Things to Do with Kids in Tempelhof-Schöneberg

Bauchgefühl is a poetic play about two people who perceive the world differently and keep bumping into each other in the same office. One rainy day, objects come to life, words turn into movement, signs into sound and images into crackling descriptions.

It is made for deaf and hearing, blind, visually impaired and sighted audiences together, so a kid sees how many ways there are to understand someone.

The youth company of CABUWAZI Tempelhof, 18 young artists, performs a new circus production about wanting to be yourself and still belong. Solo and group acts on Chinese pole, aerial silks, straps, hoop diving, wire, trapeze and contortion show both the joy of freedom and the pressure of being left out. Directed by Jeele Johannsen.

A former railway yard where woodland has grown over the tracks since the last trains ran in 1952. Kids can spot a 1940 steam locomotive, one of Germany's oldest turntables and the 50-meter water tower.

A raised steel walkway carries the 2.7 km loop through the nature reserve, past steel sculptures by the artist group ODIOUS. Graffiti artists paint the wall along the shaded Tälchenweg.

Tempelhofer Feld is the former Tempelhof airport, opened as a park in 2010. Over 300 hectares of meadow surround the old runways, where kids bike, skate and fly kites on wide, flat asphalt with no cars.

By the southeast entrance, the Tempelschlucht nature play area has a water pump feeding a little stream, sand and clay for mud play, and big boulders to climb.

A nearly 100-year-old public pool, reopened after a partial renovation. The ground floor has a 53-meter slide and a toddler area with its own small slide, massage jets, bubblers and a paddling pool. An outdoor pool has a current channel.

Upstairs is a 25-meter lane pool with 1-meter and 3-meter diving boards, a learner pool and a saltwater pool.

A hands-on history museum for kids and teens, run by the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district. Its main exhibition, Villa Global, is a house of 14 rooms, each furnished by a different Berliner, from a toddler to a grandmother to a rapper, with video interviews to watch.

An open studio and school-break workshops add crafts and making. It suits curious kids from about 10 into the teens.

SPRUNG.RAUM is a 2,400-square-meter trampoline hall in Marienfelde with more than 50 jump beds. Kids bounce on the free-jump field, practice flips into the foam pit, drop from a trapeze onto a giant airbag, play trampoline dodgeball and run a ninja parkour course. The Grand.Master bed sends confident jumpers up to 6 meters. Trainers with parkour and acrobatics backgrounds help with first tricks.

The Insulaner is a 78-meter hill built from World War II rubble, now wooded and crossed by footpaths. After a snowfall its west side holds one of the city's longest sledding runs, about 220 meters, with a smaller beginner slope at the bottom for younger kids.

The Wilhelm-Foerster observatory sits on the summit, the Planetarium am Insulaner at its foot, and there is a mini golf course on the hill.

Berolina Bowling is a 32-lane alley in a basement near Nollendorfplatz: 28 classic lanes, four VIP lanes in a private lounge, a bar and a kitchen.

Kids' birthday packages cover 90 minutes of bowling with bumpers on request, shoe hire, a decorated table, a sweets plate, a kids' meal (burger, nuggets or pizza) and a drink. Families can bring their own cake.

Minicity is a small play café on Hauptstraße in Friedenau, built around role play: kid-sized houses including a mini market and a fire station, plus a ball pit and an indoor play structure. The kitchen serves snacks and homemade meals while parents sit nearby.

A changing room, nursing corner and high chairs make it workable for babies. Street shoes stay off, so bring grip socks.

Dockx is a 1,000-square-meter indoor playground at the Tempelhofer Hafen, right on the water. Kids climb a multi-level frame with new rope nets, race on a kart track, take the wave slide, and run the maze to the ball cannons. A separate, sheltered toddler area has small slides, soft play pieces and ball pits.

Parents get a café, a bar and sofas with a view of the play area.