Things to Do in Beijing With Kids

Written by Matteo Updated Jun. 18, 2025

Beijing, at first glance, may not seem like a suitable destination for kids to travel to. There are some fascinating tourist attractions in Beijing, dedicated exclusively to kids. What's more, Beijing offers plenty of options, especially for kids to freely enjoy themselves. Beijing attractions for kids include amusement parks, water parks, aquariums, science museums, and indoor and outdoor playgrounds.

Shijingshan Amusement Park

Shijingshan Amusement Park is located in the Shijingshan District of Beijing. It covers an area of 350,000 square meters. Shijingshan Amusement Park is one of Asia's largest theme parks, which has more than 100 attractions. Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park features a range of cultural activities, an annual event which are deeply loved by tourists.

At present, the Shijingshan Amusement Park is the theme park that owns the most entertainment games in Asia, like Gothic Cinderella Castle, Arabic restaurant, Euro style Blue Bridge, and Russian gate tower.

Beijing Happy Valley

Sick and tired of a long journey, you may wonder where else you can have entertainment. Beijing Happy Valley can fully satisfy your desire. This Happy Valley is a piece of work of typical world civilization. Beijing Happy Valley is composed of six theme parks, including Lost Maya, Atlantis, Aegean Sea, Firth Forest, Ant Kingdom, and Shangri-La.

Beijing Happy Valley also features its thematic activities. Pop Music Festival, Maximal Exercise Festival, Chinese Spring Festival, Water-Splashing Festival, and International Magic Day will fully satisfy your desire and curiosity.

World Park Beijing

World Park Beijing covers an area of 46.7 hectares. It is a theme park featuring miniatures of famous landmarks and tourist attractions from around the world. International theater groups are also invited by the park to give performances. In this park, visitors can also learn about different countries, like the folk parade. The exotic food and all kinds of interesting activities are available. Places for the wedding ceremony and conference are available for reservation.

Since its opening in 1993, the Beijing World Park has received 1.5 million visitors annually. Visitors can travel the world in one day, and the park has become a window displaying the culture of various countries.

Beijing Pacific Underwater World

Beijing Pacific Underwater World is a comprehensive and modernized exhibition hall. It exhibits marine life for viewing and entertainment. But at the same time, it teaches people about the knowledge and science of the underwater world.

This aquarium stocks hundreds of species of marine organisms, including large and ferocious sharks, small bright and colorful coral reef fish, and a variety of rare species of freshwater fish are all can be found here.

It has an 80-meter-long underwater tunnel will takes you to the deep seabed where you can watch the mysterious characteristics of jellyfish granted by Nature. Performances are the distinctive characters of this park: little sea lions have special skills; a beautiful mermaid will take you to a dreamlike fairyland; penguins will greet you in line.

Blue Zoo Beijing

Blue Zoo Beijing covers an area of 7,800 square meters. It owns the longest underwater tunnel in Asia, which is 120 meters in length. Blue Zoo Beijing stocks hundreds of species of marine organisms, including sharks, rays, eels, coral reef fish, lobsters, seahorses, starfish, and many others.

The daily excitement of watching specialist divers feeding the fish and sharks twice a day is the other attraction of the underground aquarium.

Besides its entertaining function, Education forms an important facet of Blue Zoo Beijing. An educational centre is staffed by teachers who host lectures to teach the visitors about the knowledge of marine life.

The Watercube Waterpark

The Watercube Waterpark is located inside the world-renowned Beijing National Aquatics Center (The Watercube). The Watercube Waterpark is China's first fully themed international indoor waterpark. It covers an area of 12,000 sqm with 13 water slides and rides, a wave pool, a lazy river, and even a spa area.

This water park has everything a kid could dream of, or even more. But cautious parents have no fear about the gargantuan size of this park since you have the help of the watchful eyes of about 60 lifeguards on duty. You can bring your swim gear and towels, or you can buy all of them in the water park.

Happy Magic Watercube

Do not confuse the park with the Water Cube at the Olympic Park. The Happy Magic Watercube is located in the Fengtai District. It covers an area of 33 hectares and claims to be the biggest water park in the world, with a capacity of 30,000 people. Its tornado is the highest one in the world.

Starting from the 20-meter high entrance, the Zero-G force will give you a thrilling experience of being sucked up into the tornado. You can experience the seat of your pants in Tantrum Alley; cycle in the world's largest bowl; scream for the Tsunami in the Wave Pool.

You ask for more? Flow Rider, Plummet Body Slide, Tornado Wave, Cannon Bowl, Octopus Racer, Pipe Line, Ride, House, Kids Twister Body Slide, Aqua play, Lazy River, Spa River, Bubble Pool, Spa Oasis, and Sand Beach are out there waiting for you to come.

The park mixes up the traditional Chinese architecture with the modern American breathtaking water entertainment items and a European classical spa concept.

Qingnianhu Park

Qingnianhu water park with 11 slides in all, some higher than six floors. It is a charming garden that features a large lake, plus play and exercise areas. It has a basketball court, croquet green, and a golf range. There are also cafes, a restaurant, and boating.

Tuanjiehu Park

Tuanjiehu is home to downtown Beijing's best and most hygiene-conscious water park. It is filled with people on weekends when it teems with masses seeking relief from the heat. Tuanjiehu also built a park to skate, a few trips, and boats.

The major scenic spots are Yun Mountain, Deyue Gallery, Shuigehexiang, Mingyifang, Jingxiang Pavilion, Evening Glow Yiwan Pavilion, Liushuizhaobi, Lancui Pavilion, and Mimick Coast Amusement Park.

Address: North East Third Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Ticket Price: Free

Chaoyang Park

ChaoYang Park is larger than the Summer Palace and, indeed, is the largest park in the city. It first opened in 1984 and covers an area of some 320 hectares. As a multi-functional park of entertainment, Chaoyang Park features an overseas sightseeing attraction, so its gardens, architectural style, entertainment, culture, science, sports, and education are mostly learned from foreign countries.

It has two large outdoor swimming pools with a 75-meter bungee jumping tower above. The park also plays host to many outdoor music events, like the International Midi Music Festival.

Sony ExploraScience

Sony ExploraScience is a hands-on science education centre. This is the first project of its kind in China. Kids are sure to love this museum. Because it has a lot of dream toys a kid can dream about, including robotic dogs which can play soccer, musical sculptures, sound and light transformers, soap bubble rings, and much more. The science shows are regularly hosted by the staff in Chinese.

Milu Park

Nanhaizi Milu Park is the first Milu National Reserve in China, which has swamps, pastures, pools, forests, and a fully enclosed eco-environment. It covers an area of 67 hectares and is encircled by a wall 3,700 meters long and 2.5 meters high.

The Milu was known as the Pere David Deer in the West, is a rare species on the verge of extinction. In 1985, a group of 20 milu was reintroduced to China.

Today, you can see 800 of them roaming freely here. Remember to bring binoculars and your long-range camera lens. This is a nature reserve, not a zoo. Nanhaizi Milu Park has added many animals, such as spotted deer, red deer, white-lipped deer, etc. It now becomes a Deer Museum.

Le Cool Ice Skating Rink Le Cool

It's winter all year long in the indoor Le Cool ice skating rink. Lace up your rental skates and try not to get caught on your toe pick. Visit in the morning or evening if you want to avoid the crowds, and beware the young Olympians cutting a swath across the ice.

Just want to watch ice skating? Free to watch, the event starts Friday from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Most of the competitors come from different places in China between the ages of 3 and 21. Just get ready to watch the performances because they are everything you can dream of on ice.

More Beijing Activities for Your Kids and Family

There is no end to the list of Beijing attractions for kids. There are so many places to visit that you will fall short of time and money. You'll find more than enough activities and attractions while on holiday.

The above places are certainly the most unique ones, and you must make sure that you visit some of these places. Here we list more activities that you could try and add any of it to your Beijing Tour Package as per your interest. Or book our Beijing Family Tour to have it all included!

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