Frederiksberg packs a lot of family time into a small patch of the city. Big green parks for picnics and running around, playgrounds, animals, indoor play for gray days, plus kids' workshops and shows that change with the season. It's an easy half-day: walk from one park to the next, and save the indoor spots for when the weather turns.
Two tree keepers are handed a small seed to plant, tend and watch grow. Their daily routines fill up with big feelings, and a gentle, comic rivalry grows between them as the tree quietly gets bigger and stronger.
It is a calm, thoughtful show rather than a loud one, with room for laughter along the way. It suits small kids ready to sit and watch, and holds the grown-ups too.
Børnemuseet in Frederiksberg turns its creative workshops into Christmas gift workshops. Kids decorate boxes and fridge magnets, paint jewelry trays or a porcelain mug, and decorate T-shirts, tote bags, pencil cases and pot holders.
In the soap workshop they cast scented soap or mix their own lip balm in a small glass jar. Each activity is paid with the museum's activity coins, so kids choose what to try.
Teater Patrasket's puppet and music version of Tage Danielsson's Swedish Christmas classic that Swedes watch on TV every Christmas Eve. Karl Bertil has a holiday job at the post office and sees some people get piles of presents while others get none, so he delivers the rich families' parcels to the poor.
Told with puppets and music. Suits kids who can follow a story with a moral twist.
A stage version of Ole Lund Kirkegaard's classic Danish children's book. Topper finds a magic pencil, and there is a yellow rhinoceros on the second floor of the old house by the harbor. Add an angry police chief who stomps and shouts, and the floor can't take it.
André Andersen's energetic production is played in Danish, so it suits kids who follow Danish well or already know the story.
Creative Space opened Denmark's first paint-your-own-pottery studio here on Gammel Kongevej in 2011. Kids pick a piece of pottery off the shelves, choose paints and brushes, and decorate it at a table while staff share tips and refill paint. The studio glazes and fires each piece afterward.
The paints and glazes are water-based, lead-free and non-toxic, and the finished pottery is dishwasher safe. A café serves drinks and cake.
Børnemuseet is a hands-on craft space in a converted horse stable, more workshop than museum despite the name. Kids get a bag of activity coins, the house's museum dollars, and spend them on what they want to make: painted magnets, T-shirts or tote bags, scented soap, lip balm, hair clips, Foam Clay figures, and a decorated cupcake in the café. Everything they make goes home with them.
A train-themed playground in Grøndalsparken, on the north side of Femte Juni Plads and right up against the S-train line.
Younger kids play at the station and platform, climb on the rails and take the driver's seat of the train. Older kids get a tall climbing frame with balance sections, a slide and a view of the passing S-trains. A rubber mound gives parents a place to sit and watch.
Søndermarken is a romantic landscape park from the 1700s, with winding paths, a lake, wide lawns and a preserved Norwegian log cabin. Its big draw sits underground: Cisternerne, the city's old water reservoir, now a dim, echoing art space with stalactites hanging from the ceiling. Kids walk down through a glass pyramid into three cold, cavernous rooms. Copenhagen Zoo's main entrance is just across Roskildevej.
Frederiksberg Gardens is a 32-hectare romantic landscape garden laid out around Frederiksberg Palace, which sits on the hill above it. Winding paths follow lakes and canals past small islands, a waterfall and a Chinese summerhouse built as a royal teahouse.
Kids can spot herons, swans and geese, picnic on the lawns, and in summer take a rowed boat tour on the canals. Copenhagen Zoo borders the gardens.
KU.BE is a four-story culture and movement house by the architects MVRDV and ADEPT, where the building doubles as play equipment. Kids scale climbing hills, crawl through wall mazes, cross a hanging climbing net with a view and ride the silver slide.
Toddlers get their own tumble area upstairs, and the garden outside adds a basketball court and a playground for small kids.
Cisternerne is a former drinking-water reservoir under Søndermarken park, built in 1856-59: three dark, granite-walled chambers with stalactites growing from the concrete ceiling. Each year an international artist makes a show for the space, so the visit changes every year.
The 2026 show, Marina Abramović's Seven Deaths, is about an hour of opera films that stage seven deaths. It suits curious, calm kids who are fine in the dark.
Copenhagen Zoo, Zoologisk Have to locals, keeps elephants, lions, tigers, hippos and chimpanzees, plus polar bears you watch underwater in the Arctic Ring. In the Kids' Zoo, kids stroke goats and meet pigs, llamas and cows, right by the zoo's largest playground.
The Tropical House, Elephant House, Hippo House and Zoolab (with a leafcutter ant colony) are all indoors, so it works on a rainy day too.
Frederiksberg packs a lot of family time into a small patch of the city. Big green parks for picnics and running around, playgrounds, animals, indoor play for gray days, plus kids' workshops and shows that change with the season. It's an easy half-day: walk from one park to the next, and save the indoor spots for when the weather turns.
Two tree keepers are handed a small seed to plant, tend and watch grow. Their daily routines fill up with big feelings, and a gentle, comic rivalry grows between them as the tree quietly gets bigger and stronger.
It is a calm, thoughtful show rather than a loud one, with room for laughter along the way. It suits small kids ready to sit and watch, and holds the grown-ups too.
Børnemuseet in Frederiksberg turns its creative workshops into Christmas gift workshops. Kids decorate boxes and fridge magnets, paint jewelry trays or a porcelain mug, and decorate T-shirts, tote bags, pencil cases and pot holders.
In the soap workshop they cast scented soap or mix their own lip balm in a small glass jar. Each activity is paid with the museum's activity coins, so kids choose what to try.
Teater Patrasket's puppet and music version of Tage Danielsson's Swedish Christmas classic that Swedes watch on TV every Christmas Eve. Karl Bertil has a holiday job at the post office and sees some people get piles of presents while others get none, so he delivers the rich families' parcels to the poor.
Told with puppets and music. Suits kids who can follow a story with a moral twist.
A stage version of Ole Lund Kirkegaard's classic Danish children's book. Topper finds a magic pencil, and there is a yellow rhinoceros on the second floor of the old house by the harbor. Add an angry police chief who stomps and shouts, and the floor can't take it.
André Andersen's energetic production is played in Danish, so it suits kids who follow Danish well or already know the story.
Creative Space opened Denmark's first paint-your-own-pottery studio here on Gammel Kongevej in 2011. Kids pick a piece of pottery off the shelves, choose paints and brushes, and decorate it at a table while staff share tips and refill paint. The studio glazes and fires each piece afterward.
The paints and glazes are water-based, lead-free and non-toxic, and the finished pottery is dishwasher safe. A café serves drinks and cake.
Børnemuseet is a hands-on craft space in a converted horse stable, more workshop than museum despite the name. Kids get a bag of activity coins, the house's museum dollars, and spend them on what they want to make: painted magnets, T-shirts or tote bags, scented soap, lip balm, hair clips, Foam Clay figures, and a decorated cupcake in the café. Everything they make goes home with them.
A train-themed playground in Grøndalsparken, on the north side of Femte Juni Plads and right up against the S-train line.
Younger kids play at the station and platform, climb on the rails and take the driver's seat of the train. Older kids get a tall climbing frame with balance sections, a slide and a view of the passing S-trains. A rubber mound gives parents a place to sit and watch.
Søndermarken is a romantic landscape park from the 1700s, with winding paths, a lake, wide lawns and a preserved Norwegian log cabin. Its big draw sits underground: Cisternerne, the city's old water reservoir, now a dim, echoing art space with stalactites hanging from the ceiling. Kids walk down through a glass pyramid into three cold, cavernous rooms. Copenhagen Zoo's main entrance is just across Roskildevej.
Frederiksberg Gardens is a 32-hectare romantic landscape garden laid out around Frederiksberg Palace, which sits on the hill above it. Winding paths follow lakes and canals past small islands, a waterfall and a Chinese summerhouse built as a royal teahouse.
Kids can spot herons, swans and geese, picnic on the lawns, and in summer take a rowed boat tour on the canals. Copenhagen Zoo borders the gardens.
KU.BE is a four-story culture and movement house by the architects MVRDV and ADEPT, where the building doubles as play equipment. Kids scale climbing hills, crawl through wall mazes, cross a hanging climbing net with a view and ride the silver slide.
Toddlers get their own tumble area upstairs, and the garden outside adds a basketball court and a playground for small kids.
Cisternerne is a former drinking-water reservoir under Søndermarken park, built in 1856-59: three dark, granite-walled chambers with stalactites growing from the concrete ceiling. Each year an international artist makes a show for the space, so the visit changes every year.
The 2026 show, Marina Abramović's Seven Deaths, is about an hour of opera films that stage seven deaths. It suits curious, calm kids who are fine in the dark.
Copenhagen Zoo, Zoologisk Have to locals, keeps elephants, lions, tigers, hippos and chimpanzees, plus polar bears you watch underwater in the Arctic Ring. In the Kids' Zoo, kids stroke goats and meet pigs, llamas and cows, right by the zoo's largest playground.
The Tropical House, Elephant House, Hippo House and Zoolab (with a leafcutter ant colony) are all indoors, so it works on a rainy day too.
