Free Kids Events in Melbourne, Giveaways & Discounts
🎉 Featured Events
🎪 Elmo’s Circus Dream
Elmo’s Magical Circus Spectacular is coming to Waurn Ponds! Join your favourite friends from Sesame Street for a colourful, high-energy show packed with acrobatics, aerial acts, daredevils, and plenty of laughs for the whole family.
Featuring Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster, Grover, Bert & Ernie!
🗓 26 Jun - 2 Aug
📍 Waurn Ponds Shopping Centre
🚀 Smithsonian Starstruck
Explore the cosmos like never before as you:
🪐 Visit the Smithsonian's Whipple Observatory
🔭 Travel aboard powerful telescopes
☀️ Witness enormous solar flares
💥 Watch a spectacular supernova
🕳️ Venture to the edge of a supermassive black hole
Created with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, this immersive adventure brings the wonders of space to life through stunning visuals and interactive storytelling.
📍 Bourke Street, Melbourne
⏱️ Approx. 1 hour
👧 Ages 10+
💬 English & Spanish
💲 Tickets from $34.50
❄️ Winter Wonderland at Skyline Melbourne
Experience the Magic of Winter:
🎡 Unlimited rides (Ferris Wheel, Tea Cups, Mini-Golf.. )
❄️ Hourly snowfall 👸 Meet Elsa (12pm – 2pm)
☃️ Meet the Cuddly Snowman 🎨 Winter arts & crafts
📸 Giant walk-in snow globe 💃 Shake It Off Snow Dance Party 🔥 Fire pit with marshmallow roasting ⛸️ Ice curling
🗓 Weekend throughout July
📍 Polly Woodside Park, South Wharf
✨ Immerse Knox
Discover a full month of creative experiences across Knox this winter. Immerse features art in unexpected places with interactive installations, performances, projections and community-led creativity for all ages.
What you’ll find:
🌟 Interactive & Projection
🌟 Community Creations
🌟 Pop Ups
🌟 Immerse Bus Tours
🌟 Celebrate NAIDOC
🗓 26 June – 26 July
📍 Knox, VIC
✨ Candlelight Babies
Looking for a beautiful first musical experience for your little one? Bask in the glow of thousands of candles while your baby enjoys gentle classical music played at baby-friendly sound levels. Designed for parents and babies aged 0–3, this relaxing concert encourages bonding, creativity, and early cognitive development.
🧸 Movement-friendly area with padded flooring
🎶 45-minute live classical concert
👶 Perfect for babies aged 0–3 years
📍 75 Reid St, Melbourne
A magical experience to create precious family memories.
🚀 Smithsonian Starstruck
Step inside the universe with this incredible new virtual reality adventure launching in Melbourne!
✨ Highlights: Journey through the cosmos in stunning 3D VR. Explore the Smithsonian's Whipple Observatory. Experience the Sun's powerful vibrations and giant solar flares. Visit an exoplanet with volcanoes and diamond-filled landscapes. Witness the power of a supermassive black hole
🗓️ From 3 July
🕒 Approx. 1 hour (40-minute VR experience)
📍 Level 1, 206 Bourke Street, Melbourne
👧 Ages 10+
🗻 Machu Picchu
This incredible virtual reality adventure lets you wander through the ancient Inca citadel, climb the Andes, and uncover the secrets of Machu Picchu like never before.
✨ Highlights: Be guided by TERI, your robot companion. Explore the Temple of the Sun and iconic terraces. Experience a stunning recreation built using drones, LiDAR and expert archaeology. A unique adventure for families, history lovers and curious explorers
🗓️ Sessions available now
🕒 Approx. 1 hour (40-minute VR experience)
📍 Level 1, 206 Bourke Street, Melbourne
👧 Ages 10+
💣🔥 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+
⭐ Bubble Planet
A magical, multi-sensory adventure where kids (and grown-ups!) can jump, explore and play through more than 10 themed rooms filled with oversized bubbles, balloons, illusions and dreamy landscapes.
⏳ Allow 60–90 minutes
📍 Fever Exhibition and Experience Centre
👶 All ages welcome (2 & under FREE)
♿ Wheelchair accessible (except ball pit & balloon ocean)
🧦 Don’t forget socks for the bubble bath!
🌇 Melbourne Skydeck & Edge Experience: Panoramic Views 285 Metres Up
✨ Take in Melbourne from 285m up at the Southern Hemisphere’s highest sky deck
✨ Enjoy sweeping views of icons like the MCG, Fed Square & Flinders St Station
✨ Add The Edge Experience to step into a glass cube nearly 300m above the city!
🗓️ Dates: various (select at checkout)
🕒 Hours: Mon, Wed, Thu, Sun: 12–9 p.m. Fri & Sat: 12–10 p.m.
Last entry: 30 mins before close
📍 Location: Melbourne Skydeck
😉 Free things to do all year round
Discover the best free things to do in Melbourne with kids, all year round! From creative workshops and hands-on exhibits to outdoor adventures and family-friendly galleries, this guide brings together Melbourne’s top permanent attractions and weekly activities that won’t cost a thing.
🐴 Melbourne Museum: Melbourne History Tour
Explore Melbourne’s history with a guided walk through the Melbourne Story gallery. Learn about the gold rush, the city’s grid design, famous landmarks, and the legendary racehorse Phar Lap. See artifacts that showcase how Melbourne evolved — perfect for both visitors and locals.
⭐ Hear fascinating stories from a knowledgeable guide
⭐ Walk through decades of Melbourne’s past
⭐ Includes a gift lanyard, tote bag & 10% off at the Museum Store
🌈 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!
🕯️ 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
✨ We call it Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty like you’ve never seen before! 🩰🌟
We Call It Ballet lights up Melbourne with a glow-in-the-dark twist on the classic fairytale
🎭 Capitol Theatre, Melbourne
🌈 6 local dancers + glowing costumes = pure magic
🎵 A dazzling mix of ballet, light & storytelling
For ages 5+ | 60 mins | Wheelchair accessible
Don't miss this glowing experience!
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🚀 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
