre set on a brightly coloured rotating caravan.
Ukeboxbaby fun musical show gives children the chance to play with ukuleles, giant balloons, bubbles, ribbon sticks & more. With live songs by ‘The Ukulele Mermaids’ and dance music from ‘DJ Daddy’.
Tommy’s Entertainments brings the house down with his popular Punch & Judy show 3 times daily.
Learn the songs and choreography from hit West End musicals with professional West End performers from festival faves, Shine Performing Arts.
The Hive
Visit our geodome and its wildlife garden, bursting with flowering plants and herbs – the perfect space for workshops with visiting authors, illustrators, poets and more…the programme includes:
‘Get Moving!’ with children’s author, illustrator, poet, and ukulele player, Kev Payne! Expect lively workshops with movement, poems, puppets, imagination, doodling and more!
Artist Sam Barnes encourages us all to get creative and start drawing; look out for her pink pram of creativity!
Artist Joel Millerchip creates bold, unique illustrations; design and take away your own Latitude postcard in his fun workshop.
Authors and Illustrators from Magic Cat Publishing will be running workshops that include readings, activities and fun interaction based around a range of beautiful new children’s books.
Nigel Lungenmuss-Ward and son Robbie present Cute Animals Colouring Book, with a reading, an Adorable Animals quiz (with prizes!) and a workshop to create your own fact-filled colouring books.
Wild Science & Wildlife Adventure
Discover more about the incredible earthworms that live in the wild corners of Latitude on our daily Wild Earthworm Walk. On this fun family-friendly walk, Dr David Jones from the Natural History Museum (a genuine earthworm expert!) will explore these fascinating creatures and explain why they’re essential for human survival! Or join a Minibeast Safari for an adventure through the undergrowth, to find and learn about beetles, woodlice, centipedes, spiders and more. Perfect for curious kids (and grown-ups too).
The Wild Science tent offers a new theme every year! Hosted by Dr.Jenni Rant and the team from the John Innes Research Centre, they bring fun fascinating science activities for curious kids of all ages.
The Woodcraft Folk Woodland Base includes a mud kitchen, blind trails, knot skills, rope bridges, fire lighting and cooking, tin can lanterns, printed flags, bead and mask making, campfire singing in the woods and simple ukulele.
Creative Crafters & Busy Bookworms
Stained Glass Mosaics
Create your own unique glass mosaic using recycled stained-glass fragments, nuts and washers. Play with original design layout and explore abstract creative skills. This fun workshop is suitable for all ages and abilities!
Our Green Crafts area offers workshops including leatherwork, carving, whittling, model making and more!
Design and make a keepsake at The Manufactorium. Use recycled materials, operate an antique machine, select components from recovered parts and be prepared for some difficult decision making to make your keepsake unique!
Jump on board the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior, so we can set sail together to help save the planet! Come and learn, build and play. A team of Greenpeace volunteers will help you build the Rainbow Warrior Ship, with our tool shed full of hammers, saws, nails, wood, and bunting. We encourage kids to learn how to use tools, so would like guardians present at all times, please.
Crafting kids can try dozens of workshops in the Woodcraft Folk Tent, including wet felting, lino printing, wind chimes, paper beads jewellery, seed bombs, boat making and bug hotels. OKIDO art and science kids’ magazine geodome is a hive of crafts activity and you might even meet Messy himself!
Festival Sticker Art help you craft whatever you can imagine and lots of things you can’t, using masses of colourful, quirky but unwanted sticky labels. Use misspelt soup labels to make a hat…or something to put under it!
Suffolk Recycling create original crafts from sock monsters to suncatchers all using recycled scrap. Easy to find – look for their giant recycled art octopus!
Suffolk Archives bring their touring pop up exhibition Anchors Away: Suffolk and the Sea. Explore Suffolk’s swashbuckling maritime history from pirates and smuggling to lifeboats and sea battles. Make a badge, or your own pirate hat, perfect for adventuring around the festival!