Children's Activities

Ada Ciganlija  www.adaciganlija.rs

The largest park in Belgrade with facilities for every kind of sporting activity, based around a 4km long lake.  There are pebble beaches around the lake, barbecue spots, picnic tables and a good bike path which goes around the lake 8.7km in length.  There are many cafes and some good grill style restaurants.  There are many playgrounds of varying quality, but they are improving each year.   Bike hire is cheap (see Sports Activities).

The main entrance into the park is by the ‘Stonehenge’ like stone formations, on Obrenovacki drum, you can pay 250dinars and drive in to park here.  Or you can use the metal parking lot  (entrance for which is the next exit off the main road) which is cheaper but further for little legs to walk to the fun stuff.

During summer months a motorised train drives around the circumference of the lake, with many stops.  The main train stop is by the main entrance at ‘Stonehenge’.  No pets allowed on the train.  With small children this will be the best way to see what is on offer around the park for your first visit, alternatively hire bikes and cycle around.

Belgrade Zoo, Kalamegdan

Open during the winter time from 8am until 5 pm, during the summer from 8am until 8pm.  Entrance fee for adults (older then 15 years) is 300 DIN, entrance fee for children older then 3 years is 200 DIN, children younger then 3 years are for free.

There is an annual fee as follows: Whole family (adults, grandparents, children) pays 5000 DIN, one family person (mum or dad)  pays 3000 DIN, one child (between 3 and 15 years old) pays 2000 DIN. Go to www.beozoovrt.izlog.org where you can find a lot of information about the zoo, unfortunately almost everything is in Serbian, but on the navigation system on the left is written: English info. Here you can find the history of the zoo, the working hours and the entrance fee.

Indoor Soft Play – Dečija Igroanica

Belgrade has many soft play centres for young children, great for the cold winters and hot summers.  They are clean and well run.  There is always a café attached for parents to sit and relax with a coffee or even a beer whilst their children play.  Smoking is sometimes permitted, but usually in an area away from the actual play area.   Staff always supervise the play area, however with very young children parents are sometimes asked to accompany their child.

Play centres are the standard location for birthday parties for many families.  Many play centres have a separate area specifically for parties.

Casper’s (near Kalinić market) Topolska 22

tel. 2455-497, mob. 064 249-3474

Children’s parties – animators and a coffee area for parents.   Owner - Luka

Circus,   http://www.circus.rs/en/index.htm

• Delta City Shopping centre, 2nd floor, tel: 011/2203 866 or 2203 867

• Usce Shopping Mall – 3rd floor – next to the food area.
• Junži Bulevar, Vračar – coming from Autokomanda direction, it is on the right hand side, just before the turning to Kalenić Market.

Softplay construction occupying some 200sqm, and stretching over 4 levels, Circus also features a separate partyroom for birthday celebrations.  Café catering to adult guests.  Children up to 4 years old need to be supervised by parent/carer.

Opening hours from 10am.

Extreme Kids  Cviječeva 1 lok. 109-110 (PC ABC) (couple of streets down from 29th November police station)    Tel: 011/2768-255, 063/7368-348

It has a children’s area with balls and climbing frames and a section where they can just sit and draw, an area for parties (although this is not completely separate from the main play area), and an area for adults.

Kika, (see furniture shops) on the 2nd floor adjacent to the restaurant is a free small soft play area.

Kids and Play, Požarevačka 19, Vracar.

Tel: 011/308 7902       Mob: 065/344 1800

The charge is 200 dinars for 1 hour of supervised/interactive play with English speaking staff.  Both walls and floors are padded. There is a pool of balls, crawling spaces and toys. Adjacent to the play area is a cafe where parents can have a cup of coffee or a drink and still be within earshot/sight of their little one. They also do birthday parties.
Current hours are 1pm-9pm.

Jungle  Milana Jovanovića 14a, Žarkovo  Tel: 011/2398 300,  011/2398 301, 063/495 314 
www.jungleplay.info   office@jungleplay.info

Be warned: the address given is for the road at the back of the building (with little signage) where there is parking, the entrance is actually located at the front on the main road where there is some parking too.

Clean, well maintained play area, suitable for ages 4+.  Zip wire, trampolines, rock climbing and slides.  Assistants to supervise children.  Café attached.  They organise birthday parties, including theme parties.

Liliput Vidikovački venac 62E, Vidikovac  Tel. 234-90-74

Open Monday – Friday 2:00 – 9:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Very clean play area for kids and café for adults.  For a birthday there, you can bring in your own food but you buy the drinks from them.  Located just past the McDonald’s in Vidikovac, turn left at the light after McD’s (not right next to McDonald’s but the next one) and you will see it on your left.  Also available just to come and play for the afternoon.

Puf Puf Children’s Café,  Tel: 011/311-0147, 3111-793

165a Bulevar Mihaila Pupina st. (building Jugoagenta). 

http://www.puf-puf.com/bg_home.php
Located behind Mercator in New Belgrade.  When approaching Mercator on Bvd Avnoj-a, turn right down the right-hand side of the Mercator building, take the first left at the traffic lights.  You can then turn left into the Mercator covered carpark, or turn right into outside parking - Puf Puf is in the 2nd building on the left in the outside parking.

Working hours 14:30-20:30 on Saturday 12:00-20:30

Beware it sometimes shuts in summer – check opening times. 

Indoor soft play area.  Assistants can supervise children whilst you have a coffee.  Toddlers -seven years.  They can arrange parties and have separate party room with a private play area.  

Mali Pirati Visokog Stevana 40,  www.malipirati.rs

Tel: 011/292 8710,   011/292 8766    Mob: 060/5566 139     office@malipirati.rs

Opening hours:  Tues-Fri: 15-21h,  Sat-Sun: 12-21h   Closed Monday

Not far from Supermarket restaurant, in Dorcol. One way is to go down Kralja Petra towards the Danube, crossing Cara Dusana, and take the 2nd right). 

Moj svet, Čuburska 11, on the corner of Cburska and Sumatovacka, Vracar.

Tel:  011/2419-707, 062/227-013       www.mojsvet.co.rs/

It is not big, but they have people inside the playground at all time, so that is really good place where you can take your kids and peacefully have coffee. It is family run and they insist on being smoke free.

Okean, Andre Nikolića, (next door to Šeher café).  Conveniently located near ISB.  A smaller play centre with an additional video gaming room downstairs for older children.

Space Usce Shopping Centre, top floor.  Tel:  011/311-00-88    011/63-04-522

Opening Hours  10am-10pm.   www.spacepark.rs

Suitable for older children, aged 4 - 14.   Popular for parties.  Soft play, rock climbing, Segway.

Tehnokids Dobropoljska 2 (Autokomanda – under the bridge),

Tel: 063-888-6017; 063-259-189    http://www.tehnokids.com/        

Open 11 – 2100hrs

Indoor play area for kids like Puff Puff.

Turbo Limac  Usce Shopping Mall, 3^rd floor.

Free, small soft play area located at the back of the shop.  Suitable up to age 4.

Tweety Igraonica Petra Martinovica 33, Banovo Brdo.  

Suitable for toddlers – 4yrs with slides, ball pool and small trampoline.  There is a nice café where you can have a coffee and watch the children playing

Opening Hours:  Mon-Fri 11-14h & 16-21.30h           Weekend 10-21:30h

http://igraonice.ioi.rs/subs/tweety/

Zazu’s  Pilota Mihaila Petrovića 72a, Vidikovac  Tel: 011/234 6644  

Located in the small shopping area behind McDonalds.  Park in McD’s car park, and walk along Pilota Mihaila Petrovica past a row of shops then turn left into a courtyard of a small shopping centre, where Zazu is located.  Soft play with café attached, assistants to supervise children.  Only open in the afternoons.

Outdoor Play

Ada Ciganlija, (see above) has many children’s playgrounds.  The best are at Sunset Café (see below), Red Shoes (next to Sunset), the one near the roundabout on the other side of the lake, and café Lago (suitable for younger children) opposite Oaza restaurant.

Kalamegdan Park, has a couple of playgrounds in the park area outside the fortress.

Pink TV,  Bulevar Kneza Aleksandra Karađorđevića, at the end of the road up to Beli Dvor.  Recently refurbished with good equipment for older children, ages 4+.  Zip wire, giant spider net for climbing, slides and hammocks.

Puzzle, on corner of Borska and Crnotravska, next to Banjica market.

An outdoor playground under cover, so you will keep dry but not necessarily warm in winter.  Climbing frames, sew-saws and a maze, with a soft all weather surface, so not muddy.  Not recommended at weekends as it can get very overcrowded.

Senjak Park, next to the ‘giraffe round-a-bout’.  Climbing frame - play equipment ideal for ages up to 5.   Soft all-weather surface.   Older style equipment for older children.

Sunset Café,  Ada Ciganlija. 

Drive past main entrance to Ada, take next right after traffic lights (signposted Ada).  Drive along this road parallel to lake for approx 3 mins, small sign on left hand side in blue & yellow.  Park anywhere here on side of road.  Café is on right hand side of road.

Play area with sandpit.  Suitable for ages up to 6.  Café attached, but you can play without having to purchase anything.  Red Shoes café next door also has a playground suitable for older children, age 4+.

Tašmajden Park,  Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra

Popular park for children.  Recently renovated play areas with soft all-weather surface, separate playgrounds for older and younger children.  Children’s cultural centre & theatre.  Sports centre with indoor and outdoor swimming pools.

Zamak (Play Castle), Zemun

Near Hotel Jugoslavia and next to the lunar park.  Closed in winter.  A good place for the children to jump about and get rid of some excess energy.  Children under 10 years only, it costs 250 dinars each for as long as you like.  Inside are animators and a bouncy castle area, as well as a café for the grown-ups.  A note of caution:  Zamak is open-air and there is little shade so it’s not a good idea to go along at midday in the summer heat.

Zemun – along the waters edge between Hotel Jugoslavia and Zemun, there are several bouncy castle operators and a few old fairground rides – a small roller coaster, bumper cars.

Vračar, four smaller parks with a playground in the vicinity of the Temple Sava/Neimar between Bulevar JNA and Maksima Gorkog.

Child Friendly Restaurants

Generally all restaurants welcome children, however high chairs can be hard to find, and changing facilities for babies are almost non-existent.

Mala Ukusa Fabrika, Nebojšina 49a, Vracar

A restaurant with good toddler friendly play equipment next to it.  You can sit in the restaurant and watch your children play. However you can use the play equipment without entering the restaurant.

Playground, Toplicin Venac 19-21, Center (011 202 8080).

Don't be fooled by the name - there isn't an actual playground but they have high-chairs, a changing table and a toddler-size bathroom. They have a small play area in the back with books, puzzles, crayons etc and a large TV with cartoons:) There is a staff member assigned to play with the children. The parking around the area is terrible but you can walk from Knez Mihailova in about 5-10 minutes. They have a children's menu too.

Madera, Bulevar Kralja Alexandra by Tasjmadian park.

Nice restaurant with kid-friendly staff. They have 2 or 3 high chairs so if you are going it might be wise to reserve a table and inform them that you need the high chair too.

Pizza Hut: Makedonska 44. Kid friendly place. They have many high chairs.

Vapiano: Italian restaurant on the top of Usče mall (enter in corner of food court) and in center at beginning of Knez Mihailova walking street.  A concept restaurant where they make the food in front of you. Great with kids since you can get it however you want.  They make pizzas in shapes of teddies, rabbits or fish for kids. It is also non smoking in the main part of the restaurant. The only bad point is that there is no elevator so you have to carry the stroller up a flight of stairs, staff are helpful with this though.

Lorenzo Ikakalamba – Cvijićeva 110, ph: 011-329-5351. A wall made of beanie babies and lots of striking features, there is much for children to view.

Children’s Entertainers & Parties

Ballet – Contact: Maja Pavlovski

Tel. 011/3192 912    Mob. 064/2870 837    email: viseodigre_balet@yahoo.com

Performances by one or two ballerinas.

Igor the Magician.  Excellent, entertains children and adults.  Famous across the region.  He even produces a live dove from a handkerchief.  Makes balloons for children at the end of the show.  Tel. 063/360-936

Klovn Pera,

064-128-2514, www.peraklovn.freeservers.com

Well-known clown for hire for birthday parties.  Speaks English and Serbian, performs, makes balloon animals and leads games.

Moje Boje  mojeboje@yahoo.com

Judit  064/254 73 33 (English)  Mihajlo   064/260 60 35

Mobile ceramics studio.  They come to your house and help children make creations with clay which can then be fired and returned at a later date.

Paul the Clown. www.klovnpaja.com

Mob:  063/34 84 81  or  065/34 82 811
He does a show for parties which lasts about 2 and 1/2 hours and he does amazing face painting, a clown show, a magic act, dancing and he makes the children balloons.

Treasure Hunt

Create custom treasure hunts for parties at locations around Belgrade (Kalemegdan, Ada ciganlija, Kosutnjak, Gardos-Zemun, Knez Mihajlova Str...).  Team games lasting 1-2 hours.

 Choose your own theme (eg Robbin Hood or Pirates of the Caribbean).
Cost approx 125 Euros.

Milos Dilkic
Mob: +381 64 16 06 879                     E-mail: milodik@yahoo.ie
www.potragazablagom.rs                      www.youtube.com\potragazablagom

Art / Craft Activities

Art Classes for Kids

Drawing, Painting, Sculpture…

Saturdays and Sundays from 10a.m till 12 and from 12 till 2 p.m

Age 5 - 13.

Cost: 15e for2 hour session. Material included. English and Spanish spoken.

Gordana Nilolic Phone: 063 73 73 009.

www.gordananikolic.com

Studio 91/1, Makenzijeva 91/1, 011-245-3396

Every Wednesday from 1–5 p.m. you may come and paint readymade pots, plates, bowls or cups with your own designs and colours.  They will fire your work and you may pick it up in a week.  Prices range from 10 – 20 Euros/piece depending on the size.  Great gifts for grandparents and fun afternoon activity for the kids.  Also offers ceramics classes for kids and adults.

Moje Boje - Mobile Ceramics Studio

mojeboje@yahoo.com

Judit  064/254 73 33 (English)  Mihajlo   064/260 60 35

Facebook: MOJE BOJE

They come to you and bring all necessary professional materials and tools. Lots of options for kids and adults.  Ceramic birthday parties, pottery wheel, hand-building from clay, decorating pots, and more.  They also have a small studio where they run courses for adults.

Chartwell ART Studio

Chartwell School, T. Drajzera 36, Dedinje.

Saturday 11am – 1.30 pm

6 Euro per session or 20 Euro per month

Contact Person:  Mr. Milos 066/8400-427

Baby Cinema

Watch films with your baby.  The cinema is on the top floor of the shopping centre.

Ster Cinemas Beograd
Delta City Shopping Mall

Jurija Gagarina 16-16a,

Tel: 011/220 3 400

www.stersrbija.com/baby.friendly.ster/

Fancy Dress

Dnevna Soba, Vila I Vilenjaka.,  Vile Ravijojle, Dedinje 

Tel: 011/266 5787,  064/271 4237

Two streets behind the Maxi Market in Dedinje, located on the right hand side of the row with the little shops. The owner speaks reasonably good English.

Costume rental, good to rent any kind costume for school play, carnival, halloween, etc.

Music

Jelena Samolov, piano teacher          jelenasamolov@yahoo.com

Mob: 063/169 6067

“Jelena has taught my older two children piano for 2.5 years (as well as being piano teacher to many other Embassy and ISB kids).  She is kind, knowledgeable and instructs them in music theory, note reading, and in performing various pieces of music.   They enjoy taking lessons from her, and I have seen them progress quickly under her guidance.  She has come to our home to give lessons, but she also gives lessons at ISB after school for those without a piano at home. “ – ISB parent

Olja Bajčić, piano teacher   

Tel. 011-29 71 427,  Mob. 063-83 69 216      oljab73@yahoo.com

She speaks perfect English; she has worked in a school of music, as a primary and high school teacher for the last 9 years.  She also works with children with special needs.

Kristina Simic, paino teacher

Kristina.david@gmx.net, tel. 064 5789 266.

She is excellent with children.

Story Telling / Plays / Drama

Treehouse storytelling centre,

Bulevar Kneza Aleksandra Karadjordjevica 6, 011 266 1150

www.nassvet-eduarts.org

This is a company located in Dedinje, that puts on theatre performances for children from 3 upwards.  It is in Serbian, French and English.  They have some lovely Christmas performances. They also run a programme of events for the whole year, eg. Music& drama, for younger children, and computer animation for older children.  Sunday Fundays are held each weekend during term time – open to all, it includes a play, circus/magic acts, craft activities and face painting.  They also do private birthday parties and also private lessons.

Childrens Cultural Centre, Belgrade
Takovska 8,     Tel:  011/32 42 01,     011/32 42 012,     011/32 34 941
e-mail: info@dkcb.rs
www.dkcb.rs/eng/00.html

Lots of activities, courses for children, ages from 4 – teenagers.  Weekday and weekend courses in acting, ballet, English, dance, music and art.

Childrens Cultural Centar Majdan, Kozjačka 3-5, Senjak

www.dkcmajdan.org.rs

Tel. 011/414 3101, or 011/3692 645
office@dkcmajdan.org.rs

A range of activities and courses for children.  See website for more information.

Pan Teatar, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 298

Tel: 011-2418524

www.panteatar.rs

Repertoire for children is based on the Serbian adaption of well-known fairytales.

Usually performances take place on Saturdays and Sundays at 12 pm and 5 pm. Depending on the play (Little Red Riding Hood, Peter Pan, Little Mermaid) kids don´t have a problem with the Serbian language.

They also offer a Children´s Drama Studio, with classes twice a week, where children do voice exercises and learn creative acting.  For these classes though you need to be proficient in Serbian.