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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.

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 Hapazome, 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!

Kids Area, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, Dorset.
© Jess Hurd/Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival

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 and 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 

Swop Shop 

10:00 – 12:00 Swop Shop 

13:30 – 18:00 Swop 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 Wally the clown performance 

16:30 – 18:00 Circus skills workshop 

Swop Shop 

10:00 – 12:00 Swop Shop 

13:30 – 18:00 Swop Shop 

Woodcraft Folk Marquee  

10:00 – 12:00 Creative Crafts and collaborative games