Museum of Childhood

Photo by edosbornphotography What’s There for Toddlers? The Museum of Childhood is a free museum based in East London. They have a play area with a sandpit, dressing up and a place to read. There are also lots of events going and daily activities aimed at under 5s. Its worth checking out the website before [...]

National Army Museum

What is there for toddlers? The National Army Museum has a kids zone for children aged 0 to 10 and there’s lots aimed at toddlers. There’s a soft play area as well as dressing up costumes, arts and crafts, children’s books and board games. There are scheduled time slots throughout the day as numbers in [...]

London Transport Museum

What’s there for toddlers? The London transport museum is perfect for toddlers who are fascinated by buses, trains and tubes. There are a number of life size buses and train carriages that toddlers can get on and explore with their parents. There is also a play area with miniature trains to play and other hands [...]

Battersea Park Children’s Zoo

What is there for toddlers? This is the perfect small zoo for toddlers. Animals include monkey’s, miniature Shetland ponies, lemurs, pygmy goat, giant rabbits, birds and mice amongst many others. Crawl through a tunnel to be find yourself in the middle of the meerkats. As well as the more exotic animals there are farm animals [...]

Family Hotel Rooms in London

London does have hotels that have family rooms for 3, 4 and 5 people to share but sometimes its hard to know where to look to find them. Here is a selection of hotels that have family rooms and aim to cater for well for children. The Euro Hotel have a number or 3 & [...]

London Wetland Centre

London Wetland Centre is a great day out for the family which your toddler will enjoy too. The Wetland Centre hosts more than 40 hectares of created wetlands in the south west of the capital city with the opportunity to see rare and beautiful wetland wildlife. Understandably you can’t feed the birds but you should [...]

Coram’s Fields

Photo by silverfox09 Coram’s Fields is a seven acre open space in the Bloomsbury area of Central London which includes a playground, sand pit, animal corner and a cafe. It is great for children as adults over 16 are only permitted to enter if they are accompanying a child and the area is staffed too. [...]

Free things to do with your toddler in London

It’s said the best things in life are simple and free, which is so true. And there are so many free, great things to do in London with small children. You never need to spend much money. Just make sure it’s something you’ll both enjoy. Relax and simplify. London parks The best thing about London [...]

St James’s Park

We visited St James’s park today with our two year old. It’s a lovely spring day in March and we arrived by 10am. I like to go into Central London as early as possible as it is quieter on the public transport and at the tourist attractions and parks. What is there for toddlers? The [...]

National Army Museum

What is there for toddlers? There is a kid’s zone which is free for 0 to 10 year olds but also has a baby soft play area. There is lots to do for toddlers including dressing up as soldiers and exploring the construction zone which includes music and building activities for toddlers. There is also [...]