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Keeping children occupied over weekends and during the holidays is always a challenge for busy parents, but those on holiday in Cape Town have a wide choice when it comes to entertaining little ones.
There’s a host of activities designed with children in mind. Here are some of the more popular attractions that exercise little minds and bodies.
Please contact Cape Town Tourism on info@capetown.travel or call +27 (0)21 487 6800 for more information on child-friendly activities across Cape Town, as well as advice on accommodation and tours for families.
- Blue Train – A miniature train with a view of the ocean. (Mouille Point). Don’t miss a walk along the seafront and playing on the jungle gym, slides and swings.
- Artjamming – paint, sponge or spray on a blank canvas at this art concept store at various locations across the city.
- Indoor go-karting – high-speed karting around a winding track in Kenilworth (for older kids) (www.karting.co.za).
- Scratch patch – search for special gemstones (Simon’s Town and V&A Waterfront)
- Clay Café – paint designs on ceramics (Hout Bay) (www.chasms.co.za/ClayCafe)
- Bizzy Bodies – Cape Town’s biggest indoor play gym (Cape Town and Somerset West).
- Lil’dreys – 1001 workshops for kids (painting, music, watercolours, gardening, scrap wood, fairy wings, yoga, beading and tons of other fun stuff)
- Laserquest – For older children (Claremont).
- Jimmy Jungles – An indoor adventure playground that offers supervised, secure facilities for kiddies (Claremont).
- The Iziko South African Museum and Planetarium – Kids can view dinosaur models, explore reconstructed whales and watch the museum’s “theatre of stars”.
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