Weekend guide · January 27-28

If you’re wondering what to do this weekend, check out these events below you can enjoy with your kids 😇 👉

Jan 25, 2024

📍 Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, Inner city
📆 Saturday, January 27th.
🕙 09:30 - 10:15
🎟️ 130 kr. for 18 and up, 80 kr. for children from 3 to 17, 70 kr. for annual pass holder’s plus-one.

💫 Say good morning to the monkeys. The monkeys have taken over the museum, and you can meet them before the museum wakes up and opens its doors to other guests. Experience the exhibition 'Monkeys – our wild family' at children's height on a guided tour specially designed for families. Learn about the monkeys' many adaptations to life in the jungle, swinging from branch to branch, hanging by their tails and roaring from the treetops. The tour ends in the Monkey Workshop, where you can make your very own monkey mask to take home. The tour is aimed at adults with children. Recommended age is 7 and up, but everyone is welcome. You can purchase your ticket here.

Drawing workshop

📍 Børnekulturhus Ama'r, Øresundsvej 8B, Amager.
📆 Saturday, January 27th.
🕙 10:00 - 14:30
🎟️ 40 kr. per participant. (Children must be accompanied by an adult who participates as well.)

💫 Do you like to draw? So come and draw with us! Artist Vera Barros, who has extensive experience in teaching children drawing is the facilitator for this workshop this week. Saturday workshops in the Children's Culture Center are drop-in activities where you pay at the entrance to the activity. ✏️🎨🖌️

Scrap workshop

📍 Blågårdens Library 1st floor, Blågårds Pl. 5, Nørrebro.
📆 Saturday, January 27th.
🕙 11:00
🎟️ Free.
Suitable from 5 years and up accompanied with an adult.

💫 Valdemar from CPH Music Maker Space is hosting this cool workshop, where kids can learn to build a small electro-acoustic sound sculpture using electronic and metal scraps. Valdemar assists in transforming bits, pieces, and leftovers into a small, entertaining (and stylish!) contraption – envision a mix between a kalimba and a junk sculpture. 🎶🛠️🔧

Read & Fun

📍 Kulturstationen Vanløse, Frode Jakobsens plads 4, Vanløse
📆 Saturday, January 27th.
🕙 11:00 - 13:00
🎟️ Free

💫 "Læs & Løjer" (Read & Fun) is a new concept at Kulturstationen Vanløse that involves reading aloud from the children's librarians' favorites and engaging in creative activities based on selected literature themes. This week’s book is "Poulsens Pirater", featuring quirky pirate personalities and parents desperately trying to evict hordes of wild pirates from their elegant villa. While the children’s librarian will read this story aloud, you can use pirate paper and ink to create beautiful and imaginative treasure maps leading from a deserted island to a colossal pirate treasure. 📚🎨🏴‍☠️

Rainbow family network: play room

📍 LGBT+ Citizen’s House, Vestergade 18E 2nd. floor, Inner city.
📆 Saturday, January 27th.
🕙 11:00 - 13:00
🎟️ Free

💫 You’re invited to the playgroup and meet other LGBT+ and queer families. It's for children of all ages. There's plenty of room to play, tumble, play games, do crafts, and just relax and chat, both for the little ones and the grown-ups. Feel free to bring some fun toys or start an activity yourself. They have a broad definition of what rainbow families are and who the network is for, so everyone, children and adults alike, should feel welcome if they identify under the rainbow in one way or another. 🌈👨‍👩‍👧‍👦✨

Repair Cafe

📍 Nørrebro Library, Nørrebrogade 208, Nørrebro.
📆 Saturday, January 27th.
🕙 13:00 - 16:00
🎟️ Free

💫 Got a hole in your pants or the radio no longer works? At Repair Café, most things can be fixed! Come by and have your things repaired, or have a chat with one of the fixers. Unfortunately, no sewing tasks for now - unless you can sew yourself (because they have machines etc.) and if you are interested in becoming a volunteer fixer, you can write to Rasmus at zf7q@kk.dk. - They are especially looking for fixers who can sew! 👖📻🔧

Movie: Rita og Vitello

📍 Brønshøj Library, Krabbesholmvej 3, Brønshøj.
📆 Saturday, January 27th.
🕙 11:30 - 13:30
🎟️ Free

💫 Vitello and Rita are some of the most beloved children's book characters. Now you can see them on film at the library. Vitello is a boy living in a suburban house with his mother. He enjoys indulging in spaghetti, playing with his friend Kamma (despite her being a girl), and dealing with his annoying buddies, Max and Hasse. On the other hand, Rita and Crocodile, feature a determined little girl named Rita and her very hungry and somewhat unruly friend, Crocodile, residing in the bathtub. These short films bring their adventures to life, looping for audiences to come and go at their leisure. 📚🎥🐊 Suitable for all ages.

Open house: Birds of the beach

📍 Naturcenter Amager Strand, Øresundsstien 7, Amager.
📆 Saturday, January 28th & Sunday, January 29th.
🕙 10:00 - 15:00
🎟️ Free (optional 50 kr. for the guided tour between 12:30 -14:00)

💫 Curious about what a bird looks like on the inside? What it eats? Or why it has feathers? If so – or if you have other questions about these winged creatures – come to the open house in January and learn more about birds. Every weekend in January, the doors of the nature center will be open, providing an opportunity to explore the fascinating birds on the beach. 🐦🔍🏞️ You can also join dissection sessions unraveling the anatomy of local birds at 11:30, and a guided tour for families at 12:30 for which you can sign up here.

Decorate your “fastelavnsris”

📍 Danish Architecture Center, Bryghuspladsen 10, Inner City
📆 Saturday, January 28th & Sunday, January 29th.
🕙 11:00 - 16:00
🎟️ Free with DAC entrance (115 kr. for people over 25, 60 kr. for 18-25, free for under 18)

💫 Visit the family workshop at DAC's Educatorium and create unconventional and festive decorations for your “fastelavnsris” (decorated birch branches). Drawing inspiration from the world of architecture, families can adorn their twigs with space houses or unique designs, choosing from rockets and foldable houses provided. Feel free to bring your twigs from home or purchase them at the workshop for 20 kroner. DAC's hosts will guide you through creative activities inspired by the exhibitions. 🏠✂️🎉

Pancakes on a fire and food for the winter birds

📍 Lindevangsparken, Frederiksberg.
📆 Sunday, January 28th.
🕙 11:00 - 15:00
🎟️ Free

💫 Join the welcoming of the new year (albeit delayed) at Lindevangsparken with the nature guides and girl scouts. Gather around the fire with pancake batter ready for you to cook your own pancakes. Experience the joy of making cookies over the fire. Create a lovely bird feeder to take home and learn about the winter birds and other urban animals. See you at the flagpole in Lindevangsparken! 🥞🔥🐦

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