what’s on for kids
Knutselen is the word you will see on the poster, and it covers everything from a glue-and-glitter table to a proper studio session. What is collected here is the dated stuff, wherever it happens: weekly art clubs at WOW Family Center and CC Amstel in Amsterdam, the Little Mouse Door workshops, making days at Muiderslot castle in Muiden, and the seasonal holiday programmes that fill a rainy Wednesday rather nicely. Most run indoors, most want an adult in the room for the younger end, and almost all of them list an age range. Aprons are usually provided; patience for the drive home is not.
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Many do, and most of the rest manage perfectly well anyway — a craft table needs very little language, and the people running these sessions are used to switching to English the moment somebody looks lost. Where a workshop is explicitly bilingual or English-language, the listing says so. If you are booking a longer studio course rather than a drop-in, it is worth asking first.
It depends on the shape of the thing. Weekly clubs and studio workshops have limited places and normally want a booking, sometimes for a block of weeks rather than a single session. Craft days attached to a museum or a castle visit are usually included with entry and run as drop-in, so you come when you like. Every listing links straight to the organiser’s own page, which is where the current answer lives.
Most sit somewhere between four and twelve, with the very hands-on sessions aimed at the younger half of that and the longer studio courses at the older. Each listing carries the organiser’s own age guidance, which is worth reading — a workshop built for eights will lose a four-year-old. For anything under four, the Baby & toddler category is the better place to look.
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Theatre & Shows
Puppets, plays and films made for small audiences.
24 events coming up
Baby & Toddler
Sensory classes and groups for the under-fours.
20 events coming up
Music & Dance
Concerts, sound labs and dance for small bodies.
12 events coming up
Books & Storytelling
Storytime, voorlezen and book-shop mornings.
6 events coming up
Museums & Learning
Workshops, science and museum days for curious kids.
2 events coming up
Festivals & Community
Festivals, buurt days and big weekends out.
1 events coming up
Nature & Animals
Forests, city farms and being outdoors.
1 events coming up
Sports & Active
Football, rackets, trampolines — energy out.
Every town with something in this category has its own page. The number is what is listed there today.
