• Speelboscafé on Wednesdays and Sundays, 1pm-5pm at the Roze Tanker, with drinks for parents and a free kids' craft session on Sundays from 2pm-4pm
• Staffed playground next door at SPIN Speeltuin Bloemenkwartier on Wingerdweg, with supervised play and shorter hours from October to April
• Two minutes from Centraal on metro 52 to Noorderpark station, named for the park

Noorderpark joins the old Florapark and Volewijkspark across the Noordhollandsch Kanaal. Kids head for the Speelbos, a patch of woods with a wooden zip line, slide, swing and balance course, plus fallen branches for building dens.

Near the pink Roze Tanker, a former pump station that now hosts shows and workshops, there's a new skatepark. The park also has a rose garden and the Noorderparkbad city pool.