Guest Blogs
Meet Dean the Art Wizard
Hi all festival fanatics,
My name is Dean and I’ve been working with children of all ages at festivals & events within the UK but mainly within the Midlands as Dean The Art Wizard & friends!
Take a look at this film of us creating the Summer Sundae logo with friends & family, we created an enormous guitar including a Summer Sundae vase created from beer cans collected at the festival. We also used plastic pint glasses, recycled vinyl records, Cd’s & tape cassettes. Read more…
Junkfish – Festival Arts and Crafts
Last summer, we took the Festival Kidz stall to Nibley Music Festival, a small ultra-family-friendly festival in a stunning Cotswolds location. One of the festival highlights is undoubtedly the huge craft tent run by Liz and her dedicated bunch of volunteers. The tent has been so popular that she’s decided to turn her skills into a small business and ‘Junkfish‘ was born. We invited Liz to tell us more about her new venture. Read more…
Rainbow Barrows and Barefoot Books Bell Tent
Lisa Igo, a qualified teacher, gave up her safe job and lifestyle to explore an alternative way of life with her family. Here she shares the highs and lows of her festival-filled summer Read more…
Pregnant Festivalling Part 2
I was 16 weeks pregnant when we went to Camp Bestival. Now if my last pregnancy was anything to go by then I felt amazing at 16 weeks, in fact the whole second trimester was just wonderful for me and we went on a lovely holiday to Cornwall where we did a lot of walking. I had more energy and was able to eat normally again and started to glow. Read more…
The Magic Loungeabout 2011 Review
The Magic Loungeabout invited us along to sample the festival this year, so we sent festival virgin Sarah and her young family along to find out if the Unwind was really so Refined…
Review by Sarah Folley
OUR FAMILY
We were festival novices having never attended a festival before either as a couple or with our children. We are in our early thirties with two little girls, aged 2 and 4. We’ve been following Festival Kidz for a while now and, inspired by their blogs and articles, decided we were ready to try out a festival as a family and see for ourselves whether it really was as much fun as it sounds!
Camp Bestival 2011 Parent review
Camp Bestival 2011
** Photos have been removed, due to broken links – sorry! **
This post will hopefully convince anyone who has hummed and hahhed over taking their children to a festival. E is currently in bed moaning that she wants to go back & A keeps getting up wondering why he isn’t still out having fun in the Castle Field watching live music and having a better time than being at home!
Three Special Things…
My little girl is a HUGE Mr Tumble fan. So much so that she reenacts the “spotty bag” routine and the mighty Tumble is one of the many reasons why we have chosen to attend Camp Bestival.
In preparation she has watched, many a time now, the episode where Justin goes to Wychwood festival and meets a family for some festival fun. Read more…
Create your own festival!
By Hannah, editor of the brilliant GoFestival Guide 2011
By Hannah, editor of the brilliant Like a good festival but a bit strapped for cash? Why not have your own?
Gather some friends, find a piece of land, back garden or corner of a campsite. Decorate with flags and bunting, borrow a bell tent, round up a bunch of musicians and your very own festie could be born.
10 easy steps to get your DIY festival off the ground….
Pregnant Festivalling Part 1
Many people would baulk in horror at the thought of going to a festival when pregnant, I however don’t see an issue with it at all. Maybe it’s because many of my fellow mummy friends (who have never been to a festival) think that I will be spending the weekend covered head to toe in mud, surrounded by drunk people and being bashed around in a mosh pit. Read more…
The Cornbury Music Festival 2011 Review
After a wonderful weekend of fun, music and frivolities with my two lovely festival kids, it’s taken me a few days to regain normality to our routine, hardly surprising when The Cornbury Festival was so entertaining!! Only a half hour’s drive from our home town, in a beautiful countryside setting, who could resist a weekend away with so much to offer? Alpro Soya asked me to come along as their guest to The Cornbury Festival on behalf of Festival Kidz and see how us festival goers really enjoyed ourselves, sampling their free tasty goodies all weekend at the Alpro Breakfest Stand too!!
Meet Dean the Art Wizard
Hi all festival fanatics,
My name is Dean and I’ve been working with children of all ages at festivals & events within the UK but mainly within the Midlands as Dean The Art Wizard & friends!
Take a look at this film of us creating the Summer Sundae logo with friends & family, we created an enormous guitar including a Summer Sundae vase created from beer cans collected at the festival. We also used plastic pint glasses, recycled vinyl records, Cd’s & tape cassettes. Read more…
Rainbow Barrows and Barefoot Books Bell Tent
Lisa Igo, a qualified teacher, gave up her safe job and lifestyle to explore an alternative way of life with her family. Here she shares the highs and lows of her festival-filled summer Read more…
The Magic Loungeabout 2011 Review
The Magic Loungeabout invited us along to sample the festival this year, so we sent festival virgin Sarah and her young family along to find out if the Unwind was really so Refined…
Review by Sarah Folley
OUR FAMILY
We were festival novices having never attended a festival before either as a couple or with our children. We are in our early thirties with two little girls, aged 2 and 4. We’ve been following Festival Kidz for a while now and, inspired by their blogs and articles, decided we were ready to try out a festival as a family and see for ourselves whether it really was as much fun as it sounds!
Three Special Things…
My little girl is a HUGE Mr Tumble fan. So much so that she reenacts the “spotty bag” routine and the mighty Tumble is one of the many reasons why we have chosen to attend Camp Bestival.
In preparation she has watched, many a time now, the episode where Justin goes to Wychwood festival and meets a family for some festival fun. Read more…
Pregnant Festivalling Part 1
Many people would baulk in horror at the thought of going to a festival when pregnant, I however don’t see an issue with it at all. Maybe it’s because many of my fellow mummy friends (who have never been to a festival) think that I will be spending the weekend covered head to toe in mud, surrounded by drunk people and being bashed around in a mosh pit. Read more…
Junkfish – Festival Arts and Crafts
Last summer, we took the Festival Kidz stall to Nibley Music Festival, a small ultra-family-friendly festival in a stunning Cotswolds location. One of the festival highlights is undoubtedly the huge craft tent run by Liz and her dedicated bunch of volunteers. The tent has been so popular that she’s decided to turn her skills into a small business and ‘Junkfish‘ was born. We invited Liz to tell us more about her new venture. Read more…
Pregnant Festivalling Part 2
I was 16 weeks pregnant when we went to Camp Bestival. Now if my last pregnancy was anything to go by then I felt amazing at 16 weeks, in fact the whole second trimester was just wonderful for me and we went on a lovely holiday to Cornwall where we did a lot of walking. I had more energy and was able to eat normally again and started to glow. Read more…
Camp Bestival 2011 Parent review
Camp Bestival 2011
** Photos have been removed, due to broken links – sorry! **
This post will hopefully convince anyone who has hummed and hahhed over taking their children to a festival. E is currently in bed moaning that she wants to go back & A keeps getting up wondering why he isn’t still out having fun in the Castle Field watching live music and having a better time than being at home!
Create your own festival!
By Hannah, editor of the brilliant GoFestival Guide 2011
Like a good festival but a bit strapped for cash? Why not have your own?
Gather some friends, find a piece of land, back garden or corner of a campsite. Decorate with flags and bunting, borrow a bell tent, round up a bunch of musicians and your very own festie could be born.
10 easy steps to get your DIY festival off the ground….
The Cornbury Music Festival 2011 Review
After a wonderful weekend of fun, music and frivolities with my two lovely festival kids, it’s taken me a few days to regain normality to our routine, hardly surprising when The Cornbury Festival was so entertaining!! Only a half hour’s drive from our home town, in a beautiful countryside setting, who could resist a weekend away with so much to offer? Alpro Soya asked me to come along as their guest to The Cornbury Festival on behalf of Festival Kidz and see how us festival goers really enjoyed ourselves, sampling their free tasty goodies all weekend at the Alpro Breakfest Stand too!!