Weekends come around fast, and this list keeps up. It pulls in the family events coming up soon: puppet theater and kids' plays, seasonal parties in the parks, museum nights and city festivals. It updates on its own as new dates are added and old ones pass, so check back before you make weekend plans.
Upside Down Once Again (Kitą kartą aukštyn kojom) is a live-music family concert by Keistuolių teatras, played in the company's own theater.
It is performed in Lithuanian, but a concert works without following every word, so it suits kids who simply like music and can sit through a show.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book as a Lithuanian musical, written and directed by composer Jonas Sakalauskas. A live orchestra and choir play the score while aerial acrobats, projections and lighting fill the arena stage.
It is performed in Lithuanian, so kids who know the story will follow it best. Younger kids get the colorful sets and projections; older kids and adults get the story.
A well-known fairy tale told with puppets and objects: a witch stepmother turns her stepsons into birds, and their sister takes a long, hard road to save them. The staging mixes puppetry with clowning and street-theater techniques.
The creators frame it around hard questions, like living in a threatening world, alongside courage, patience and looking after family. It suits kids ready for a story with real danger in it.
Careful, Magic! is a new show from children's illusionist Alan Gladkov. When the lights go down, the tricks begin: objects appear out of nowhere, with plenty of laughs and surprises along the way.
It plays to kids and adults at once. Some kids will believe every trick, and some parents will try to work out how it's done.
Dansema is Lithuania's only theater company making dance shows exclusively for children, and Unseen World is built around how babies take in the world, detail by detail. Dancers in textured costumes move through a set of pom-pom strands, soft striped rolls and bold black, white and red patterns. Babies are free to watch or crawl in and join the dancers whenever they choose.
Mrs. Majer worries about everything: the weather, accidents, whatever might go wrong. Her husband calmly drinks his tea. Then a tiny bird turns up in their garden, and raising it slowly loosens her grip on her fears.
Lėlė's new show, with puppets and three actors, adapts the picture book by German author Wolf Erlbruch, published in English as Mrs. Meyer the Bird. A gentle story about letting go of fear.
Uncle Bubbles (Burbulų Dėdė) runs a stage science show built on experiments with air, water, fire and earth. Kids see smoke bubbles and air cannons, a bubble disco and cola fountains, a burning foam mountain and a flaming hat, then erupting volcanoes and a snow lab.
It suits kids who like loud, messy spectacle more than a story. A child who startles at fire or bangs may not enjoy it.
Vilnius's Christmas Run is one of Lithuania's oldest running events, and the 2025 edition was its 50th. Thousands of runners, many in Christmas costumes, follow a route through the Old Town.
The schedule was moved later so runners go after dark, and the youngest kids get an Elves' Run of their own. It suits families after a festive outing that gets everyone moving.
Lumina is an evening light trail through the Vilnius University Botanical Garden in Kairėnai, with more than 200 light installations. This year's theme is cinema: kids meet Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, James Bond, Star Wars characters and Mr. Bean, and pass scenes from Cinderella and The Jungle Book, with music and sound effects made for the park.
Kids can also play a phone game and win prizes.
An interactive take on Snow White in which the audience becomes part of the cast. Kids are called up from their seats to play dwarfs and forest friends and help rescue Snow White. The story is told gently and with plenty of humor, so it never turns frightening, and the show is packed with songs, games and movement. Two actors, V. Straigytė and R. Jatužytė, lead it.
The lighting of the Christmas tree in Cathedral Square is how Vilnius opens its winter season, and the tree has become a symbol of Christmas across Lithuania. Kids get to see the lights come on in the middle of the Old Town.
Missed lighting night? The tree stays up through the holidays, so it still makes an easy stroll with kids on any visit to the Old Town.
Christmas Town is the Christmas market in Cathedral Square, in the heart of Vilnius Old Town. Kids browse the stalls with the city Christmas tree and a carousel on the same square.
It works as a come-and-go outing: drop in after school or after dark, walk the stalls, and head home when the kids get cold. Everything is outdoors, so dress for a Vilnius winter.
Vilnius Ice Rink (Vilniaus ledas) is the open-air Christmas skating rink set up in Town Hall Square, in the heart of the Old Town. Kids skate in timed sessions under the open sky.
Best for kids who have skated before, or who are happy holding a grown-up's hand on the ice.
Weekends come around fast, and this list keeps up. It pulls in the family events coming up soon: puppet theater and kids' plays, seasonal parties in the parks, museum nights and city festivals. It updates on its own as new dates are added and old ones pass, so check back before you make weekend plans.
Upside Down Once Again (Kitą kartą aukštyn kojom) is a live-music family concert by Keistuolių teatras, played in the company's own theater.
It is performed in Lithuanian, but a concert works without following every word, so it suits kids who simply like music and can sit through a show.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book as a Lithuanian musical, written and directed by composer Jonas Sakalauskas. A live orchestra and choir play the score while aerial acrobats, projections and lighting fill the arena stage.
It is performed in Lithuanian, so kids who know the story will follow it best. Younger kids get the colorful sets and projections; older kids and adults get the story.
A well-known fairy tale told with puppets and objects: a witch stepmother turns her stepsons into birds, and their sister takes a long, hard road to save them. The staging mixes puppetry with clowning and street-theater techniques.
The creators frame it around hard questions, like living in a threatening world, alongside courage, patience and looking after family. It suits kids ready for a story with real danger in it.
Careful, Magic! is a new show from children's illusionist Alan Gladkov. When the lights go down, the tricks begin: objects appear out of nowhere, with plenty of laughs and surprises along the way.
It plays to kids and adults at once. Some kids will believe every trick, and some parents will try to work out how it's done.
Dansema is Lithuania's only theater company making dance shows exclusively for children, and Unseen World is built around how babies take in the world, detail by detail. Dancers in textured costumes move through a set of pom-pom strands, soft striped rolls and bold black, white and red patterns. Babies are free to watch or crawl in and join the dancers whenever they choose.
Mrs. Majer worries about everything: the weather, accidents, whatever might go wrong. Her husband calmly drinks his tea. Then a tiny bird turns up in their garden, and raising it slowly loosens her grip on her fears.
Lėlė's new show, with puppets and three actors, adapts the picture book by German author Wolf Erlbruch, published in English as Mrs. Meyer the Bird. A gentle story about letting go of fear.
Uncle Bubbles (Burbulų Dėdė) runs a stage science show built on experiments with air, water, fire and earth. Kids see smoke bubbles and air cannons, a bubble disco and cola fountains, a burning foam mountain and a flaming hat, then erupting volcanoes and a snow lab.
It suits kids who like loud, messy spectacle more than a story. A child who startles at fire or bangs may not enjoy it.
Vilnius's Christmas Run is one of Lithuania's oldest running events, and the 2025 edition was its 50th. Thousands of runners, many in Christmas costumes, follow a route through the Old Town.
The schedule was moved later so runners go after dark, and the youngest kids get an Elves' Run of their own. It suits families after a festive outing that gets everyone moving.
Lumina is an evening light trail through the Vilnius University Botanical Garden in Kairėnai, with more than 200 light installations. This year's theme is cinema: kids meet Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, James Bond, Star Wars characters and Mr. Bean, and pass scenes from Cinderella and The Jungle Book, with music and sound effects made for the park.
Kids can also play a phone game and win prizes.
An interactive take on Snow White in which the audience becomes part of the cast. Kids are called up from their seats to play dwarfs and forest friends and help rescue Snow White. The story is told gently and with plenty of humor, so it never turns frightening, and the show is packed with songs, games and movement. Two actors, V. Straigytė and R. Jatužytė, lead it.
The lighting of the Christmas tree in Cathedral Square is how Vilnius opens its winter season, and the tree has become a symbol of Christmas across Lithuania. Kids get to see the lights come on in the middle of the Old Town.
Missed lighting night? The tree stays up through the holidays, so it still makes an easy stroll with kids on any visit to the Old Town.
Christmas Town is the Christmas market in Cathedral Square, in the heart of Vilnius Old Town. Kids browse the stalls with the city Christmas tree and a carousel on the same square.
It works as a come-and-go outing: drop in after school or after dark, walk the stalls, and head home when the kids get cold. Everything is outdoors, so dress for a Vilnius winter.
Vilnius Ice Rink (Vilniaus ledas) is the open-air Christmas skating rink set up in Town Hall Square, in the heart of the Old Town. Kids skate in timed sessions under the open sky.
Best for kids who have skated before, or who are happy holding a grown-up's hand on the ice.
