KidzTown is a mini festival within the BoomTown Fair for the little boomers, it offers a secure environment that can be enjoyed by the whole family, but foremost it is a place where children and their fun come first! Now situated in the heart of the festival within the OldTown district, KidzTown offers a variety of workshops, stage shows, puppets, face painting, family bingo, quirky dance off’s, bouncy play and oodles more, including the guest appearance from four metre high BinBot – a friendly giant robot made from recycled wheelie bins! 

BoomTown acknowledge just how active Mini-Boomers are and KidzTown have booked a plethora of awesome antics and activities to keep even the most distracted of Mini-Boomer’s occupied and engaged the whole festival long! Emergency Exit Art’s gargantuan Binbot, made from 33 pink wheelie bins, will be walking around KidzTown spreading his environmental message and wowing little and big kids with his almighty presence! Whilst, other slightly smaller activities and attractions include: Three Bears Picnic, bring a bear and keep your eyes open for Goldie Locks and the three bears... Beatbox workshops for all the family, Geodome play climbing frames; one for littler children and one for the medium ones! Gorilla Vs Granny breakdance – dance off show where kids join in and show off their breakdancin moves! GrannyOke, karaoke and dress up - karaoke granny style or Gran-nam style! Horse ‘n’ Cart rides for families and kids, lifts to and from car parks are also available; Spongeboards, splat a wet sponge at someone when the heat gets too much and finally, the most traditional of festival fun rides, the Swingboats! 

Alongside the fun activities KidzTown also provides kids with the chance to create and learn through various workshops, which include; Bristol Energy Network; Kids games and bicycle powered sound systems – get on a bike and spin some tunes! Biddi Bingo café & workshops, the central hub of KidzTown with craft workshops, dress up, play, face-painting, bingo games and gert lush grannies serving tea, cakes, delicious coffee and snacks all day! This is also where the Biddi Bingo Lounge can be found for glitz and granny glamour! Also on offer is the Curiovan, a curious caravan of wonderment for children; Kids Kung Fu Workshops, includes Kung fu, tai chi and other martial arts; Mr Wolf’s shadow puppets, workshops for kids of all ages to create shadow puppets, put on a show and record it. Pandemonium Party with face-painters and temporary tattoos, completely free; Panic Circus, fun family circus in a Big Top tent where kids learn circus skills; trapeze, hula, stilt walking, poi, watch puppet shows and a plethora of fun for all the family that is free all day long! Pizza &Puppets with the Italian Job clay oven, they host pizza making workshops and puppet shows for children (fun and yum for all the family!) Ringworld Meynell Games provide a bucket load of inflatable’s for fun bouncy play and also Silly Science will be on hand with multi sensory science play and exploration for all ages! 

The good folk of KidzTown appreciate that Baby Boomers might not be ready for such independent levels of play and learning so have prepared some specific activities and area’s dedicated to the smallest of the BoomTown family members including; the Babychamber, a Baby Boomers bell tent that creates a lovely happy haven for parent and babies, with chill out areas, nappy change, milk heating facilities, comfortable breast feeding areas, advice points and some eco goodies to help make bringing your baby to the festival a more pleasurable experience and the Playbus Baby Boomers play area from the Bristol Playbus, little ones can play on the bus and outside the bus with soft play, creative play, exploratory activities and is exclusively for the VIP residents of BoomTown, the babies and toddlers! 

There are a range of other convenient facilities for families throughout the festival as well: Family Camping, a designated camping space specifically for families has been allocated right next to KidzTown so there are no long mission walks in the morning to get to the fun part for kids or in the evening when heading home to bed, with 24-hour steward supervision. This campsite is also a short walking distance from the Town Centre and OldTown so that the big kids can have some grown up fun time too! other facilities specifically for families comfort include;  Festibarrow, they will be on hand helping to ease the pain of carrying a weekends worth of luggage for you and the little ones! Festibarrow will be available for you and your belongings, straight from the boot of your car, right to your camping spot. A designated pushchair safe area will be situated towards the back of the main arena and the brand new Magic Carpet (Ski-Lift) is free for child ticket holders when accompanied by a ski-lift ticket holding adult for ease of getting about the site effortlessly. There will also be age restrictions on access to the DownTown District (late night area) as BoomTown recognises that some of the louder areas of the site are unsuitable for our precious Mini Boomers. 

"As we prepare for our fourth year running Kidztown, the acts are booked and are bigger and better than ever before! There will be a 15ft giant walking talking robot 'Binbot', Panic Circus, beatboxing, parcour and multi sensory play provision. We are so excited about our new location for 2013 which brings KidzTown right in amongst all the fun of the fair!With more and more Baby Boomers now we are confidently moving forward into a new generation of mini city Boomers... Let the rumpus begin!"

Stasia Shearer-Manning and Mia Harris

KidzTown Curators 

BoomTown Fair 2013 takes place at The Matterley Bowl, Matterley Estate, Winchester, Hampshire, SO24 0HY between Thu 8th to Sun 11th August 2013 Line up and ticket links here.