2025 Adelaide Fringe Guide for Families & Kids – find the best family friendly shows to see at the Fringe!
Adelaide Fringe is Australia’s biggest arts festival with an exciting program of family friendly shows and interactive experiences plus comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, visual art, music, and more. Find everything you need to know about this year’s Adelaide Fringe for families and kids below, including the best shows to see, free events and activities, where to find rides and the city’s must visit Fringe hubs.
Fringe Shows & All You Need to Know About Adelaide Fringe 2025
The Fringe is back bigger than ever this year with international acts returning and so much variety. You’ll find the best Fringe acts for families and ones tailored just for kids in our guides. As always, the Play & Go review team will be out and about reviewing dozens of shows, so look out for our top Fringe picks once the fun begins.
If you’re not sure what to see or where to go, bookmark this Guide for all the info you need for a family outing at The Fringe and shows to take the kids to. We’ll also sneak in a few reviews for the adults if you can get yourself a babysitter and get out for a show or two without the little ones tagging along.
BEST FRINGE SHOWS FOR KIDS:
FORT | Family Friendly Show | Adelaide Fringe 2025
FoRT : A spectacular physical theatre show for families inspired by the timeless craft of turning lounge rooms upside down. Dive into a magical world of play and creation, where everyday objects become a universe of fun and adventure. Two ...
C’est la Fete | Family Friendly Show | Adelaide Fringe 2025
C'est la Fete - Adelaide Fringe 2025 Dive into a world of enchantment with “C’est la Fête”! Adelaide’s leading aerialists come together to create a French-themed celebration in the sky. Dance the night away as if you’re wandering through Parisian ...
Zuperheroes | Family Friendly Show | Adelaide Fringe 2025
Zuperheroes - Adelaide Fringe 2025 “Zuperheroes” is an electrifying spectacle that combines jaw-dropping aerial acrobatics, mesmerizing circus feats, and powerhouse vocals, bringing to life a cast of extraordinary characters with superhuman abilities. Experience heart-pounding action and stunning visuals as Zuperheroes ...
Outback Jams! | Adelaide Fringe 2025
Play On Words Productions presents “Outback Jams!”
A Music-filled, side-splitting Aussie adventure at Adelaide Fringe 2025. Get ready to sing, dance, and laugh as a brand-new musical takes centre stage at the 2025 Adelaide Fringe Festival! Created by Play On Words ...
Fringe Fridays | Fringe @ Playford | 21 Feb – 21 Mar 2025
Fringe Fridays - Fringe @ Playford 2025 The City of Playford is excited to present Fringe Fridays, a weekly series of fun, free, family-friendly events during the Adelaide Fringe season. These sessions are designed to bring the excitement of Adelaide ...
The Messy Magic Adventure | Adelaide Fringe | 8-23 Mar 2025
The Messy Magic Adventure - Circus! Slapstick! Cleaning products! Spray and Wipe have been hired for their most exciting job ever - cleaning a magician’s house! But when they accidentally let the magic out of its box, everything is turned ...
101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents and Other Really Old People – THE HOLIDAY SPECIAL | Adelaide Fringe 2025
e 101 Ways to Annoy your parents and other really old people - THE HOLIDAY SPECIAL The multi award winning kids show is back with a brand new show. Welcome to THE HOLIDAY SPECIAL. Bringing families together and arming the ...
Discover, Play, Pathway! | Amy Gillett Bikeway | Adelaide Fringe | 2 Mar 2025
Discover, Play, Pathway! FREE family fun on the Amy Gillett Bikeway. Ride or walk the Amy Gillett Pathway and discover an array of music, art, food and entertainment all set against the backdrop of the spectacular rolling Adelaide Hills. The ...
Best of Kids Fringe | Adelaide Fringe 2025
Best of Kids Fringe 2025. 'Best of Kids Fringe' is the original and best variety show for kids and families at this year’s Adelaide Fringe. With a star-studded rotating and fixed line-up of awesome acts from around the Fringe. A ...
Fringe Vibes on Hutt Street | Adelaide | 1 Mar 2025
Fringe Vibes on Hutt Street Enjoy the best of Hutt Street with this free family-friendly Fringe event. From superhero acrobatics to live performances and hands-on activities, there’s something for everyone to enjoy throughout the day. Don’t miss the thrilling Acrobat ...
Dart & Nerf Blaster Arena | Gluttony | Adelaide Fringe 2025
Don't miss the Dart and Nerf Blaster Arena at the Adelaide Fringe in 2025! Located in the heart of the GLUTTONY site just past the creek. It's lots of interactive fun for kids of all ages! This year's DART and ...
Salisbury Fringe Carnival | Adelaide Fringe | 21 & 22 Feb 2025
The Salisbury Fringe Carnival is back at Carisbrooke Park for two unforgettable days of free, family-friendly fun on Friday 21 & Saturday 22 February 2025. Whether you’re looking for thrilling amusement rides, dazzling performances, or a place to relax and ...
The Greatest Magic Show | Adelaide Fringe 2025
The Greatest Magic Show After a year hiatus, this sell-out sensation is set to return with more whimsical wonders than ever before! Having garnered international acclaim performing at the biggest arts festivals across the globe, stars Sam, Justin and the ...
Evolution Revolution | Adelaide Fringe | 3-23 Mar 2025
Discover the Evolution Revolution for Kids and Families at the Adelaide Fringe. Premiering at the 2025 Adelaide Fringe, Evolution Revolution is an interactive games show all about evolution using the audience themselves as raw materials! Find out how closely related ...
Amazing Drumming Monkeys | Adelaide Fringe 2025
Amazing Drumming Monkeys - Monkey Beats for Little Feet The Amazing Drumming Monkeys are back, bringing their beats, bops, and bonkers antics to the Adelaide Fringe in 2025! This isn’t your average kids’ show – it’s 21 years of performing ...
CIRCUS The Show | Adelaide Fringe 2025
CIRCUS - The Show The fastest growing family circus spectacular, CIRCUS The Show, is headed back to Adelaide after ground-breaking, sell out seasons right across the country and internationally after headlining Underbelly at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024. Roll up! ...
Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall & Baby Cabaret | Adelaide Fringe 2025
Monski Mouse's Baby Disco Dance Hall at the Adelaide Fringe Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for this award-winning, epic session of bopping, bonkers, beautiful fun. Expect high-energy smiling to retro beats and ...
KABOOM! | Adelaide Fringe 2025
KABOOM! Explosive Science Show with Magnus Danger Magnus! The maddest of mad scientists, Magnus Danger Magnus, heads back to Adelaide Fringe in 2025 for an epic season of STEM based entertainment; following a SELL OUT 2024 and further complete sell-out ...
Gather, Dance & Explore at Whitmore | Adelaide Fringe | 15 Mar 2025
Gather, Dance & Explore at Whitmore is back for 2025! Get ready for a free day of family fun and festivities at Gather, Dance & Explore at Whitmore Square/Iparrityi this Adelaide Fringe! Let the kids groove to DJ Bandit's beats ...
Bunktopia – Shadow Puppet Show | Adelaide Fringe 2025
Bunktopia- A Shadow Puppet Show Meet the man who makes shadow puppets in a whole new way! The award winning odd-ball creator of ‘Sticks Stones Broken Bones’, ‘Swamp Juice’, ‘Slapdash Galaxy’ and ‘Bunkasaurus’, Jeff Achtem (Bunk Puppets) returns to Adelaide ...
Bubba-Licious | Adelaide Fringe 2025
Bubba-Licious Bubba-Licious is the perfect Adelaide Fringe show for mums and Dads who are dying to get their new humans out to the Fringe! Inspired by being a new mum, Kat Placing has devised a show for babbling babies & ...
Check out some of our Adelaide Fringe Reviews here to get an idea of what to expect.
FRINGE HUBS:
The Garden of Unearthly Delights | Adelaide Fringe | 14 Feb – 23 Mar 2025
Adelaide’s greatest party is back for an unmissable 2025 Adelaide Fringe season. As always, The Garden promises truly unforgettable experiences, family-friendly delights, late-night thrills and a vibrant atmosphere that’s truly one of a kind. Kadlitpina (Rundle Park) will be bursting with energy and transformed into a cultural and creative playground, ...
Gluttony | Adelaide Fringe | Rymill Park/Murlawirrapurka | 14 Feb – 23 Mar 2025
Gluttony returns in 2025! Arts venue hub Gluttony is a favourite Adelaide Fringe destination, its location in the city’s eastern park lands right in the heart of the Fringe action. Gluttony has grown to become synonymous with the East End’s Rymill Park/Murlawirrapurka during Adelaide’s festival months of February and March ...
Fool’s Paradise | Adelaide Fringe | 21 Feb – 23 Mar 2025
Fool’s Paradise returns to Adelaide Fringe for 2025 season. Tarntanyangga/Victoria Square will host popular Fringe venue hub, Fool’s Paradise, for the third year running during the 2025 Adelaide Fringe Festival, with their biggest program yet! Fool’s Paradise promises to be an epicentre of activity, offering a unique blend of circus, ...
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