You're reading: Got kids? Kyiv offers them lots of weekend activities

Saturday, Feb. 25Space Desserts masterclassA professional chef will teach your kids to make wonderful desserts, as well as learn more about space, organizers say.The making of Space Eclairs and Milky Way cocktails will come alongside an intergalactic quiz on a big screen. The tasty treats will then be devoured with tea.Trance Force 3D restaurant, 34 Moskovsky Avenue, (050) 875-93-22, 11 a.m., Hr 220

Cinderella, the puppet show

What is happiness? This big question will be addressed by a play for the little, as Cinderella, Prince and Cinderella’s stepmother and her daughters search for their happiness in the show.

Puppet Theater, 1-A Grushevskogo St., 278-58-08, www.akadempuppet.kiev.ua, 3 p.m., Hr 40

Alice in Wonderland from 1933

Master Klass education and culture center invites children and their parents to a screening of 1933 Alice in Wonderland movie. At 11 a.m., Lewis Carroll’s fantastic gang will have plenty of adventures that start as Alice falls into a rabbit hole.

Master Klass Cultural Centre, 16 Lavrska St., 594-10-63, masterklass.org/eng/, 11 a.m., Hr 30

 

Making a Maslyana doll

Celebrating Maslyana is great fun, especially for kids. This master class and will teach children from 4 years of age how to make their own Maslyana doll, using paper, paints and textile.

Skvorechnik club, 9/1 Chervonozoryany Ave., room 136, 360-68-73, skwore4nik.kiev.ua, 10:30 a.m., Hr 50.

 

Another life for old paper

If you have stacks of old magazines and newspaper at home, you can take those, along with your kids, to a papier-mache masterclass, they will be reincarnated into hours of fun and, with some luck, a work of art.

Papier-mache and collage workshop in Chulan bookshop, 21 Pushkinska St., 362-5873, 11:30 a.m., Hr 70

Sunday, Feb. 26

 

 

The Golden Key

This is a play about Biratino, a wooden boy who wants to find a golden key to open a door to his dream. In search of the key he finds a friend, enemies and a lot of adventures.

Puppet Theater, 1-A Grushevskogo St., 278-58-08, www.akadempuppet.kiev.ua, 5 p.m., Hr 40

 

Good Horton

Based on a story by the famous American children’s writer Dr. Seuss, the play “Good Horton” – is a bright an exotic performance. Its heroes from the tropical jungle learn about the invincible power of kindness and love.

Theater on the Lypki, 15/17 Lypska St., 235-62-19, www.tuz.kiev.ua/, 12 a.m., Hr 50

 

Have some bubbly time

Znayka parenting club will be teaching a soap-making master class, which should yield a two-layer soap at the end. They will also teach you child to inscribe the “happy” hieroglyphic on it.

Znayka parenting club, 35/35 Yaroslavskaya St., call 425-16-90 to register; www.znaika-club.com.ua, 4p.m., Hr 60