😍 Free, Fun & Family-Friendly Events These Holidays
🎩 Mario the Maker Magician
Get ready for robots, magic, slapstick comedy, and heartwarming moments in this all-ages theatre experience loved worldwide! Mario has toured the USA, UK & Australia, and has even appeared on Jimmy Fallon, Sesame Street and more.
🏆 Winner of the Best Kids & Family Award at Adelaide Fringe 2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Magic with a soupçon of science” – The New York Times
🗓 Thu 25 Sep
📍 Bunjil Place, Narre Warren
🛼 Spring School Holidays SK8 House
Looking for a fun, affordable way to keep the kids entertained these school holidays? Sk8house has you covered with sessions, classes, and activities that get everyone moving, laughing and making memories on wheels! 🛼✨
⭐ Holiday Sk8 Club ⭐ General Sessions ⭐ Learn-2-Sk8 Classes ⭐ Birthday Parties ⭐ Group Bookings ⭐ Fun for Everyone! 🎉
🗓 Spring School Holidays
📍 Sk8house, 3/2 Amayla Crescent, Carrum Downs
🐇 Velveteen Rabbit
🐰 A magical kids’ show where toys take over the stage!
🎶 Live music, big laughs, and a heartwarming story about love, loss & becoming real.
🧸 Bring your own favourite snuggly toy to the show!
🗓 Fri 10 Oct · 10am & 2pm
📍 Glen Eira Town Hall, Caulfield
🐜 Gone Buggo at the Insect Expo!
Get ready for bugs, laughs, and science! 🪰 Only one person dares to blend macro photography, toy insects, and mind-blowing facts to change how we see the creepy-crawlies… and that’s Steven Gill. 🪲
🗓 3 – 5 October
📍 Buffalo Sports Stadium, Woodend VIC
🎟️ Kids under 4 FREE | Kids $5 | Adults $10
🦋 Gone Buggo show held inside the expo – separate tickets required. Limited seating.
🙃 The Listies - 110% Ready
Australia’s funniest kidult comedy duo are back with a brand-new show, and it’s pure chaos!
Expect poop jokes, slapstick silliness, sight gags, and 55 minutes of non-stop LOLs as The Listies tackle the everyday struggle of simply LEAVE THE HOUSE ON TIME!!!!!!!!! 🌟 “If your kids have never been to the theatre before, do them a favour and make this their first experience. It’s something they will never forget.” - The Scotsman
🗓 Fri 3 Oct 2025 🕓 10:30am & 1pm
📍 Bunjil Place, Narre Warren
🌼 SkyHigh - September Children’s Festival 2025
🎟️ All activities, rides and entertainment are FREE!
☀️ Bouncy Castle, Igor the Giant’s Treasure Hunt, Mini Golf, Ruccis Circus Workshop, Face Painting, Gardening, Half Price Maze Entry, Mini Pets, Scratch Art Creative Fun, Pony Rides, Stilt Walkers, Lizard Wizard Wildlife Display and more!
🗓 23 Sept – 2 Oct (Tuesday to Thursday)
📍 SkyHigh Mount Dandenong
🎟️ Free Event. Booking required.
🧡 Emma Memma’s Dance Island Party Tour 👐
ARIA Award-winning children’s entertainer Emma Memma is hitting the stage this September!
Get ready to wombat roll, crocodile snap and jellyfish blob with Emma Memma and her friends! 🎶
🗓 23-28 September
📍 Dandenong, Moonee Ponds, Traralgon, Wonthaggi, Frankston.
🐊 Zookeeper for a Day at Reptile Encounters
✨ Zookeeper for a Day Highlights:
👉 Behind-the-scenes with Aussie wildlife
👉 Learn about reptiles & conservation
👉 Meet creepy crawlies, marsupials & pythons
👉 Feed crocs, lizards & smaller animals
👉 Wildlife show + workshops
🗓 22 & 26 Sep – Ages 7–11 🗓 3 Oct – Ages 12–18
📍 2 Leslie Ct, Burwood
🤩 Peter Combe in Wash Your Kids in Orange Juice!
🏆 Australia’s best loved children’s singer and songwriter, the original King of the Kids
🎶 New album A Frog in My Cheese Sandwich released 23 August 2024
🗓 Sunday 19 October
📍 Clocktower Centre Theatre, Moonee Ponds
🐾 Dog Man: The Musical
Based on Dav Pilkey’s hit books, this hilarious musical adventure is packed with evil cats, cyborg fish, and the ultimate crime-fighting good boy: Dog Man!
Can he save the city and be a good boy? Find out with your little heroes 🐶✨ Recommended for ages 6+.
🗓 30 Sept – 4 Oct
📍 Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne
✨ Auslan Interpreted performance: Thursday 2 October, 11:00am
🐇 FRITZ Giveaway!
Step into the hilarious, heartwarming world of FRITZ — an eccentric, loveable magician rabbit on a mission to save the show!
🎩 Expect slapstick comedy, puppetry, and clowning in this wild, high-energy 50-minute adventure that’s fun for the whole family.
🗓 Thursday 25 September
🕓 11AM & 2PM
📍 Knox Community Arts Centre, Bayswater
🎪 Elmo’s Circus Dream
Join Elmo on a dreamy circus adventure filled with acrobatics, stunts, illusions, and all your favourite Sesame Street friends – Abby, Cookie Monster, Grover, Bert & Ernie!
🗓 5 – 14 Sep
📍 Werribee Racecourse
🗓 19 Sep – 12 Oct
📍 Fountain Gate, Narre Warren
🩵 BK’s Learn to Swim Clyde North
🌊 Clyde North families dive into confidence with GOswim
BK’s Learn to Swim Clyde North runs Swimming Australia’s GOswim program for infants, kids, teens, and adults. 🏊♀️
💙 Fun, safe & confidence-building lessons
💙 Classes for all ages & abilities
💙 Friendly, qualified teachers
💧 50% OFF your first month for new students!
📍 77 Matterhorn Drive, Clyde North.
🏴☠️ SwashBuckling Circus
⚓ Ahoy, landlubbers and scallywags! Get ready to sail into a rollicking pirate circus adventure filled with high-flying acrobatics, side-splitting comedy, and a treasure chest of laughs.
🌟 Nominated Best Kids & Family Show – Melbourne Fringe 2024
💬 “My children were engaged the entire time!”
🗓 11, 12, 18 & 19 Oct
📍 Studio Nexus: 1 Chifley Dr, Preston
🍒 Cherry Blossom Show
Come and wander through a sea of blooming cherry trees. With activities for all ages, it's the perfect way to spend a spring day with family and friends. Cherry blossoms only last a short time, so make sure you don’t miss this stunning show of flowers.
🌸 Explore the enchanting Fairy Garden
🌸 Dress up as a fairy or elf
🌸 Enjoy face painting, live music, and delicious food
🗓 20 - 28 September
📍 Blue Hills Berries and Cherries, Silvan VIC
🌸 School Holidays in Whitehorse
🌸 Looking for fun and affordable things to do these Spring School Holidays?
Whitehorse has a range of activities for all ages:
✨ Inflatables at Aqualink Nunawading
✨ Galaxy Makers: A Star Wars Art Day
✨ Fun with Clay: Witches & Wizards
✨ Kindy Clay: Baby Rabbits
✨ Arts & Crafts
✨ S.T.E.A.M: Cardboard Creatures
✨ Youth Oils: Still Life
✨ The Resilience Project: 3 Happy Tricks
🦖 DinoFest is roaring into Werribee! 🦕
Rug up, grab a coffee, and get ready to travel back to the Jurassic! Meet our walking Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Spinosaurus, Pachycephalosaurs, and Ankylosaur, and lots of cute baby dinosaurs on the school holidays! 🦕
🦖 Dinosaur Encounter, Dino Trail, Dinosaur Activities, Dinosaur Petting & Dinosaur Tattoos.
🗓 13 Sep - 12 Oct
📍 Werribee Park Mansion
🎪 Journal of the Forest
Step into a mystical circus adventure 🌳✨
With juggling genies, faerie aerials, and a whimsical traveller as your guide, every show brings something new. Fun for families, parents, and teens alike – this magical Fringe experience is not to be missed!
🗓 29 Sep – 4 Oct
📍 Circus Nexus, Preston
🎨 FREE Art Workshops
Join us at Summerhill Shopping Centre for hands-on Art Workshops these school holidays:
🌸 Hanging Garden – create sparkling CD mosaics
🎨 Painted Garden – stamp, dab & brush your flower garden
🌳 Tree Sculptures – build your own 3D cardboard tree
☕️ BONUS: First 50 bookings get a FREE coffee voucher from Corner Bakery Cafe!
🗓 22 & 29 September
🕓 9:30am | 10:30am | 11:30am
📍 850 Plenty Rd, Reservoir VIC
✨ Places limited, don’t miss out!
🎸 Groove and Graze
🎸 Groove and Graze – A Day of Food, Music & Community Vibes!
Get ready for a full day of live music, gourmet food trucks, and good times in the heart of Glen Eira 🌳🎶
✨ Featuring young & emerging local artists
🍔 Delicious eats from top food trucks
🎶 Genres to get you grooving all afternoon
🗓 Saturday 20 September
🕓 12pm–7pm
📍 Joyce Park, Jasper Road, Ormond
🎟️ Free Event – No Bookings Needed!
🌸 Blossom Season at Apteds
For the first time in 113 years, Apteds is opening the orchard during blossom season. Wander among the pear blossoms, snap stunning photos, and soak up the valley views.
🍏 BYO picnic & relax in the orchard
🍏 Live music on Saturday
🍏 Fairy visitor on Sunday
🍏 Kids activities & games all week
🍏 Shop and taste the juicy & fresh fruit!
🗓 20 – 25 Sept
📍 864 Cottles-Bridge Strathewen Rd, Arthurs Creek
🚂 Day Out With Thomas
All aboard The Party Tour! 🎂 Celebrating 80 years of Thomas & Friends:
✨ Unlimited Thomas rides in those Troublesome Trucks
✨ One 45-minute trip to Lakers Siding with Douglas
✨ Meet Sir Topham Hatt + Rusty & Dusty
✨ Magic Shows & Story Telling
✨ Visit Henry’s Drivers Cab to toot his whistle
✨ Kids’ mini fire engine rides, art activities & mini golf
✨ Giant Percy & James + prize packs + more
🗓 4 & 5 October 🕓 10am – 4pm
📍 The Bellarine Railway: Queenscliff
🎪 Le Aerial
Ready for a night of daring heights and heart-racing thrills?
Step into the world of Le Aerial, where gravity-defying performers light up the sky with sizzling acrobatics and breathtaking aerial artistry. It’s Cirque-style entertainment with an edge – bold, beautiful, and made for a family night out!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “A remarkable display of aerial feats that spellbind the audience.” – Glam Adelaide
📍 Arts Centre Melbourne
🗓 2 – 5 October
🕵️ Crime Busters – Forensic Investigators
Calling all budding detectives! 🔍
These school holidays, solve mysteries at Old Melbourne Gaol: 🗝️ Examine clues; Crack puzzles; Unravel Ned Kelly’s and Ann Davis’s secrets. Explore at your own pace in this fun, self-guided adventure! 🏰
🗓 20 Sep – 5 Oct 🕓 10am to 5pm
📍 Old Melbourne Gaol 377 Russell Street, Melbourne
💦 JUMP! Swim Schools Noble Park
Looking for swimming lessons for your little one?
JUMP! Swim Schools Noble Park offers small, warm and welcoming classes perfect for babies from just 3 months old.
⭐ Small class sizes for personalised teaching
⭐ Heated indoor pool for year-round comfort
⭐ Expert teachers guiding every kick & stroke
🌡️ Warm 32–33° indoor pool
🩵 Expert qualified swim teachers
📍 Jump Swim Schools, Noble Park North
👉 New families get 50% OFF their first month!
🚢 Cape Cruise
🌊 WIN a scenic 1-hour Cape Woolamai cruise for the whole family.
🩵 Return cruise from San Remo Jetty
🩵 Tea, coffee & cake on board
🩵 Local commentary & stories
🩵 Cruise under the Phillip Island Bridge
🩵 Keep an eye out for seals, gannets & wedge-tailed eagles!
🩵 Watch the iconic 12pm pelican feeding organised by the San Remo Fishermans Co-Op
📍 Departs San Remo Jetty (Cowes)
🏰 Spring at Kryal Castle
From thrilling shows to hands-on activities, it’s the perfect place for families to explore, play, and create unforgettable memories.
🌸 Holiday Highlights: Live Jousting, Archery, Axe Throwing, Meet & Greets, The Maze, Dragon’s Labyrinth, Potion Making and more!
🗓 20 Sep – 5 Oct
🕓 10am – 4pm
📍 Kryal Castle (near Ballarat)
🌳 Trees Adventure: Yeodene Park
Take on Trees Adventure: Yeodene Park! Conquer 8 challenging courses, tackle 80+ obstacles, and soar through the forest on 24 flying foxes—including a 100m thrill ride! Perfect for kids, teens, and adults ready for adventure.
⏳ 2.5 hours of action-packed fun
📍 Yeodene Park
💣🔥 Melbourne, Can You Beat the Boom?
123Boom! is the real-life arcade game experience that’s taking Melbourne by storm! Solve puzzles, dodge lasers, battle flying monsters—and most importantly, stop the bomb before time runs out! ⏳
👥 Perfect for groups of 4-8 💥 6 immersive challenges that test your speed, skill & teamwork
🎯 Avoid lasers, solve puzzles & dodge flying monsters ♿ Wheelchair accessible
📍 551 Little Collins St, Melbourne CBD
📅 Choose your date & time
⏳ Duration: 75 minutes 👀 Age: 12+
🌈 SENSAS: A Multi-Sensory Experience
🖐️ Test all five senses (sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing) in both pitch-black and ultra-colourful workshops
✨ Gather your team to take on exciting challenges and surprising experiences in the Sensory Labs
🤩 Conquer your primary fears and embrace your emotions
🪙 Collect as many sensory charms as possible—each charm means a donation to a local charity supporting people with disabilities
💖 Perfect for groups of all sizes. Age requirement: 7+. Duration: 2 hours. 📍 South Yarra VIC
🔒 Prison Island
Where escaping isn’t the goal… winning is! 💥
Gather your crew and take on 34 epic prison cells filled with wild mental and physical challenges. 🧠💪
🎯 90 minutes of non-stop action
👫 Teams of 2–5 (perfect for families, friends, or co-workers)
🎉 Awesome for birthdays, bucks & hens—bride/groom plays FREE!
📍 The District Docklands
👧 Ages 7+ welcome!
🚀 Saboteurs
Crewmates and Impostors - Original Map
Experience Saboteurs in real life! Complete tasks as a Crew Member or sabotage as an Impostor in this fast-paced, AmongUs-style game. Form alliances, spot the deceivers, and test your deduction skills!
⏳ 40 mins of action-packed fun
📍 The Wheel, Docklands, Melbourne
🚦 Mr. Wolf Game
Crewmates and Impostors - Original Map
Experience Saboteurs in real life! Complete tasks as a Crew Member or sabotage as an Impostor in this fast-paced, AmongUs-style game. Form alliances, spot the deceivers, and test your deduction skills!
⏳ 40 mins of action-packed fun
📍 The Wheel, Docklands, Melbourne
🕯️ Swan Lake by candlelight
Swan Lake by candlelight? Yes, please.
Experience Tchaikovsky’s iconic music & ballet at Collingwood Town Hall, surrounded by the soft glow of hundreds of candles 🎻🩰
📍 Collingwood Town Hall | 65 mins | Ages 8+
🍷 Add a paired tasting experience with Sidedoor by AmazingCo for the full night out
🚢 Titanic: A Voyage Through Time
🌊 Travel back to 1912 and walk the Grand Staircase, explore the deck, and meet the passengers & crew in this breathtaking VR experience. 🕰️ Step into the past and explore the Titanic in full VR ⚓ Walk through iconic spaces like the lavish dining halls & Grand Staircase 🌊 Dive to the wreck and see Titanic as it rests today 📖 Discover real passenger & crew stories 👨👩👧👦 Perfect for families, history lovers & Titanic fans!
📍 Melbourne
⏳ Duration: 45 minutes
👦 Age: 8+ | Wheelchair accessible ♿
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