[ September 26, 2025 to October 12, 2025. ]
Nature Festival 2025: Flow
Nature Festival returns for its 6th year with over 400 nature-inspired events across South Australia in art, adventure, music, food, wine, wellbeing, and Aboriginal culture. This includes fun family-friendly events, designed to connect you with nature.
This year the festival explores the theme of Flow, from rivers and oceans to […]
Morialta Conservation Park Nature Playground is a delight for children with a fabulous design incorporating physical challenges, indigenous culture and native plants and animals.
Morialta Mukanthi Playground is the ultimate nature play space, and was the first of its kind in Adelaide. It’s nestled amongst the Morialta Recreation Area on Stradbroke Road in Woodforde. This huge […]
[ June 7, 2025 to June 9, 2025. ]
Festival Plaza is set to transform into a wonderland of nature play with The Wild Weekend — a free and immersive outdoor experience created by the award-winning team at Climbing Tree Creations.
Editors update: Due to predicted severe weather, this event has been postponed:
“While Climbing Tree likes to promote getting out in all […]
[ May 15, 2025; ]
Rug up and get messy with Playgroup SA at Cleland Wildlife Park. Mud & Play features mud pits, sensory activities, story time, nature creations, entertainment and more.
Mud and Play is a special event with subsidised pricing for Playgroup SA-enrolled families. Go along to Cleland Wildlife Park for a range of fun nature-based activities and outdoor […]
[ April 12, 2025 to April 13, 2025. April 18, 2025 to April 27, 2025. May 10, 2025 to May 11, 2025. ]
Pick Your Own Apples in the Adelaide Hills at Plummers Pick Your Own.
Autumn is the perfect time to take a drive into the Adelaide Hills and pick some beautifully sweet, crisp and crunchy apples fresh from the trees. Everyone’s favourite Pink Lady apples are now ready along with Fuji and Granny Smith apples available. They also […]
[ April 15, 2025 to April 16, 2025. ]
Grab your picnic blankets and beanies, Nature Play Forest Festival is returning to Kuitpo Wirra Inparri in April 2025.
Forest Festival is a thoughtfully curated celebration of children, nature, Aboriginal culture, the changing seasons and community. It’s an opportunity to slow down. Adjust your rhythm. Wander with friends. Breathe the crisp forest air. And follow your […]
McLauchlan Road Playground in Windsor Gardens is fully fenced, packed with features and surrounded by native landscaping.
Review by Claire Davill
Windsor Gardens has a new playground in the small and quiet McLauchlan Road Reserve, and while small, it’s packed with equipment for toddlers and older kids. The playground is fully fenced and there are some accessible […]
[ March 1, 2025 to March 2, 2025. March 8, 2025 to March 10, 2025. ]
Pick Your Own Figs to Eat in the Adelaide Hills.
Willabrand Australia has introduced Pick-to-Eat, a new way to enjoy the beautiful fig orchard and delicious fruit at Glen Ewin Estate. From 11am on Saturdays and Sundays you can enter the 12,000 tree orchard to pick and eat as many figs as you can whilst you […]
The 2024/2025 Cherry Season has begun! Pick Your Own Cherries around Adelaide and find your local Cherry Farm Gate Sales in South Australia.
Christmas has come early for all the cherry lovers out there! The 2024/2025 cherry season is officially here and there’s nothing that says Summer is on the way more than when sweet, juicy […]
Littlehampton’s Glebe Playground features a fully fenced playground in the middle of a vast open space, and now includes toilets and bike ramps for an active outdoor family.
Review by Adaire Prosser
The Glebe in Littlehampton is set on a large open paddock and has enjoyed a number of recent upgrades. It remains a dog-friendly park […]
Oak Folk is a nature-inspired playgroup at the leafy Uraidla Showgrounds and offers a two hour sensory play experience.
Review by Adaire Prosser
If you’re looking for a playgroup that takes things outdoors and keeps the kids busy – then make sure to check out Oak Folk Nature Inspired & Sensory Playgroup. Set among the base of […]
[ October 26, 2024 to October 27, 2024. ]
Wellness wander in the Adelaide Hills is back!
Old favourites join some stunning new events to suit all tastes and ages with more than 40 bespoke and highly thoughtful wellness experiences curated to fill your cup next month.
Now in its third year, the two-day event champions local wellness operators and experiences that are abundant in the […]
Pick Your Own Flowers in the Adelaide Hills this October.
A morning or an evening spent at Charleston Farm is such a beautiful way to start the day! It’s a really lovely experience if you love flowers, and especially if you’re like me and can’t keep anything alive in the garden.
Take the family and wander the […]
Wakefield Reserve in Morphett Vale has had a fabulous upgrade, thanks to The City of Onkaparinga’s community engagement initiative.
Review by Jo Parkinson
Wakefield Reserve is situated on Acre Avenue in Morphett Vale, not far from Southgate Plaza Shopping Centre. It is spread out over a large area, with two separate playgrounds that are connected by a […]
Nestled in the backstreets of Nailsworth you’ll find Prospect Gardens/Narnu Wirra Park and a fantastic playground, perfect for playdates, parties or a quick run around after school.
Review by Sharon Harrington
The Prospect Gardens playground features a variety of play equipment to suit both toddlers and primary aged children, including swings, slides, sandpit, climbing frame, monkey bars […]
The town of Paringa, near Renmark is now home to its own Nature Play Area, located in the median strip of the town centre.
Paringa Town Nature Play Area is suitable for children under 12 and the fully fenced play space has been designed with enhanced accessibility features and inclusive amenities.
Children will be delighted with […]
[ October 4, 2024; ]
Get ready for grubby, muddy fun on Friday 4 October 2024 at the Muddy Hands Festival!
Roll around in the mud, make potions and seed bombs, build a cubby, become a next generation pollinator and immerse yourself in everything the great outdoors has to offer.
Other children’s entertainment and educational stalls will be on site as […]
[ June 29, 2024; ]
International Mud Day is 29 June – It aims to connect children across the entire world through the earth, by playing in the mud.
It gives children and early childhood professionals all over the globe the opportunity to celebrate nature, outdoors and mess by getting really muddy – and kids love it!
Mud is also a natural […]
Wombat Waterhole Playground in Hazelwood Park is a varied play space set amongst towering gum trees and includes fun features for all ages and abilities.
Review by Claire Davill
This long-time favourite playground had a refresh in early 2024, with new soft fall and repaired/replaced circular play platforms. The refresh has helped maintain the many accessible features […]
[ March 29, 2024 to April 1, 2024. ]
The Easter long weekend is one of the most popular weekends at Woodhouse Adventure Park with an “eggstra” special atmosphere created across the period for both the experienced campers and those starting out, as well as families just going in for the day.
Take the chance to be screen-free for a moment and wind down after […]
[ March 20, 2024; ]
Go along for a huge outdoor playgroup in Cleland Wildlife Park to celebrate turning 50 during National Playgroup Week.
Eventgoers can enjoy fun, nature-based activities including water play, nature creations, loose parts play, music, story time on the lawn, and much more. There will also be the opportunity to explore the rest of the park and […]
Mofflin Reserve Playground in Elizabeth Vale features a huge beehive-themed playground as the centrepiece of this extensive redevelopment.
Review by Claire Davill
Completed in January 2024, the transformation from paddock to large park has been incredible. There are facilities here to keep you occupied for the whole day, including a playground, nature play area, fitness zone, ball […]
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 8, 2023; ]
Celebrate Biodiversity at the Park Lands Biofair in Victoria Park/Pakapakanthi
Attend the Park Lands Biofair in Victoria Park/Pakapakanthi (Park 16) on Sunday 8 October, from 10am to 3pm to discover the wonders of biodiversity in the City of Adelaide’s beautiful Park Lands.
Learn about waterbirds and their ecology, explore the Chequered Copper Butterfly’s original discovery spot, engage […]
[ October 8, 2023; ]
Connect, discover and engage with nature at Along the River, with Nature Play SA.
The event is set within Felixstow Reserve, surrounded by majestic river gums, native flora and abundant bird life, wetlands and walking tracks to explore. Activities are all free and include sunflower bee bombs, bee hotels and tours of the river.
Take a walk […]
[ October 5, 2023; ]
Explore the beautiful environment and connect with nature at the free Barossa Bushgardens Nature Play Festival, suitable for children 0 – 10 years.
Go for a scavenger hunt, explore the nature trail and different kinds of labyrinths or even create your own. Have a play in the newly expanded Nature Play Area or get dirty in […]
Pine Reserve Playground in Aberfoyle Park has had an upgrade!
Review by Brooke Hendry
Have you ever lived in an area for years and not realised that you had an absolute treasure of a playground literally around the corner?
This is what has happened to us. How did we not know about Pine Reserve Playground in Aberfoyle Park? We’ve […]
Discover the Ultimate Adventure at Glenthorne National Park – Ityamaiitpinna Yarta’s Amazing Nature Playground.
If you’re looking for a fun family day out then you’re going to love the new (and massive) adventure playground at Glenthorne National Park – Ityamaiitpinna Yarta. It’s an absolute winner – for kids of all ages and abilities. There’s a lot […]
[ July 30, 2023; ]
Nature Play Adventure Playground Opens at Glenthorne National Park-Ityamaiitpinna Yarta
Glenthorne National Park-Ityamaiitpinna Yarta is one of Adelaide’s newest national parks, and is located 16km south of Adelaide in the suburb of O’Halloran Hill.
Thanks to investment from the City of Marion, the nature play space at the park was expanded to feature extra additions including a flying […]
Wilderness Escape day program Go Wild at Southern Adventure Hub
Kids can try out high ropes, zip-lines, rock climbing and more during this thrilling day program.
Review by Carla Caruso
The idea of doing an American summer camp always appealed to me as a youngster. Maybe it was all the teen novels I used to consume.
Well, Wilderness Escape Outdoor Adventures offers exactly […]
