The Kids Area is excited to welcome you and your family to Latitude. With a packed programme offering something for everyone, get ready for an action-packed festival within a festival!
Most activities run all day from 10am till 6pm so you’ll always find something to do, somewhere to relax or a new activity to try. And best of all, everything except the funfair is free – there’s no charge for any workshops, materials or activities so get stuck in and try everything!
You can find out more about how to enjoy the festival with the whole family HERE.
The Kids Area Info Caravan is at the entrance to the Kids Area; be sure to ask for your free GUIDE TO WHAT’S ON for families, to help you plan your time.
Kids Welfare are here too so stop by for a ‘phone number’ wristband and to meet the team. Families can collect free wristbands for the Enchanted Garden here (not needed if you already have a Family Campsite wristband).
For our festival newbies, The Loft Baby & Toddler Tent has a soft play, baby changing and feeding… even baby bath-time. Meet other festival parents & take some time out. There are more activities and services for babies and toddlers in the Enchanted Garden.
Our local Greenpeace supporters group return with their fantastic café offering hot and cold food, home-made cakes, soft & hot drinks from breakfast through till dinner, with all profits going to Greenpeace. Find them at the far end of the Kids Area.
For our festival newbies, The Loft Baby & Toddler Tent has a soft play, baby changing and feeding… even baby bath-time. Meet other festival parents & take some time out. You can meet Slings-by-the-Sea for their workshops & advice on carrying your baby on your body. Let them check and adjust your sling to ensure you & baby are both comfortable enough to stay up late!
The Kids Area Info Caravan is at the entrance to the Kids Area: Kids Welfare are here too so stop by for a ‘phone number’ wristband and to meet the team. Families can collect free wristbands for the Enchanted Garden here (not needed if you already have a Family Campsite wristband).
Our local Greenpeace supporters group return with their fantastic cafe offering hot and cold food, home-made cakes, soft & hot drinks from breakfast through till dinner, with all profits going to Greenpeace. Find them at the far end of the Kids Area.
Kid Theatre Tent
The Kids Theatre Tent has a full programme of live music, song and dance classes, puppetry, comedy, drama and more…
Check back for our full lineup, coming soon…
The Hive
Visit our geodome and its wildlife garden, bursting with flowering plants, herbs and featuring small shows & workshops with visiting authors, illustrators, poets and more…we can’t wait to share the full programme with you! Two local artists who we’re delighted to welcome back are…
Sam Barnes will be encouraging us all to get creative and start drawing. An established artist of nearly 30 years, Sam returns with her pink pram of creativity!
Joel Millerchip creates bold, unique illustrations; join him to design and take away your own Latitude postcard in this fun workshop.
Wild Science, Wildlife and Adventure
Discover more about the incredible earthworms that live in the wild corners of Latitude on our daily Wild Earthworm Walk. On this fun and family-friendly walk, Dr David Jones from the Natural History Museum (and a genuine earthworm expert!) will show you how to find and identify these fascinating creatures and explain why they’re essential for human survival! He’ll also be hosting some wild games in the Enchanted Garden canopy tent.
The Wild Science tent offers a new theme every year! Hosted by festival favourite Dr.Jenni Rant and her team from the John Innes Research Centre, you can guarantee fun and fascinating science activities for curious kids…we’ll be posting details in the Spring.
Greenpeace Community Build is calling kids young and old. Come learn, play, and let your creativity run free. Visit our wooden sculptural structure, where, as a community, and with hammers, saws, nails and wood, plus with supervision from our helpful Greenpeace team, we can build something magical together.
Our Green Crafts area offers workshops including leatherwork, carving, whittling, model making and more!
Stained Glass Mosaics
Create your own unique glass mosaic using real recycled stained glass fragments,discarded nuts and washers. Play with original design layout and explore abstract creative skills. This fun and lively workshop is suitable for all ages and abilities!
The Manufactorium
Experience designing and making your own Latitude keepsake at the Manufactorium. Using recycled materials create your own jewellery. Operate a real antique machine, select your components from a large range of recovered parts and fix them to a repurposed hard wood base that you have hand finished. Be prepared for some difficult decision making that will make your keepsake unique. Suitable for all ages from 4 and up.
The Woodcraft Folk Woodland Base includes a mud kitchen with ‘cake’ decorating, blind trails, knot skills, rope bridges, fire lighting and cooking, tin can lanterns, natural leaf/flower print flags, Elderwood beads, mask making using foraged natural materials, campfire song sessions in the woods and basic ukulele.
Creative Crafters & Busy Bookworms
Crafting kids will be busy all day, with dozens of workshops in the Woodcraft Folk Tent, including wet felting, lino printing, wind chimes, Pom Pom sheep, paper beads jewellery, seed bombs, boat making, scarecrow building and bug hotels. OKIDO art and science kids’ magazine geodome is a hive of crafts activity and you might even meet Messy himself!
The team from Suffolk Recycling create crafts from recycled scrap! from sock monsters to suncatchers…remember to take your photo by their giant recycled art octopus!
Suffolk Archives are returning with, Anchors Away! Suffolk and the Sea. Visit their touring display trailer to learn about Suffolk’s fascinating history with the sea, including pirates, smugglers, lifeboats, heroes, mythical sea creatures and famous ships.
