It’s the most wonderful time of the year… Adelaide Fringe Festival time! As per usual, we can’t wait for this year’s Adelaide Fringe and the chance to get our kids and families out of the house and seeing some shows!

CHILDREN’S SHOWS AT THE ADELAIDE FRINGE 2022

The Fringe guide has been released, the performers are honing their skills and there’s no shortage of amazing shows this year, especially for kids and families!

To give you a head start on what to look out for when picking your Adelaide Fringe shows for this year, we’ve selected our top picks for family friendly Fringe shows for kids in the upcoming season. There’s a whole bunch of fun here for the kids (and the adults!) with comedy, circus, under sea adventures and even some musical monkeys.. not to mention a show that’s been written specifically for babies and toddlers!

PREHYSTERICAL

This show rocks! A hilarious circus show for children and parents of all ages, following three foolish Neanderthals as they struggle to survive the harsh natural world. Avoiding predators, navigating harsh environments, and learning to work together are all explored with marvellous circus skills and hilarious slapstick comedy.

With truly incredible circus and tongue-in-cheek humour for the adults, PreHysterical is something everyone will enjoy.

For tickets: 

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/prehysterical-af2022

Party Pooper

Put on your best party hat, and wrap the presents, you’re invited to this surprise party! Wildhouse Circus infuses their exceptional circus skills with all of the classic party games you’d expect. There’ll be hula hooping, tumbling and giant German Wheel-ing on show as well as pranks, silly facial expressions and balloons popping like wild. Witness the taunts and tantrums when things don’t go to plan and the joy and happiness that comes from celebrating amongst the ones you love. You’d be a ‘Party Pooper’ to give this one a miss!

For tickets: 

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/party-pooper-af2022

Amazing Drumming Monkeys

Australia’s favourite family puppet show is back at the FRINGE in 2022. Comedy, puppetry, live music, and heartwarming themes. Sold out in 2021, the Monkeys will have kids and parents laughing, dancing and drumming together with their delightful show.

Perfect for little kids and great for adults as well, this show has something for everyone. Cute & funny monkey puppets for the children, hilarious comedy for the adults, funky live drumming for all ages, and a message for the world. It’s rare to find a show that can be equally enjoyed by young children, and their parents. The Amazing Drumming Monkeys does that and more. It’s a fantastic show!

For tickets:

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/amazing-drumming-monkeys-af2022

Mr Snotbottom’s Stinky Silly Show

Kids comedy hero Mr Snot-bottom, brings his slimiest and stinkiest of songs, gruesomest of gags, plus some BRAND NEW just-wrong routines in a rollercoaster of weirdness this Adelaide Fringe!

Star of the award winning* ‘Busy Bodies’ podcast, fringe favourite Mr Snot bottom will have weird kids 5+ and their even weirder parents gasping, groaning and howling with delight with the most hysterically deeeeesgusting moments from a career of sell-out shows and rave reviews!

For tickets:

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/mr-snotbottom-s-stinky-silly-show-af2022

Game on 3

Last year’s sold out smash hit is back!

Like John Farnham, Matty Grey is doing a farewell show about video games! Well, John Farnham doesn’t do shows about video games, but parents reading this will get the joke here. OH GOD! I’ve already used up most of my space! Um um… it’s for kids, about video games, comedy and EPIC Nerf gun battles. HANG ON!!! This is the internet write up… YAY more characters to use and really describe what the show is about and what the audience can expect.

For tickets:

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/game-on-3-af2022

Bubbalicious

Yes, it’s a show for babies! Mums and Dads who are dying to get their new humans out to the Fringe, this show is for you! Inspired by being a new mum, Kat Placing has devised a show for babbling babies & tireless toddlers! It is a sensory display of colour, sound, light & movement to spark joy and ignite wonder. Incorporating puppetry, clowning, bubbles, shadow play & much more. It is a 30min sampler of stimulation for hungry minds. Created to delight audiences 6m to 3 years. Taking place within the Gluttony grounds it ensures a much needed day out for fringe fun and family bonding. All performances are relaxed where we expect bubs to be bubs. Check out what we thought of the show last year!

For tickets: 

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/bubba-licious-af2022

Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall

Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Mumma, Monski Mouse and her Dancers for a session of bonkers, bopping family fun. This international hit kids show, lets parents and 0-5’s loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos. Expect high-energy smiling to retro beats and thumping nursery rhymes. Get your disco-dancing booties on!

For tickets: 

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/monski-mouse-s-baby-disco-dance-hall-af2022

I’m A Raindrop Get Me Out Of Here

DID YOU KNOW that there has never been more or less water on Planet Earth? Where has this water been? What has it seen? Join Rocio, Reef and Millie the Raindrops on the immersive adventure of a billion-year-lifetime! Families will be taken up Mt. Everest, walking with the Dinosaurs, and discovering the effects of climate change throughout time. As a community, we come together in a call to action; because the Climate Emergency is here, real, and urgent.

For tickets: 

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/i-m-a-raindrop-get-me-outta-here-af2022

Seastar Rock

Hop aboard this interactive, musical, rocking family party, with all the characters from the famed, locally produced TV series on Adelaide’s Channel 44.

Kids will be up singing, dancing and playing games as they help navigate the oceans on an exciting eco adventure! With sell out crowds at Adelaide Fringe, the show was recommended as the “Top 5 Things to do with Kids”, The Advertiser.

Highlights will include: Helping Paddy Polar Bear bring back the snow, creating a colourful coral reef with Cha Cha Crab, and surfing waves with Snappy Starfish as he takes on the plastic bag monsters! From the bluesy beats of ‘Blue Boppin Whale’ to the dance floor filler ‘Jelly Fish Fizzies’, parents love the SeaStar songs as much as the kids do! Old favourites and new tunes to rock to! Three shows only!

For tickets: 

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/seastar-rock-af2022

Best of Kids Fringe

A fun Fringe ‘best of show’ for kids! Keep them clapping and cheering along with circus performers, magicians, bubble artists, clowns, sing-a-longs and puppeteers throughout this ever changing silly spectacle like none other.

For tickets:

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/best-of-kids-fringe-af2022

Pico and the Golden Lagoon

‘Pico and the Golden Lagoon’ is an enchanting adventure story about courage, new friendships, and the wonders of nature. Pico is a world traveler who flies around in a yellow bi-plane. On her adventures, she is introduced to new eco ideas through the characters in the stories. Pico is in the middle of a mail run when all of a sudden her plane runs out of fuel and she is forced to make a crash landing on a nearby island. Here she meets David, a marooned naturalist, who shows her the charms of the island. Pico meets many wonderful characters including Lou a dragon who lives in a cave at the edge of the lagoon. Does Lou guard the solution to Pico’s empty fuel tank? How will the story unfold? Created from re-purposed and recycled materials, using puppetry, live music, and storytelling.

For tickets:

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/pico-and-the-golden-lagoon-af2022

Pico under the Coral Sea

Pico, a world traveler, is en route to a small island in the middle of the ocean to deliver a special package to Jacques, a deep-sea adventurer. Upon arrival, she is asked to join him on his next diving expedition. On this underwater exploration, Pico meets all the wonderful and diverse creatures of the ocean.

Why are they all leaving? Is the coral reef really dying? What will they discover? Join Pico and friends in the story of – ‘Pico under the Coral Sea’

Using live music, puppetry, and storytelling, Pico’s Puppet Palace introduces ecological and environmental issues, innovations, and ideas. The shows are created from repurposed and recycled materials.

For tickets:

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/pico-under-the-coral-sea-af2022

Put on your Dancing Shoes with Humphrey

This inter-generational extravaganza will bring the whole family together. Great-grandchildren to great-grandparents will be able to joyfully explore this dynamic and inclusive show.

Humphrey will delight the inner child as everyone will be toe-tapping, finger-clicking and grinning as he dances, prances and bumbles his way through the ages. This show is packed full of interactive songs and dance.

Get a photo with Humphrey after the show! It’s a perfect souvenir to share with family and friends!

For tickets: 

adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/put-on-your-dancing-shoes-with-humphrey-af2022

Roald Dahl and The Imagination Seekers