June 1 is Dzień Dziecka, Poland's Children's Day. It isn't a day off, but schools mark it, and zoos, museums and parks fill the weekend before with games, mascots, workshops and picnics. Here's what we checked, from the zoo's Children's Day program to a dinosaur day trip at JuraPark Krasiejów.
For Poland's Children's Day, ZOO Wrocław adds extra activities for kids on top of a regular zoo visit. The last edition brought costumed mascots, a badge-making stand, and hands-on stalls from Lower Silesia's caves, mines and museums: panning for gold, painting ammonites, throwing clay on a potter's wheel.
It suits families who would visit the zoo anyway and want a bit more going on.
Jarmark Świętojański fills the Rynek and the streets off it with market huts of handmade crafts, regional food and cold drinks, all dressed in flowers and herbs for St. John's Night. Around the pillory, garden corners, mini beaches and photo huts give kids room to play while adults browse. Workshops, a flower show and small concerts round it out. It suits a slow stroller wander more than a big day out.
Poland's oldest zoo covers 32 hectares by Centennial Hall and keeps more than 12,000 animals from over 1,100 species. The headline is the Afrykarium, an indoor oceanarium given over to African wildlife: sharks and rays, Nile crocodiles, hippos, manatees and penguins.
Elsewhere are the Madagascar pavilion, a terrarium and a children's zoo, and a visit mixes indoor halls with outdoor paths.
A boardwalk trail winds past life-size dinosaur models, and the Paleontology Pavilion shows a dinosaur excavation and its finds. Kids also get a prehistoric oceanarium, the Time Tunnel through billions of years of the universe, a cinema, the Science and Human Evolution Park, playgrounds and a beach with lifeguards.
The covered halls keep a rainy day going. The trail and beach need decent weather.
June 1 is Dzień Dziecka, Poland's Children's Day. It isn't a day off, but schools mark it, and zoos, museums and parks fill the weekend before with games, mascots, workshops and picnics. Here's what we checked, from the zoo's Children's Day program to a dinosaur day trip at JuraPark Krasiejów.
For Poland's Children's Day, ZOO Wrocław adds extra activities for kids on top of a regular zoo visit. The last edition brought costumed mascots, a badge-making stand, and hands-on stalls from Lower Silesia's caves, mines and museums: panning for gold, painting ammonites, throwing clay on a potter's wheel.
It suits families who would visit the zoo anyway and want a bit more going on.
Jarmark Świętojański fills the Rynek and the streets off it with market huts of handmade crafts, regional food and cold drinks, all dressed in flowers and herbs for St. John's Night. Around the pillory, garden corners, mini beaches and photo huts give kids room to play while adults browse. Workshops, a flower show and small concerts round it out. It suits a slow stroller wander more than a big day out.
Poland's oldest zoo covers 32 hectares by Centennial Hall and keeps more than 12,000 animals from over 1,100 species. The headline is the Afrykarium, an indoor oceanarium given over to African wildlife: sharks and rays, Nile crocodiles, hippos, manatees and penguins.
Elsewhere are the Madagascar pavilion, a terrarium and a children's zoo, and a visit mixes indoor halls with outdoor paths.
A boardwalk trail winds past life-size dinosaur models, and the Paleontology Pavilion shows a dinosaur excavation and its finds. Kids also get a prehistoric oceanarium, the Time Tunnel through billions of years of the universe, a cinema, the Science and Human Evolution Park, playgrounds and a beach with lifeguards.
The covered halls keep a rainy day going. The trail and beach need decent weather.
