Thanks to Disney on Ice for providing us with review tickets to the show What a wonderfully magical evening we had at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena last night as Disney on Ice Worlds of Enchantment opened for the first of 10 performances over five days in the city. It’s a lavish...
One of the things I’m really going to miss when my youngest starts full-time school in September is being able to visit places during term time hours, without the crowds (and prices) of weekends and school holidays. We’re trying to pack in as many off peak day trips as we...
Like a lot of families, we were disappointed to hear the sculptures were being removed from Fforest Fawr woodland in Tongwynlais. The magical, mythical wooden carvings had sadly decayed beyond salvation over the years so sadly they had to go. But the good news is that a new Fforest Fawr...
The madcap world of Dr Seuss comes to the stage this summer as Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival stages Seussical Jr, an unforgettable musical caper featuring some of the author’s most famous characters. Tickets are on sale now from the festival website or box office (0333 666 3366) priced £10...
Thanks to Shrek and Wales Millennium Centre for inviting us along Click here to get discounted tickets with Travel Zoo from 17-19 April. Based on the hit DreamWorks animated film, Shrek the Musical is an entertaining feel-good family show with plenty of laughs and an overriding message that it’s okay...
“Play is often talked about as if were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning.” – Fred Rogers I asked my children what they thought I should write about next on Cardiff Mummy Says. Their response? “The best...
Thanks to Little Light and the Sherman for inviting us to review Based on the book by Heather Dyer, The Flying Bedroom is an imaginative – if a little quirky – blend of dance, performance and digital storytelling that approaches the issue of anxiety for young children. We saw it...
Matthew Bourne completely reinvents the classic fairytale of Cinderella in his highly-acclaimed dance production, currently in Cardiff until Saturday. A love story set in the midst of 1940s London and the Second World War, Bourne’s Cinderella has been revived and reimagined 20 years after it was first staged in 1997...
Paid collaboration with Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival As you’ll know if you read Cardiff Mummy Says regularly we are big bookworms in this family with reading a high priority for all of us. One of the highlights of our annual events calendar is the Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival – and...
Paid collaboration with Pugh’s Garden Village Wenvoe One minute you’re a child being dragged around a garden centre on a rainy bank holiday weekend; the next you’re a parent dragging your own children around a garden centre on a rainy bank holiday weekend. Thankfully garden centres are a lot more...
Thanks to Almost Always Muddy and Wales Millennium Centre for inviting us to review Almost Always Muddy is a wonderfully inventive and fully interactive show where children and their grown-ups create the set, props, characters and the storyline – meaning every performance is completely different and full of its own...