Our picks of events, camps, and places in Frankfurt.
Festival
Kids carry lanterns through dark Frankfurt streets behind brass bands, sometimes following St. Martin on horseback, and sing their way to a big Martin's fire.
Performance
Two performers and a mountain of pillows turn an empty room into a feather-filled game of make-believe, signed for deaf and hearing kids alike.
Belgian dancers and a set of odd viewing objects turn looking into a game, and halfway through, the kids are invited to join in.
A St. Martin service at St. Josef in Höchst, then kids carry their lanterns in a procession to Schlossplatz. Bring one and wrap up warm.
Lanterns, old German songs and, at some parishes, a bonfire: Frankfurt's St. Martin walks are short, free and close to home. Here's where kids can join this year.
Frankfurt's 30-year-old St. Martin's bonfire lights up a meadow in the park, with a kids' shadow play of the Martin story, a brass choir and crêpes by the fire.
A pirate and a tapir dig through an old steamer trunk, and every paper world they pull out turns into a new rhyme or tongue twister.
Guided Visit
Families walk through Opel-Zoo at dusk with lanterns, visiting the animals as it gets dark. Bring your own lantern and join in the lantern songs if you like.
Two fairies lose their wings' power and have to learn how life on the ground works, told in movement with hardly a word spoken.
Workshop
Kids build recoil rockets, time falling objects and pop chocolate marshmallow treats while working out how a metal plane stays in the air.
A real opera house, a full orchestra and the witch from the gingerbread house, in the weeks before Christmas.
Exhibition
Why are dragons villains in Europe but bringers of luck in China? A Darmstadt museum answers with art, fossils and a kids' trail led by its own dragon.
