The best plans with children to do in May 2026

Happy Milk

Happy Milk is a club in Barcelona where mothers and children - of different ages - can do many activities.

It is the first space of its kind, it has 800 square meters and children can do workshops to learn and mothers can do different activities to spend a fun afternoon.

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Parenting classes, hypopressive exercises, baby showers, costumes, language courses, cook or dancer workshops, etc. These are just some of the activities that can be done at Happy Milk.

Aupa Lere

Every Sunday in May, at 12 in the morning, you can go to the Antón Martína metro to see this wonderful theater.

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It is a 60-minute show in which water, earth, air and fire - the four elements - come together, with children's things such as toys, snacks, etc.

Furthermore, all this accompanied by songs, percussion with simple instruments, etc. A place to sing, hum, clap your hands... in order to encourage expressiveness, auditory memory and artistic creation in the little ones.

The Emperor's New Clothes

For Saturdays in May you have an appointment at the Quevedo Theater in Madrid. This is The Emperor's New Clothes, a work by Andersen, now adapted to the little ones.

What time will it be? At 12:30, in the theater that we have mentioned, which is located on Bravo Murillo Street.

The story is about an emperor who cared very much about his suits, so much so that he ordered one with a special fabric that only people who were worthy of their position could see.

Since no one saw his suit, the emperor went to a parade naked...What happened to him is a story with tremendous morals that we strongly recommend that you go see it and discover it.

Luis Ceballos Arboretum

Peppa Pig in Faunia

The little pink pig best known to children and parents arrives at Faunia and her inseparable friends will also tell us the importance of respecting the environment, caring for species in danger of extinction, etc.

The Reading Dragon: storyteller

In one of the best-known bookstores in Madrid, you will have different storytellers for 3 days. As an added bonus, they will be in Spanish and French, to encourage language learning in the little ones. This workshop will be held on May 5 from 6 p.m. with free admission.

On Friday, May 6, at 6 p.m. there will be a storyteller from the Takatuka publishing house.

Already on Saturday, May 7, there will be different activities such as “My first library” to introduce reading to the little ones, “trunk stories” for children to enjoy reading, poetry, music and some stories in English.

Later, in the afternoon, there will be workshops for parents and educators, in which information will be given on how to cope with grief through literature.

Pasiega cabin getaway

We cannot forget that May is a good time to take a rural getaway. You can go anywhere, but you would surely love to spend a couple of nights in a rural cabin, surrounded by the natural world.

Furthermore, taking advantage of the fact that you are going to Cantabria, you can visit different places such as the El Soplao caves, which were dedicated to mining; visit the Altamira caves with their well-known cave paintings or, for greater tranquility and nature, the Cabárceno Park.

book fair

There is no better habit to encourage reading in children than taking them to the Book Fair. Because? Because there, in addition to buying a book, they will learn different values ​​in the company of their favorite characters, they will be able to meet writers and begin to fall in love with books, realizing that with them they can live a thousand adventures.

The Book Fair is for all audiences and will take place from May 27 to June 12.

The schedule is as follows:

• Monday to Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
• Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

In addition, it will have a children's pavilion, where the little ones will have a great time, while they realize the importance of reading and, consequently, of books.

San Isidro

During the San Isidro festivities, Madrid residents celebrate their patron saint, a few days that you cannot miss, whether you live in the capital or not.

The San Isidro meadow where you can go to spend the day.

Children's playroom

In the Moda Shopping shopping center, during the months of May and June, parents will be able to shop quietly while the little ones stay in the Playbox toy library, so everything will be bilingual.

Schedule and location

• Saturdays and Sundays in May and June. Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. and Sundays from 12 to 2 p.m.
• It is located in Local 15, Floor 0, in front of the parking access.

Madrid Warner Park

If you are more adventurous, you will surely like to go to a theme park. Specifically, Warner Park in Madrid, which opens its doors this May for children and not so children.

Divided by themes, you can enjoy great shows like the Crazy Police Academy or Looney Tunes, action!

For the most daring, you have different roller coasters, such as the wooden one, SupermanBatman.

You can now purchase your tickets from €25.90.

Chef Pepo

In the toy library at the Islazul shopping center in Madrid, your children have a lot of activities to do. While you shop, they can have a fun time making donuts, a Manila shawl for San Isidro, etc.

As a guest star, you will be able to cook with Chef Pepo.

It is for children from 4 to 9 years old and the hours are:

• Monday to Friday from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
• On Saturdays and Sundays it opens its doors from 12:00 to 14:00 and in the afternoon, from 17:30 to 20:30.

Rings with coffee capsules, maracas with rice or mosaics with vegetables are some of the crafts that your children will do in this fun toy library.

A day in the garden

Rural It proposes us to spend a fantastic day in an orchard, enjoying it outdoors.

Other information:

• The price is 19 euros per adult and 7 euros per child.
• Duration: 3 hours.
• Start time of the activity: at 11 am.
• When?: May 14
• Where?: In Bustarviejo, located in the northern mountains of Madrid.

Family fishing

Another plan in nature: on May 7th you can go spend a day of fishing with your family in Guadalajara.

What will you do? A guided tour of an ecological fish farm. In addition, the little ones will be able to feed the fish and, later, you will catch some trout. With this activity, the little ones - and adults - will be able to test their patience and tolerance for frustration if the fish don't bite.

The duration is 3 hours and begins at 11:00 in the morning.

The price of the activity for 2 adults and 2 children is €28.

Life in a farmhouse

You have another date in nature and all the secrets of this Alava farmhouse. You will also know the fruit trees, the orchards, etc.

Finally, the visit includes a cheese and honey tasting, fantastic!

The visit lasts 3 hours and starts at 4:00 p.m. The price for adults is €16.50 and children up to 4 years old are free.

A day at the farm

In Navarra, on May 14 and 22, you can spend a day at the farm.

What will you do? As a family, you will be farmers for a day, feeding the animals, even the babies. If it is the season, you will milk and shear the sheep. The little ones will have a great time brushing the ponies or riding them, learning to respect the animals.

After being farmers, you will be cooks, how? Once you finish your tasks, you will move on to making homemade curd and eating it later. Finally, to eat, a great barbecue.

The visit lasts 2 hours and begins at 11:00 am. It is priced between 25 and 30 euros for adults (depending on the menu chosen) and children between 4 and 11 years old will pay 13 euros, which includes the children's menu.

Lunch among olive trees

Another country plan, this time, in Toledo. Do you want to know the olive trees? These are very typical trees in the area, from which the olive is collected to make oil.

You will all learn together how to take care of the olive trees, how they are grown and the work that is done. Afterwards, the little ones will be able to participate in an olive seedling workshop and the older ones will be able to participate in an olive oil tasting.

Afterwards, everyone together will enjoy a local lunch: partridge pâté, Manchego cheese, pumpkin blood sausage, bread with tomato and oil, etc.

The activity starts at 11:00 and lasts 2 hours. Adults will pay 27 euros per person and children will pay 13 euros from 6 years old.

Children's charity concert

Next Sunday, May 22 at 6:00 p.m., a very fun and beneficial concert will be held at the Sala Galileo Galilei in Madrid. All the money raised will be allocated to the Tutelar Kyrios Foundation, with the aim of promoting the integration of people with borderline intelligence and mild intellectual disabilities.

With this work the children and parents, since some siblings do not know how to speak Spanish.

The entrance price is 10 euros and children under 3 years old are free.

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Lunch with children's entertainment

Do you want to have a meal with the children? Sometimes in a restaurant they can't sit still and start acting naughty? Well, Café&Tapas in Valencia have found a solution: a meal, with a host, so that the little ones have a good time and we parents can eat in peace.

Board games, face painting and more activities are what the children will do from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

In addition, the children's menu costs €6.95 and includes a drink and a fantastic scoop of ice cream.

Charity market

On May 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., you have a solidarity event. Exactly, it is a market organized by the Allegra School.

It will be in Madrid, on 3 Hidra Street and the children will learn a lot of things: ecology, workshops, the solidarity market itself, etc.

In addition, more activities such as workshops can be carried out

Baby Tribe Courses

Something pedagogical to understand the little ones that, sometimes, is not easy at all.

• The first course that Baby Tribu offers us is to control the tantrums of the little ones, something that worries parents greatly. It is an online course that starts on May 23. It lasts 10 days and will be taught by a psychologist. They will teach us to treat tantrums with love, giving us tools to educate with respect, speaking positively, etc.
• Does the second course that we propose have to do with children's creativity? It will help you discover the world of children, their emotional state, it will help us understand them better and accompany them in their development.

Robotics workshops

In the ABC Serrano shopping center, while you shop, the little ones will be able to do different workshops applying it to education. They will learn about programming, robotics, programmed visual language... All of this, adapted to each one's rhythm. To do this, different applications will be used to program robots, develop and train logic or apps to create their own video games.

When?

• Fridays and Saturdays in May.
• Fridays from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.