The long-awaited Christmas holidays are finally here, but you’re surely wondering how you can keep your dear little ones occupied during this festive season?
Since I am dedicated to my dear readers and I’m thinking of you (because personally, I don’t have any children), I have put together a little selection of Parisian ideas to help you in this arduous task (it’s my way of sympathizing).
The musical show Pinocchio
This musical show blending dance and singing numbers returns for the little ones and their parents at the Théâtre de Paris throughout the Christmas holidays.
The troupe, composed of 10 dancers, singers, and actors, transports the audience for 1 hour and 15 minutes to a Tuscan village to rediscover the story of the most famous wooden puppet.
from Saturday, December 21 to Sunday, January 5 (Exceptional closures on December 25 and January 1)
The show will also be touring throughout France from December 7, 2013, to February 26, 2014
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Free carousels for little Parisians
For the Christmas holidays (like every year), from December 21, 2013, to January 5, 2014, about twenty carousels are taking over the capital. Children will be able to hop on wooden horses and futuristic vehicles for free.
The list of Parisian locations where these carousels are installed is right here.
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Cyrano de Bergerac in a clownish version
A priori, if I say Cyrano de Bergerac to you, your first reaction wouldn’t really be to take your children to see this play.
Well, for once you would be wrong, since Damien Luce (yes, yes, he is indeed the brother of the other Luce) has taken this magnificent classic text (which is in its original version on stage) but with a free adaptation in both the costumes and the acting style, turning it into a clownish version.
Your children (you should definitely seat them in the front row) might even have the chance to take their first steps on stage, and who knows, after this performance, it might just spark some vocations…
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Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
At the Théâtre des Variétés
7, Boulevard Montmartre 75002 Paris
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Christmas holidays at the Château de Fontainebleau
The Château de Fontainebleau dons its finest attire for the year-end celebrations and offers various activities during this period.
On the program:
drawing contest for children and adults around the First Empire- guided story tours with varied themes
- an investigation to allow all curious visitors to push through doors usually kept closed… on Sundays, December 22 and 29
- a show Les rêves de Sidonie Koulleure by the Compagnie Songes, mixing theater, music, dance, animated cinema, puppets, and olfactory creation
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Krystal: Aerial show for toddlers
I haven’t had the opportunity to discover this show unfortunately, however, I find the concept great: Christelle Philippe, an actress, is the creator of a show for toddlers, which is quite rare, it must be said.
This aerial show is sprinkled with music, dance, and singing and tells the story of birth, awakening, and discovering the world
Le Funambule Théâtre
53 rue des Saules 75018 Paris
Wednesdays at 4:30 PM and Saturdays at 11 AM during school holidays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 4:30 PM and Saturdays at 11 AM
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Take festive cooking classes with an American
Practicing your English while cooking… and learning nice little Christmas-themed recipes as a family, that’s what the cheerful Teri offers at Let’s cook in English in Versailles!
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Snow and winter sports at Stade Charléty
For the Christmas holidays, the Stade Charléty transforms into a winter sports resort and welcomes children and teenagers from December 25 to January 4 to enjoy the snow and free activities: sledding, snowshoeing, ice skating, trampoline, climbing wall, video games, zip-lining,…
These free activities will be supervised by qualified instructors.
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Christmas holiday activities at the Musée du Quai Branly
You know it, the Quai Branly museum is one of my favorite cultural partners, and for the Christmas holidays (from 12/21/2013 to 01/05/2014), it offers to experience Another Christmas: a moment of sharing and dialogue with Malian children refugees in Burkina Faso. A big toy drive will also be organized as every year.
The museum welcomes back, two years after the success of the show The Puppet Master that I had mentioned here, the puppeteers of the National Water Puppet Theatre of Vietnam for 10 exceptional performances from December 26 to December 30, 2013.
This new creation is the Vietnamese adaptation of three famous fairy tales by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen: The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Ugly Duckling, and The Little Mermaid.
EXPRESS GIVEAWAY:
I have 6 invitations for one of the performances on Thursday, December 26, 2013 (at 2 PM or at 5 PM) to give away on the blog.
To participate, simply leave a comment below this article telling me how you are going to keep your children busy during these Christmas holidays and also how many tickets you would like to win for this show and for what time (2 PM or 5 PM).
As time is quite limited for this contest, very exceptionally, the first to reply in the comments and participate will win the tickets (within the limit of 6 tickets, of course).
Rules:
– Contest limited to Metropolitan France
– Contest reserved for adults
– 1 entry per IP address
– contest start date: Saturday, December 21, 2013 – contest end date: as soon as all tickets have been won
