Yellow Warbler doesn’t claim to be a play cafe – it’s simply a lovely coffee shop that just so happens to have a kids’ area.
Stoke Newington
This month, check out the exhibitions you missed pre-lockdown and make the most of the great outdoors with garden trails, treasure hunts and al fresco art.
Circus Dreams Families takes place in the same setting as most of my nightmares: a school gym.
We ended up staying for 2-3 hours and Babu even asked for extra time at the end – her golden seal of approval.
Helpful staff, aesthetic beauty and a great mix of educational activities – not necessarily the things kids will care about but all so necessary for parents.
Bryony Lester has lived in Stoke Newington for 11 years, having moved there straight from university. She is a Senior Brand Manager and has a one-year-old daughter called Nel.
There was enough uptempo bow-work to tire out maniacal toddlers and sufficient dulcet tones to alleviate parental headaches.
I’ve learnt the hard, breaking-my-neck-tripping-over-the-crap way that less is more where kids’ stuff is concerned.
Sarah Bruegger is a freelance Digital Content Consultant and founder of local parents’ events series East Sleep Repeat. She has lived in Hackney for more than five years and has a 10-month-old daughter called Ella.
My favourite thing about it, aside from the fact that it wasn’t just another hour of my life lost to nursery rhymes, was how into it everyone was.
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