Play & Go Adelaide

[ January 20, 2024; January 27, 2024; ]
AFC Families Presents Sticker Making Workshops with Billie Justice Thomson.
Join legendary illustrator Billie Justice Thomson for a special workshop to learn how to make awesome stickers.
Create your own design or use one of Billie’s in a simple 3 step process that is super fun and great for all ages!

Bookings essential, children to be accompanied by […]

Let the kids get creative and apply to paint a Stobie pole in your neighbourhood.
Stobie pole art is becoming more popular in colouring our streetscapes, but to avoid it being removed and to ensure the Stobie pole is safe to paint, you will need permission from SA Power Networks before you pull out a paint […]

[ December 15, 2023 to December 22, 2023. ]
Little Picassos Summer School Holiday Program 
Join Little Picassos during the summer school holidays for a selection of fun and creative holiday classes in a studio setting that provides an inspirational and motivational Artspace for children.
Air-conditioned and spacious, with a dynamic and inspirational program to suit every artist from 2.5 – 16 years of age.

School Holiday […]

[ December 19, 2023 to December 23, 2023. ]
Santa is almost here!
Northpark Shopping Centre is excited to bring you this year’s Photos with Santa. Pop in from Tuesday 19 to 23 December and get your picture taken and emailed to you for FREE! Snap a picture that will last a lifetime.
Session times:

Tuesday 19 December 2023 | 11am – 2pm 
Wednesday 20 December […]

[ December 2, 2023 to December 24, 2023. ]
December School Holiday fun at the Myer Centre Adelaide – the centre of Christmas fun in the city – North Pole in the South!
The entire ground floor of The Myer Centre Adelaide is transforming into a Christmas spectacular, festooned in Christmas cheer with dreamy decorations, smiling shoppers, dedicated workshops, Santa’s post-box, and their wonderful Christmas […]

Calling All Junior Photographers!
Does your child have a passion for photography? Maybe they’d like to enter their pics in the 2024 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition.
Owned and produced by the South Australian Museum, the competition is open to both amateur and professional photographers of any age so it’s a great opportunity for […]

Scouts Ultimate Activity Guide is the ideal gift for kids this Christmas.
Featuring over 200 pages of activities, challenges, experiments, games and much more, three youth and parenting issues have collided to culminate in the creation of the ‘Scouts Ultimate Activity Guide’ – the perfect gift for every family.
Published by Australian Geographic in partnership with Scouts […]

[ October 5, 2023 to October 8, 2023. October 12, 2023 to October 15, 2023. ]
Free School Holiday Pom Pom Teddy Bear Making Workshops at Churchill Centre
If you dare to go to Churchill Centre these school holidays…you’ll be in for a big surprise!! It’s a Teddy Bear’s Picnic with Pom Pom Teddy Bear making workshops!!
Limited items available per day, no bookings required, 1 item per child, items only available for […]

LEGO® Braille Bricks now available from the LEGO® store.
For the past few years Vision Australia have worked with LEGO® to provide their clients with LEGO® Braille Bricks. They have been a massive hit with their clients as a way to make learning braille more fun and accessible to the whole family.
Aimed at kids aged 6+, LEGO® Play […]

Create4Adelaide is a large-scale, year-long project that encourages young people to develop their creative skills and engage with local climate change priorities.
This is an opportunity for young people to be part of something big; to express themselves artistically, to think outside of the box and to engage with important issues around climate change in a […]

Adelaide Fringe 2024 Poster Competition
The Poster Competition for the 2024 Adelaide Fringe Festival is now open for all visual creators to have the chance for their design represent the Fringe next year. 
Australia’s biggest arts festival, Adelaide Fringe is on a global hunt to find the artwork that will become the face of the 2024 festival, […]

[ September 10, 2023; ]
Our Young Words: Make Mine a Monster
Illustration Workshop by Brenton McKenna
There is nothing more funny, scary and creative then creating your very own monster. Whether we like them or not, every good story needs one. They come in all shapes and sizes and Yawuru illustrator Brenton Mckenna is trying to hunt down and capture them […]

[ July 13, 2023; July 15, 2023; ]
Sneaker Painting Workshop is an opportunity to design and paint your dream pair of Air Jordans or Nike dunks on a canvas that you can take home with you. 
Putting on a killer pair of kicks can instantly boost your mood. At this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to design and paint your dream pair of Air […]

Urth Clay Studio | School Holiday Classes | Review
By Claire Davill
Urth Clay Studio’s school holiday program gives kids and teens the opportunity to get creative and get messy with fun and inspiring pottery classes.
The school holiday program gives kids the chance to try their hand at two pottery methods – hand building and the pottery […]

How to Make Amazing Invisible Ink
You might be familiar with lemon juice invisible ink, but we’ve discovered a better, more colourful invisible ink that really is invisible until you brush it with special “revealing” paint!
Even better, you don’t need heat like you do for lemon juice ink. All you need is bicarbonate soda, water, turmeric […]

Bloom Flower Crowns Workshop Parties!
Bloom Flower Crowns Workshop Parties come to you, supply fresh or artificial flowers, and materials and your workshop host for up to 2 hours. After a demonstration, your workshop host will help your guests create their beautiful flower crown to take home.

Once everyone has finished, Bloom Flower Crowns pack up, no […]

Design a Mini Float for the 2023 National Pharmacies Christmas Pageant
Children aged from 5 to 16 years of age have the chance to win an exclusive experience at this year’s National Pharmacies Christmas Pageant by getting creative and designing a mini float.  Submit a minimum of one full-colour, hand-drawn or digital drawing of the mini […]

[ April 17, 2023 to April 21, 2023. ]
School Holiday Fun at Hallett Cove Shopping Centre
Kid can enjoy free school holiday pottery classes at Hallett Cove Shopping Centre during the April school holidays. Kids can release their inner artist and let their creative flair expand.

Over 5 days, Hallett Cove will be offering FREE pottery Masterclasses, where each day they will get the chance […]

Children’s Artspace: a place for learning through play, creativity, and expression.
Children’s Artspace at the Adelaide Festival Centre is a place for all children, students, and families to go and share ideas and engage in art created by South Australian children.
With a brand-new exhibition for each school term, Children’s Artspace provides a safe space for discussions […]

Art-Chery at Adelaide Fringe
Forget Pallets and paint brushes! Head on down to Gluttony’s world first Art-Chery range and create your very own abstract masterpiece by shooting paint-tipped arrows at canvases. These are real bows and modified arrows. Choose your selection of colours and take aim to bring your vision to life. Create your own or […]

[ December 2, 2022 to December 24, 2022. December 26, 2022 to December 31, 2022. January 1, 2023 to January 9, 2023. ]
Santa’s Express Post Office at the Myer Centre.
This Christmas, children are welcomed to the Myer Centre to post their very own letters to Father Christmas!

The Myer Centre has created a Santa’s Express Post Office with a station for kids to write or draw a postcard to pop in a post box heading for the North […]

 
Tea Tree Gully Early Learning Supplies specialise in nature-inspired resources and toys for young children, around the ages of 2-5 years that will make a beautiful Christmas gift.

They have had an online store for several years but recently opened a small Sales & Display Centre in Banksia Park.

With a range of open-ended toys to encourage imagination, […]

Send a Letter to Santa this Christmas
The Australia Post Santa Mail program is a fun and exciting way for primary school-aged children to write letters to Santa and receive a personalised response from him.
Families right across Australia can spread the merry by encouraging kids to step away from digital screens and return to the evergreen […]

Countdown to Christmas Printable Santa Beard for Kids
As Christmas day draws near children will often ask “How many days until Christmas?”
There are some gorgeous advent calendars on the market, from wooden trees to felt wall hangings, but there are also loads of homemade versions you can make at home for very minimal cost.
This Santa’s Beard […]

Art Activity for National Child Protection Week
This year in Child Protection Week (4 – 10 September), NAPCAN will be talking about the need to treat all of Australia’s children fairly, by making sure that every neighbourhood has what kids need to thrive and be healthy.
The National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) […]

[ July 11, 2022 to July 14, 2022. July 18, 2022 to July 22, 2022. ]  
Winter School Holidays are almost upon us!
Go along, take the kids, even the whole family, and join a fun and affordable program in the warmth of the City of Salisbury libraries, hubs and community centres.
Activities include:

Movies at Mawson: Encanto and Clifford
Nitro Nat at the Salisbury Community Hub
Bollywood Dance Workshop at Para […]

Little Picassos: School Holiday Classes & Events | Glenelg, Hyde Park, Magill | Review
Little Picassos run a variety of art classes throughout the year, from ongoing term-based classes to single drop-in (or drop-and-go for older kids) school holiday program classes. They also run classes for special events, like Mothers Day and Easter.
Classes are kept small […]

Entries are now open for the 2022 Royal Adelaide Show competitions!
Do you have a brilliant baker, savvy sewer or green thumb at home?  From arts, crafts and cookery, to horticulture, photography and more, the Royal Adelaide Show offers you and YOUR KIDS the opportunity to show off your talents in numerous categories.
Whether you’re artistic, creative, […]

DIY Easter Crafts with Cricut Joy machine – Review
Step away from your inspiration boards and turn your best intentions into action with a little help from this “DIY best friend”.
by Carla Caruso
Coming up with unique Easter gifts – beyond the usual choccy eggs – can be a challenge.
Especially if you’re not particularly crafty! However, […]

[ April 21, 2022 to April 22, 2022. April 28, 2022 to April 29, 2022. ]
Enjoy FREE Lego fun at Port Adelaide Plaza these school holidays with the team from Bricks 4 Kidz! Sessions will be held on Thursdays and Fridays during the holidays. See what’s on below:
Super Hero Kart Racing
On your marks… get set… GO!! What could be more fun than building your very own Go Kart with […]