*Please note: all children in the Kids Area must be accompanied by an adult.*
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Situated in the old orchard, the NASUWT Kids Area is the place to be for kids of all ages, there is loads to keep kids happy, creative and fed all day long!
Dorset’s own Swap Shop will be bursting at the seams with clothes, toys and knick- knacks to swap or buy for a donation. Bring along something to swap or donate, or just hang out and enjoy the fantastic take home craft activities for a small donation.
Woodcraft Folk volunteer leaders and young people will bring an amazing range of crafts and collaborative games and a place to hang out. Especially suited to older children.
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Storyteller Sarah Mooney, brings ancient magic and real wonder to life in a riot of gripping adventure tales for all ages.
Do your kids love PIZZA? If they do come to the Kids Area Kitchen where you can make your own delicious organic* pizza (for a suggested donation), cooked to perfection on a woodfired pizza oven by the green kitchen crew. Even grown-ups can make a pizza too!
The Sunshine Drumming Company will bring big, beautiful, African inspired beats to the kid’s area with drum circles for kids of all ages.
Wolly the clown will amaze and delight children and adults of all ages with dizzyingly daft and dangerous stunts performed in his hilarious shows, with workshops afterwards to improve your own circus skills.
Have a go at Hapa Zome, the art of printing leaves and flowers onto fabric by bashing them with a mallet!
Adventure On the High Seas! Art workshops that will get your kids creating amazing artwork that you can take home, inspired by pirates and sea creatures. Come aboard get creative and see what adventures awaits.
Free Face painting by the amazingly talented artists from Diamond Faces, provided by NASUWT who sponsor the Tolpuddle Kids Area every year!
So, come along, have fun, make some noise be part of this year’s Kids Area!
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Kid’s Area running order 2024
Friday 12.00 to 19.00
The Marquee
13:00 – 19:00 DIY painting
Kids Area Kitchen
16:00 – 19:00 Make you own pizza
Story Tent
17:30 – 18:30 Bedtime story
Village Green
15:30 – 16:30 Hapazome
17:30 – 19:00 Help yourself Circus Skills
Saturday 09.00 – 19.00
The Marquee
09:00 – 10:00 DIY Painting
10:30 – 12:00 Adventure on the High Seas
12:30 – 13:15 Drum Circle
14:30 – 15:15 Drum circle
16:45 – 18:15 Adventure on the High Seas
Kids Area Kitchen
11:30 – 14:30 Make you own pizza
16:00 – 19:00 Make you own pizza
Story Tent
13:30 – 14:30 Story Telling
18:00 – 19:00 Bedtime story
Village Green
10:00 – 11:30 Hapazome
14:30 – 15:30 Hapazome
16:00 – 16:45 Wolly the clown show
16:45 – 18:00 Circus skills workshop
Swap Shop
10:00 – 12:00 Swap Shop
13:30 – 18:00 Swap Shop
Woodcraft Folk Marquee
11:00 – 18:00 Creative Crafts and collaborative games
Sunday 09.00 – 18.00
The Marquee
09:00 – 10:00 DIY Painting
11:00 – 11:45 Drum Circle
11:45 – 13:15 Adventure on the High Seas
14:30 – 15:15 Drum Circle
16:30 – 18:00 Adventure on the High Seas
Kids Area Kitchen
11:00 – 14:00 Make you own pizza
15:00 – 18:00 Make you own pizza
Story Tent
10:00 – 11:00 Story Telling
13:30 – 14:30 Story Telling
Village Green
11:00 – 12:30 Hapazome
14:30 – 15:30 Hapazome
15:45 – 16:30 Wolly the clown performance
16:30 – 18:00 Circus skills workshop
Swap Shop
10:00 – 12:00 Swap Shop
13:30 – 18:00 Swap Shop
Woodcraft Folk Marquee
10:00 – 12:00 Creative Crafts and collaborative games