Sector 6 is the city's big green west side, from Drumul Taberei to Militari and Crângași. This list gathers what families here can do: parks with new playgrounds, indoor play and laser tag for rainy days, and kids' shows and workshops on the calendar. It updates as new plans are added, so check back before the weekend.
Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, staged so the musicians play the characters: the sparrow chirps on flute, the cat purrs on clarinet, the duck quacks on oboe and the wolf grumbles on French horn. A narrator, Domnul Poveste, guides kids through the story and helps them name each instrument.
It suits kids who understand Romanian, since the narration carries the story.
Erus and the Valley of Love is a children's musical staged by Opera Comică pentru Copii, Bucharest's opera house for young audiences, and directed by Ana Crăciun Lambru.
It is performed in Romanian, so it suits kids who follow the language best. Younger children can still enjoy the singing and the stage.
Each winter the garden at Opera Comică pentru Copii, Bucharest's children's opera house, turns into a Christmas fair: lights, carols, shows and snow that falls on weekends. There's an ice rink too.
Kids drift between workshops and attractions, and much of it, from the lights to the snow, needs no Romanian.
A concert-lesson at Opera Comică pentru Copii on the last two parts of Vivaldi's Four Seasons: autumn and winter. Kids hear the music and get shown how to "read" the story hidden in the notes, from the colors of autumn to dancing snowflakes.
It follows earlier concerts on spring and summer. A good fit for curious school-age kids who can sit through a classical concert.
Sector 6's Christmas market is known for the city's biggest network of lights, with a light trail that runs through the whole of Parcul Drumul Taberei.
Kids skate on the outdoor rink, ride the carousel and the little train, visit Santa's workshop and catch short shows and activities made for them. Parents get photo spots and a food area.
Poveste de Crăciun is the holiday show at Bucharest's children's opera house: a big staged production directed by Cristian Mihăilescu, with ballet dancers, singers and a symphony orchestra playing live.
It suits kids who enjoy music and dance and can sit through a full show. The singing is in Romanian, so children who follow the language get the most from the story.
Minunații's Christmas show is a stage performance built around one idea: the magic of the holidays lives in small gestures of affection. Expect surprises, plot twists, comic moments and Christmas songs, and Santa Claus comes too.
It is performed in Romanian, so it best suits kids who follow the language.
Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera, in a new staging by Cristian Mihăilescu at the city's opera house for children. Hansel and Gretel get lost in the forest, cross paths with dancing insects and a giant mushroom, and find a house built of cakes and candy canes. Its owner, the witch Baba Cloanța, locks Hansel in a cage, and the siblings have to outsmart her to get home. The witch scenes get dark.
Roald Dahl's story as a stage musical, with Marc Shaiman's songs and big sets. Charlie Bucket, an ordinary boy with a big heart, gets to explore Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, where every room hides a surprise.
It suits school-age kids who know the book or film and can sit through a long show.
A magic show where nothing goes to plan. Hocus Poc, a drawing on a sketch, comes to life, talks back and argues with his magician, turning every prepared trick upside down.
Kids in the audience step in to help, taking part in illusions with objects floating in the air and a scarf that answers questions by hopping. The banter is in Romanian, so it suits kids who follow the language.
Bubu, the round, smiling ball who only ever says his own name, visits the zoo to the music of Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. Two actresses lead the show in a soft set of tunnels, long leaves, giant dinosaur eggs and a padded slide. Babies and toddlers are free to crawl, wander and play with the performers the whole time, so no one has to sit still.
Bubu, billed as babies' best friend, sets off on a new adventure through an enchanted forest of fairies, elves and fireflies, woken up by Felix Mendelssohn's music. The story starts from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
It is a sensory, musical show made for babies and toddlers, one of the Bubu shows Opera Comică pentru Copii puts on for its youngest audience.
An indoor laser tag arena inside AFI Cotroceni mall. Players wear a sensor vest and carry a laser gun, then move through a big, half-dark maze of slides, ramps, cars and a locomotive while music plays. Games are solo or in teams, and the software logs every hit for a score report at the end.
The venue also has arcade games and an Area 51 escape room.
Lasertag Arena is a laser tag course over two floors, about 1,100 m², decorated with figures of Megatron, Darth Vader and Predator. Players wear a light harness with three sensors instead of a heavy vest, and the blasters have several firing modes plus an energy shield.
Next to the arena, a games lounge has human foosball, air hockey, pool, darts, table tennis and karaoke.
Parcul Constantin Brâncuși covers about 1.7 hectares of lawns and paths in the neighborhood of the same name. It was the city's first park with a pumptrack, a 42-meter loop for bikes, scooters, skateboards and roller skates.
Around it are playgrounds, outdoor fitness machines, a multi-sport court, a fountain, and a mini-library where kids can borrow donated books for free.
Parcul Crângași covers 8.7 hectares, with playgrounds, synthetic-turf mini-football pitches and an open-air stage that hosts concerts and theater. Its 48-meter pumptrack, one of two in the city, has rolling curves for bikes, scooters, roller skates and skateboards.
A book-swap box lets families borrow a book or leave one, and a path leads out onto the Lacul Morii promenade, opened in 2022.
Parcul Liniei runs along a former railway line through Militari and is the area's first park. The finished stretch has a 1,932 sq m playground split into three age zones, two drydeck splash fountains, a skatepark, a pumptrack, two basketball courts and a bike path. Hammocks, bean bags, pergolas and a small urban forest give parents somewhere to sit while kids play.
The University of Bucharest's botanical garden covers 18 hectares of themed outdoor gardens: a rose garden, an Italian garden, a hill of conifers, and beds of Mediterranean and medicinal plants.
The exhibition greenhouses hold a tall palm house, cacti, orchids, a vanilla vine and a pool of tropical water lilies. A botanical museum sits on the grounds, and a café faces a wide lawn beside grassy hills made for exploring.
Drumul Taberei Park is the neighborhood's largest green space, built around a shallow artificial lake with a pedal-boat dock and the Bengaules bridge. The lake is drained in winter.
The greenhouses have seven pavilions, from tropical plants to desert cacti, open year-round. Courts for basketball, volleyball and handball were rebuilt in 2022, and the amphitheater stage hosts children's theater. A book box lends books for free.
A 1,200-square-meter indoor climbing gym in the Apaca complex, with a 10-meter roped wall and a bouldering area over safety mats, set with routes from beginner to advanced.
Kids have their own play zone of climbing games and a slide, run under instructor supervision. There is also a training area and a lounge with coffee. First-timers get a free short safety lesson.
Zorky's Planet is a family entertainment center inside AFI Cotroceni mall, now in front of the Cinema City entrance. Kids play arcade games that pay out tickets, then trade the tickets for a toy of their choice. There are also ride simulators, bumper cars, trampolines and a little train that rolls through a safari scene. Games run on a top-up card rather than coins.
Cyberjump Lujerului is a trampoline park of nearly 3,000 m² inside the Supernova Lujerului mall. Past the open free-jump field, kids shoot hoops mid-air at Battle Basket, race a timed ninja course, swing from a trapeze onto an airbag, and duel on rotating beams. The bounce runs and high-performance trampolines are for experienced jumpers, so first-timers start on the free-jump field.
Gymboland is an indoor play center inside AFI Cotroceni mall, built around a huge pirate ship that kids can climb aboard. The modular structure packs in soft play, inflatables, slides, trampolines, ball pits and ball cannons.
A small lake with electric boats lets kids drive themselves around, easy to handle and hard to leave.
Opera Comică pentru Copii is the country's only opera and ballet company made for young audiences, founded in 1950 in Giulești. The repertoire mixes classic operas adapted for kids, such as Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, with original productions.
The Bebe OCC program runs short sensory music shows for babies and toddlers in the Undergrant hall, and the theater also hosts workshops and birthday parties.
An interactive museum of optical illusions on the first floor of AFI Cotroceni mall, next to the IMAX. Kids grow and shrink in the Ames Room, lie on a bed of 1,200 nails, wander an infinity mirror room and step into a black-and-white 2D cafe drawn like a comic.
There is also a mirror maze, a vortex tunnel and a build-your-own plush station, paid separately.
Sector 6 is the city's big green west side, from Drumul Taberei to Militari and Crângași. This list gathers what families here can do: parks with new playgrounds, indoor play and laser tag for rainy days, and kids' shows and workshops on the calendar. It updates as new plans are added, so check back before the weekend.
Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, staged so the musicians play the characters: the sparrow chirps on flute, the cat purrs on clarinet, the duck quacks on oboe and the wolf grumbles on French horn. A narrator, Domnul Poveste, guides kids through the story and helps them name each instrument.
It suits kids who understand Romanian, since the narration carries the story.
Erus and the Valley of Love is a children's musical staged by Opera Comică pentru Copii, Bucharest's opera house for young audiences, and directed by Ana Crăciun Lambru.
It is performed in Romanian, so it suits kids who follow the language best. Younger children can still enjoy the singing and the stage.
Each winter the garden at Opera Comică pentru Copii, Bucharest's children's opera house, turns into a Christmas fair: lights, carols, shows and snow that falls on weekends. There's an ice rink too.
Kids drift between workshops and attractions, and much of it, from the lights to the snow, needs no Romanian.
A concert-lesson at Opera Comică pentru Copii on the last two parts of Vivaldi's Four Seasons: autumn and winter. Kids hear the music and get shown how to "read" the story hidden in the notes, from the colors of autumn to dancing snowflakes.
It follows earlier concerts on spring and summer. A good fit for curious school-age kids who can sit through a classical concert.
Sector 6's Christmas market is known for the city's biggest network of lights, with a light trail that runs through the whole of Parcul Drumul Taberei.
Kids skate on the outdoor rink, ride the carousel and the little train, visit Santa's workshop and catch short shows and activities made for them. Parents get photo spots and a food area.
Poveste de Crăciun is the holiday show at Bucharest's children's opera house: a big staged production directed by Cristian Mihăilescu, with ballet dancers, singers and a symphony orchestra playing live.
It suits kids who enjoy music and dance and can sit through a full show. The singing is in Romanian, so children who follow the language get the most from the story.
Minunații's Christmas show is a stage performance built around one idea: the magic of the holidays lives in small gestures of affection. Expect surprises, plot twists, comic moments and Christmas songs, and Santa Claus comes too.
It is performed in Romanian, so it best suits kids who follow the language.
Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera, in a new staging by Cristian Mihăilescu at the city's opera house for children. Hansel and Gretel get lost in the forest, cross paths with dancing insects and a giant mushroom, and find a house built of cakes and candy canes. Its owner, the witch Baba Cloanța, locks Hansel in a cage, and the siblings have to outsmart her to get home. The witch scenes get dark.
Roald Dahl's story as a stage musical, with Marc Shaiman's songs and big sets. Charlie Bucket, an ordinary boy with a big heart, gets to explore Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, where every room hides a surprise.
It suits school-age kids who know the book or film and can sit through a long show.
A magic show where nothing goes to plan. Hocus Poc, a drawing on a sketch, comes to life, talks back and argues with his magician, turning every prepared trick upside down.
Kids in the audience step in to help, taking part in illusions with objects floating in the air and a scarf that answers questions by hopping. The banter is in Romanian, so it suits kids who follow the language.
Bubu, the round, smiling ball who only ever says his own name, visits the zoo to the music of Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. Two actresses lead the show in a soft set of tunnels, long leaves, giant dinosaur eggs and a padded slide. Babies and toddlers are free to crawl, wander and play with the performers the whole time, so no one has to sit still.
Bubu, billed as babies' best friend, sets off on a new adventure through an enchanted forest of fairies, elves and fireflies, woken up by Felix Mendelssohn's music. The story starts from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
It is a sensory, musical show made for babies and toddlers, one of the Bubu shows Opera Comică pentru Copii puts on for its youngest audience.
An indoor laser tag arena inside AFI Cotroceni mall. Players wear a sensor vest and carry a laser gun, then move through a big, half-dark maze of slides, ramps, cars and a locomotive while music plays. Games are solo or in teams, and the software logs every hit for a score report at the end.
The venue also has arcade games and an Area 51 escape room.
Lasertag Arena is a laser tag course over two floors, about 1,100 m², decorated with figures of Megatron, Darth Vader and Predator. Players wear a light harness with three sensors instead of a heavy vest, and the blasters have several firing modes plus an energy shield.
Next to the arena, a games lounge has human foosball, air hockey, pool, darts, table tennis and karaoke.
Parcul Constantin Brâncuși covers about 1.7 hectares of lawns and paths in the neighborhood of the same name. It was the city's first park with a pumptrack, a 42-meter loop for bikes, scooters, skateboards and roller skates.
Around it are playgrounds, outdoor fitness machines, a multi-sport court, a fountain, and a mini-library where kids can borrow donated books for free.
Parcul Crângași covers 8.7 hectares, with playgrounds, synthetic-turf mini-football pitches and an open-air stage that hosts concerts and theater. Its 48-meter pumptrack, one of two in the city, has rolling curves for bikes, scooters, roller skates and skateboards.
A book-swap box lets families borrow a book or leave one, and a path leads out onto the Lacul Morii promenade, opened in 2022.
Parcul Liniei runs along a former railway line through Militari and is the area's first park. The finished stretch has a 1,932 sq m playground split into three age zones, two drydeck splash fountains, a skatepark, a pumptrack, two basketball courts and a bike path. Hammocks, bean bags, pergolas and a small urban forest give parents somewhere to sit while kids play.
The University of Bucharest's botanical garden covers 18 hectares of themed outdoor gardens: a rose garden, an Italian garden, a hill of conifers, and beds of Mediterranean and medicinal plants.
The exhibition greenhouses hold a tall palm house, cacti, orchids, a vanilla vine and a pool of tropical water lilies. A botanical museum sits on the grounds, and a café faces a wide lawn beside grassy hills made for exploring.
Drumul Taberei Park is the neighborhood's largest green space, built around a shallow artificial lake with a pedal-boat dock and the Bengaules bridge. The lake is drained in winter.
The greenhouses have seven pavilions, from tropical plants to desert cacti, open year-round. Courts for basketball, volleyball and handball were rebuilt in 2022, and the amphitheater stage hosts children's theater. A book box lends books for free.
A 1,200-square-meter indoor climbing gym in the Apaca complex, with a 10-meter roped wall and a bouldering area over safety mats, set with routes from beginner to advanced.
Kids have their own play zone of climbing games and a slide, run under instructor supervision. There is also a training area and a lounge with coffee. First-timers get a free short safety lesson.
Zorky's Planet is a family entertainment center inside AFI Cotroceni mall, now in front of the Cinema City entrance. Kids play arcade games that pay out tickets, then trade the tickets for a toy of their choice. There are also ride simulators, bumper cars, trampolines and a little train that rolls through a safari scene. Games run on a top-up card rather than coins.
Cyberjump Lujerului is a trampoline park of nearly 3,000 m² inside the Supernova Lujerului mall. Past the open free-jump field, kids shoot hoops mid-air at Battle Basket, race a timed ninja course, swing from a trapeze onto an airbag, and duel on rotating beams. The bounce runs and high-performance trampolines are for experienced jumpers, so first-timers start on the free-jump field.
Gymboland is an indoor play center inside AFI Cotroceni mall, built around a huge pirate ship that kids can climb aboard. The modular structure packs in soft play, inflatables, slides, trampolines, ball pits and ball cannons.
A small lake with electric boats lets kids drive themselves around, easy to handle and hard to leave.
Opera Comică pentru Copii is the country's only opera and ballet company made for young audiences, founded in 1950 in Giulești. The repertoire mixes classic operas adapted for kids, such as Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, with original productions.
The Bebe OCC program runs short sensory music shows for babies and toddlers in the Undergrant hall, and the theater also hosts workshops and birthday parties.
An interactive museum of optical illusions on the first floor of AFI Cotroceni mall, next to the IMAX. Kids grow and shrink in the Ames Room, lie on a bed of 1,200 nails, wander an infinity mirror room and step into a black-and-white 2D cafe drawn like a comic.
There is also a mirror maze, a vortex tunnel and a build-your-own plush station, paid separately.
