What to Do in London with Kids

Three real neighborhoods, three real hunts for young kids — South Bank, the City, and Covent Garden

London is enormous, endlessly walkable, and impossible to summarize in one afternoon — which is exactly the problem it broke my brain trying to solve. There's no single "here's what to do with the kids" for a city this size, so I stopped trying to find one answer and built three instead.

South Bank was the first one that clicked. Borough Market down to the London Eye, the river the whole way — street food, the Globe Theatre, Tate Modern, and a ship on the Thames my daughter spotted before I did, which she still brings up.

City of London came out of a walk through the Square Mile. A silver dragon marking the old city boundary, hidden churchyards nobody else seemed to notice, Leadenhall Market, and the Tower of London waiting at the end of it.

Magical London is the gentlest of the three — Leicester Square through to Covent Garden, via Seven Dials. A street of bookshops, a Victorian market, and seven streets meeting at one sundial. You really understand why so many stories of magic and mystery start here.

I didn’t expect to need three separate answers for one city. But London earned it.

Each hunt: ages 3–7, two to three hours. Buy them one at a time, or get all three bundled with free shipping if you've got a few days here.

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Prefer just one neighborhood instead of all three? Each is linked individually above (printed version) — digital versions of the same three are also available in Our Kits.