The carnival holidays begin. And many families who don’t go away have long thought about what they can do with their children – or what they can do without them. The Lilalu workshops are therefore already fully booked. “We always need a certain lead time. Now, for example, I can recommend that interested parties Register for our workshops during the Easter holidays“, says Vera Tichy from Lilalu, the holiday program of the Johanniter.
Nevertheless, even those who decide spontaneously do not have to despair. Because there are institutions such as the Children’s Art House, the Children’s Museum, the German Museum and the Feierwerk, whose offers can be visited without prior registration or where you can still register for individual courses. in the children’s art house For example, the “Open Program”, which is normally only available to young hobbyists and their families on weekends, is extended during the carnival holidays: it can be attended spontaneously Tuesdays to Fridays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m , as long as there is space. There are around 50 handicraft places in the large studio room. “Since experience has shown that the length of stay is around two hours, we can use several time slots,” explains the founder and director Alexandra Helmig.
You can also do handicrafts at home: This is what the material bags look like that the Kinderkunsthaus team sends to the participants of the online courses.
(Photo: Kinderkunsthaus)
When it started last December, Helmig and her art mediator team were still considering “whether people would come back to us at all, but now I have to say: the need for face-to-face events is huge,” says Helmig. The current face-to-face workshops are accordingly fully booked. Here, too, early booking for the Easter holidays makes sense. However, there are still places in the online courses designed during the lockdowns. “We kept them. Because there are still many parents who are suddenly at home with their children because they are either infected or have to stay in quarantine and are looking for work”. The virtual course formats are just right for them: After registering, you will be sent the material bags that you can then work with in the course (www.kinderkunsthaus.de).
Before a tree can be processed into a table or chair, it first has to be transported out of the forest. The “Wood” exhibition in the Children’s Museum shows how this is done.
(Photo: Children’s Museum)
The hands-on exhibition, which has just been extended, revolves around the topic of “wood”. children’s museum on Arnulfstrasse. Until June 19, young visitors have the opportunity to explore the raw material at various creative stations: How does a tree actually become a table, cupboard or chair? Visitors become forest researchers who learn to “read” the annual rings of trees or they accompany the path of a tree from its growth in the forest to its processing into everyday objects. On Sunday, February 27th, “Fantastic Tree Books” will be made in an open workshop between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., a participatory event for children aged 4 and over. Together with the young visitors, a wooden library is created from trees that spring from the imagination – from the dream fir to the pearl beech (www.kindermuseum.de).
A visit to German Museum is actually always exciting – even if the children’s kingdom is currently closed. There are also special offers here during the holidays, for example in the exhibitions on “power machines” and “shipping” on March 2 and 3 from 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.: with a professional radio operator, the young researchers look at the diagrams in the respective exhibitions exactly. They can then produce their own radio report with support (www.deutsches.museum.de).
In the “Shipping” exhibition there are numerous dioramas – for example showcases of a “wooden shipyard”.
(Photo: German Museum)
That too celebration work offers a special holiday program in its children’s and youth leisure centers Jungle Palace or South Pole Station. For example, on March 4, the Jungle Palace is organizing a day trip to the Five Continents Museum, followed by a creative program for children aged 6 and over. The South Pole Station invites children and young people to experiment with light and shadow, colours, different materials and their own voice. At arts and crafts workshops, they can create something cool and pretty or try their hand at making radio. A trip to the Brandhorst Museum on March 2nd gives children between the ages of eight and twelve the opportunity to be inspired by the works of contemporary artists. They then try out painting light and shadow themselves in a workshop (www.feierwerk.de).