Things to Do with Kids in Cape Town

See our new series of 101 Things to Do with Kids in Cape Town, revis­it­ing many old favour­ites and includ­ing lots of new finds sure to delight chil­dren > Things to Do with Kids in Cape Town.

Visit Kirstenbosch

I’m sure lots of Moms are won­der­ing what to do with the Kids dur­ing the school hol­i­days? Well, Cape Town and sur­rounds actu­ally offers more than its fair share of things to do, even dur­ing the winter season.

For starters, see­ing as most of us are hav­ing to watch our budgets, this is the time to take advant­age of the spe­cial deals offered at some of our fam­ous touristy “hot spots”! Not only are these places less busy right now than dur­ing the high sea­son but you can also save quite a bit. Table Mountain has a “2 kids travel free with every pay­ing adult” spe­cial (see http://www.tablemountain.net/) and Robben Island’s ticket prices have been reduced to R50.00 per child under 18 for the hol­i­days. The Two Ocean Aquarium at the Waterfront is free to kids under 4 and 4–13 year olds pay R40.00 entrance fee. They are geared for chil­dren with spe­cial exhib­its that will be fun for kids. (See http://www.aquarium.co.za/kids/default.php)

Cool Runnings

In the north­ern sub­urbs, the Cool Runnings Toboggan Track in Bellville will offer hours of fun and Ratanga Junction is also an obvi­ous choice. Also visit Intaka Island which is a 5 minute drive within Century City. This award win­ning, 16 hec­tare multi-purpose nature area, is home to 177 spe­cies of indi­gen­ous plants and 120 bird spe­cies. (Intaka Island has been awar­ded con­ser­va­tion status by Cape Nature). The Island is open from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm, seven days a week. The fam­ily ticket (2 adults 3 chil­dren) is only R20.00. There is a self guided trail (a 45 minute, 2 km trail), on which you can do some fant­astic bird watch­ing, view their award win­ning breed­ing Heronry, 7 dif­fer­ent hab­it­ats and a wealth of dif­fer­ent spe­cies. There are 9 sta­tions you will have access to on the trail, each offer­ing an intim­ate look into the bird and water life as well as flora and fauna and more. (see: http://www.intaka.co.za/)

Try Artjamming

In the City Bowl take your kids and friends and try “Artjamming”. Artjammers are not given instruc­tions or classes, and no draw­ing or paint­ing skills are needed. Artjammers are provided with canvases, acrylic paints on tap, and tools to freely express them­selves … sounds like a mess and lots of fun! (see http://www.artjamming.co.za/).

In the Southern Suburbs, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens offers free entry to kids through­out the school hol­i­days and the Silvertree Restaurant has spe­cial kids enter­tain­ment on. If your older kids love horse rid­ing, while you love noth­ing bet­ter than to sit sip­ping cap­puccino and watch the younger kids swing from a huge tree-house in a lovely garden, then Millstone in Pinelands is for you! (See Millstone Café).

Go Fly a Kite

On the False Bay Coast, spend a day explor­ing Kalk Bay with the kids. There are plenty of kid-friendly res­taur­ants with play areas or pop in at Planet Kids in Muizenberg with the little ones. They encour­age par­ents or guard­i­ans to stay and either join in or watch their little ones play and refresh­ments can be ordered from the Flying Saucer Cafe and they have a large range of magazines to browse through when you get tired of boun­cing around with the kids! Another fun thing to do is to go fly a kite — Muizenberg beach is a great place for this — or visit the Scratch Patch in Simons Town!

SA-Venues.com has a long list of fam­ily friendly things to do in the Western Cape (See Western Cape Family Entertainment). If you think of any­thing that’s miss­ing from our selec­tion please drop us a line at info@sa-venues.com. These list­ing are NOT advert­ise­ments (i.e. they are unso­li­cited and non-commercial – all have been either sug­ges­ted to us or researched ourselves) and we wel­come sug­ges­tions and con­tri­bu­tions from the pub­lic to our Things to Do Section. Help us build a GREAT selec­tion of Things to Do, to give tour­ists to South Africa an insight into some of the things only us loc­als know about!

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