28 dated events coming up in and around Liverpool, Merseyside. Collected from the organisations running them, not from anyone paying to appear.
Tiny Tales is creative play, stories and songs for under 5s in the Everyman's Street Cafe, Thursdays at 11am until 17 December. £6 covers one adult and up to three children. Book through Teeny Tiny Theatre.
Tiny Tales is creative play, stories and songs for under 5s in the Everyman's Street Cafe, Thursdays at 11am until 17 December. £6 covers one adult and up to three children. Book through Teeny Tiny Theatre.
Join us in one of our museum galleries to let your little one be as noisy as they like.
Dancing toys, festive characters and Santa himself parade through Liverpool ONE, made with Walk The Plank. It is free and early enough in November that the shops are still bearable afterwards. Get a spot on the route in good time if you want a small child on your shoulders at the front.
World Museum celebrates Diwali with the Liverpool Hindu community on Saturday 14 November, 11am to 2pm. Dance performances and crafts for families. The museum itself is free to get into.
The Everyman's actor-musician panto, loud, local and played live like a rock gig, this year doing Beauty and the Beast. It opens mid-November and runs to 16 January, so a November weekday or a January date is easier to get than a December Saturday matinee, several of which are already marked selling fast.
Parents, grandparents and carers are all welcome to our toddler group for children 0-5 Fun, play and refreshment for all.
Starts at 7.30pm. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Two free Baby Week sessions at the Museum of Liverpool for babies 12 months and under: moving play on 17 November, messy taste-safe play on 18 November. Tickets go live four weeks before. Bring old clothes.
Come to our Little World full of Big Ideas!
Forty-five days of rides, games, a light walk and the city's only covered ice rink, in front of the Three Graces. The covered rink means a wet December does not cancel your session. No parking on site, but the whole site is step-free.
University of Liverpool scientists run hands-on stalls at World Museum on Saturday 21 November, 10am to 4pm. Free drop-in, with a treasure map to follow round the stalls. Good for all ages.
New operator, new format: the plateau outside St George's Hall becomes an outdoor ice rink with a Christmas market, a big wheel and a rooftop bar, open 10am to 10pm. You can buy skating on the day, but booking guarantees your session. The operator suggests children are with someone 16 or over.
Come and celebrate with the Youth Engagement Forum members for their 5th anniversary celebrations event!
Luxmuralis light up Liverpool Cathedral for Noel, 27 November to 5 December, in timed evening slots from 4.30pm. Allow about 40 minutes. There is no pram storage, and a quiet session on 2 December.
The BBC show brought to the arena, the Gladiators against contenders through the TV games and the Eliminator to finish. The £99 group ticket for four is the one to price up, and the arena is currently selling the Sunday shows at half price. Under-14s must be with an adult and cannot go on the floor.
Otterspool's Christmas ticket, all in one booking: the Elf Workshop where children make a teddy, gingerbread with Mother Christmas, an elf village with an ice rink and marshmallows, and time with Father Christmas. Prices change by date, and weekend slots go first. Gentler SENsational sessions run on 29 November and 20 and 21 December, and there is a payment plan with the last instalment on 1 November.
A Victorian Christmas at Sudley House on Saturday 5 December, with carols, children's crafts and storytelling in the decorated house. Times are not published yet, so check before setting off.
A full day of free festive entertainment round Liverpool ONE, hosted by Jay Hynd and Gemma Cutting, with prizes to win. The new 30 metre walk-through tree at Paradise Place is the photo everyone will be queuing for, so do that first.
Father Christmas and Buddy the Elf do stories and songs in the Town Hall, every child gets a turn to tell Santa their wishes and goes home with a gift. Sessions are capped at 20 children and run 45 minutes to an hour, which is the right length for the small ones. One adult goes in free with each child ticket.
The Epstein's panto this year is Snow White, with Muddles and Nurse Nelly back for the comedy. It runs 5 December to 3 January. Restricted view seats knock £2 off, carers go free.
Runs on 14 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Festive concerts for ages 0, 5 at Liverpool Cathedral, featuring Christmas hits, a live ten-piece band and a special visit from Santa!
Cinderella is the panto at the M&S Bank Arena's Auditorium, 12 to 29 December, with Neil Jones as the Prince from 20 December. Suitable for all ages, but there is strobe and pyrotechnics. BSL show 21 December, 6pm.
Join us for Hurry to Bethlehem: A Family Carol Celebration.
The Snowman shown with the RLPO playing live, presented by Maddie Moate, on 19 and 20 December at the Phil. Aimed at ages 5 to 10. The 2.30pm Saturday show is BSL interpreted.
Join us at Liverpool Cathedral for Family Carols
A relaxed service of Christmas choral music sung by our Outreach Choirs.
Runs on 4 dates. Times, prices and tickets are on the organiser's own page.
Places you can turn up to whether or not anything is on.
South Liverpool's favourite park: lake, playground, ancient trees and the Storybarn, The Reader's hands-on storytelling space in the old coach house. The neolithic Calder Stones are older than Stonehenge, which is a good fact to deploy.
Two minutes off junction 5 of the M62, and you cannot hear it once you are past the trees. A Green Flag park with a playground, sunken gardens, a community orchard and free parking on site.
A hilltop park with the best free view of the city, a modern playground and a mini roads track where children can learn to ride a bike without meeting a real car. It sits just up the hill from the city centre, and it is free.
A Green Flag park on the wedge of land left behind by three converging railway lines: playground, cafe, bird hide and the Trans Pennine Trail straight through. Halewood station is next door, so you can arrive by train.
The spiral atrium is one of the most spectacular free interiors in the North West, the children's floor is genuinely brilliant, and the rooftop terrace looks across the city. Rainy-day Liverpool's best-kept non-secret, next door to World Museum.
The city's story with an overhead railway carriage to climb aboard and Little Liverpool, a dedicated hands-on gallery for under-6s. Free, on the waterfront, and the window views are half the fun.