Edinburgh festival - recommendations/your reviews of kids shows please

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I am starting this thread in the hope that people will recommend things to go and see
I remember last year there was a thread where people recommended things they had seen/said what to avoid which looked really helpful.
My dc are 4.5 and 2 so any specific recommendations for their age would be great but obviously do share your ideas on any and all shows

Marking my place - going next weekend & am soooo excited. Its our first visit with kids so no more Late & Live and staying up until 4am getting drunk

I've taken DS (3) to see:

Stick Man - excellent couldn't fault it

Incredible Book Eating boy - only a 5 min performance but max audience 1 adult and 1 child since you sit in a little cupboard with windows that open onto projections, puppets/actors - superb, inventive, a bit magical and just what the fringe should be about in my opinion.

Mr Benn - I didn't enjoy this quite as much as Stick Man and DS got a bit fidgety but that could be that it was near lunch. Very professional though,

The Mole who... good fun but not as slick and inventive as Stick Man or Mr Benn. Slightly panto touches.

We'll see Hairy Maclary on Monday and that will be it apart from free street stuff. I think I spent just over £60 on tickets and I think that was good value so far.

saw Stick Man today, it was brilliant again (we saw it last year but it's very much the sort of thing that the children want to see more than once). we caught one of the balls... dd1 was THRILLED.

we also saw Swamp Juice, oh my GOD it was amazing. shadow puppetry, right, by a balding Canadian in flight goggles and tights... so far so 'oh ffs i am SO at the fringe ' but what he achieves is absolutely magical (and contains excellent fart jokes).

Kids ADORED it, even professional miserable git DH was astounded because somehow, somehow the guy has managed to design a set and lighting system that lets him do the ten-minute finale in 3-D.

it was absolutely mind-bending... (and i noticed that despite it being advertised as a 'family' ie kids show, there were only a handful of children in the audience... so it looks like the buzz has got to the grown-ups as well.) i am so delighted, tbh, normally i feel like i get to see okaaaaaaay stuff at the festival and only find out later what the hot picks were, iykwim? finally i've actually seen something that knocked my socks right off.

and then we went to the High St and got caught in the crowd watching The World's Most Tedious Busker... ah well you cannae win them all.

Bagpuss was excellent, really worth a viewing. The audience (mostly 4-8) were totally captivated. The show was full of energy and really lively. Fab.

I loved loved loved the Velveteen rabbit and so did ALL the adults and children (age 2 to 8) in our party

It was wonderfull, clever, captivating. And I normally would rather stick pins in my eyes than watch a lot of kids stuff, usually SO overdramatic