Our picks of events, camps, and places in Copenhagen.
Performance
Two men get a tiny seed to raise, and their rivalry over the tree plays out around a wooden cabinet whose drawers keep hiding surprises.
Puppeteer Karina Nielsen tells the Grimm tale of a table that sets itself, using puppets, objects and music in a library event room in Brønshøj.
Workshop
Free open house at the Amager Strand nature center: dissect a fish with an educator, meet Øresund crabs, and learn how to tell a male crab from a female.
Exhibition
The artist behind the giant trolls hidden in the woods west of Copenhagen brings his trash-built creatures inside, and kids get to build a troll of their own.
Strict Aunt Sofie, kind Police Chief Bastian and three tiptoeing robbers in a Danish family play with songs, plus a live donkey and camel to greet on weekends.
Andersen's fairy tale gets streetdance, 3D animation and new songs, with the witch, the soldier and the dogs with eyes as big as teacups.
Festival
Wooden stalls from Denmark, Greenland and the Faroes, warm æbleskiver, and a grove of talking trees that wake up to tell kids a Christmas tale.
Denmark's biggest Christmas market fills two old squares a short walk from City Hall Square, and the ice rink comes with skates you don't have to pay for.
Thomas Winding's dog Mester is back in a Christmas puppet play: he wants to play, Thomas is too busy decorating, and the story asks what the best gift is.
The characters from De små synger, from the baker on Nørregade to the ten little cyclists, all meet in one dream land. Bring kids who know the songs by heart.
Thousands of lights, snow-covered market stalls and every ride open, plus Santa's home where kids share their wishes and two rides built just for Christmas.
Follow explorer Carsten Niebuhr through the Ukendt Land exhibition with an interactive key, cracking his expedition's riddles to free a djinn that has waited centuries in a chest.
A big new Moomin exhibition at Kulturværftet library on the comet story, where the world nears disaster and friendship pulls everyone through, with a separate section aimed at grown-ups.
Things To Do
Café with a play room, climbing den and baby porridge.
