Rhyme times, toddler sessions, stay and play and everything else that genuinely works with a pre-schooler in and around Liverpool.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.