Shows, Reading Nights, an exhibition by Mr. Chat… The best activities to do with children in Paris

Want to find activities for the whole family to do in Paris? Fun exhibitions, immersive experiences, ceramic workshops… The city is packed with plans for young and old. The editorial team shares its ideas for family activities in Paris.

Clubbing with your kids

Saturday January 18, we’re taking the kids to the club! Le Badaboum nightclub and concert venue is organizing a Boum Kids. The program for this festive afternoon: lip sync battle, make-up stand, wild dance floor…

📍 Location: 2 bis Rue des Taillandiers, 75011 Paris
📆 Date: Saturday, January 18, 2025 from 2pm to 6pm
🎟️ Price: free

Enter the animal world of the Paris region

Do your kids love animals? Take them on a journey to discover the creatures that live in Paris, and who may be nesting right next door to you! From mid-January onwards, Bercy Village will be exhibiting the work of an animal photographer who reveals and sublimates wildlife in the urban environment! Fox cubs, owls and squirrels will be up close and personal!

📍 Location: Cour Saint-Émilion, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: January 16 to June 1, 2025
🎟️ Price: free admission

Vibrate a little longer for the Olympic Games!

The Olympics are back… thanks to this exhibition! The Hôtel de Ville revives the spirit of Olympic jubilation with Les jours heureux, an event that takes the public back a few weeks! An exhibition of cult Olympic objects, the installation of a real Olympic podium in the photo call area, souvenir photos… Would you like some more Olympics?

📍 Address: Hôtel de Ville
5, rue de Lobau, Paris, 75004 Paris
📆 Date: December 21, 2024 – March 1, 2025
🎟️ Admission: free with reservation

Stroll through the city with M. Chat

M. Chat, street art ‘s best-known and most beloved feline, takes up residence in a Parisian gallery in December. Until mid-January, you can discover the latest adventures of the furry creature on Parisian rooftops and streets!

📍 Address: Galerie Brugier-Rigail
40 rue Volta, 75003 Paris
📆 Date: December 5, 2024 – January 17, 2025
🎟️ Admission: free

Try your hand at fluorescent mini golf

It’s a new activity coming to Paris, and it’s sure to appeal to all members of the family! Ocean 12 is a twelve-hole indoor course that will plunge you into the darkness of the ocean floor! But don’t panic, you’ll be guided by fluorescent lights!

📍 Location: Cour Saint-Émilion, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: open every day
🎟️ Price: €16/20 full price and €12/15 for children

Share the pleasure of reading

What if, in January, we all got together to read? For 4 days, in Paris/IDF and throughout France, the Nuits de la lecture (Reading Nights) offer the public a wide range of events to share the pleasure of reading and discover the “heritage” theme chosen this year as the main theme! Encounters, readings, workshops, performances– there’s something for all tastes and ages!

📍 Location: several sites in IDF (and throughout France)
📆 Date: January 23-26, 2025
🎟️ Price: free for some events

Escape to Middle-earth

This is the event that will delight J.R.R. Tolkien fans, young and old! Starting in March, the Collège des Bernardins, a sublime place in itself, will host a collection of remarkable tapestries created by a specialized workshop! Fifteen of them will be on display, accompanied by a program of events to celebrate Tolkien!

📍 Location: 20, rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris
📆 Date: March 21 to May 18, 2025

Immerse yourself in the history of teddy bears

A star of children’s bedrooms, a fashion icon, an inspiration to artists and even an emblem of environmental protection, discover the history, evolution and many facets of the iconic teddy bear! The MAD (Musée des Arts Décoratifs) is dedicating an exhibition to him until June!

📍 Address: Musée des Arts décoratifs
107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
📆 Date: December 4 to June 22, 2024
🎟️ Admission: €15 full price / €10 concessions / free for under-26s

Contemplate these giant flowers

They’re gigantic, and golden too! Two flower-headed figures several meters tall have set up shop in the Bois de Boulogne, near the Fondation Louis Vuitton and the Jardin d’Acclimatation!Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and luxury brand Louis Vuitton are behind the move! Admire Murakami’s radiantly smiling flowers for a few more days!

📍 Address: Bois de Boulogne,
Rte de la Porte Dauphine à la Porte des Sablons, 75116 Paris
🎟️ Admission: free access

Escape with Seth

Looking for an exhibition to get away from the gloom and doom of today’s news, or your everyday life? Jump in with both feet into the world of Seth, a French street artist whose reputation is well established! His colorful works, often featuring children, will appeal to all audiences, young and old,urban art experts or not! Escape and get your dose of poetry and sweetness until the end of February with Escape Games!

📍 Address: Galerie Itinerrance
24bis boulevard du Général Jean Simon, 75013 Paris
📆 Date: November 29, 2024 – February 28, 2025
🎟️ Admission: free

Embark on the new adventure of the irreducible Gauls

This is the event that will make everyone agree! Whether you’re a grown-up or a kid, a connoisseur of Goscinny and Uderzo’s famous comics or just a fan, there’s a good reason to go and see the exhibition devoted to Asterix and his friends at the Atelier des Lumières! Discover their latest adventure in an immersive exhibition!

📍 Address: Atelier des Lumières
38 rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris
📆 Date: October 18, 2024 – January 22, 2025
🎟️ Admission: €17

Attend a family musical

Relive the adventures of Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria, your favorite heroes from the Madagascar saga. Having escaped from the Central Park zoo, they’ve taken refuge in the Théâtre du Gymnase, transformed for the occasion into a veritable Noah’s Ark, and are looking forward to putting on a show of the stature of their own. It ‘s a chance for audiences to relive the romantic adventures of these merry men in a musical that’s just right for the whole family!

📍 Address: Théâtre du Gymnase Marie-Bell
38 Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, 75010
📆 Date: multiple dates

Relive the history of video games with this exhibition

Passionate about video games? Versailles has an exhibition for you! Until April 2025, the city is organizing a retrospective on video games! Featuring milestones, old consoles, must-have games and current creations, relive 70 years of video game history at the Game Story exhibition.

📍 Address: Ancienne Poste
3, avenue de Paris, 78000 Versailles
📆 Date: October 19, 2024 – April 13, 2025
🎟️ Admission: €7 – free for under-26s

Take part in the Neon Brush Kids painting workshop

Spend an afternoon with the family at a fluorescent painting workshop held over the weekend in the 10th arrondissement. Under the UV lamps, colors come to life and light up, the atmosphere takes on a new twist and your imagination expands tenfold. Share an artistic activity with your children thanks to Neon Brush Kids, and take your masterpiece home with you.

📍 Address: Théâtre du Gymnase Marie-Bell
38 Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, 75010
📆 Date: several dates

Take part in a magical trip to Thoiry Zoo

Discover the largest light trail in the Paris region at Thoiry Zoo. Over a 2 km route, admire more than 2,500 light sculptures in an enchanting setting. Immerse yourself in a dreamlike journey inspired by Jules Verne, crossing skies, oceans and subterranean worlds. An immersive show not to be missed by the whole family!

📍 Address: Wow Safari Thoiry, 78770 Thoiry
🗓️ Date: until March 2, 2025
🎟️ Price: €20 full price

Family fun in one of Paris’ many escape games

How about a family challenge? In Paris, there’s no shortage of escape games where you can have the time of your life! Discover the best escape games in Paris to do with your kids.

Dig your brains out at the Cité des Sciences

La Cité des Sciences is a cheerful melting pot of activities combining scientific culture and cultural leisure. Through educational spaces, exhibitions, a library, workshops and scientific games, the Cité des Sciences offers an unlimited range of didactic activities for children. Linking science to major social debates, it sheds light on the issues raised by technical progress and innovation, as well as those related to ecology, economics, ethics and geopolitics.

📍 Venue: Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie
30 avenue Corentin Cariou, 75019 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Price: €13 full price / €3.50 to €10 for children

Take your family to the Aquarium de Paris, the world’s oldest aquarium

What better way to see your children marvel than at the oldest aquarium in the world? The Paris Aquarium is not only the oldest, it’s also the largest in the capital! It’s a great opportunity to discover rare species with the whole family, and to create some wonderful memories.

📍 Address: Aquarium de Paris
5 Avenue Albert de Mun, 75016 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Price: €21 to €27.50 full price / €0 to €20 for children

Put your hand to the dough and treat yourself at Sweet Bazar

The temple of gourmet delights exists: it’s on rue Saint-Denis! Pushing open the pastel-colored doors of this gourmet paradise is like plunging into a world of marshmallow clouds and chocolate fountains. It’s a bit like winning the golden ticket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Le Buffet des Merveilles, at the Sweet Bazar Experience in Paris’s 1st arrondissement, is the place where anything goes. An all-you-can-eat buffet brimming with sweet and savory delights, workshops to learn how to create your own chocolate bar, colorful photocalls… Young and old alike will love it.

📍 Address: Buffet des Merveilles at Sweet Bazar
133 Rue St Denis, 75001 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Admission: paid tastings and workshops

Feast your eyes on the Grande galerie de l’évolution

It’s a must-see for children… and adults! Since its opening in 1994, the Grande galerie de l’évolution has seen a great many children come and go! Nestled in the Jardin des Plantes, it recounts and presents the fascinating history of biodiversity, with specimens from the smallest to the largest, fossils and animal reproductions that are larger than life! The highlight of the show is, of course, the Durfort mammoth!

📍Location: Grande galerie de l’évolution
36 Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Price: €13 full price / free for under-26s

Dream away at a Candlelight concert

With modernized covers of classical scores and thousands of captivatingly glowing candles, Candlelight candlelight concerts are a great way to get your kids excited about classical music. Film music,Japanese anime or concerts dedicated to the greatest composers… You’re spoilt for choice when it comes to introducing your children to the beauty of classical music – the not-so-classical version!

📍 Address: several locations in Paris (and France)
📆 Date: several performances
🎟️ Admission: paying

Spend the night in the museum at Grévin

Stroll through the galleries of the astonishing Musée Grévin among show-business personalities, legendary actors and virtuoso musicians, and let yourself be surprised! From 8pm to 1am, every first Saturday of the month, more than 250 celebrities seem to come to life in an exceptional staging specially designed for these unique, 100% child-friendly visits!

📍 Location: Musée Grévin
10 Boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris
📆 Date: one Saturday a month
🎟️ Admission: €38 full price / €30 concessions

Learn things at the Science Experiences museum

This new immersive museum in Bercy Village boasts no less than 850 m² dedicated exclusively to science. Halfway between an activity park and a museum, this educational space offers an entertaining way to learn about science. Thanks to innovative, immersive and interactive techniques such as virtual reality and video-mapping, in the form of an immersive trail, it offers a unique journey to the heart of science. Journey to the center of the earth, quantum physics themes (lasers, teleportation, levitation)… Visitors stroll from room to room, open to new discoveries.

📍Location: Sciences Experiences
16 Cour Saint-Emilion, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Admission: €22 full price / €14 for children

Admire the animals at Parrot World

Located 30 minutes east of Paris, this colorful, immersive animal park offers visitors the chance to discover the rich biodiversity of Latin America. Blue and red macaws, jaguars, ibises, guanacos, giant otters… The natural habitat of all these species inhabiting the Amazonian and Patagonian regions has been reconstituted. To keep things local, you can even offer your children the unique opportunity to spend a morning with an animal caretaker on the children’ s ranch!

📍Location: Route de Guérard
77580 Crécy-la-Chapelle

Spend some time at the Ferme de Gally Saint-Denis

This educational farm in the heart of Saint-Denis is the last remaining market-garden farm in the Île-de-France region! It offers a unique tour of the history and evolution of farming techniques through time, in the form of workshops. Come and pamper dwarf goats, dwarf pigs, chickens, sheep, rabbits or even learn how to make bread (an experience as useful as it is fun), you’re sure not to get bored at Ferme de Gally Saint-Denis. For us, this farm is one of the 50 things to do in Paris at least once in your life.

📍Location: 114 avenue de Stalingrad
93000 Saint-Denis

Attend a performance of Mon premier cabaret

This new family show created by choreographer Kamel Ouali is an original activity perfect for families. Three afternoons a week at the Paradis Latin, this show, directed by Kamel Ouali himself, invites families with children aged 3 and over to discover the festive world of cabaret. It’s the perfect way to create real star seeds!

📍Location: 28 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine
75005 Paris

Take advantage of an amusement park in Paris to have a great time with your family

What could be better than spending a day in a Paris theme park? Whether at Disneyland Paris, Parc Astérix or elsewhere, you’re bound to find what you’re looking for! It’s enough to spend a day or a whole weekend laughing with your family and creating great memories.

Take a ride on the little train

“Tchou tchouuuu” here comes the little train! Here’s an original and fun activity to do with the whole family when the weather’s nice! Many parks have little trains, some of which are even classified! It’s the perfect way to give your Sunday stroll a vacation feel!

Try the Atelier des lumières with your family

This digital art center is the place to go for immersive experiences that will appeal to all members of the family. Imagine this projection center with its 10-meter-high walls, 140 projectors and 50 speakers, and its program of exhibitions on themes as varied as Orientalist painting, Klimt, Van Gogh and Asterix! It’s total immersion and a spectacular show!

📍 Location: 38 rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris
📆 Date: until January 22, 2025
🎟️ Price: €17

Go to the Buttes Chaumont for a picnic

A park, yes, but unlike any other! At Buttes-Chaumont, you’ll find: merry-go-round + sandpit + duck fishing + swings + balloon merchant + puppet show + pony rides. In short, a super-complete outing that really is suitable for all ages!

Enjoy the most beautiful beaches near Paris

Did you know that you can enjoy the most beautiful beaches not far from Paris? Some even have fine sand, and a whole leisure center to make sure you have a great day out when the weather permits!

Visit the castles around Paris

Our beautiful region is full of magnificent châteaux to visit. If you’re looking for a change of scenery and want to learn a little more about history as a family, we recommend visiting the local châteaux: Versailles, Chantilly, Fontainebleau…