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Monster Funfair

Monster Funfair
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Thursday 26 June 2025

Select an Entry ticket then add additional events to your basket.

We recommend just 1-2 additional events, so you have enough time for Story World play.

You can arrive at any point after 10am (but be here in good time for any additional events you have booked). All groups should include at least one adult and one child.

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Drop-in activity: Hairy Maclary and Friends Interactive Trail and Café Exhibition. Free with your Entry ticket.
Part of Tiny Tales Takeover, a festival of fun for 0-4 year olds and their grown-ups
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Story Worlds Entry Ticket

Every time you visit Discover you need to select Entry tickets. Additional events will then become available below. You can arrive any time after the day starts.

Tiny tales

Talk: The Science of Storytelling

  • Age guide: 0-4 with parents/carers
  • Duration: 20 mins

Free with your Entry ticket. Join researchers from the University of East London as they share insights into the neuroscience behind storytelling and the science of early development.

Tiny tales

Spots and Stripes with Chickenshed

  • Age guide: 0-4
  • Duration: 60 mins

£4 with your Entry ticket. A vibrant, interactive adventure that captivates young audiences from start to finish!

Story telling

Baby Storytelling: Animal Adventures

  • Age guide: 0-2
  • Duration: 20 mins

£2 in addition to your Entry ticket. Roar! Quack! Baa! Tweet! An intimate, interactive storytelling for babies and their caregivers — with stories, songs and rhymes inspired by the animal kingdom.

Story telling

0-3 Storytelling: That’s Not My… Dinosaur

  • Age guide: 0-3
  • Duration: 25 mins

£3.50 in addition to your Entry ticket. Tails, horns, flippers and spines... dinosaurs come in ALL kinds of colours, shapes and touchy-feely textures. An intimate and interactive storytelling for our smaller visitors and their caregivers — based on the best-selling That’s not my… series from Usborne.

Exhibition

Monster Funfair

  • Age guide: 0-8
  • Duration: 50 mins

£5 in addition to your Discover Entry ticket. Go through the circus tent and into the woods. In amongst the trees you’ll find a amazing, marvellous, EXTRAORDINARY… Monster Funfair!  Our new immersive family adventure is created with the award-winning Nadia Shireen. For 0-8 year olds.