This event makes children’s wishes come true! Come and celebrate the Children’s Rights Week at Annantalo.Children’s Day comprises a variety of workshops and programmes that children themselves wished for at the previous year’s Children’s Day event.Visitors are welcome to tour these workshops at their own pace. You can come and go as you please. The programme is available in Finnish, Swedish, Somali and Arabic, but everyone – regardless of the language they speak or their skill level – is warmly welcome to join us.The event is free of charge and has been designed with the whole family in mind. Come and join us for Children’s Day! Workshops 11.00–14.00Animal masks(2nd floor corridor)A cat, a bear, an owl, or something else entirely? Make yourself an animal mask. Come and dance by the communal campfire. Produced by: Art educators at AnnantaloAnimals dancing by the campfire(2nd floor Teatteriluokka)How do animals move? Do they dance? Join the other animals around the campfire and let the atmosphere and the moment carry you away. Produced by: Art educators at Annantalo Animal speed rally(1st floor, Assembly hall)The thrill of speed! Gallop, trot or walk your way through the show jumping course. Stop to refuel while you are on the road, then carry on with your hair or fur flying in the wind! Produced by: Hupsansaa‘Pupu tai Pöllö’ pottery workshop(1st floor, Keramiikkaluokka)What is your very own little ‘Pölö’ like? Come and make a pocket sculpture out of clay! The workshop lasts approximately 35 minutes. Start times: 11.15, 12.00, 12.45 and 13.30. Participation with an adult. Book your place in the workshop at the information desk (1st floor) Produced by: Art educators at Annantalo Spindlar / Spiders (2nd floor, Kuvataideluokka 3) Come and create some beautiful and scary spiders, and learn some fascinating and strange facts about them. Jenny Lucander is an award-winning children’s author and one of the creators of a new book written by Katja Bargum about world records involving spiders.Kom och skapa häftiga och läskiga spindlar medan du lyssnar på fascinerande spindelrekord berättade av konstnären Jenny Lucander. Lucander är en prisbelönt bildersboksskapare och medskapare till den nya boken Spindlarnas rekordbok (text av Katja Bargum).The main language of the workshop is Swedish, but you can also use Finnish and English.Bun machine(1st floor, Tanssiluokka)Step inside the bodily bun machine! Enter the machine to have a lie-down and become a piece of dough. You can knead, shape and prove the dough. Participation in the bun-making machine in pairs (children under seven years of age must be accompanied by an adult). Duration roughly 20 min. At 11.15, 11.45, 12.15, 12.45 and 13.15. Annantalo art educators will bake alongside you Welcome to multilingual story times(1st floor Kuvataideluokka 1)Authors Salaado Qasim and Katri Tapola will be reading from their picture books in Finnish, Somali and Arabic. The session lasts 30 minutes. Story time sessions: 11.30, 12.30 and 13.30. These sessions are best suited to children aged four and over, accompanied by an adult. Plush toy cat café(1st floor, Café Toddler)Annantalo’s Café Napero will turn into a plush toy cat café! At the café, you can care for and feed the plush toy cats. You can also bring your own plushie along, but make sure it doesn’t run off! Suitable even for people with cat allergies.
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📅 Saturday, 21 November 2026 at 11:00 – 14:00 · Free
This event makes children’s wishes come true! Come and celebrate the Children’s Rights Week at Annantalo.Children’s Day comprises a variety of workshops and programmes that children themselves wished for at the previous year’s Children’s Day event.Visitors are welcome to tour these workshops at their own pace. You can come and go as you please. The programme is available in Finnish, Swedish, Somali and Arabic, but everyone – regardless of the language they speak or their skill level – is warmly welcome to join us.The event is free of charge and has been designed with the whole family in min
