Four to seven is the age when kids sit through a whole puppet show and finish a craft on their own. This list keeps the plans that suit that age: puppet theater, family plays, hands-on workshops and the odd seasonal outing. It refreshes on its own as new shows open, so check it before the weekend.
A puppet fairy tale from Divadlo b, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. Evelína can't wait for her fifteenth birthday, when she can look at the human world for the first time, but the wish brings trouble with it.
It is a spoken story performed in Czech, so it suits kids who follow the language and enjoy a classic tale told with puppets.
A classic Czech puppet tale. Princess Majdalenka ends up in hell by mistake, and Kašpárek, the cheeky jester of Czech puppetry, sets off with his friend Honza to free her by outwitting the devils.
It plays at Divadlo Říše loutek, a puppet theater in the Municipal Library building in the Old Town. A good first theater outing for preschoolers.
A one-performer theater show about Františka, who can't wait to meet her little brother, still hiding in Mom's belly. Her search for answers about the nine months before birth is playful, gentle and educational. It suits a child expecting a sibling, or any kid asking where babies come from.
The Říše loutek ensemble stages Božena Němcová's classic Czech fairy tale with string marionettes: gold is rare and salt is ordinary, until the salt runs out and the whole kingdom is in trouble.
The company has played this basement theater under the Municipal Library since it opened in 1928. The art deco hall has a starry ceiling and height-adjustable seats for small children.
Hansel and Gretel as a puppet show by the Říše loutek company. The children wander off while picking strawberries and find a house made of gingerbread, where a witch plans to fatten Hansel up. The grumpy old man who lives with her dislikes children but befriends Hansel and stops her. Two dwarf puppets guide the story. The sets and puppets were made by the family of a late Czech artist.
A new Czech play about Manka, a girl who loves to paint, in the smoky factory streets of old Smíchov. When an old man tells her about a mysterious painting hidden in the Church of St. Nicholas, she crosses into Malá Strana, the neighborhood next door that Smíchov kids avoid. A story of courage and friendship, inspired by writer Jakub Arbes and artist Toyen, played by two actors.
Krysáci, the rat friends from the Czech Večerníček bedtime series and books, move to the stage in this fairy tale by Divadlo pohádek. Hubert and Hodan, Eda the lab mouse from Prague and Ludvík the plaster gnome share an unusual home in a forgotten corner of a dump in Vizovice.
Instead of a screen, kids get live actors and a real stage. Libor Jeník wrote and directed it.
The two hapless handymen from the Czech cartoon step off the screen and onto the stage, played by two actors. On vacation they still can't leave their tools alone: they tinker on the seabed, in outer space and in a hotel room they rebuild to look like their workshop at home. Petr Skoumal's familiar theme tune runs through the whole show.
The dm bambini run is the kids' race of the Prague Marathon weekend: a short dash for toddlers and preschoolers, split by age so nobody lines up against kids twice their size.
Every runner gets a race T-shirt, a start number and a finisher's medal, the same kit the grown-ups chase on Sunday. It suits small kids who like to run and want to feel part of the big race.
Říše loutek is a marionette theater founded in 1920, playing in the City Library building on Žatecká street since 1928. Its own company stages classic Czech fairy tales, such as Hansel and Gretel (Perníková chaloupka), Dášeňka and Kašpárek in Hell, with string puppets on a traditional stage.
UNIMA, the international puppetry union, was founded here in 1929. Shows are performed in Czech, so the puppets carry the story.
The Dům čtení branch of Prague's city library turns into a dance floor for this lesson. Kids warm up together, then learn a short routine. It suits kids who like to move and want to try dance without committing to a term of classes.
A traditional lantern procession run by DDM Praha 5 in Sacré Coeur park. Kids carry their own lanterns along a trail with small tasks on an autumn bug theme, then the group walks together and ends with a sweet treat.
The route works for strollers, so a younger sibling can come along. The smallest kids will need a parent's help with the tasks.
Princ a Večernice is the stage version of the classic Czech fairy tale film. Young Prince Velen marries off his three sisters to the rulers of sun, moon and wind, falls for their sister Večernice, then has to leave the castle and find his own courage on the road. Standing in his way are robbers, false merchants and the cruel Mrakomor, ruler of bad weather. Expect suspense and gentle humor.
A family concert where the Prague Symphony Orchestra plays alongside actors, dancers and young performers from Prague music and ballet schools. Two guides lead kids through a fairy-tale adventure of dragons, princesses and magic, with plenty of laughs on the way. It suits curious kids meeting an orchestra for the first time.
A stage version of the famous Czech bedtime cartoon about a small dog, a present for a girl named Ája, who grows into a giant. Kids watch Fík sit at a school desk, star in a circus ring, drive a car and travel the world, only to find home is best.
A funny show about friendship and courage, spoken in Czech, so it suits kids who follow the language.
A stage version of the 1980 Czech TV fairy tale. A dragon has moved in just outside the kingdom, Princess Lenka is in danger, and it falls to young Martin and his brother Honza, the so-called fool, to prove that beating a dragon takes more than shiny armor.
The Svěrák and Uhlíř songs are ones Czech kids, parents and grandparents all know, and the cast sings them on stage. Performed in Czech.
Two club model railways, built at 1:45 and 1:32 scale, run trains past a replica station, villages and tunnels. Kids watch engines pull passenger and freight cars through detailed miniature scenery. It suits train fans who like spotting details, from steam engines to modern electric locomotives.
Čarodějnice Bordelína is the heroine of Sandra Dražilová Zlámalová's Czech children's books, and this stage musical brings her to life with songs, dance numbers and lavish staging. The theater bills it as a funny fairy tale for kids and their parents.
Her world includes an owl, a squirrel, a hare named Cyril, another witch and a wizard. It suits families who follow Czech, especially kids who know the books.
Tramtárie is a playful Czech show stitched together from scraps of nonsense poems and set to live music. Actors pop up, run past, whisper, splash and make things vanish in a world of words, colors, magic and laughter.
There is no lesson to learn here: the point is permission to be silly. The verses repeat until they stick, and parents say kids go home singing them.
A hangar of historical aircraft, some still able to fly, opens to visitors who can walk around the planes and see them up close. The owners and pilots who keep their aircraft here run the day and are happy to chat, and in good weather some of the old planes take off for flight demonstrations. It suits kids who love planes and machines.
Aplaus prosím is Europark's Sunday theater series. Professional Czech troupes take turns on a stage inside the shopping center, and the troupe and story change every week. The shows are short, so it fits around lunch or a quick shop. The fairy tales are told in Czech, so kids who don't follow the language may lose the thread.
Libozvuky is an interactive music show from Divadlo Minor, directed by Jiří Adámek. Actors and musicians build a landscape of sound, then use light and voices to conjure a creature on stage. There are no seats: kids sit on the floor beside a long wooden walkway, and children often call out what they see and edge closer to the actors. Marek Doubrava's score won the 2015 Theatre Critics' Award.
A family walk across Prague Castle that ends in a Christmas labyrinth built by the Forman Brothers' Theatre (Divadlo bratří Formanů) and friends inside the Imperial Stables.
Start at the tree on St. George's Square, stop at the nativity scene beside St. Vitus Cathedral, then cross the Second Courtyard to the stables. Inside, kids wander an imaginary landscape that includes Johannes Kepler's astronomer's workshop.
Prague 7's yearly Saint Nicholas afternoon at the Výstaviště fairgrounds. Kids skate in the Small Sports Hall, in their own skates or rental ones. Then they head to the nearby Ateliér for a pre-Christmas craft, a photo-booth picture to take home and a small Saint Nicholas gift.
A St. Nicholas afternoon built around old folk customs. Kids learn the Mikuláš tradition, then make a little devil from dried plums or a straw chain for the Christmas tree. The finale is a face-to-face chat with St. Nicholas, an angel and a devil. It suits families with preschoolers and school-age kids who enjoy crafts and costumes.
On St Nicholas Eve, wooden boats leave the Vltava and slip into the Čertovka, the narrow canal behind Kampa. Devils lurk along the banks, hurling spooky but kind tales full of fire at the passing boats. On the river you also meet an angel and St Nicholas, who rewards the good kids.
A thrill for kids who know the Mikuláš tradition. Very fearful toddlers may find the devils too much.
A St. Nicholas afternoon inside a historic tram depot. Mikuláš, an angel and a devil walk among the old trams and buses and hand out small gifts, a Czech December tradition. It suits children who enjoy vehicles and are fine with a costumed devil nearby.
Koala Café is a play center with a café attached. The main climbing frame has several tube slides and zones graded by difficulty, and a separate corner with a small slide is set up for toddlers. There is a track for pedal go-karts and ride-ons, plus giant LEGO bricks for building. Parents sit in the café with a view over the play area, and Wi-Fi is free.
A fenced playground in Thomayerovy sady park, set on flat grass by the Libeňka spring near the Vltava flood barrier.
The centerpiece is a wooden fishing boat with two slides and climbing and balance sections. Around it are a nest swing, chain swings, a rocking horse, a toddler playhouse and a bigger house with a slide and rope ramp. In warm months, a hand pump feeds a wooden water mill.
The playgrounds sit in the flat middle of Folimanka park, in the valley below the Nusle Bridge, with water features beside the play equipment and a caretaker's house with a refreshment kiosk and toilets.
Right under the bridge, the Jammertal area adds a skate plaza (an ice rink in winter), ping-pong tables and a Poeziomátek box that plays Czech fairy-tale songs.
DinoPark Harfa sits on the roof of the Galerie Harfa shopping mall, next to the O2 Arena in Vysočany. More than 80 dinosaur models line the paths, many of them moving and making sounds, plus Kvído, a robot baby stegosaurus that walks the park with a ranger.
Kids can dig for bones in the paleontology playground, try the VR DinoRiders, stand up to the DinoHurricane storm simulator and explore the paleontologist's cabinet.
More than 100 models built from nearly 15 million LEGO bricks fill 1,500 square meters of a shopping center. Kids walk past a full-size Ferrari F40, a 60-meter Great Wall of China and a Star Wars-inspired zone, then build their own creations in a big free-play area.
It suits kids who already build with bricks. None of the models have been shown here before.
St. Martin rides a white horse across Charles Bridge, leading a costumed procession with banners and a flock of geese. Czech folk wisdom says Martin brings the first snow, so at the Old Town end he hands snow to Prague's burgomaster. Then a St. Martin's market opens on the square.
Kids who like horses, animals and history in costume get the most from it.
Prague Zoo turns festive for the holiday season. Families can make an Advent wreath in the Education Center, join carols at the Christmas tree lighting in the Children's Zoo, and watch keepers hand unsold Christmas trees to the animals.
Winter suits the reindeer, camels and Amur tiger in their thick coats, and fourteen heated pavilions offer a warm break between the outdoor paths.
Mikuláš, the Czech St. Nicholas, comes to Kampa with angels and devils to hand out gifts to kids, and the neighborhood switches on its Christmas tree on the island by the Vltava. It is an open-air, local evening that suits kids who like a costumed visitor, and the tree lighting gives everyone a reason to linger.
Three kings on camels lead a noisy band of drummers and trumpeters through Prague's old center, retelling the Magi's journey to Bethlehem. At the end they hand their gifts to the baby Jesus in a nativity scene.
It marks Three Kings Day, the close of Christmas, and kicks off the Three Kings Collection, a charity drive by Prague's Catholic charity. Kids who like animals and marching bands get both.
A 17th-century baroque chateau run by the Prague City Gallery, with frescoed halls and a formal terraced garden that slopes down toward the Vltava. The garden has staircases, sculptures and a hedge labyrinth that kids tend to head for first. The grounds sit next to Prague Zoo, so the two combine easily into one day out.
This landscaped garden climbs the Petřín hillside, with winding paths, old trees, two ponds and a waterfall. A renovated playground with newer play equipment sits above the pond and waterfall. A wooden church moved here from Carpathian Ruthenia in 1929 stands among the lawns. Entrances include Kinských Square, Šermířská and Na Hřebenkách streets.
Josef Skupa founded this marionette theater in Plzeň in 1930, the first professional puppet stage in the country. Every show stars the wooden father and son Spejbl and Hurvínek, with Hurvínek's friend Mánička, her grandmother and Žeryk the dog.
Kids watch comedies and musicals, and toddlers get separate shows of their own. Everything is in Czech, so kids who don't speak it follow the puppets more than the jokes.
Majaland is an indoor theme park built around Maya the Bee, spread across 9,000 square meters inside the POP Airport outlet center. Kids ride Vic's Roller Coaster, a 220-meter family coaster, among about a dozen rides, and can catch a show and meet Maya in her theater. An outdoor Super Wings area opens in the warmer months, and a bee trail with an audio guide explains how bees live.
A public playground on the summit of Petřín Hill, in park U rozhledny, the 2.5-hectare park around the Petřín Lookout Tower. The tower and the Mirror Maze stand a short walk away, and the Rose Garden spreads across the plateau next door, so a play break fits easily between sights. The funicular from Újezd climbs to the top and saves the steep walk up.
A fenced playground beside the small pub in Parukářka, the wooded park on Holy Cross hill (vrch svatého Kříže), rebuilt in 2010. Past the summit, a steel slide built into the hillside drops kids to a second playground, and a third sits in the woods along the lower path next to two ping-pong tables. The open hilltop is good for kite flying in fall and looks out to the Žižkov TV Tower.
Locals call it the Tramvaj playground, after the two wooden tram cars kids climb through. Around them are a big rope triple pyramid, a zip line, climbing frames with slides, and seesaws. Tall trees shade most of it and the ground is loose gravel.
There is no fence, so runners need watching. The Vozovna restaurant terrace looks onto the play area, and the Koníček playground sits just behind the building.
A big, varied playground on the north edge of Letná Park, set along the flat path near the Na Baště café. Kids climb oversized animal sculptures, frames and slides, and dig in the sand, while the open Letná plain next door has room for ball games and kites.
The park around it adds an in-line skating track, the skate plaza under the Metronome and a wooden carousel from the 1890s.
A walled monastery garden tucked behind Wenceslas Square, with rose arches over the benches, low yew hedges, fruit trees and herb beds. Kids can hunt for the sculptures and fountains, including the Boy with a Shell and the Wild Girls fountain, then head to the playground, which sits behind a wall of climbing plants. The early-Baroque pavilion and the Church of Our Lady of the Snows frame the lawns.
An interactive museum of Karel Zeman, the Czech filmmaker whose trick effects made Journey to the Beginning of Time and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen famous. The rooms are built as film sets, and kids are invited in: climb onto a flying machine, ride Baron Munchausen's winged horses, or steer the submarine from Invention for Destruction. Each set explains the trick behind the scene, and photos and videos are encouraged.
Hrrr na ně! ("Charge at them!") is a new play for kids about the Hussites, the 15th-century Czech rebels led by Jan Žižka. Two actors from 3D company tell the story with jokes, songs and duels, and kids find out why Žižka's name is still known today. It is played for laughs, not as a history lesson, and it suits kids who can follow Czech.
A fenced, staffed playground inside Kampa Park on Kampa Island, the strip of Malá Strana between the Vltava and the Čertovka channel. Rebuilt in 2006 with unusual architect-designed play structures, it is aimed at small children and includes equipment for kids with disabilities. There is a drinking fountain and a toilet on site. Older kids may find it tame; the riverside lawns of the park are next door.
Story of Lights fills the riverside grounds at Žluté lázně with a medieval Prague built from light. Kids walk through a gate and follow Charles IV as king, builder and emperor, past a glowing Charles Bridge, the royal crown, Gothic towers and the crown jewels, with interactive elements along the route. It suits kids who like castles and kings, and the history stays easy enough for a simple evening walk.
Pat and Mat are the Czech puppet handymen whose home repairs always go wrong, and this exhibition marks 50 years since they first appeared. The main rooms suit older kids: original film dioramas, props, and an animation workshop where you try the basics yourself. Younger kids head to the play room in the castle cellar, where a cinema also shows one of the feature films.
Cirkus Humberto is a traditional Czech family circus that tours the country with its own big top, the largest in the Czech Republic. This season's program mixes animal acts (horses, camels, zebras, a pride of Somali lions, Indian elephants and Matěj the bear) with aerial ropes and straps, juggling, a hula-hoop dancer and the Duo Warriors on the wheel of death. Mr. Chap's clown routines run between acts.
A yearly St. Martin's Day evening at Vyšehrad, run by the Maják Scout center. It opens with a themed game for kids in the park and a short children's prayer inside the Rotunda of St. Martin.
Then St. Martin arrives on a white horse and leads a lantern procession along the Vyšehrad walls back to the rotunda. It suits preschoolers and school-age kids who are happy with an evening walk.
A sing-along concert led by composer Jaroslav Uhlíř, with a live band and singer Jana Bittnerová. The set runs through the Uhlíř and Svěrák songbook, from "Holubí dům" and "Severní vítr" to tunes from the fairy-tale films Ať žijí duchové! and Lotrando a Zubejda. Kids can join in, and parents and grandparents will know most of the words.
Prague's transport company, DPP, switches on the Christmas lights on its decorated fleet in the yard of the Střešovice tram depot, home of the Muzeum MHD. Historic and modern trams line up beside buses, a trolleybus and the mazací tramvaj service tram.
Kids can walk around the vehicles and pick a favorite, sing along to carols, join the countdown, then watch the lit-up parade roll out.
Founded in 1865, this company runs sightseeing boats and two restored paddle steamers, Vltava and Vyšehrad, from the Rašín Embankment pier near the Dancing House. The one-hour loop passes Charles Bridge and Prague Castle and goes through the Mánes lock twice, so kids see the boat rise and drop with the river.
Day trips sail upriver to Slapy, and a regular boat runs to Prague Zoo.
Spolek Darwin is a nature and science club run by natural scientists, with a base a short walk from Vysočanská station. The club keeps more than 70 animal species.
Its nature playroom has nature-themed toys and sensory play that change each week, and a lecturer brings out at least two animals per session. Birthday parties add animal handling, microscopes, chemistry experiments and crafts.
Krtek's World is an amusement park on the edge of Prague, in Horní Měcholupy. A contact mini zoo has goats, pigs, sheep, geese and free-roaming peacocks. Outdoors there are trampolines, pedal cars, a ninja course and splash pools with a water slide. The indoor glasshouse adds a climbing wall, ball pools, a toboggan slide and rope frames.
A 3.5-hectare garden run by Charles University's Faculty of Science. The greenhouses hold tropical and subtropical plants, including the national cactus and South African succulent collections, plus palms and cycads over 130 years old.
Outside, kids can spot a ginkgo grown like a giant bonsai, one of the first dawn redwoods planted in Europe, and a Central European flora collection started in 1904.
An indoor play center on the second floor above the Albert supermarket, with more than 30 attractions spread over 1,200 m². Kids work through a big climbing labyrinth, tube slides, a ball pit with ball cannons, trampolines and a ride-on car track.
On weekends a laser maze opens, charged separately. Parents can wait at the café bar, which serves coffee, iced coffee and pancakes.
Funpark Žirafa is a big play center on the southeast edge of Prague, beside the Čestlice shopping zone. It has more than 90 attractions: a giant multi-level climbing frame, a glowing slide, trampolines, ball pits, carousels, bumper cars, a tubing slide and a 9D cinema.
A separate corner suits crawlers and toddlers, and the restaurant and café look out over the play floor.
SuperLand fills the ground floor of the Galerie Butovice mall with 15 attractions: trampolines, a foam pit, a climbing wall, a rope park, a tubing slide, a big maze, a football arena and a volcano to climb. A separate corner suits crawlers and toddlers.
A family restaurant serves pizza, soups and a kids' menu, and six themed party houses host birthdays.
Toulcův dvůr is an old farmstead run as a city farm and environmental education center, owned by the City of Prague. Goats, cows, horses and poultry of native Czech breeds live in paddocks and a poultry yard, part of a project to save old farm breeds.
Meadows and the Botič stream around the farm make a quiet green walk. The animals are for watching: no touching and no feeding.
A fenced playground in the middle of Park U Vodárny, a park of mature trees bordered by Slezská, Kladská, Korunní and U Vodárny streets.
The centerpiece is a multi-level wooden climbing frame built like a water tower. Around it sit a large inflatable trampoline built into the ground, a sandpit, swings and smaller climbers for toddlers, and a ball court for older kids.
A fenced playground in Riegrovy sady, named for its red dragon. The dragon, rebuilt in 2026, is a rope climbing frame kids can cross in every direction, with two slides, hammocks and a rocky nook under one wing. Lower down, the Herní věž tower slide is built for older kids, with new stairs back up. Swings include one that seats eight, plus a sandpit, scooter track and a summer misting area.
Ladronka park has two fenced playgrounds, one near the bus stop and a big one by the café at the restored Ladronka farmstead, whose restaurant opens an indoor kids' corner in winter. Around them spread open lawns, more than 4 km of lit in-line track, courts for volleyball and beach football, a disc golf course, and the Šiška lookout tower, a sculpture by Čestmír Suška.
Children's Island is a 1.83-hectare island on the Vltava, reached by an arched footbridge from the Smíchov embankment. It holds several playgrounds split by age, with a carousel, climbing frames and sandpits, plus play equipment designed for kids with disabilities.
Older kids get an artificial-turf soccer field, a volleyball court and basketball hoops. A bronze statue of the Vltava stands at the northern tip.
A small forest zoo by the gamekeeper's lodge in Chuchle Grove, a nature reserve above the Vltava. It belongs to the city's wildlife rescue station, so its 30-plus species are Czech animals with permanent handicaps that rule out release: fallow deer, wild boar, red deer, foxes, a lynx and an eagle owl. Around it, the grove has a nature trail, a playground and picnic spots with a fire pit.
Prokop Valley is a nature reserve of wooded slopes, limestone cliffs and old quarries on the city's southwest edge. Paths follow the Prokopský stream past a small, cliff-ringed quarry lake (Prokopské jezírko), and small caves show in the hillsides.
The rock layers here are famous for fossils. A marked nature trail leads to the Butovice hillfort, and the Hlubočepy railway viaducts span the lower valley.
Petřín is a wooded hill of linked gardens rising above Malá Strana, crossed by walking paths with benches and city views. A funicular climbs from Újezd to the top, where the Petřín Lookout Tower, built in 1891 after the Eiffel Tower, and a mirror maze sit side by side. Kids also find several playgrounds, the medieval Hunger Wall and a rose garden at the summit.
A 25-hectare hillside garden in Troja with a Japanese garden, a lake and wetland, prairie and forest plantings, and St. Clare's Vineyard.
The highlight for kids is the Fata Morgana greenhouse: a winding path through desert plants, a lowland rainforest with a 6-meter waterfall and a 4-meter-deep pond, a tunnel cut into the rock to tropical fish aquariums, and a cool zone of table-top mountain plants.
A wooden pavilion shaped like an old Gothic city gate, built for the 1891 Jubilee Exhibition and moved to Petřín Hill the next year. Kids wind through a maze of 35 mirrors to a large painted diorama of Prague's 1648 fight against the Swedes on Charles Bridge, then end in the Hall of Laughter, where warped mirrors stretch and squash them. The Petřín Lookout Tower stands a short walk away.
Two basement floors of model railways, over 600 m². The largest layout covers six Czech regions in miniature, with Karlštejn castle, the Karlovy Vary colonnade and the Pilsen main station, and 80 to 90 trains, trams and cable cars running at once. Interactive buttons fell a tree or start a circus show.
The ticket also covers train simulators, VR, RC cars, a slot-car track, LEGO and a play area.
The Public Transport Museum fills the Střešovice tram depot, built in 1909 and now a protected technical monument, with more than 40 historic vehicles: horse-drawn and electric trams, buses and trolleybuses. Kids can walk right up to the cars.
Around them are scale models of vehicles that no longer survive, old tickets, route maps and photos, and archive film of the city's early transit. A good pick for kids who love trams.
Circus Nights is a festival of new circus held in towns across Czechia and Slovakia, part of the international La Nuit du Cirque. Here the program spreads over several stages and mixes professional shows with open workshops and training for the public.
It suits kids who want to try circus skills, not only watch: juggling, balancing and acrobatics are on offer. Cirk La Putyka also brings its show Okamžik.
An open-air rink on Letná plain, with Prague Castle in view. The 43 by 20 meter sheet of ice is a manageable size for a first lap holding the barrier.
A heated tent gives kids somewhere to lace up and warm their hands, and there are skate and helmet rentals, sharpening, toilets and snacks on site. Public skating is walk-in, with no booking.
Crystal Garden fills the winter garden in Troja with large glass sculptures of flowers, trees and animals made by the Czech glassmaker Jiří Pačinek and his studio. Kids wander the paths spotting glass birds and blooms among the real plants, and after dark the pieces are lit up.
It suits kids who like a walk with something to find. Toddlers in strollers can come along.
The largest private LEGO collection in the world, set in the Prague branch of Museum of Bricks. About 3,000 models built from over a million bricks cover Prague landmarks, Star Wars, Harry Potter, knights and the Mole. A play corner lets visitors of any age build too, and the shop sells current and collector sets.
Line 41 is a heritage tram line run by DPP, Prague's transit company, with vintage tram cars on a circuit between the Střešovice depot and the Výstaviště exhibition grounds. The usual route runs past Prague Castle and Letná and crosses the Vltava on Čech Bridge.
The Střešovice end is home to the Public Transport Museum, so a ride pairs easily with a look at older trams and buses.
The home rink of hockey club HC Hvězda Praha: a covered 58 x 28 m ice surface with seating for 300. Outside club training, the ice opens for public skating, and a weekly skating school puts beginners and stronger skaters in separate groups led by the club's youth coaches.
The JB Sport shop rents and sharpens skates, and Kanada Pizza and the HC Bar look out over the ice.
River Rink is an outdoor ice rink by the Vltava in the Riverside Karlín quarter: a 30 x 15 m sheet of ice with a skate rental and a street-food and punch bar beside it. The rental also has helmets and skating aids for kids still finding their balance, and the operator runs children's skating courses on the ice.
In summer the space becomes an open-air zone with dance nights and yoga.
An open-air ice rink, 43 by 20 meters, set up each winter on Letná plain. Skates and helmets are for rent at the rink, and a skating school runs lessons for kids still learning to stand on the ice.
There's a snack bar, toilets, a bag check and skate sharpening. School groups also skate here on weekday mornings and early afternoons.
Minor is a theater of actors and puppets, founded in 1950 as the Central Puppet Theatre and housed in a colorful, award-winning building on Vodičkova since 2001. Shows mix puppets, masks and live acting.
Beyond the stage, kids can play in the Minor Gallery, an interactive installation in the passage, join hands-on workshops in the small Barloutka room, and snack at the theater café.
TOBOGA Fantasy fills a 6,000 m² hall at Homepark Zličín with a giant climbing frame, a four-lane megaslide that drops 8 meters over two floors, tubing and bobsled runs, a high ropes course, mega trampolines and an inflatable dragon. Children under 5 get their own fun park with trampolines, slides and a ball pool. Adults can use every attraction too, and everyone plays in socks.
A riverside leisure area on the Vltava with a grassy beach, sand courts and a pier, open as a bathing spot since 1910. The kids corner has a wading pool and playground with its own snack kiosk.
Older kids can rent paddleboards, kayaks and pedal boats, or play beach volleyball, badminton and table tennis. Bistros, a gelato stand and food stalls sit around the central square.
A riverside sports ground on the Vltava bank, built around a 70-meter boat moored at the water's edge that holds the Port 62 restaurant. There are beach volleyball courts, pétanque, and a big grass meadow for badminton, croquet, picnics and free play.
Scooters, in-line skates and jumping shoes can be rented on site, and the restaurant has a kids' corner and a children's menu.
Kunratice Forest, which locals call Kunraťák, is about 300 hectares of mixed woodland on Prague's south side, cut by the Kunratice stream and the Labuť pond. Marked trails pass the ruins of Nový Hrad castle, an old railway viaduct and several springs.
By the gamekeeper's lodge, a small zoo corner keeps fallow deer from the city's wildlife rescue station, and the woods hold two playgrounds.
Hostivař Reservoir is the city's largest lake, ringed by a forest park. The main beach mixes lawns with a long sandy shore that slopes gently into the water.
Kids get a two-lane inflatable water slide, a big trampoline, a playground with a climbing wall, and pedal boats and paddleboards to rent. The wooded shore beyond the beach has more playgrounds, cycle paths and a rope park.
Klamovka is a hillside English landscape park between Plzeňská and Podbělohorská streets, laid out by the Clam-Gallas family around their Rococo mansion. Paths wind past a Neo-Gothic gazebo from 1820, the Temple of the Night, a Rococo greenhouse, a monument to a horse named Cassel and a tiny church from 1752.
There is a playground for younger kids and a garden restaurant in the middle of the park.
The Šárka stream cuts a 2 km gorge through dark, hard rock here, with two narrow rocky passes and a plateau above. Trails follow the stream and climb to sunny cliff-top meadows, past the earth banks of a Slavic hillfort. Sheep and goats are brought in to graze the slopes.
In summer, an outdoor pool with a kids' wading pool and a slide opens in the valley.
Slovanka is a long-running boat rental on Slovanský ostrov, the Vltava island that holds Žofín Palace. Families take out wooden rowing boats, pedal boats for up to six, or the swan-shaped pedal boat, with Charles Bridge and Prague Castle in view from the water.
Life jackets for children and non-swimmers are on hand, and the dock kiosk sells drinks and snacks. Evening trips come with a kerosene lantern.
A 216-meter TV tower with giant crawling babies, fiberglass sculptures by artist David Černý, climbing its steel shafts. Fast elevators run to an observation deck at 93 meters with three cabins: one on the world's great towers, one with bubble chairs that play street sounds from below, and one showing Czech art.
The garden at the base has a minigolf course and, in winter, an ice rink.
Mořský svět is the largest saltwater aquarium in the Czech Republic, with more than 60 tanks and over 360 species. Kids can watch sharks, jellyfish and an octopus, walk through a coral cave and stand by the 100,000-liter main tank. The first floor reopened in 2026 with new Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific reef tanks.
Feeding sessions run every week, and the last Friday of each month brings an evening tour.
Vyšehrad is a hilltop fortress above the Vltava, with ramparts to walk, the Basilica of St. Peter and Paul, and quiet parks with views over the whole city.
Kids can run the lawns, climb on a playground themed around old Czech legends, and join a guided tour of the casemates, over a kilometer of underground passages leading to Gorlice, a vast hall that holds statues from Charles Bridge.
The main square of the Old Town, edged by the Týn Church and the Old Town Hall. On the hall's Gothic tower, the medieval astronomical clock puts on its show every hour, when the twelve apostles file past above the dial.
Kids can ride a futuristic elevator or climb the tower for views over the square, and guided tours go down into the Romanesque-Gothic vaults under the hall.
Petřín Lookout Tower is a steel lattice tower built in 1891 as a one-fifth copy of the Eiffel Tower. Kids climb 299 wooden steps to the top cabin at 51 meters, with a gallery and binoculars at 20 meters to break up the climb. On a clear day the view takes in the whole city and much of Bohemia. The basement holds a small exhibition on the hill's history.
A cable railway that climbs Petřín Hill from Újezd in Malá Strana, with a middle stop at Nebozízek and the top station by the lookout tower, the mirror maze and the rose garden. The ride takes about three minutes up a steep wooded slope, with views to Prague Castle.
New glass-heavy cars arrived in 2026: when they pass halfway, one winks and the other changes color.
The largest castle complex in the world spreads across 45 hectares of courtyards, palaces and gardens on the hill above the Vltava. Kids can walk the small, colorful houses of Golden Lane, climb the St Vitus Cathedral tower, and see the Old Royal Palace and St George's Basilica.
Uniformed guards stand at the gates, and the changing of the guard draws a crowd.
A big museum on farming and food in a historic building in Letná. The basement tractor hall shows more than twenty tractors built between 1917 and 1953, with pedal tractors and a track for small kids and a driving simulator for older ones.
Upstairs are fishing, gamekeeping and food exhibitions, farm-animal specimens led by César the bull, and a rooftop garden with beehives, crop beds and a view across the city.
The planetarium sits at the edge of Stromovka park, under a 23.5-meter dome that recently became Europe's first LED dome, lit by 45 million diodes. Shows fill the whole dome: trips through the galaxy, the night sky, coral reefs and the Czech countryside, plus fairy-tale programs for the youngest viewers.
Before the show, kids can explore the foyer's exhibition zones and its giant LED wall.
An indoor illusion museum a short walk from Wenceslas Square, with more than 50 hands-on exhibits about how eyes and brains get fooled. Kids grow and shrink in the Ames Room, lie on a bed of 1,209 nails, cast colored shadows in the RGB Room and dance in a mirrored disco room that seems to go on forever. Cameras are welcome in every room, so expect plenty of photos.
A private LEGO museum with about 3,000 models built from more than a million bricks, spread over 20 themed displays. Kids can spot LEGO versions of Charles Bridge, the Astronomical Clock and the National Theatre, plus Star Wars, Harry Potter, knights and trains, and learn that the first LEGO toys were wooden.
A building corner lets them make their own, and the shop stocks hard-to-find sets and minifigures.
The Historical Building at the top of Wenceslas Square holds the natural history halls: a fin whale skeleton, life-size models of prehistoric animals, fluorescent minerals and meteorites, and the domed Pantheon.
An underground passage leads to the New Building and its hands-on Children's Museum, where kids explore nature and invention through interactive exhibits and games. Older kids can add the 20th-century history galleries.
One of the country's largest museum buildings, with 16 permanent exhibitions over seven floors. The transportation hall is the headline: early cars, motorcycles, locomotives and dozens of aircraft hung from the ceiling, including a 1945 Spitfire.
A guided tour leads through 490 meters of model ore and coal mine, with original lamps and mining sounds. There is also a Merkur construction-set playroom, a TV studio, astronomy and chemistry.
Two hares, Ludvík and Lujsa, explore the world through its small details. One likes to collect, the other likes to hunt. Puppets, light and music carry a gentle story about which treasures to keep and which to let go. It is made for small children and the grown-ups beside them, and it is led in Czech.
A bathtub is the whole stage in this Divadlo Minor show about the rules parents repeat every day ("Don't run or you'll fall", "The bed is not a trampoline"). Mom and Dad turn out to be big kids themselves, with live music and animation projected on stage. In the second half, kids join in, shooting ping-pong balls into a sink and building marble runs from plumbing pipes.
Mezi Ploty is one of Prague's most popular festivals, held inside the walled grounds of Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital, where performers with disabilities share the same stages as some of the country's best-known bands.
Stages spread across the leafy grounds mix rock, pop, theater, workshops and kids' acts like Kašpárek v rohlíku. The whole site is alcohol-free, which gives it a relaxed, picnic-day feel that suits families.
Letní Letná is Prague's end-of-summer festival of contemporary circus and theater, with big tops and open-air stages spread across Letná park. Acrobats and jugglers from around the world perform on several stages, and a separate children's stage runs shows for younger kids.
Between shows, kids can join free circus and art workshops, get their faces painted, ride a hand-carved carousel or read in the Bibliobus Oskar library bus.
A paint-your-own-pottery studio on Vinohradská. Kids pick a blank piece from shelves of mugs, plates, money boxes and animal figures, and a staff member shows them the glazes and a few simple techniques.
The studio glazes and kiln-fires each finished piece, so mugs and plates are safe for food and drink. For babies, it makes hand and footprint keepsakes, and a small play corner keeps younger siblings busy.
SmíchOFF is a large indoor climbing center in the old Škoda diesel engine factory, with two roped halls (auto-belays and ready-rigged top ropes) and two bouldering rooms, one graded by color for beginners.
Kids get their own hall, BouldříkOFF, with boulders, auto-belays, routes they can clip, a small traverse in a bunker and tunnels to explore. Gear is for rent, and a short safety briefing comes before the first climb.
The Pop Up! is an interactive exhibition called "Kdo jsem?" ("Who am I?"), laid out as seven themed rooms in Podolí. Each room has its own colors, sounds and scents, plus creative tasks to try, and visitors can take photos, film and rearrange the rooms as they go.
Small groups enter at intervals and walk a one-way route, so a family rarely shares a room with strangers.
A year-round indoor ice rink where kids can skate at public sessions or learn in groups. Family on Ice sessions cap the number of families and set out play stations, with an instructor on the ice.
Family mini-hockey and pond hockey are played on small goals with no gear, and kids' skating lessons split beginners from advanced skaters.
JumpPark Letňany fills an industrial hall with rows of trampolines, a foam pit, ninja courses, a warped wall, monkey bars, a battle beam and a dodgeball court. Children under 110 cm stay in Kids Jump, a separate zone with small trampolines and building blocks.
The main floor suits older kids and teens. Flips and somersaults are only allowed with a coach.
Small boats leave from Judita, a medieval underground pier beside Charles Bridge, and cruise the Vltava and the Čertovka, the narrow mill channel that splits Kampa Island from Malá Strana. Kids pass under the bridge arches and past an old waterwheel.
Commentary comes on headphones in 19 languages, and the ticket includes the Charles Bridge Museum at the pier. In winter the boats are enclosed and heated.
Charles Bridge is a 516-meter stone footbridge over the Vltava, linking the Old Town to Malá Strana. Thirty statues and statue groups of saints line its railings, and fortified towers stand at each end.
No cars have crossed since 1965, so kids can walk the whole span, and a stone staircase near the Malá Strana end leads down to Kampa.
Prague Zoo spreads over 58 hectares of hillside in Troja, with 15 pavilions and close to 700 species. Elephant Valley holds the zoo's herd, and the Ball's Pyramid exhibit shows Lord Howe Island stick insects found nowhere else in continental Europe.
At the Children's Zoo farm, kids can walk into the sheep enclosure and hand-feed them, then visit the pond, play area and children's tram.
Four to seven is the age when kids sit through a whole puppet show and finish a craft on their own. This list keeps the plans that suit that age: puppet theater, family plays, hands-on workshops and the odd seasonal outing. It refreshes on its own as new shows open, so check it before the weekend.
A puppet fairy tale from Divadlo b, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. Evelína can't wait for her fifteenth birthday, when she can look at the human world for the first time, but the wish brings trouble with it.
It is a spoken story performed in Czech, so it suits kids who follow the language and enjoy a classic tale told with puppets.
A classic Czech puppet tale. Princess Majdalenka ends up in hell by mistake, and Kašpárek, the cheeky jester of Czech puppetry, sets off with his friend Honza to free her by outwitting the devils.
It plays at Divadlo Říše loutek, a puppet theater in the Municipal Library building in the Old Town. A good first theater outing for preschoolers.
A one-performer theater show about Františka, who can't wait to meet her little brother, still hiding in Mom's belly. Her search for answers about the nine months before birth is playful, gentle and educational. It suits a child expecting a sibling, or any kid asking where babies come from.
The Říše loutek ensemble stages Božena Němcová's classic Czech fairy tale with string marionettes: gold is rare and salt is ordinary, until the salt runs out and the whole kingdom is in trouble.
The company has played this basement theater under the Municipal Library since it opened in 1928. The art deco hall has a starry ceiling and height-adjustable seats for small children.
Hansel and Gretel as a puppet show by the Říše loutek company. The children wander off while picking strawberries and find a house made of gingerbread, where a witch plans to fatten Hansel up. The grumpy old man who lives with her dislikes children but befriends Hansel and stops her. Two dwarf puppets guide the story. The sets and puppets were made by the family of a late Czech artist.
A new Czech play about Manka, a girl who loves to paint, in the smoky factory streets of old Smíchov. When an old man tells her about a mysterious painting hidden in the Church of St. Nicholas, she crosses into Malá Strana, the neighborhood next door that Smíchov kids avoid. A story of courage and friendship, inspired by writer Jakub Arbes and artist Toyen, played by two actors.
Krysáci, the rat friends from the Czech Večerníček bedtime series and books, move to the stage in this fairy tale by Divadlo pohádek. Hubert and Hodan, Eda the lab mouse from Prague and Ludvík the plaster gnome share an unusual home in a forgotten corner of a dump in Vizovice.
Instead of a screen, kids get live actors and a real stage. Libor Jeník wrote and directed it.
The two hapless handymen from the Czech cartoon step off the screen and onto the stage, played by two actors. On vacation they still can't leave their tools alone: they tinker on the seabed, in outer space and in a hotel room they rebuild to look like their workshop at home. Petr Skoumal's familiar theme tune runs through the whole show.
The dm bambini run is the kids' race of the Prague Marathon weekend: a short dash for toddlers and preschoolers, split by age so nobody lines up against kids twice their size.
Every runner gets a race T-shirt, a start number and a finisher's medal, the same kit the grown-ups chase on Sunday. It suits small kids who like to run and want to feel part of the big race.
Říše loutek is a marionette theater founded in 1920, playing in the City Library building on Žatecká street since 1928. Its own company stages classic Czech fairy tales, such as Hansel and Gretel (Perníková chaloupka), Dášeňka and Kašpárek in Hell, with string puppets on a traditional stage.
UNIMA, the international puppetry union, was founded here in 1929. Shows are performed in Czech, so the puppets carry the story.
The Dům čtení branch of Prague's city library turns into a dance floor for this lesson. Kids warm up together, then learn a short routine. It suits kids who like to move and want to try dance without committing to a term of classes.
A traditional lantern procession run by DDM Praha 5 in Sacré Coeur park. Kids carry their own lanterns along a trail with small tasks on an autumn bug theme, then the group walks together and ends with a sweet treat.
The route works for strollers, so a younger sibling can come along. The smallest kids will need a parent's help with the tasks.
Princ a Večernice is the stage version of the classic Czech fairy tale film. Young Prince Velen marries off his three sisters to the rulers of sun, moon and wind, falls for their sister Večernice, then has to leave the castle and find his own courage on the road. Standing in his way are robbers, false merchants and the cruel Mrakomor, ruler of bad weather. Expect suspense and gentle humor.
A family concert where the Prague Symphony Orchestra plays alongside actors, dancers and young performers from Prague music and ballet schools. Two guides lead kids through a fairy-tale adventure of dragons, princesses and magic, with plenty of laughs on the way. It suits curious kids meeting an orchestra for the first time.
A stage version of the famous Czech bedtime cartoon about a small dog, a present for a girl named Ája, who grows into a giant. Kids watch Fík sit at a school desk, star in a circus ring, drive a car and travel the world, only to find home is best.
A funny show about friendship and courage, spoken in Czech, so it suits kids who follow the language.
A stage version of the 1980 Czech TV fairy tale. A dragon has moved in just outside the kingdom, Princess Lenka is in danger, and it falls to young Martin and his brother Honza, the so-called fool, to prove that beating a dragon takes more than shiny armor.
The Svěrák and Uhlíř songs are ones Czech kids, parents and grandparents all know, and the cast sings them on stage. Performed in Czech.
Two club model railways, built at 1:45 and 1:32 scale, run trains past a replica station, villages and tunnels. Kids watch engines pull passenger and freight cars through detailed miniature scenery. It suits train fans who like spotting details, from steam engines to modern electric locomotives.
Čarodějnice Bordelína is the heroine of Sandra Dražilová Zlámalová's Czech children's books, and this stage musical brings her to life with songs, dance numbers and lavish staging. The theater bills it as a funny fairy tale for kids and their parents.
Her world includes an owl, a squirrel, a hare named Cyril, another witch and a wizard. It suits families who follow Czech, especially kids who know the books.
Tramtárie is a playful Czech show stitched together from scraps of nonsense poems and set to live music. Actors pop up, run past, whisper, splash and make things vanish in a world of words, colors, magic and laughter.
There is no lesson to learn here: the point is permission to be silly. The verses repeat until they stick, and parents say kids go home singing them.
A hangar of historical aircraft, some still able to fly, opens to visitors who can walk around the planes and see them up close. The owners and pilots who keep their aircraft here run the day and are happy to chat, and in good weather some of the old planes take off for flight demonstrations. It suits kids who love planes and machines.
Aplaus prosím is Europark's Sunday theater series. Professional Czech troupes take turns on a stage inside the shopping center, and the troupe and story change every week. The shows are short, so it fits around lunch or a quick shop. The fairy tales are told in Czech, so kids who don't follow the language may lose the thread.
Libozvuky is an interactive music show from Divadlo Minor, directed by Jiří Adámek. Actors and musicians build a landscape of sound, then use light and voices to conjure a creature on stage. There are no seats: kids sit on the floor beside a long wooden walkway, and children often call out what they see and edge closer to the actors. Marek Doubrava's score won the 2015 Theatre Critics' Award.
A family walk across Prague Castle that ends in a Christmas labyrinth built by the Forman Brothers' Theatre (Divadlo bratří Formanů) and friends inside the Imperial Stables.
Start at the tree on St. George's Square, stop at the nativity scene beside St. Vitus Cathedral, then cross the Second Courtyard to the stables. Inside, kids wander an imaginary landscape that includes Johannes Kepler's astronomer's workshop.
Prague 7's yearly Saint Nicholas afternoon at the Výstaviště fairgrounds. Kids skate in the Small Sports Hall, in their own skates or rental ones. Then they head to the nearby Ateliér for a pre-Christmas craft, a photo-booth picture to take home and a small Saint Nicholas gift.
A St. Nicholas afternoon built around old folk customs. Kids learn the Mikuláš tradition, then make a little devil from dried plums or a straw chain for the Christmas tree. The finale is a face-to-face chat with St. Nicholas, an angel and a devil. It suits families with preschoolers and school-age kids who enjoy crafts and costumes.
On St Nicholas Eve, wooden boats leave the Vltava and slip into the Čertovka, the narrow canal behind Kampa. Devils lurk along the banks, hurling spooky but kind tales full of fire at the passing boats. On the river you also meet an angel and St Nicholas, who rewards the good kids.
A thrill for kids who know the Mikuláš tradition. Very fearful toddlers may find the devils too much.
A St. Nicholas afternoon inside a historic tram depot. Mikuláš, an angel and a devil walk among the old trams and buses and hand out small gifts, a Czech December tradition. It suits children who enjoy vehicles and are fine with a costumed devil nearby.
Koala Café is a play center with a café attached. The main climbing frame has several tube slides and zones graded by difficulty, and a separate corner with a small slide is set up for toddlers. There is a track for pedal go-karts and ride-ons, plus giant LEGO bricks for building. Parents sit in the café with a view over the play area, and Wi-Fi is free.
A fenced playground in Thomayerovy sady park, set on flat grass by the Libeňka spring near the Vltava flood barrier.
The centerpiece is a wooden fishing boat with two slides and climbing and balance sections. Around it are a nest swing, chain swings, a rocking horse, a toddler playhouse and a bigger house with a slide and rope ramp. In warm months, a hand pump feeds a wooden water mill.
The playgrounds sit in the flat middle of Folimanka park, in the valley below the Nusle Bridge, with water features beside the play equipment and a caretaker's house with a refreshment kiosk and toilets.
Right under the bridge, the Jammertal area adds a skate plaza (an ice rink in winter), ping-pong tables and a Poeziomátek box that plays Czech fairy-tale songs.
DinoPark Harfa sits on the roof of the Galerie Harfa shopping mall, next to the O2 Arena in Vysočany. More than 80 dinosaur models line the paths, many of them moving and making sounds, plus Kvído, a robot baby stegosaurus that walks the park with a ranger.
Kids can dig for bones in the paleontology playground, try the VR DinoRiders, stand up to the DinoHurricane storm simulator and explore the paleontologist's cabinet.
More than 100 models built from nearly 15 million LEGO bricks fill 1,500 square meters of a shopping center. Kids walk past a full-size Ferrari F40, a 60-meter Great Wall of China and a Star Wars-inspired zone, then build their own creations in a big free-play area.
It suits kids who already build with bricks. None of the models have been shown here before.
St. Martin rides a white horse across Charles Bridge, leading a costumed procession with banners and a flock of geese. Czech folk wisdom says Martin brings the first snow, so at the Old Town end he hands snow to Prague's burgomaster. Then a St. Martin's market opens on the square.
Kids who like horses, animals and history in costume get the most from it.
Prague Zoo turns festive for the holiday season. Families can make an Advent wreath in the Education Center, join carols at the Christmas tree lighting in the Children's Zoo, and watch keepers hand unsold Christmas trees to the animals.
Winter suits the reindeer, camels and Amur tiger in their thick coats, and fourteen heated pavilions offer a warm break between the outdoor paths.
Mikuláš, the Czech St. Nicholas, comes to Kampa with angels and devils to hand out gifts to kids, and the neighborhood switches on its Christmas tree on the island by the Vltava. It is an open-air, local evening that suits kids who like a costumed visitor, and the tree lighting gives everyone a reason to linger.
Three kings on camels lead a noisy band of drummers and trumpeters through Prague's old center, retelling the Magi's journey to Bethlehem. At the end they hand their gifts to the baby Jesus in a nativity scene.
It marks Three Kings Day, the close of Christmas, and kicks off the Three Kings Collection, a charity drive by Prague's Catholic charity. Kids who like animals and marching bands get both.
A 17th-century baroque chateau run by the Prague City Gallery, with frescoed halls and a formal terraced garden that slopes down toward the Vltava. The garden has staircases, sculptures and a hedge labyrinth that kids tend to head for first. The grounds sit next to Prague Zoo, so the two combine easily into one day out.
This landscaped garden climbs the Petřín hillside, with winding paths, old trees, two ponds and a waterfall. A renovated playground with newer play equipment sits above the pond and waterfall. A wooden church moved here from Carpathian Ruthenia in 1929 stands among the lawns. Entrances include Kinských Square, Šermířská and Na Hřebenkách streets.
Josef Skupa founded this marionette theater in Plzeň in 1930, the first professional puppet stage in the country. Every show stars the wooden father and son Spejbl and Hurvínek, with Hurvínek's friend Mánička, her grandmother and Žeryk the dog.
Kids watch comedies and musicals, and toddlers get separate shows of their own. Everything is in Czech, so kids who don't speak it follow the puppets more than the jokes.
Majaland is an indoor theme park built around Maya the Bee, spread across 9,000 square meters inside the POP Airport outlet center. Kids ride Vic's Roller Coaster, a 220-meter family coaster, among about a dozen rides, and can catch a show and meet Maya in her theater. An outdoor Super Wings area opens in the warmer months, and a bee trail with an audio guide explains how bees live.
A public playground on the summit of Petřín Hill, in park U rozhledny, the 2.5-hectare park around the Petřín Lookout Tower. The tower and the Mirror Maze stand a short walk away, and the Rose Garden spreads across the plateau next door, so a play break fits easily between sights. The funicular from Újezd climbs to the top and saves the steep walk up.
A fenced playground beside the small pub in Parukářka, the wooded park on Holy Cross hill (vrch svatého Kříže), rebuilt in 2010. Past the summit, a steel slide built into the hillside drops kids to a second playground, and a third sits in the woods along the lower path next to two ping-pong tables. The open hilltop is good for kite flying in fall and looks out to the Žižkov TV Tower.
Locals call it the Tramvaj playground, after the two wooden tram cars kids climb through. Around them are a big rope triple pyramid, a zip line, climbing frames with slides, and seesaws. Tall trees shade most of it and the ground is loose gravel.
There is no fence, so runners need watching. The Vozovna restaurant terrace looks onto the play area, and the Koníček playground sits just behind the building.
A big, varied playground on the north edge of Letná Park, set along the flat path near the Na Baště café. Kids climb oversized animal sculptures, frames and slides, and dig in the sand, while the open Letná plain next door has room for ball games and kites.
The park around it adds an in-line skating track, the skate plaza under the Metronome and a wooden carousel from the 1890s.
A walled monastery garden tucked behind Wenceslas Square, with rose arches over the benches, low yew hedges, fruit trees and herb beds. Kids can hunt for the sculptures and fountains, including the Boy with a Shell and the Wild Girls fountain, then head to the playground, which sits behind a wall of climbing plants. The early-Baroque pavilion and the Church of Our Lady of the Snows frame the lawns.
An interactive museum of Karel Zeman, the Czech filmmaker whose trick effects made Journey to the Beginning of Time and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen famous. The rooms are built as film sets, and kids are invited in: climb onto a flying machine, ride Baron Munchausen's winged horses, or steer the submarine from Invention for Destruction. Each set explains the trick behind the scene, and photos and videos are encouraged.
Hrrr na ně! ("Charge at them!") is a new play for kids about the Hussites, the 15th-century Czech rebels led by Jan Žižka. Two actors from 3D company tell the story with jokes, songs and duels, and kids find out why Žižka's name is still known today. It is played for laughs, not as a history lesson, and it suits kids who can follow Czech.
A fenced, staffed playground inside Kampa Park on Kampa Island, the strip of Malá Strana between the Vltava and the Čertovka channel. Rebuilt in 2006 with unusual architect-designed play structures, it is aimed at small children and includes equipment for kids with disabilities. There is a drinking fountain and a toilet on site. Older kids may find it tame; the riverside lawns of the park are next door.
Story of Lights fills the riverside grounds at Žluté lázně with a medieval Prague built from light. Kids walk through a gate and follow Charles IV as king, builder and emperor, past a glowing Charles Bridge, the royal crown, Gothic towers and the crown jewels, with interactive elements along the route. It suits kids who like castles and kings, and the history stays easy enough for a simple evening walk.
Pat and Mat are the Czech puppet handymen whose home repairs always go wrong, and this exhibition marks 50 years since they first appeared. The main rooms suit older kids: original film dioramas, props, and an animation workshop where you try the basics yourself. Younger kids head to the play room in the castle cellar, where a cinema also shows one of the feature films.
Cirkus Humberto is a traditional Czech family circus that tours the country with its own big top, the largest in the Czech Republic. This season's program mixes animal acts (horses, camels, zebras, a pride of Somali lions, Indian elephants and Matěj the bear) with aerial ropes and straps, juggling, a hula-hoop dancer and the Duo Warriors on the wheel of death. Mr. Chap's clown routines run between acts.
A yearly St. Martin's Day evening at Vyšehrad, run by the Maják Scout center. It opens with a themed game for kids in the park and a short children's prayer inside the Rotunda of St. Martin.
Then St. Martin arrives on a white horse and leads a lantern procession along the Vyšehrad walls back to the rotunda. It suits preschoolers and school-age kids who are happy with an evening walk.
A sing-along concert led by composer Jaroslav Uhlíř, with a live band and singer Jana Bittnerová. The set runs through the Uhlíř and Svěrák songbook, from "Holubí dům" and "Severní vítr" to tunes from the fairy-tale films Ať žijí duchové! and Lotrando a Zubejda. Kids can join in, and parents and grandparents will know most of the words.
Prague's transport company, DPP, switches on the Christmas lights on its decorated fleet in the yard of the Střešovice tram depot, home of the Muzeum MHD. Historic and modern trams line up beside buses, a trolleybus and the mazací tramvaj service tram.
Kids can walk around the vehicles and pick a favorite, sing along to carols, join the countdown, then watch the lit-up parade roll out.
Founded in 1865, this company runs sightseeing boats and two restored paddle steamers, Vltava and Vyšehrad, from the Rašín Embankment pier near the Dancing House. The one-hour loop passes Charles Bridge and Prague Castle and goes through the Mánes lock twice, so kids see the boat rise and drop with the river.
Day trips sail upriver to Slapy, and a regular boat runs to Prague Zoo.
Spolek Darwin is a nature and science club run by natural scientists, with a base a short walk from Vysočanská station. The club keeps more than 70 animal species.
Its nature playroom has nature-themed toys and sensory play that change each week, and a lecturer brings out at least two animals per session. Birthday parties add animal handling, microscopes, chemistry experiments and crafts.
Krtek's World is an amusement park on the edge of Prague, in Horní Měcholupy. A contact mini zoo has goats, pigs, sheep, geese and free-roaming peacocks. Outdoors there are trampolines, pedal cars, a ninja course and splash pools with a water slide. The indoor glasshouse adds a climbing wall, ball pools, a toboggan slide and rope frames.
A 3.5-hectare garden run by Charles University's Faculty of Science. The greenhouses hold tropical and subtropical plants, including the national cactus and South African succulent collections, plus palms and cycads over 130 years old.
Outside, kids can spot a ginkgo grown like a giant bonsai, one of the first dawn redwoods planted in Europe, and a Central European flora collection started in 1904.
An indoor play center on the second floor above the Albert supermarket, with more than 30 attractions spread over 1,200 m². Kids work through a big climbing labyrinth, tube slides, a ball pit with ball cannons, trampolines and a ride-on car track.
On weekends a laser maze opens, charged separately. Parents can wait at the café bar, which serves coffee, iced coffee and pancakes.
Funpark Žirafa is a big play center on the southeast edge of Prague, beside the Čestlice shopping zone. It has more than 90 attractions: a giant multi-level climbing frame, a glowing slide, trampolines, ball pits, carousels, bumper cars, a tubing slide and a 9D cinema.
A separate corner suits crawlers and toddlers, and the restaurant and café look out over the play floor.
SuperLand fills the ground floor of the Galerie Butovice mall with 15 attractions: trampolines, a foam pit, a climbing wall, a rope park, a tubing slide, a big maze, a football arena and a volcano to climb. A separate corner suits crawlers and toddlers.
A family restaurant serves pizza, soups and a kids' menu, and six themed party houses host birthdays.
Toulcův dvůr is an old farmstead run as a city farm and environmental education center, owned by the City of Prague. Goats, cows, horses and poultry of native Czech breeds live in paddocks and a poultry yard, part of a project to save old farm breeds.
Meadows and the Botič stream around the farm make a quiet green walk. The animals are for watching: no touching and no feeding.
A fenced playground in the middle of Park U Vodárny, a park of mature trees bordered by Slezská, Kladská, Korunní and U Vodárny streets.
The centerpiece is a multi-level wooden climbing frame built like a water tower. Around it sit a large inflatable trampoline built into the ground, a sandpit, swings and smaller climbers for toddlers, and a ball court for older kids.
A fenced playground in Riegrovy sady, named for its red dragon. The dragon, rebuilt in 2026, is a rope climbing frame kids can cross in every direction, with two slides, hammocks and a rocky nook under one wing. Lower down, the Herní věž tower slide is built for older kids, with new stairs back up. Swings include one that seats eight, plus a sandpit, scooter track and a summer misting area.
Ladronka park has two fenced playgrounds, one near the bus stop and a big one by the café at the restored Ladronka farmstead, whose restaurant opens an indoor kids' corner in winter. Around them spread open lawns, more than 4 km of lit in-line track, courts for volleyball and beach football, a disc golf course, and the Šiška lookout tower, a sculpture by Čestmír Suška.
Children's Island is a 1.83-hectare island on the Vltava, reached by an arched footbridge from the Smíchov embankment. It holds several playgrounds split by age, with a carousel, climbing frames and sandpits, plus play equipment designed for kids with disabilities.
Older kids get an artificial-turf soccer field, a volleyball court and basketball hoops. A bronze statue of the Vltava stands at the northern tip.
A small forest zoo by the gamekeeper's lodge in Chuchle Grove, a nature reserve above the Vltava. It belongs to the city's wildlife rescue station, so its 30-plus species are Czech animals with permanent handicaps that rule out release: fallow deer, wild boar, red deer, foxes, a lynx and an eagle owl. Around it, the grove has a nature trail, a playground and picnic spots with a fire pit.
Prokop Valley is a nature reserve of wooded slopes, limestone cliffs and old quarries on the city's southwest edge. Paths follow the Prokopský stream past a small, cliff-ringed quarry lake (Prokopské jezírko), and small caves show in the hillsides.
The rock layers here are famous for fossils. A marked nature trail leads to the Butovice hillfort, and the Hlubočepy railway viaducts span the lower valley.
Petřín is a wooded hill of linked gardens rising above Malá Strana, crossed by walking paths with benches and city views. A funicular climbs from Újezd to the top, where the Petřín Lookout Tower, built in 1891 after the Eiffel Tower, and a mirror maze sit side by side. Kids also find several playgrounds, the medieval Hunger Wall and a rose garden at the summit.
A 25-hectare hillside garden in Troja with a Japanese garden, a lake and wetland, prairie and forest plantings, and St. Clare's Vineyard.
The highlight for kids is the Fata Morgana greenhouse: a winding path through desert plants, a lowland rainforest with a 6-meter waterfall and a 4-meter-deep pond, a tunnel cut into the rock to tropical fish aquariums, and a cool zone of table-top mountain plants.
A wooden pavilion shaped like an old Gothic city gate, built for the 1891 Jubilee Exhibition and moved to Petřín Hill the next year. Kids wind through a maze of 35 mirrors to a large painted diorama of Prague's 1648 fight against the Swedes on Charles Bridge, then end in the Hall of Laughter, where warped mirrors stretch and squash them. The Petřín Lookout Tower stands a short walk away.
Two basement floors of model railways, over 600 m². The largest layout covers six Czech regions in miniature, with Karlštejn castle, the Karlovy Vary colonnade and the Pilsen main station, and 80 to 90 trains, trams and cable cars running at once. Interactive buttons fell a tree or start a circus show.
The ticket also covers train simulators, VR, RC cars, a slot-car track, LEGO and a play area.
The Public Transport Museum fills the Střešovice tram depot, built in 1909 and now a protected technical monument, with more than 40 historic vehicles: horse-drawn and electric trams, buses and trolleybuses. Kids can walk right up to the cars.
Around them are scale models of vehicles that no longer survive, old tickets, route maps and photos, and archive film of the city's early transit. A good pick for kids who love trams.
Circus Nights is a festival of new circus held in towns across Czechia and Slovakia, part of the international La Nuit du Cirque. Here the program spreads over several stages and mixes professional shows with open workshops and training for the public.
It suits kids who want to try circus skills, not only watch: juggling, balancing and acrobatics are on offer. Cirk La Putyka also brings its show Okamžik.
An open-air rink on Letná plain, with Prague Castle in view. The 43 by 20 meter sheet of ice is a manageable size for a first lap holding the barrier.
A heated tent gives kids somewhere to lace up and warm their hands, and there are skate and helmet rentals, sharpening, toilets and snacks on site. Public skating is walk-in, with no booking.
Crystal Garden fills the winter garden in Troja with large glass sculptures of flowers, trees and animals made by the Czech glassmaker Jiří Pačinek and his studio. Kids wander the paths spotting glass birds and blooms among the real plants, and after dark the pieces are lit up.
It suits kids who like a walk with something to find. Toddlers in strollers can come along.
The largest private LEGO collection in the world, set in the Prague branch of Museum of Bricks. About 3,000 models built from over a million bricks cover Prague landmarks, Star Wars, Harry Potter, knights and the Mole. A play corner lets visitors of any age build too, and the shop sells current and collector sets.
Line 41 is a heritage tram line run by DPP, Prague's transit company, with vintage tram cars on a circuit between the Střešovice depot and the Výstaviště exhibition grounds. The usual route runs past Prague Castle and Letná and crosses the Vltava on Čech Bridge.
The Střešovice end is home to the Public Transport Museum, so a ride pairs easily with a look at older trams and buses.
The home rink of hockey club HC Hvězda Praha: a covered 58 x 28 m ice surface with seating for 300. Outside club training, the ice opens for public skating, and a weekly skating school puts beginners and stronger skaters in separate groups led by the club's youth coaches.
The JB Sport shop rents and sharpens skates, and Kanada Pizza and the HC Bar look out over the ice.
River Rink is an outdoor ice rink by the Vltava in the Riverside Karlín quarter: a 30 x 15 m sheet of ice with a skate rental and a street-food and punch bar beside it. The rental also has helmets and skating aids for kids still finding their balance, and the operator runs children's skating courses on the ice.
In summer the space becomes an open-air zone with dance nights and yoga.
An open-air ice rink, 43 by 20 meters, set up each winter on Letná plain. Skates and helmets are for rent at the rink, and a skating school runs lessons for kids still learning to stand on the ice.
There's a snack bar, toilets, a bag check and skate sharpening. School groups also skate here on weekday mornings and early afternoons.
Minor is a theater of actors and puppets, founded in 1950 as the Central Puppet Theatre and housed in a colorful, award-winning building on Vodičkova since 2001. Shows mix puppets, masks and live acting.
Beyond the stage, kids can play in the Minor Gallery, an interactive installation in the passage, join hands-on workshops in the small Barloutka room, and snack at the theater café.
TOBOGA Fantasy fills a 6,000 m² hall at Homepark Zličín with a giant climbing frame, a four-lane megaslide that drops 8 meters over two floors, tubing and bobsled runs, a high ropes course, mega trampolines and an inflatable dragon. Children under 5 get their own fun park with trampolines, slides and a ball pool. Adults can use every attraction too, and everyone plays in socks.
A riverside leisure area on the Vltava with a grassy beach, sand courts and a pier, open as a bathing spot since 1910. The kids corner has a wading pool and playground with its own snack kiosk.
Older kids can rent paddleboards, kayaks and pedal boats, or play beach volleyball, badminton and table tennis. Bistros, a gelato stand and food stalls sit around the central square.
A riverside sports ground on the Vltava bank, built around a 70-meter boat moored at the water's edge that holds the Port 62 restaurant. There are beach volleyball courts, pétanque, and a big grass meadow for badminton, croquet, picnics and free play.
Scooters, in-line skates and jumping shoes can be rented on site, and the restaurant has a kids' corner and a children's menu.
Kunratice Forest, which locals call Kunraťák, is about 300 hectares of mixed woodland on Prague's south side, cut by the Kunratice stream and the Labuť pond. Marked trails pass the ruins of Nový Hrad castle, an old railway viaduct and several springs.
By the gamekeeper's lodge, a small zoo corner keeps fallow deer from the city's wildlife rescue station, and the woods hold two playgrounds.
Hostivař Reservoir is the city's largest lake, ringed by a forest park. The main beach mixes lawns with a long sandy shore that slopes gently into the water.
Kids get a two-lane inflatable water slide, a big trampoline, a playground with a climbing wall, and pedal boats and paddleboards to rent. The wooded shore beyond the beach has more playgrounds, cycle paths and a rope park.
Klamovka is a hillside English landscape park between Plzeňská and Podbělohorská streets, laid out by the Clam-Gallas family around their Rococo mansion. Paths wind past a Neo-Gothic gazebo from 1820, the Temple of the Night, a Rococo greenhouse, a monument to a horse named Cassel and a tiny church from 1752.
There is a playground for younger kids and a garden restaurant in the middle of the park.
The Šárka stream cuts a 2 km gorge through dark, hard rock here, with two narrow rocky passes and a plateau above. Trails follow the stream and climb to sunny cliff-top meadows, past the earth banks of a Slavic hillfort. Sheep and goats are brought in to graze the slopes.
In summer, an outdoor pool with a kids' wading pool and a slide opens in the valley.
Slovanka is a long-running boat rental on Slovanský ostrov, the Vltava island that holds Žofín Palace. Families take out wooden rowing boats, pedal boats for up to six, or the swan-shaped pedal boat, with Charles Bridge and Prague Castle in view from the water.
Life jackets for children and non-swimmers are on hand, and the dock kiosk sells drinks and snacks. Evening trips come with a kerosene lantern.
A 216-meter TV tower with giant crawling babies, fiberglass sculptures by artist David Černý, climbing its steel shafts. Fast elevators run to an observation deck at 93 meters with three cabins: one on the world's great towers, one with bubble chairs that play street sounds from below, and one showing Czech art.
The garden at the base has a minigolf course and, in winter, an ice rink.
Mořský svět is the largest saltwater aquarium in the Czech Republic, with more than 60 tanks and over 360 species. Kids can watch sharks, jellyfish and an octopus, walk through a coral cave and stand by the 100,000-liter main tank. The first floor reopened in 2026 with new Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific reef tanks.
Feeding sessions run every week, and the last Friday of each month brings an evening tour.
Vyšehrad is a hilltop fortress above the Vltava, with ramparts to walk, the Basilica of St. Peter and Paul, and quiet parks with views over the whole city.
Kids can run the lawns, climb on a playground themed around old Czech legends, and join a guided tour of the casemates, over a kilometer of underground passages leading to Gorlice, a vast hall that holds statues from Charles Bridge.
The main square of the Old Town, edged by the Týn Church and the Old Town Hall. On the hall's Gothic tower, the medieval astronomical clock puts on its show every hour, when the twelve apostles file past above the dial.
Kids can ride a futuristic elevator or climb the tower for views over the square, and guided tours go down into the Romanesque-Gothic vaults under the hall.
Petřín Lookout Tower is a steel lattice tower built in 1891 as a one-fifth copy of the Eiffel Tower. Kids climb 299 wooden steps to the top cabin at 51 meters, with a gallery and binoculars at 20 meters to break up the climb. On a clear day the view takes in the whole city and much of Bohemia. The basement holds a small exhibition on the hill's history.
A cable railway that climbs Petřín Hill from Újezd in Malá Strana, with a middle stop at Nebozízek and the top station by the lookout tower, the mirror maze and the rose garden. The ride takes about three minutes up a steep wooded slope, with views to Prague Castle.
New glass-heavy cars arrived in 2026: when they pass halfway, one winks and the other changes color.
The largest castle complex in the world spreads across 45 hectares of courtyards, palaces and gardens on the hill above the Vltava. Kids can walk the small, colorful houses of Golden Lane, climb the St Vitus Cathedral tower, and see the Old Royal Palace and St George's Basilica.
Uniformed guards stand at the gates, and the changing of the guard draws a crowd.
A big museum on farming and food in a historic building in Letná. The basement tractor hall shows more than twenty tractors built between 1917 and 1953, with pedal tractors and a track for small kids and a driving simulator for older ones.
Upstairs are fishing, gamekeeping and food exhibitions, farm-animal specimens led by César the bull, and a rooftop garden with beehives, crop beds and a view across the city.
The planetarium sits at the edge of Stromovka park, under a 23.5-meter dome that recently became Europe's first LED dome, lit by 45 million diodes. Shows fill the whole dome: trips through the galaxy, the night sky, coral reefs and the Czech countryside, plus fairy-tale programs for the youngest viewers.
Before the show, kids can explore the foyer's exhibition zones and its giant LED wall.
An indoor illusion museum a short walk from Wenceslas Square, with more than 50 hands-on exhibits about how eyes and brains get fooled. Kids grow and shrink in the Ames Room, lie on a bed of 1,209 nails, cast colored shadows in the RGB Room and dance in a mirrored disco room that seems to go on forever. Cameras are welcome in every room, so expect plenty of photos.
A private LEGO museum with about 3,000 models built from more than a million bricks, spread over 20 themed displays. Kids can spot LEGO versions of Charles Bridge, the Astronomical Clock and the National Theatre, plus Star Wars, Harry Potter, knights and trains, and learn that the first LEGO toys were wooden.
A building corner lets them make their own, and the shop stocks hard-to-find sets and minifigures.
The Historical Building at the top of Wenceslas Square holds the natural history halls: a fin whale skeleton, life-size models of prehistoric animals, fluorescent minerals and meteorites, and the domed Pantheon.
An underground passage leads to the New Building and its hands-on Children's Museum, where kids explore nature and invention through interactive exhibits and games. Older kids can add the 20th-century history galleries.
One of the country's largest museum buildings, with 16 permanent exhibitions over seven floors. The transportation hall is the headline: early cars, motorcycles, locomotives and dozens of aircraft hung from the ceiling, including a 1945 Spitfire.
A guided tour leads through 490 meters of model ore and coal mine, with original lamps and mining sounds. There is also a Merkur construction-set playroom, a TV studio, astronomy and chemistry.
Two hares, Ludvík and Lujsa, explore the world through its small details. One likes to collect, the other likes to hunt. Puppets, light and music carry a gentle story about which treasures to keep and which to let go. It is made for small children and the grown-ups beside them, and it is led in Czech.
A bathtub is the whole stage in this Divadlo Minor show about the rules parents repeat every day ("Don't run or you'll fall", "The bed is not a trampoline"). Mom and Dad turn out to be big kids themselves, with live music and animation projected on stage. In the second half, kids join in, shooting ping-pong balls into a sink and building marble runs from plumbing pipes.
Mezi Ploty is one of Prague's most popular festivals, held inside the walled grounds of Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital, where performers with disabilities share the same stages as some of the country's best-known bands.
Stages spread across the leafy grounds mix rock, pop, theater, workshops and kids' acts like Kašpárek v rohlíku. The whole site is alcohol-free, which gives it a relaxed, picnic-day feel that suits families.
Letní Letná is Prague's end-of-summer festival of contemporary circus and theater, with big tops and open-air stages spread across Letná park. Acrobats and jugglers from around the world perform on several stages, and a separate children's stage runs shows for younger kids.
Between shows, kids can join free circus and art workshops, get their faces painted, ride a hand-carved carousel or read in the Bibliobus Oskar library bus.
A paint-your-own-pottery studio on Vinohradská. Kids pick a blank piece from shelves of mugs, plates, money boxes and animal figures, and a staff member shows them the glazes and a few simple techniques.
The studio glazes and kiln-fires each finished piece, so mugs and plates are safe for food and drink. For babies, it makes hand and footprint keepsakes, and a small play corner keeps younger siblings busy.
SmíchOFF is a large indoor climbing center in the old Škoda diesel engine factory, with two roped halls (auto-belays and ready-rigged top ropes) and two bouldering rooms, one graded by color for beginners.
Kids get their own hall, BouldříkOFF, with boulders, auto-belays, routes they can clip, a small traverse in a bunker and tunnels to explore. Gear is for rent, and a short safety briefing comes before the first climb.
The Pop Up! is an interactive exhibition called "Kdo jsem?" ("Who am I?"), laid out as seven themed rooms in Podolí. Each room has its own colors, sounds and scents, plus creative tasks to try, and visitors can take photos, film and rearrange the rooms as they go.
Small groups enter at intervals and walk a one-way route, so a family rarely shares a room with strangers.
A year-round indoor ice rink where kids can skate at public sessions or learn in groups. Family on Ice sessions cap the number of families and set out play stations, with an instructor on the ice.
Family mini-hockey and pond hockey are played on small goals with no gear, and kids' skating lessons split beginners from advanced skaters.
JumpPark Letňany fills an industrial hall with rows of trampolines, a foam pit, ninja courses, a warped wall, monkey bars, a battle beam and a dodgeball court. Children under 110 cm stay in Kids Jump, a separate zone with small trampolines and building blocks.
The main floor suits older kids and teens. Flips and somersaults are only allowed with a coach.
Small boats leave from Judita, a medieval underground pier beside Charles Bridge, and cruise the Vltava and the Čertovka, the narrow mill channel that splits Kampa Island from Malá Strana. Kids pass under the bridge arches and past an old waterwheel.
Commentary comes on headphones in 19 languages, and the ticket includes the Charles Bridge Museum at the pier. In winter the boats are enclosed and heated.
Charles Bridge is a 516-meter stone footbridge over the Vltava, linking the Old Town to Malá Strana. Thirty statues and statue groups of saints line its railings, and fortified towers stand at each end.
No cars have crossed since 1965, so kids can walk the whole span, and a stone staircase near the Malá Strana end leads down to Kampa.
Prague Zoo spreads over 58 hectares of hillside in Troja, with 15 pavilions and close to 700 species. Elephant Valley holds the zoo's herd, and the Ball's Pyramid exhibit shows Lord Howe Island stick insects found nowhere else in continental Europe.
At the Children's Zoo farm, kids can walk into the sheep enclosure and hand-feed them, then visit the pond, play area and children's tram.
