Please note that at various intervals some links may be out of date/service while websites are being updated to reflect seasonal changes.
Life of Art in Geneva offers painting and drawing classes for adults, including beginners, and also for children. Parents and children can share their artistic experience with each other in parent-child workshops.
Theatre du Loup – Theatre school for children and teens offering twelve productions per season.
The Geneva Welcome Center – Family Information – A helpful family resource page with links to information on events, child care, schools, sports & recreation for children and teens, universities, language courses and pets.
At 76 Grand Rue in Dionne-les-Bains, France, Crocodealcoffee offers a dêpot-vente clothing shop, café, baby gym for 1-to-3 years), sewing classes for mums, and cooking classes for 8 to 12-year-olds. For info, please email: crocodeal.outlet@gmail.com or tel +33.(0)9.52.87.75.89. Also on Facebook.
Geneva Family Diaries – Popular website devoted to family life in the Geneva area.
Card 20/years-20/francs – for a one-time CHF20 purchase, this card offers reduced-price entries, for cardholders up to the age of 20, to a wide-range of activities and locales, including concerts, festivals, theatre, museums, exhibitions and sports events.
Geneva Public Librairies – Directory of Geneva's municipal librairies. A helpful article about how to register to borrow books and about Geneva's "bibliobuses" is: Geneva Libraries: Quality books in many European languages.
The Library in English – Children's books and story hours (as well as adult books) the Library also holds second-hand book sales twice a year.
Au Chien Bleu – French children's bookstore with an excellent selection of French books, CDs, toys as well as special events and workshops.
"The Reading Duck" (Librairie Gaspard le Canard) – a French and English bookstore in Nyon (their web page – http://www.readingduck.com – is under construction as of Oct/2016 but do check back). Visit them at Grand Rue 26, 1260 Nyon. Email: info@readingduck.com and phone: +41.22.362 1514.
Payot Bookstores – French bookstore with a good selection of English books, also for children.
Monster Camp (bilingual French/English) summer fun for children aged 4 to 12 at Confignon's primary school and Puplinge's primary school. Skills will be taught through play with emphasis on using youngsters' love of the activity to maximize learning opportunities, develop self-confidence, fair-play and self-reliance. Places are limited in each camp maximum of 30 Children and will be granted on a first-inscribe first-served basis.
Le Rosey Summer Camps – Campuses at Rolle, Vaud, and Gstaad offer sports and arts activities while the Mountain Camp gets kids up close to the Alps. Also offers an Excellence Camp for adventurous and fit young people and a SAT Prep Camp.
Swiss Language Club – Intensive morning language classes and outdoor afternoon recreation at the Leysin and Neuchâtel campuses.
Geneva's Museé d'Art et d'Histoire offers wonderful events for children and families, including Family Wednesdays, Family Moments, and Tales and Workshops, most of them free. Visit the museum's website to find out about upcoming activities and to download their Programme Jeune Public et Famille (an events agenda for young visitors and families).
Swiss Museum of Transport (Lucerne) – A wide range of special attractions (a boat and railway) and events for children.
Alimentarium (Vevey) – Cookery workshops (in French) for kids aged 6 to 12, birthday parties, and a 3-D film journey through the intestine!
Planete Jeux (Lutry) – Huge outdoor play area with a trampoline, mini-golf and a heated swimming pool; an indoor play area and restaurant as well.
Signal de Bougy (Bougy Villars) – Large outdoor play and picnic area with a spectacular view over Lake Geneva.