Our picks of events, camps, and places in Stockholm.
Performance
Two bored friends decide a fort will solve everything, then find out they have to make one from whatever is in the living room.
Swedish circus company Below Zero brings seven acrobats, live folk music and a set of mountains and glaciers to a family show where bodies fly meters into the air.
Festival
More than 100 Swedish craftspeople fill a Sörmland castle with handmade gifts, and kids 12 and under get in free with an adult.
Beppe Singer brings some of his favorite experiments from his books to Solna's main library, and the kids get to try them. Expect it to get messy.
Picture books read aloud in Spanish, Arabic, Lithuanian and Greek, a fair with kids' books in about 20 languages, and a Bollywood dance show to close the day.
Workshop
A children's book author shares illustrations of ice ages and heat waves, museum guides show objects from prehistoric times, and kids leave a message for the future.
One man, a unicycle and a small green horn show little kids what trying again looks like, in a show adults enjoy just as much.
Argentine picture book author Isol reads her own books aloud in Spanish and Swedish, then everyone gets creative together. She won the ALMA, the world's largest children's book prize.
Kids and parents tour a climb-in exhibition with the artist who made it, then sit down to make something of their own from the same ideas.
A goofy magician whose spells sometimes go wrong plays Birkagården for half an hour, and every kid in the audience leaves with something to take home.
Two mimes and their puppets head under the sea to meet seahorses, singing fish and a cheeky axolotl, until a yellow boot bobs past with someone hiding inside.
Klara meets an egg that won't hatch and a tree that wishes it were water as she hunts for her way home, in a short opera critics called "a little gem."
Two actors play a pig who only says moo and the goat who makes it fall silent. Kids need no Swedish, and the last sound is the point.
Kids and parents paint and collage a box of their own, inspired by an artist who kept her memories in small sculptures.
Guided Visit
Lights out in the museum's Gold Room, headlamps on: kids follow Beowulf among ancient treasures, with a stolen gold cup to return and a dragon to stop.
