Our picks of events, camps, and places in Munich.
Performance
A puppet bear, stuffed and sleepy at the end of autumn, flops into his winter bed, but something keeps pinching him. What is it, and will he ever sleep?
Kasperl and Seppl swear they can cook without help, then watch dinner go wrong in every way a puppet kitchen allows.
Max wakes up as an ant, small and alone, and has to find his way home in a poetic, musical trip through the insect world.
A mischievous goblin eats musical notes while you help postwoman Maria deliver birthday letters from five classical composers and learn the horn's secrets.
Outdoors
An evening loop through the fields to Baldham-Dorf, with St. Martin story stops on the way and roast goose waiting back at the farm.
Two actors chase, hide, and vanish across a surprise-filled stage while toddlers discover what happens when one player disappears.
Five costumed dinosaurs head for a fire volcano, and they can't get there without the audience shouting, singing and solving riddles along the way.
Kids who know the bee song from daycare dance along with the Lichterkinder band, and the audience is the star.
A young magician at a school where magic is banned does it anyway. Come see what he does with a bad essay.
A rabbit raised in the city heads into the forest looking for family, and runs into a litter problem only he seems ready to fix.
Tomcat Matze and his five friends sail a homemade submarine past a jellyfish, a shaggy whale and dancing octopuses, with a live jazz band to sing along to.
Workshop
Shape real flint the way Stone Age toolmakers did, and make a carving knife or an arrowhead along the way.
Festival
More than 20 water sports to try in the Olympic pool, from kayaking to mermaid swimming, plus a chance for kids to earn their Seepferdchen badge on the spot.
The strongest girl in the world moves into Villa Villekulla on Munich's grandest theater stage, and the police, the robbers and the nosy neighbors don't stand a chance.
Design and print your own winter postcards with artist Karin Traxler and take them home the same day. Anything extra can be offered at a neighborhood market in December.
A poor, happy man catches a magic fish in this paper puppet take on The Fisherman and His Wife. He wishes for pasta, but his wife wants much more.
Robots shaped like dogs and sea creatures roll past on a conveyor belt, then kids design their own and get to program a few real ones.
Collection
Skate on the Stachus, walk a light park after dark, then catch a puppet show or a metal band dressed as dinosaurs over the Christmas break.
