This month, make the most of the great outdoors with festivals, al fresco installations, park fun days and outdoor water-play.
Hangouts
This month, get messy with art in the park, check out the city’s best outdoor installations and build sandcastles at a pop-up urban beach.
The whole “it’s a playgroup on a bus lol” thing is its initial draw, but this is one you’ll return to again and again.
With more than 50 interactives across the entire gallery, there’s plenty to keep tiny hands occupied.
Bab Dad took everything extremely seriously and began painstakingly icing anatomically correct innards onto a gingerbread man.
None of my pre-baby friends had kids and I literally had no idea what you were meant to do with one.
Owner Emily Ajasa has really tapped in to what adults are looking for in a tot-friendly cafe – i.e. not garishly hued plastic crap.
I won’t pretend your toddler will be capable of operating any of the machines on its own, but older ones will have a giggle watching your reactions to this quirky cluster of contraptions.
Adam, AKA Bab Dad, has lived in Hampstead for two and a half years. He’s a doctor and dad to Bab, 2, and Margot the cat, 3.
The Mail Rail ride is short, mildly claustrophobic and I’m going to go out on a limb and say probably not the most exciting thing you have or will ever do.
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