Family travel advisor. Worldschooling mom. I've done this trip. Let me help you plan yours.
Berlin Printables for Kids
Adventures We Seek: Berlin
Berlin Printables for Kids
Ages 3 to 13
Five printables, all of it about Berlin itself rather than a generic city with a bear on the front. The U-Bahn they will actually have to read. The pretzel they will actually be handed. The wall they will actually stand next to.
By Nicole Damiano, ASTA Verified Travel Advisor · Certified Family Travel Advisor with FG Luxury Travel. Made for Adventures We Seek, my travel blog and planning resource.
What this actually is
This library started as things I was making for my own three kids, before it was ever something to sell. Berlin is a city that wears its history on the outside, a line of cobbles where the wall ran, a church tower left broken on purpose, and it turned out to be the easiest place in Europe to get a kid asking real questions.
Gavin, Jake and Avilene are on the pages doing the same job your kid will do with the book in hand. Look closer. Ask a real question. Keep something to bring home.
Ages 3 to 7
Small people cannot read a guidebook and will not fill in a journal, so these two are built around looking, finding and collecting instead of writing.
Ages 3 to 7Poppy’s Berlin Discovery DeckPoppy finds Berlin one little clue at a time. The Brandenburg Gate, find the columns and march gently through. The Reichstag dome, trace its curve. A yellow bus, a U-Bahn train, a Spree boat. A pretzel, currywurst, a Pfannkuchen. A courtyard tile, a paintbrush, hallo and danke. 40 cards with something to find and something to do on each one. Print on card stock, cut, keep in a pouch.40 cards
Ages 4 to 7Berlin City Activity BookBerlin wakes up, a yellow tram glides across the square, the World Clock turns and Jake has his pencil. Count what you see on the Spree, build a bridge, look up at the clock tower on Schoeneberg Town Hall, follow a pencil maze along the Berlin trail. A food adventure at Markthalle Neun and a little Berlin hunt to spread over a few days. 44 printable pages.44 pages
Older kids push back on anything that feels like school, so these hand them something real instead: a story to question, a case to solve, a book of their own to fill.
Ages 8 to 12Berlin Explorer JournalNine creative studios on light, architecture, pattern, music, theatre, food, signs and games, with Max Liebermann, the Bauhaus and the Philharmonie along the way. This is Avilene’s book, built around the kind of looking she already does without being asked.56 pages
Ages 11 to 13Berlin History HuntSix real stops, from the Nikolaiviertel where two medieval towns joined up on the Spree to Bernauer Strasse where one street ended up under two authorities, each one a case to investigate rather than a fact to memorize. Runs on the same framework I used teaching history for eight years.52 pages
The plane, the train, the car, the wait at the gate. A book built for the journey, not the destination.
Ages 4 to 6Berlin Travel Day Little Explorers32 pages for the plane, the train, the car. Point, circle, draw, match and count. Avilene and Poppy’s story runs through it.32 pages
Bingo is the cheapest thing here and the one that gets used the most. A card in a small hand changes a long walk completely.
All agesBerlin Adventure BingoOne card, seven print sizes, twenty-four things to spot in Berlin and a free space in the middle. Print one per kid and see who calls bingo first.1 card
The full Berlin family travel guide is free and sits right here on the site, and the wider Germany guide is next to it: where to stay, how many nights, what is worth the queue and what is not.
