Children’s Week World Event Guide (April 27 – May 4)

Children's Week world event is a 1-week holiday in World of Warcraft. It is themed around taking care of children in different cities, showing them new sights and experiences all over Azeroth.

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Children's Week Event Overview

To begin the Children's Week questline, visit an orphanage in one of the main cities. You'll find them in Dornogal, Dazar'alor, Boralus, Northrend Dalaran, Shattrath, Orgrimmar and Stormwind.

Completing any Orphan's questline will reward a Well-loved Figurine, which can be exchanged for various pets and transmog at vendors in Silvermoon City, Dornogal, Orgrimmar and Stormwind.

Tip: The fastest quests to complete for Well-loved Figurines are those for Azala the Zandalari Orphan in Dazar'alor and Liam the Kul Tiran Orphan in Boralus.

Quests

Faction: Both
Zone: Khaz Algar

Speak with Ullna in Dornogal to take the quest Children's Week in Dornogal. Throughout the questline you will receive an Orphan Whisle which you can use to summon the orphans.

After completing these quests, you will receive one last quest that rewards Khaz algar pets and weapon transmog.

Faction: Horde
Zone: Orgrimmar

To start the questline, speak with Orphan Matron Battlewail at the Orgrimmar Orphanage, and take the Children's Week quest. You will receive an Orcish Orphan Whistle which you can use to summon Grunth.

Grunth will give you a series of quests:

After completing these quests, you can pick up two new quests:

After that, you will receive one last quest to return the orphan.

Faction: Alliance
Zone: Stormwind

To start the questline, speak with Orphan Matron Nightingale at the Stormwind Orphanage, and take the Children's Week quest. You will receive a Human Orphan Whistle which you can use to summon Randis.

Randis will give you a series of quests:

After completing these quests, you can pick up two new quests:

After that, you will receive one last quest to return the orphan.

Faction: Horde
Zone: Shattrath

To start the questline, speak with Orphan Matron Mercy at the Shattrath Orphanage, and take the Children's Week quest. You will receive a Blood Elf Orphan Whistle which you can use to summon Salandria.

Salandria will give you a series of quests:

After completing these quests, you can pick up two new quests:

After that, you will receive one last quest to return the orphan.

Faction: Alliance
Zone: Shattrath

To start the questline, speak with Orphan Matron Mercy at the Shattrath Orphanage, and take the Children's Week quest. You will receive a Draenei Orphan Whistle which you can use to summon Dornaa.

Dornaa will give you a series of quests:

After completing these quests, you can pick up two new quests:

After that, you will receive one last quest to return the orphan.

Faction: Both
Zone: Northrend Dalaran

To start the questline, speak with Orphan Matron Aria in Northrend Dalaran, and take the Little Orphan Roo Of The Oracles quest. You will receive an Oracle Orphan Whistle which you can use to summon Roo.

Roo will give you a series of quests:

  • The Biggest Tree Ever! - Take Roo to visit the Grizzlemaw city in the fallen great tree Vordrassil, in Grizzly Hills.

  • The Bronze Dragonshrine - Take Roo to the Bronze Dragonshrine in Dragonblight.

  • Playmates! - Take Roo to visit the murloc hatchlings in the Winterfin Retreat, in Borean Tundra.

  • Meeting a Great One - Take Roo to visit Etymidian in Un'Goro Crater. You can use a gateway located in Sholazar Basin that will take you right to him.

  • The Dragon Queen - Take Roo to visit Alexstrasza the Life-Binder atop the Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight.

  • A Trip To The Wonderworks - Go back to Dalaran, purchase a Small Paper Zeppelin at the Wonderworks and throw it to Roo.

After that, you will receive one last quest to return the orphan.

Faction: Both
Zone: Northrend Dalaran

To start the questline, speak with Orphan Matron Aria in Northrend Dalaran, and take the Little Orphan Kekek Of The Wolvar quest. You will receive an Wolvar Orphan Whistle which you can use to summon Kekek.

Kekek will give you a series of quests:

  • Home Of The Bear-Men - Take Kekek to visit the Grizzlemaw city in the fallen great tree Vordrassil, in Grizzly Hills.

  • The Bronze Dragonshrine - Take Kekek to the Bronze Dragonshrine in Dragonblight.

  • Playmates! - Take Kekek to visit the pups of the Wolvar tribe in Snowfall Glade, in Dragonblight.

  • he Dragon Queen - Take Kekek to visit Alexstrasza the Life-Binder atop the Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight.

  • The Mighty Hemet Nesingwary - Take Kekek to visit Hemet Nesingwary in Sholazar Basin.

  • A Visit To The Wonderworks - Go back to Dalaran, purchase a Small Paper Zeppelin at the Wonderworks and throw it to Kekek.

After that, you will receive one last quest to return the orphan.

Faction: Horde
Zone: Dazar'alor

To start the questline, speak with Caretaker Padae in Dazar'alor, and take the Children's Week quest. You will receive a Casteless Zandalari Whistle which you can use to summon Azala.

Azala will give you a series of quests:

  • Loa of Winds - Take Azala to Pterror Rise in Zuldazar.

  • The Frogmarsh - Take Azala to Krag'wa's Burrow in the Frogmarsh in Nazmir.

  • The Shifting Pack - Take Azala to the Lair of Gonk at the Garden of the Loa in Zuldazar.

After completing these quests, you can pick up two new quests:

After that, you will receive one last quest to return the orphan.

Faction: Alliance
Zone: Boralus

To start the questline, speak with Orphan Matron Westerson in Boralus, and take the Children's Week quest. You will receive a Kul Tiran Orphan Whistle which you can use to summon Liam.

Liam will give you a series of quests:

  • The Mountain Folk - Take Liam to meet the Roughnecks at the Roughneck Camp in Tiragarde Sound.

  • Yo Ho, Yo Ho! - Take Liam to meet a pirate outside of Freehold in Tiragarde Sound.

  • The Squid Shrine - Take Liam to see Shrine of the Storms from the beach near Mariner's Strand in Stormsong Valley.

After completing these quests, you can pick up two new quests:

  • Bird Friends - Take Liam to see the statue of Arom Waycrest at Arom's Stand in Drustvar.

  • Shapeshifters! - Take Liam to meet a druid at Ulfar's Den in Drustvar.

After that, you will receive one last quest to return the orphan.

Traveling

The event got a small update during the Battle for Azeroth expansion. All orphans (except Wolvar and Oracle) now have their own mounts, so they can keep up with you while you travel across Azeroth.

Pets

Khaz Algar Pets

Zandalar and Kul Tiras Pets

Northrend Pets

Outland Pets

Orgrimmar and Stormwind Pets

Transmog

Toys

Achievements

For the Children

For the Children is the meta achievement for this event, and will reward you with the Patron or Matron title. These are the achievements you have to complete to obtain it:

This achievement requires you to use your Hearthstone while you have an orphan with you.

To complete this achievement you need to complete 5 daily quests (blue exclamation marks) while your orphan is with you.

You only need your orphan to be summoned when you turn in the quests, and not while you're completing them. Other activities that qualify as daily quests such as looting a treasure chest in Legion or later areas, or defeating a rare you can only loot once a day (i.e. Argus rares), will count towards this achievement.

For this achievement you will need to obtain and eat the sweets listed on the achievement. There are multiple vendors for some of the items, however we'll be listing only the most relevant and easy to find.

This achievement is obtained after choosing one of the pets as a reward for the Childern's Week quest chain. Refer to the Quests section of this guide for detailed information.

For this achievement you simply need to make your way through the Utgarde Pinnacle dungeon in Howling Fjord, Northrend on any difficulty, and slay the final boss, King Ymiron while your orphan is present.

Other Achievements

This achievement requires you to obtain Peanut, Willy and Egbert.

This one is arguably the hardest achievement for this event. It requires you to complete certain activities in different battlegrounds while your orphan is out.

Keep in mind that it's a PvP battle, and you will probably get killed multiple times. Your orphan will despawn every time you die, and will have to be re-summoned each time.

Return a fallen flag in Warsong Gulch

In Warsong Gulch, each team has a flag on their base, which the opposing team can steal. The player who steals the flag has to run all the way to their own base to turn it in, but if they die, the flag will be dropped on the spot, becoming clickable. If a member of the same team clicks on the flag, they will take over and become the flag carrier, but if a member of the opposing team clicks on the flag, it will instantly be returned safely to their base.

Your goal is to be the one clicking the enemy team's flag when it drops on the spot, therefore your main focus during the battle will be to slay the enemy flag carrier, and spam click nearby so you're the first one to click on the dropped flag.

Assault a flag in Arathi Basin

In Arathi Basin, there are 5 bases that can be controlled by either team. Players can capture this flag by clicking on it and casting for 10 seconds uninterrupted.

Bases and their flags can have different states:

  • Neutral: At the start before anyone captured them. You'll see them in grey colour in the map.

  • Assaulted: When a player has captured it, and it's becoming Controlled. You'll see them half in the faction's colour (red or blue), and half in grey in the map.

  • Controlled: When it's been Assaulted for a short time, it becomes Controlled and will give points to the controlling team. You'll see them in the faction's colour (red or blue) in the map.

Capturing a flag when its Neutral or Controlled by the enemy team will turn it into Assaulted for your team. Capturing a flag when it's Assaulted by the enemy team will either turn it back to Controlled for your team (this is known as defending a flag), or Assault it for yours if it has never been Controlled in the first place.

Your goal for the achievement is to capture a flag to Assault it. Defending one doesn't count. There is also mixed reports of Neutral flags not giving credit for the achievement when you capture them.

Assault a tower in Alterac Valley

In Alterac Valley, each faction starts off with several towers under their control, spread throughout the map. Each tower has some NPC and a flag inside at the top. Players from the opposing team can capture this flag by clicking on it and casting for 10 seconds uninterrupted. This will start destroying the tower, and after a few minutes, it will be completely destroyed. Players can also choose to defend their own towers by re-capturing a tower that has been assaulted, and stop the destruction.

Your goal for this achievement is to be the one to assault an enemy tower, but you don't have to wait for it to be destroyed.

Capture the flag in Eye of the Storm

In Eye of the Storm, there's a flag in the middle of the battleground, and 4 bases spread evenly around the battleground. Players can capture the bases for their faction by standing near them for a short time. As for the flag, players can click on it, and after 10 seconds of uninterrupted casting, they will become the flag carrier. If the flag carrier reaches a base controlled by their faction, the flag will be turned in automatically, and the faction will gain score. The flag will then be reset at the middle after a few seconds. If the flag carrier dies, the flag is dropped and any player from both teams can retrieve it and become the flag carrier.

Your goal for the achievement is to become the flag carrier, and turn it in on one of your faction's bases.