What Families Love This Week

Our picks of events, camps, and places in Amsterdam.

Festival

Sint Maarten Lantern Procession in the Vondelpark

Kids carry glowing lanterns through the dark Vondelpark behind a brass band dressed in lights. Come with your own lantern, or make one first with the band's musicians.

Amsterdam-ZuidWed Nov 11

Outdoors

Sint Maarten Lantern Walk in the Amsterdamse Bos

A ranger-led Sint Maarten walk through the dark forest, every kid with a lantern and a treat waiting along the route. Bring warm layers and your best lantern.

Wed Nov 11

Festival

Super Sint Maarten Lantern Parade

A neighborhood lantern parade through the Indische Buurt, with glowing parade animals, brass bands and kids carrying lanterns they made themselves. Bring yours and walk along.

Amsterdam-OostWed Nov 11

Performance

De Regenboog: Color Show for Toddlers at Black Cat Theatre

A white stage slowly fills with color, feathers and soap bubbles in this quiet show for the youngest, and at the end the kids get to play in it.

Sat-Sun Nov 14-15

Festival

Sinterklaas Arrival in Amstelveen

Sinterklaas and his Pieten parade through Amstelveen with music and pepernoten, ending on the Handelsplein, where the mayor and the children's mayor welcome him.

Sat Nov 14

Festival

Sinterklaas Arrival Parade Tuindorp Oostzaan

Sinterklaas steps off a boat, and 65 Pieten lead the walk through the village. Pick a spot by the water.

Amsterdam-NoordSat Nov 14

Festival

Sinterklaas Parade (Intocht) in Amsterdam

Sinterklaas arrives by steamboat on the Amstel, then parades through the center to greet the kids waiting at Leidseplein. Pick your spot early.

Amsterdam-CentrumSun Nov 15

Performance

Släpstick's Schërzo: Classical Music Comedy at Meervaart

Four virtuoso musical clowns play classical masterpieces on trampolines, theremins and violins swung like tennis rackets, with comedy in the spirit of Chaplin and Victor Borge.

Amsterdam-Nieuw-WestSun Nov 15

Performance

Stuntelman: Slapstick Music Theater at Meervaart

A rubber stuntman turns to glass and has to learn to be brave all over again, with Professor BOEM and a lot of slapstick.

Amsterdam-Nieuw-WestSun Nov 15

Performance

Storytime on Saturday

A short read-aloud for babies through preschoolers in a children's bookshop on Rozengracht, with coffee or tea for the grown-ups nearby.

Amsterdam-CentrumSat Nov 14 & Sat Nov 28

Performance

Sinterklaas Puppet Show: There's a Horse in the Garden at Koos Kneus

Bibi finds a lost horse in her backyard in this Sinterklaas puppet show on Iepenplein, and every kid gets their face painted before it starts.

Amsterdam-OostSun Nov 15 & Sun Nov 22 & Sun Nov 29

Guided Visit

Discover Sint at Op Solder 2026

Sinterklaas has lost his magic book and golden apples somewhere in a canal house with a secret church in the attic. Can your kids help him find them?

Amsterdam-CentrumDaily Nov 15 - Dec 5

Performance

Sinterklaas Show: Kom van het dak af!

Sinterklaas is stuck on a roof with his beard in an antenna, and a clumsy firefighter is called to help. Will the rescue work?

Amsterdam-CentrumMultiple Dates Nov-Dec

Festival

Sinterklaas at Muiderslot Castle

Hunt for Sint's lost things and see where he sleeps inside a real medieval castle, and on his two weekends, bake pepernoten and dance at the Piet disco.

Nov 14 - Dec 6

Workshop

Sinterklaas Crafts at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Kids decorate a shoe for Sint, build a surprise, and pick up a gift-wrapping trick from Japan that turns a cloth into the wrapping.

Amsterdam-OostMultiple Dates Nov-Dec

Festival

Amsterdam Museum Festival

The city museum turns 100 with three months of tours, workshops and birthday cake. The glowing model of the whole city is the part kids will remember.

Amsterdam-WestThrough Dec 11

Exhibition

Masterpiece Amsterdam Exhibition

Search 17th-century paintings of Amsterdam for hidden details with a free kids' treasure hunt. Was the city as grand as the paintings say?

Amsterdam-CentrumThrough Mar 7, 2027

Workshop

Children's Painting Workshop: Rabbits at the Van Gogh Museum

Saturday afternoons, kids paint their own rabbits in a landscape, inspired by a Van Gogh painting from 1889. Do they get to see the real one?

Amsterdam-ZuidMultiple Dates Nov-Dec

Day Trip

Walibi Holland

Around 40 rides, from kiddie spinners to six-inversion coasters.