Hello!
I don’t know how your structured you Flipbook to work, but there is several ways to start a function. You can set your Flipbook to start in the BeginPlay and to start an Idle animation, or from the Tick node if you need it to update every frame, a branch node with a bool could help differ your idle and walking animations ticks.
To change your Flipbook in a child actor, is necessary to make it a variable and then, in the Child Blueprint mark the “Show Inherited Variables” box. Making the variable visible and editable.