Issue 99 - Early morning moth trapping, Jazz for kids, Therapets and much more!
May 21, 2026
∙ Paid
🌻ASN 🐣Baby 🐤Preschool 🐔Primary
Bookbug’s Big Quest - What a beautiful illustration!
📚 Bookbug Week 18th-24th May How embarrassing. I missed Bookbug Week! I’ve not been able to access Facebook (I don’t have an account and it seems they’re putting the foot down) but here are some links for your local libraries to see what they have planned to mark the occasion!
🎨 Family Fridays 10.00 (0-3y) 14.00 (3y+) 🐣🐤🐔🆓 📍 The National Gallery, The Mound Every week during term-time, you and your kids can get stuck in with lots of play, sensory activities and hands-on making with artists. Not about on Fridays? Their Family Art Hub 🆓 is open daily and has books, art supplies and plenty of space to play.
🍿 Toddler Club: Space Jam (1-5y) 10.45 🐤 📍 The Everyman Cinema, St James Quarter 30th anniversary!! 😱 Also on Saturday at 09.30 and Sunday at 10.00.
Says Fri 22nd on the event page so just double check 🆓
Saturday 23rd
⛑️ Emergency Paediatric First Aid Course suitable for parents and carers 09.30-12.00 📍 Kin Collective, Leith I like to add these sessions into my newsletter every once in a while as a wee gentle reminder to those of you that keep meaning (but forgetting) to get booked onto a first aid course.
❓Curiosity Club (7-11y) 10.30-12.00 🐔 📍 National Museum of Scotland, Chamber St These sessions are for children to enjoy without their parents so a cheeky bonus child-free coffee for you! Through activities and games, the kids will explore the museum’s treasures under the theme of Kilts, Clans & Capers! There’s also the Relaxed Curiosity Club 🌻 for children with additional support needs at 14.30.
🎹 Do Not Play This Piano (6+) 11.00-12.00 🐔 📍 Pianodrome, Bruntsfield ”Acclaimed family show (6+ years), featuring Mozart with a twist of blues, tango, rock’n’roll (and a roll of gaffer tape). Written and performed by Will Pickvance, Pianodrome's Pianist in Resonance.” ✨PS - the Pianodrome is class, go visit!
Sunday 24th
🦋 Morning Moth Trapping 08.00-10.30 (8y+) 🐔🆓 📍 Red Moss of Balerno, Pentlands My daughter would absolutely LOVE this session with Scottish Wildlife Trust Moth Expert (another job that might have been), Mark Cubitt. Just trying to figure out if I’m dedicated enough to contact the organisers to plead her case to attend underage, rent a car, install a car seat and haul her out the door at 07.30 on a Sunday… doubtful.
🖼 Family Print Club (6y+) 10.15/14.00 🐔 📍 Edinburgh Printmakers, Fountainbridge ”These Sunday Funday sessions are designed for different generations to share an experience, explore some printmaking techniques, and have some fun into the bargain.” This session will involve relief printing using stuff from the recycling bin!
🎷 Tenement Jazz Band for Kids + Disco 14.00 (doors at 13.30) 📍 The Jazz Bar, Chamber St Another kid-friendly, live gig at the Jazz Bar where the children can get up close and personal with the music, the grown ups can have a guilt free drink in a bar and everyone gets a bonus half our of dancing after the show.
Monday 25th
🍼 Wee Feeders 13.00-14.00 (0-1y) 🐣🆓 📍 Dr Bells Family Centre, Leith An informal and non-judgemental group with a qualified breastfeeding facilitator for anyone feeding a baby, in whatever way.
Tuesday 26th
Messy Play (0-5y) 10.15-11.00 🐣🐤 📍 Edinburgh Printmakers, Dundee St These weekly sessions look great! “Explore colours as they mix and change. With exciting colour-changing water activities and Colour challenge activities, this will be a fun and educational messy play session!”
Wednesday 27th
📽 BABYCLUB: The Devil Wears Prada 2 12.00 🐣 📍 The Dominion, Morningside Bring your baby to watch an actual grown-up film with some very comfy seats should you decide instead to have a wee snooze in the dark. The babies might, of course, have some opinions on this.
Thursday 28th
📚 Bookbug 10.30-11.00 🆓 📍 National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge Every Thursday.
✨ Thinking ahead to summer plans, I just wanted to give a personal recommendation to anyone wanting to try a camping festival with the kids. We went to this one in Perthshire last year and it was honestly so, incredibly wholesome and a proper breath of fresh air for our whole family. And only just over an hour away from home if it all went tits up and we needed to flee. Obviously having nice weather helped a lot but the festival site was super small, clean and safe and there were lots of other young families around… and no shitebags! Wholeheartedly recommend it!
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