Try a temporary tattoo or create your own website at a celebration of youth culture that forms part of the Cardiff International Festival from 3pm-10.30pm today at Cardiff Castle, entrance £2. The festival closes next weekend with Big Weekend, a collection of music, funfairs, and entertainment at the civic centre. Tel: 01222 872 000.
Global entertainment
From Wednesday, the Aberdeen International Youth Festival welcomes companies from Zimbabwe, Ukraine and the Basque Country which will hold workshops throughout the week culminating in Sunday's performance of Around the World in 80 Minutes in the Beach Ballroom. Tickets £3.50. Tel: 01224 641 122.
Visit Wonderland
The successful Regent's Park Open Air Theatre season continues in a younger vein from Tuesday with a new adaptation of Alice - An Adventure in Wonderland . The run finishes on 26 August and tickets are £7.50. Tel: 020 7486 2431
Chaucer comes alive
Canterbury aims to bring Chaucer to life at the Canterbury Tales Visitor Attraction, St Margaret's Street. Visitors walk through five tales including The Miller's and Pardoner's, and fourteenth-century England is recreated. Open every day 9am-5.30pm. Adults £5.50, children £4.60. Tel: 01227 479 227.
Summer snows
At Milton Keynes's Xscape Theme Park cannon produce 1,500 tonnes of snow so that indoor skiing is guaranteed all year round. The Snozone is divided into three slopes, one of which is for beginners, ideal for children.. Tel: 01908 230 260.
Puppet masters
The Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, is running a packed programme of children's arts events until the end of August. Today there is a puppet-making workshop from noon. The Summer Fun season continues all week with performances for children. All shows are free and start at 1pm. Tel: 0121 440 3838.
Tinderbox tale
Performances of Hans Christian Andersen's The Tinderbox are showing at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, London, and run every Monday to Thursday until 24 August.Suitable for children aged four and over; £2. Tel: 020 8980 2415.
Meet my mummy
The Royal Museum of Scotland's Heaven and Hell exhibition includes a Mercedes Benz coffin and burial objects from around the world. The Linares Family are the artists in residence from Tuesday until 10 August and will be making full-size skeletons, following the tradition of the Mexican Day of the Dead. Open Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, Tuesday 10am-8pm, Sunday noon to 5pm. Adults £3, children free. Tel: 0131 247 4219.
Clash of the skaters
Hear the clash of wheels on wood today at Princes Park and Parade, Eastbourne. Champion skaters, dancers, extreme skaters and members of the Federation of Inline Speed Skaters will descend on this purpose built promenade for Skate 2000. Skate hire£3.50 an hour. From 10am-7pm. Tel: 01323 415 442.
Roman rooms
Try an archaic version of Changing Rooms at Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields, as you help an artist redecorate one of the rooms in Roman style on Tuesday; 10am-noon and 1pm-3pm. Free. Tel: 0191 455 8740 for details.
