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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Celebrating Thanksgiving Day, Macy's colourful parade is one of New York's best. It features clowns, floats, marching bands and plenty of celebrities. Gigantic helium balloons shaped like…
The Gasparilla Pirate Fest draws crowds of more than 500,000 for each spectacular event. The Floridian festival includes the "invasion" of Tampa by a fully working pirate ship and continues…
To call Barranquilla Carnival a huge party is a mighty understatement. The people of the Caribbean city take to the streets for dazzling parades of colourful costumes, salsa and cumbia music…
Ottawa's Winterlude takes place over three weekends in February and is North America's largest winter festival. Amongst a myriad activities, the event boasts the world's largest skating rink…
The Royal Easter Show attracts thousands each year to Auckland's ASB Showgrounds with a winning mix of fairground rides, live shows, exhibitions and livestock events. Take the whole family for…
Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival
Head down to the waterside for the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival. Crowds cheer on the long, narrowboats with ornately carved and painted dragon heads. More than 100 teams compete on the Shing…
Mighty Mud Mania is a highlight of Scottsdale's summer. Every year 160 tonnes of "clean" dirt and water are sifted into freshly dug pits in Chaparral Park and thousands of kids show up ready…
Rock Ici Mômes, the Woodstock for kids at the Chateau de Colbert in Sablé-Sur-Sarthe, is intended for three to twelve year olds. Fancy dress, fun and face-paints are in, listening to mum and…
Camp Bestival is the little sister festival of Bestival and takes place at Lulworth Castle near to the Dorset coast. With an emphasis on family fun and fantastic camping, the event presents an…
Demons, spirits and mythical warriors on spectacular floats fill the streets of Aomori every August for Japan's answer to the Rio carnival - Aomori Nebuta Matsuri. More than three million…
Old Sacramento travels back in time over Labor Day weekend at the Gold Rush Days festival. Re-enactors roam the streets and cars are banned for this weekend that also features horse-drawn…
Bath Festival of Children's Literature
The best children's books are brought to life by their authors and illustrators at the Bath Festival of Children's Literature. Kids are encouraged to take part in author interviews and…
True to the Lone Star State's custom of boasting the biggest of everything, the State Fair of Texas at Dallas' Fair Park is North America's largest annual exposition. The 16m-tall cowboy Big…
International Circus Festival of Tomorrow
The annual International Circus Festival of Tomorrow at Paris' Pelouse de Reuilly, offers the chance to catch the world's finest circuses under one roof. The cream of the acrobatic crop come…
Melbourne Moomba Waterfest brings a riot of aquatic fun to the city's waterfront parks. First held in 1955, the event is Melbourne's premier family festival with water-skiing demonstrations, a…
The Houston Children's Festival takes over downtown Houston one weekend each April. Ten themed family adventure zones and six outdoor stages host shows and live music especially for families…
The Cheung Chau Bun Festival parade day is the climax of a week of lion dances and Chinese opera performances on this Hong Kong island. The event is a religious tradition believed to calm the…
Vancouver International Children's Festival
Children arrive full of energy to be welcomed by stiltwalkers and clowns to the Vancouver International Children's Festival. An international banquet of mime, multimedia and great new theatre awaits.
Edinburgh hosts the annual Imaginate Festival, Britain's biggest performing arts festival for kids. Leading international children's theatre groups bring wonder, drama and excitement in…
An integral part of Brazilian culture, the June Festival (Festa Juninia) sees children (and numerous adults) in country-style lumberjack shirts, straw hats, pigtails and painted freckles.…