😍 Free, Fun & Family-Friendly Events These Holidays
🌳 Maze House
🌿 Get lost in the classic hedge maze
🔎 Solve clues in the maze hunt & win a prize
🎪 Play old-time carnival games
⏰ Enjoy 90+ minutes of family fun!
🗓 27 Dec - 26 Jan
📍 Daylesford
🎟️ Kids $12 | Adults $14 | Concession $12 | Under 4s FREE
💚 Shrek The Musical Australia
The wait is OGRE Australia! Shrek The Musical is making its way to Melbourne this January! This is the REAL DEAL that has amazed many thousands of people worldwide! Get ready for an exhilarating adventure to a far, far away kingdom… This action-packed spectacle brings your favorite animated characters to life on stage!
📍 Geelong Arts Centre 🗓️ 31 Dec - 3 Jan
📍 Melbourne Arts Centre 🗓️ 7 - 10 Jan
📍 Frankston Arts Centre 🗓️ 12 - 14 Jan
📍 Bendigo: Ulumbarra Theatre 🗓️ 16 - 17 Jan
🤩 Funfields Giveaway
The Ultimate One-Day Holiday, Just 40km From Melbourne! Awesome Rides & Attractions:
⚡️ Supanova Waterslide
⚡️ Dragon’s Revenge Swing Ride
⚡️ Pegasus Sky Bounce ride
⚡️ Mystic Kingdom.
⚡️ Volcano Beach Heated wave pool
⚡️ 3 ProSlide WORLD RECORD Waterslides; Kraken Racer, Typhoon & Gravity Wave
⚡️ Wet & dry rides including: Re-Imagined Amazonia Falls, Pirate Ship, Go Karts, Alpine Toboggan Slide and so much more.
🎶 Yamaha Music School
🎹 Massive Discount on Music Classes!
🎉 New students who enrol in eligible courses will get a huge 50% off their Semester 1, 2026 tuition. This is the biggest discount ever offered!
Eligible courses include: New Primary Courses, 1–1, 2–1, and Junior Fundamental Course 1. The discount is automatically applied at checkout for new students.
📍 Yamaha Music School, 1030 Dandenong Rd, Carnegie
👸 Sleeping Beauty Pantomime
✨ A magical tale of fairies, true love, curses & spinning wheels! Join Princess Kathryn, Nanny Nora & friends in this hilarious family pantomime packed with jokes, silliness & audience fun!
🗓 8–17 January
🕓 11am & 2pm
📍 Clayton Community Centre Theatrette, Clayton
🎟️ Tickets $15
🏀 360 Sports Camps
January School Holidays: Keep your kids moving, learning, and having fun! ⚽🏀🏐
🗓 Week 1: 12–15 Jan
🗓 Week 2: 19–22 Jan
🕓 9am–5pm (drop-off from 8:45am)
📍 Narrandjeri Stadium, Thornbury
💸 SAVE when you book more days or more kids!
(Plus: Book 6 days, get 2 FREE!)
🎟️ Sign up before Dec 31st & get FREE lunch included!
🤑 That’s a saving of $14 per day, per child!
🤩 Climb N' Play
🧗♀️ Climbing walls
🛝 Play zones for all ages
🎂 Epic parties & private events
☕ Family-friendly café
🌰 Nutty Heights – For all climbing levels
🌱 Acorn Adventure – For kids over 24 months
🐾 Tiny Tails – For toddlers under 24 months
🍕 Café – Coffee, pizza, burgers & more
📍 3/98–108 Hampstead Rd, Maidstone (near Highpoint)
🎡 Mordialloc Christmas Summer Carnival
One of Melbourne’s favourite summer carnivals is back by the beach! Enjoy:
🎠 Rides for all ages
🎯 Classic carnival games
🍿 Showbags & food
🎆 NYE Fireworks at 9:30pm
🎟️ FREE entry. Rides via wristbands or pay-as-you-go
🗓 26 Dec – 26 Jan
📍 Peter Scullin Reserve, Mordialloc (near the beach)
☀️ School Holiday Program at Whitehorse
Whitehorse is serving up a huge school holiday line-up packed with arts & crafts, cooking, gardening, outdoor adventures and more.
Kids can get creative with clay creatures, sunprint masterpieces, Fast Food Fun (in clay!), Procreate digital art, K-Pop Art Day, upcycled crafts and Portrait My Masterpiece. Plus all the classics — Old Fashioned Games, Slime Time, clay workshops, nature scavenger hunts and loads more!
🗓️ January
📍 Across Whitehorse
🌸 Blue Lotus Water Garden
🌷 School Holiday Fun!
Boxing Day Weekend (26–28 Dec): Queen Kristabelle
New Year’s Day (1 Jan): Fairy Poppie + Giant Bubbles
Bubble Weekend (3–4 Jan): Fairy Poppie
Magical Weekend (10–11 Jan): Steve’s Magic Show
Peter Pan (17 Jan): Mad Hatters
Lucky Luke (18 Jan): Magic Show
Australia Day Weekend (24–26 Jan): Queen Kristabelle
🗓 26 Dec – 26 Jan
📍 2628 Warburton Highway, Yarra Junction
Kids 0–15 FREE with a paying adult.
🎄 Christmas Summer Wonderland
✨ Where Festive Magic Meets Summer Fun!
🎅 Meet & Greet with Santa
🎨 Free Arts & Crafts
❄️ Magical Snowfall
🎡 Ferris Wheel Rides
⛳ Mini Golf
🎢 Traditional Helter Skelter Slide
🍹 Christmas-Themed Cocktails & Milkshakes
📍 Polly Woodside Park (front lawn of Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre)
🌳 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 ♿
😉 Free things to do all year round
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