Advice
Essential information, advice and tips to improve your festival experience. Your first family festival? Here are some things to consider before taking the plunge!
You’ll find answers to the problems of carting your kids around and choosing a festival trolley. As well as advice on the practical side of camping, washing, feeding your family , going solo, sleeping, coping with mud and surviving festival toilets!
It can be difficult to decide what camping equipment to get, so here’s our advice on buying tents, inflatable tents, camping chairs, flags and windsocks, ear defenders and portable fire pits.
Or maybe you’re worried about taking babies, toddlers or teenagers to festivals.
If you have nightmares about packing, make sure you download our handy family camping packing list and have a look at our parents’ top 5 packing tips.
Let’s talk about waste
Over 60 independent UK music festivals have pledged to ban single-use plastic at their events by 2021. This is fantastic news and here at Festival Kidz we want to support them to make this happen.
Many of our favourite events have taken the pledge. See the full list below.
Ukulele for Beginners
Ukuleles are the perfect festival instrument. Light and portable, easy to play, and they look amazing!
This post is to help people who want to play the ukulele but don’t know where to start – I have included the best ukulele for beginners as well as accessories and books that I found useful.
The ukulele has seen a rise in popularity in recent years, and this has been supported by festivals. It’s easy to pick up and play, and is just the right size for children as well as adults. It’s a very sociable instrument as it’s easy to play along with other people and great for a campfire singalong.
Accessibility at Festivals
Most festivals do what they can to be accessible to as many as possible. After all, they want to be popular, and to exclude people from attending would obviously result in less ticket sales!
Camp With Your Car
One of the biggest excuses we hear from parents for not taking their kids to festivals is the fear of getting all the camping equipment from the car to their pitch.
Other excuses like the dreaded toilets and not wanting to sleep in a tent we can’t help with, but here’s a little guide to some of the easiest festivals in the UK to camp with kids.
Fire Pit Review
As our children are older now we tend to spend most of our evenings at the tent, so last year I decided to invest in a portable fire pit. Lighter than a BBQ, they can burn both charcoal and wood so seemed like an ideal bit of festival gear. Most festivals will allow fire pits, but always check the festival website before you go.
After reading a few reviews I chose this one, La Hacienda 58106. This fire pit is a good size and can take both wood and charcoal. Read more…
Are festivals good for dogs?
With record high temperatures at festivals predicted this summer many of us will struggle with kids out in the sun. Essential festival kit for little ones included hats, water bottles, practical clothing and oodles of sunscreen. But did anyone think about what to pack for man’s best friend?
Festival sleeping know how
OK, so you’re pretty unlikely to have a great night’s sleep at a festival. Even in the family or quiet sleeping areas there will be unfamiliar noise, your bed is not going to be as comfortable as home and your children will still wake up well before you are ready to get up.
But there at least are things you can do to improve your chances of getting some rest… Read more…
How to choose the ideal camping pitch
Long gone are the days when I used to turn up to a festival with a two-man tent and a backpack, pitching at the first point I came across a friend or when the backpack got too heavy!
The Best Camping Chairs for Festivals
Comfort or practicality? Can you have it all?
Packing for a festival with kids can be a bit of a military operation. Weighing up what you can fit in the car and physically carry versus what you’d ideally like to take is a real balance. Luxury items like camping chairs can sometimes find themselves abandoned in the hall while parents frantically try and cram the last pillow on the parcel shelf as the kids go crazy in their seats.
Read more…
Taking Babies to Festivals
Why you should take your baby to a festival – and what you’ll need to do it
Why you should take your baby to a festival – and what you’ll need to do itWe went to our first family festival when our youngest daughter, Martha, was nine months old. A lot of friends thought we were crazy taking a babies to festivals but we all loved it. The next year we did two, the year after that it was five so I guess you could say we caught the bug. Read more…
Let’s talk about waste
Over 60 independent UK music festivals have pledged to ban single-use plastic at their events by 2021. This is fantastic news and here at Festival Kidz we want to support them to make this happen.
Many of our favourite events have taken the pledge. See the full list below.
Accessibility at Festivals
Most festivals do what they can to be accessible to as many as possible. After all, they want to be popular, and to exclude people from attending would obviously result in less ticket sales!
Fire Pit Review
As our children are older now we tend to spend most of our evenings at the tent, so last year I decided to invest in a portable fire pit. Lighter than a BBQ, they can burn both charcoal and wood so seemed like an ideal bit of festival gear. Most festivals will allow fire pits, but always check the festival website before you go.
After reading a few reviews I chose this one, La Hacienda 58106. This fire pit is a good size and can take both wood and charcoal. Read more…
Festival sleeping know how
OK, so you’re pretty unlikely to have a great night’s sleep at a festival. Even in the family or quiet sleeping areas there will be unfamiliar noise, your bed is not going to be as comfortable as home and your children will still wake up well before you are ready to get up.
But there at least are things you can do to improve your chances of getting some rest… Read more…
The Best Camping Chairs for Festivals
Comfort or practicality? Can you have it all?
Packing for a festival with kids can be a bit of a military operation. Weighing up what you can fit in the car and physically carry versus what you’d ideally like to take is a real balance. Luxury items like camping chairs can sometimes find themselves abandoned in the hall while parents frantically try and cram the last pillow on the parcel shelf as the kids go crazy in their seats.
Read more…
Ukulele for Beginners
Ukuleles are the perfect festival instrument. Light and portable, easy to play, and they look amazing!
This post is to help people who want to play the ukulele but don’t know where to start – I have included the best ukulele for beginners as well as accessories and books that I found useful.
The ukulele has seen a rise in popularity in recent years, and this has been supported by festivals. It’s easy to pick up and play, and is just the right size for children as well as adults. It’s a very sociable instrument as it’s easy to play along with other people and great for a campfire singalong.
Camp With Your Car
One of the biggest excuses we hear from parents for not taking their kids to festivals is the fear of getting all the camping equipment from the car to their pitch.
Other excuses like the dreaded toilets and not wanting to sleep in a tent we can’t help with, but here’s a little guide to some of the easiest festivals in the UK to camp with kids.
Are festivals good for dogs?
With record high temperatures at festivals predicted this summer many of us will struggle with kids out in the sun. Essential festival kit for little ones included hats, water bottles, practical clothing and oodles of sunscreen. But did anyone think about what to pack for man’s best friend?
How to choose the ideal camping pitch
Long gone are the days when I used to turn up to a festival with a two-man tent and a backpack, pitching at the first point I came across a friend or when the backpack got too heavy!
Taking Babies to Festivals
Why you should take your baby to a festival – and what you’ll need to do it
We went to our first family festival when our youngest daughter, Martha, was nine months old. A lot of friends thought we were crazy taking a babies to festivals but we all loved it. The next year we did two, the year after that it was five so I guess you could say we caught the bug. Read more…