How To Keep Kids Safe At Festivals

Last Updated on: 23rd February 2025, 12:25 pm

Keep Your Kids Safe

Kids love festivals as much as adults. It is a chance for us all to let loose and let our kids run feral. But you also need to remember that even though they love freedom, they need to stay safe. The older your kids get, the more they want to go off on their own or with friends. It is scary letting them go, but there are ways you can keep kids safe at festivals. We are going to share some tips with you now.

Although kids do go to festivals on their own and you need to offer different advice to them about keeping safe from dink and drugs. This post is about family festivals that you will attend with your child.

Give Them Your Number

Write your phone number down for them in case they need you. Kids can get lost easily at festivals, so if they have your number, it will make it easier to find them. They might have a mobile phone, but phones die at festivals as there is nowhere to charge them. If they have a festival map, write your phone number down on there, as well as the numbers of friends you are with. But maps get lost, so also write your number on their arm with a sharpie. I always take a sharpie to festivals for this reason.

Talk To Your Kids About Festival Safety

The best thing you can do is talk about safety with your child. Arrange a meeting place if you get separated from them. There is always a welfare tent at a festival where you can report a child missing and your child can go there if they are lost. Welfare tents also double as first aid tents so if your child gets an injury, they should head there too.

Give Them A Bumbag Or Small Shoulder Bag

Backpacks are great for festivals, but the kids put them down and lose them. So give them a bumbag or small shoulder bag, and then they will not put a bag down that they are wearing over their shoulder or around their waist. Pop emergency details in their little bag like asthma pumps or epi-pens. As well as instructions in case they do become ill. Pop a festival map in there and your phone number. Also, give them a bit of money in case they need some food or a drink.

Get Them To Keep Checking In

If they have a phone with them, ask them to check in once an hour with you. They can either call or text but calling is better so you hear their voice. I usually get Tilly to video call me, so I can see she is okay. If they don’t have a phone, ask them to pop back to where you are every so often.

Add A Tracker To Their Phone To Keep Kids Safe At Festivals

We use Life 360 as a tracker on my daughter’s phone, but there are many more trackers out there that will be more accurate. Life 360 is fine for a free app. But the area she is located in is about 100 metres. And if your child is lost, that is a big area to look at. Find my phone is a great thing as well. Make sure it is enabled. Then when you look for your child through that, the phone will ring, even if it is out of the signal area.

Make Your Tent Stand Out

If you have ever been to a festival and looked at all of the tents – you will see thousands of them. So make your own tent stand out. You can do this by taking a flag and flag pole to the festival. This makes the tent easily visible to your child and it is easily found. If you don’t have a flag pole, get plenty of bunting and put it all around your tent. I always put bunting on the tent and take it down to the guy ropes too. This makes the ropes easily visible and stops kids from tripping over them too.

Avoiding bugs and Illnesses To Keep Kids Safe At Festivals

In times of Covid, Strep A and other illnesses, it can be worrying when you go to a festival with loads of people. So make sure you pop some hand sanitiser and some anti-bacterial wipes in your kid’s bags. When you keep kids safe at festivals is not just about them getting lost, it is about keeping them healthy too. encourage them to keep cleaning their hands as the day goes on.

Lastly, make sure you have fun. Try not to worry about your kids, you are there to have some quality family time together. Once you go to your first festival, you carry on going to them.