This weekend we highlight a puppet show at Tricycle Theatre, Chinese New Year celebrations in the Docklands and in Camden, a Hootenanny (but no Jools Holland). Enjoy!Fri-Sat: The Pied Piper of Hamelin at Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Rd, NW6

It's Friday the 13th coming up, are you feeling lucky? Put your game face on for the Ice Sculpting fest in Canary Wharf, play African board games and funky sounds at Rich Mix or sing your heart out at King's

It's the first official weekend of the year. Make it a memorable one at a top cultural or sporty family activity in London.Fri-Sun: Stick Man, Leicester Square Theatre, WC2 (Leicester Square tube)It's a dangerous world for a Stick Man, what

Should old acquaintance be forgot... ring out the last days of 2011 and welcome the New Year at our pick of family-friendly events around London. Fri-Sun: Lost Letters to Santa at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, E1 (Shoreditch High St overground) A

So little time, still so much to do? Don't get caught up in the crazy, take some time out to enjoy yourselves this weekend. Merry Christmas! Fri-Mon: Special Event: It's a Wonderful Life at Electric Cinema, 191 Portobello Rd, W11 (Portobello

Just one weekend to go, are you excited? I am, even though I'm desperately behind on Christmas shopping! Fri-Sat: Once Upon a Wintertime at Hackney Downs Studios, Downs Park Rd, London E5 (Dalston Kingsland overground) An immersive pop-up winter festival with 80ft

Chocolate, gift shopping, carols and a brekkie with Santa. It's beginning to look a lot like... a very Christmassy weekend. Enjoy! FREE PICK Fri-Sun: More London Christmas Market, Tooley St area, SE1 (London Bridge tube) More than 30 handpicked traders from UK and

The circus comes to Greenwich, there's a barn dance near Regent's Park and Christmas puddings are on the run in Covent Garden. Another swinging weekend for London kids and families! Fri-Sun: Greenwich Circus Festival, Hangar Arts Trust, unit 7a, Harrington Way,