La cité des enfants
(Children’s lab)
A fun attraction in Auvergne for children aged 3 to 7.
AGE LIMITE: 3-7 years old
Duration: 30 minutes
Vulcania’s Cité des Enfants offers fun activities on a variety of themes, specifically designed for children aged 3 to 7. The Cité des Enfants invites your little ones to experiment with different situations at their own pace.
Designed and built in partnership with the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, a Universcience site in Paris.
Experience
- 4 play areas on the themes of water, movement, senses and light.
Free registration
Book your Cité des Enfants’ session at the same time as your entry tickets via the online ticketing service:
Children experiment at their own pace
Gears, water mills and other pistons are at their disposal in the 4 dedicated play areas:
Experimenting with water
Water is often a great place to play, but it can also be a source of experimentation. Let your children take action and discover its fascinating properties: collecting and decanting, influencing currents, creating whirlpools, blowing bubbles, balancing balls on water jets, discovering hydraulic energy.
To try out
- Vortex
- Faucets
- Pools
- Ball fountain
- Bubble columns
I discover through the senses
Give your children the opportunity to hone their sensory skills, independently or in groups. Through tactile, olfactory and auditory activities, they sharpen their sensory skills and mobilise their imagination. In this way, they establish contact with the outside world while developing their powers of concentration.
To try out
- Smell tubes
- Sound tubes
- Object ball
Discovering movement
With the ‘puzzle machines’, your children will learn to compare and anticipate in order to react in time to moving phenomena. By working with levers, gears and balancing systems, they can observe the progress and effects of their actions. In this way, they learn to establish cause-and-effect relationships and develop their ability to anticipate.
To try out
- Scales
- Gears
- Ball lathe
- Ball machine
- Time lathe
Discovering light
Thanks to innovative games, your children will become familiar with light and transform it as if by magic. In a darkened room, they will have the pleasure of exploring some of the characteristics of light in an unusual way: drawing, writing with light, acting on colours and expressing themselves by playing with shadows.
To try out
- Light pen
- Coloured lights
Parents: you have a role to play during the visit!
Depending on the activities on offer, you can play with your child, simply observe them and let them do things on their own, or encourage them. There are 3 pictograms in the exhibition to help you identify which of these attitudes is best suited to the situation.
Practical information
The Cité des enfants is an area exclusively dedicated for children aged 3 to 7.
Access conditions
- Open every day
- Sessions last 30 minutes (please arrive 15 minutes before the start of each session)
- Children must be accompanied by at least one adult, with a limit of 3 children per adult
- No more than 2 adults may accompany each child. Single adults are not admitted to the Cité des Enfants
- Schedules available on site when you register or when you book online
Registration required
Book a session for your little ones, either on site when you arrive or online. We strongly recommend booking online:
You have not bought your tickets for the park
Book your session at the Cité des enfants at the same time as your dated tickets.
You already have tickets for the park
Book your session for the Cité des enfants directly when you arrive at the ticket office or reception (level -1).
