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The best kids’ shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025

It’s not just fun for adults at the world’s biggest arts festival: there’s lots for the little ones too

Andrzej Lukowski
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While the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is famed for late-night boozing, interesting conceptual club nights and lairy standups, the truth of the matter is that it’s such a vast event that it offers all things to all people: including families!

There’s a dedicated family section in the Fringe brochure, and the mornings at the festival in particular are bustling with shows specifically aimed at children, from theatre to stand-up. Whether you’re a local looking for summer holiday activities, a visitor with kids, or you jiust really like bubble-based shows, there’s something for everyone here.

Here’s our top picks.

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  • Children's
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We tend to think of New Yorkers as pathologically grouchy souls. But primary schooler-orientated NYC wizard Mario the Maker Magician is defined by his infectious elan. Whether he’s goofing around with the petty logic of a seven-year old or accessibly expounding on his love for Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, it’s the giddy atmosphere that the Sesame Street and David Blaine-endorsed Mario fosters in his show that makes it work as much as the actual magic.

  • Children's

Louis Pearl’s bubblicious show is an Edinburgh mainstay that sells out every year for a reason. That reason being: he does cool stuff with bubbles! Big bubbles, little bubbles, artistic bubbles, bubbles demonstrating science, dumb bubbles, clever bubble – aaaaaaall the bubbles. It’s not even the only bubble-based Edinburgh Fringe kids’ show but it’s definitely ‘the big one’.

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