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Travel with Kids

Travelling with kids in the nature parks between Frankfurt and Berlin you can

organise childrens parties, fun and games

plan for sports and activities,

watch animals and nature,

experience history and go sightseeing,

hiking and cycling.

'Rubber Neckers' keeps kids busy spotting things during long car journeys, you can buy the cards here via Abebooks UK or via Abebooks US/Canada.

You can also buy here Richard Salter's book 'Are we there yet? Travel Games for Kids' via Abebooks UK or Abebooks US/Canada.

Childrens Birthdays & Parties, Fun & Games

In Frankfurt children celebrate their birthdays in the museums.

Children can put on disguise in the Struwwelpeter Museum, paint pictures in the Liebieghaus, in the Staedel Institute or in the Museum for Applied Arts.

You can book dinosaur and stone age birthdays in the Natural History Museum Senckenberg.

Next to the Natural History Museum Senckenberg you watch the Frankfurt evening sky from the viewing platform of the planetarium.

The historical Museum offers a Pottery Party, a Theater Party with a historical grocery shop, a Main River Research Party and a Middle Ages Party, a Computer Party, a Printshop Party.

The Museum for Applied Arts on the Museum Shore offers a special Sunday program for parents and children:

Every first and third Sunday, there are children tours and every second Sunday of the month there is a costume workshop for children from six years onwards. Children and Parents can borrow a suitcase with objects to touched, smell or hear, search games and riddles. Children build and program robots with LEGO mindstorms or relax in a children's lounge.

From the tower of the Hessische Landesbank you see the Frankfurt Skyline from above.

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Sports & Activities

On the Frankfurt Main Shore children and parents use their inline skates.

Children participate in mathematical activities in the Mathematikum near Giessen main station. The museum offers lectures, puzzles, bridge construction, dice competitions, ball races and more. It takes 40-60 minutes to go from Frankfurt to Giessen by train.

In the family and fun swimming pools there are huge water slides. In the Avenida-Therme in Hohenfelden near Erfurt there even is a slide park.

At the amusement park and garden exhibition grounds near the Cyriaksburg Castle in Erfurt there are a children's farm, playing grounds and a paddling pool with a huge water slide.

Children ride on a donkey to the Wartburg Castle near Eisenach.

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Animals & Nature

In the village of Heldra near Treffurt storks nest in spring.

In the castle park of the bird protection center in Seebach injured birds are attended to and young birds are raised when they fall out of their nests.

You can go birdwatching early in the morning in Hainich National Park.

The National Park Administration in Bad Langensalza offers bird call trips, morning and evening animal observation tours, excursions, horse carriage rides and bicycle tours. Children listen to fairy tales, go treasure hunting, accompany the National Park Rangers or fold origami animals.

Southeast of Kammerforst village you find the "Wildkatzenkinderwald" - a children's playground in the middle of the forest. The artistic designs of the wooden climbing constructions, the swing, the tunnel, the sand box and the climbing net connect nature, art and culture.

At the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve near Dessau children watch beavers building dams.

There are Zoological Gardens in Frankfurt, Gotha, Erfurt and Dessau. In the Frankfurt Zoo there is a moonlit night area, where animals can be watched that are active at night.

Children go to the theater in Frankfurt, Eisenach, Erfurt, Dessau and Weimar.

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Sightseeing & History

Children follow the traces of Asterix and Obelix at the Celtic and Germanic place of worship in Niederdorla.

You can see Egyptian mummies and dinosaurs in the Gotha palace.

From Gotha you go by tram into the Thuringian Forest.

In Muehlhausen you can climb on the medieval town wall.

In Weimar the Weimarhaus shows town history multi-media. 400 000 year old findings of the Homo Erectus and 200 000 Jahre year old findings of the Homo Sapiens, fossile rhinos and elephants are shown by the Museum for the Pre- and Early History of Thuringia.

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Hiking & Cycling

The Automobile Museum show the history of car construction in Eisenach.

You walk or cycle from Bad Salzungen to Eisenach on the 17.4 mile Pummpaelz Hiking and Cycling Trail. Carved figures visualize local legends and you can read the stories in German and English on the text-panels.

Children and Parents cycle on the Werra Valley Cycling Trail.

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