• All Baby Week specific events will be included in the Baby Week UK website events timetable under Torbay. If you’d like to organise an event for inclusion in this year’s programme, click here to add your event.

• Events should be open for anyone to attend, free of charge, and fit with this year’s theme of Best Start in Life, promoting close and loving relationships and how it benefits babies’ development, health and wellbeing. The deadline for submissions is 4th October.

• By organising an event in Baby Week you will receive a free Baby Week pack with posters to promote your event, baby week bunting, baby week bookmarks for your families, information and to share with your families and more – all aimed at bringing a bit of Baby Week Torbay direct to your own setting (please note, your details will only be used by Torbay Family Hubs for the purposes of sending this pack and will not be passed on to anyone else). Packs will be posted out towards the end of October.

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Calling All Early Years Settings and Toddler Groups in Torbay!

Get ready to join the Baby Week Wiggle! 🕺💃 This fun and energetic event is going national this year, and we want YOU to be a part of it. Every participating setting will receive free new books from Torbay Council’s Early Years team! 📚✨

Started in Bradford in 2023, the Baby Week Wiggle has so many benefits:

• It’s a great way to exercise 🏃‍♂️
• It allows people of all ages to express themselves 🎨
• It’s energising, relaxing, and – most of all – lots of fun! 🎉

You can wiggle anywhere and however you want – wiggling your fingers, crawling in a wiggly line, wiggling your eyebrows, or your whole body. Indoors or outdoors, sitting or standing – just wiggle! 🥳

Sign up to get involved by emailing familyhubtorbay@actionforchildren.org.uk with a contact name, setting name, address, postcode and contact phone number. You can wiggle on any day during Baby week, so let’s get Torbay wiggling!

All settings who take part will receive 5 high quality children’s storybooks to use in their setting.

Take a look at The Baby Week Wiggle!

Show us your wiggles!

We’d absolutely LOVE it if you shared your own videos of you, your early years settings, your play groups and your workplaces doing the Baby Week Wiggle.

Here’s how to do it:

• Rehearse your moves by following Faye’s instructions in the video above.
• Think about how you can put your own stamp on it – remember, you can wiggle however you want!
• Play the video or use this audio only track, and video yourselves doing your version of the Baby Week Wiggle along to the music (using the audio track allows you to play the music and record your video on a single device).
• Share your video on Facebook or Instagram and use the hashtag #BabyWeekWiggleTorbay so that we can find you and share it with your fellow wigglers across Torbay and beyond! To make absolutely sure, you can also tag @0to19Torbay (Facebook / Instagram) in your posts. Don’t forget to make your Facebook wiggle posts shareable if you want us to find and share them!

Have fun and get wiggling!

The Baby Week Wiggle was created for Baby Week Bradford 2023 to encourage people of all ages (but especially those in their earliest years) to get dancing and moving.

A huge thank you to Faye from BoomChikkaBoom for creating the brilliant song and accompanying dance moves, to Davinder and the team at Punjabi Roots Academy for filming and editing this video, and collectively for making the Baby Week Wiggle a reality.

Please click here to have your event added to the Torbay Family Hub what’s on pages for Baby Week.

Click here to find out about all the events you can join in Torbay and some virtual national ones too! As we get closer to Baby Week, more events will be added.