Adelaide Fringe Guide | Family Friendly Shows | 21 Feb – 23 Mar 2025

December 8, 2024

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, including the best shows to see, free events and activities, where to find rides and the city’s must visit Fringe hubs.

ADELAIDE FRINGE 2025 tickets are on sale via FringeTIX

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:

Bubba-Licious | Adelaide Fringe 2025

Bubba-Licious Yes, it's a show for babies! Mums & Dads who are dying to get their new humans out to the fringe, this show is for you! Inspired by being a new mum, Kat Placing has devised a show for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall & Baby Cabaret | Adelaide Fringe 2025

Monski Mouse's Baby Disco Dance Hall 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 thumping nursery rhymes. Get ...

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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Splish Splash Splatacular! | Adelaide Fringe 2025

Splish Splash Splatacular! From the multi-award-winning creators of “The Alphabet of Awesome Science” and “You Are a Doughnut”... ...comes a splashy-splashy science circus, where the star of the show is (drum roll please…) — WATER! Join ringmaster Rip Tide as ...

Check out some of our Adelaide Fringe Reviews here to get an idea of what to expect.

FRINGE HUBS:

Adelaide Fringe Garden of Unearthly Delights

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 | 20 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, ...

Prospect Road Autumn Fair | 2 Mar 2025

Sleep’s Hill Tunnel | 14 Feb – 30 Mar 2025

Peter Combe | Wash Your Kids in Orange Juice! | Adelaide Fringe | 8-23 Mar 2025

360 Allstars | Adelaide Fringe | 20 Feb – 23 Mar 2025

Gather, Dance & Explore at Whitmore | Adelaide Fringe | 15 Mar 2025

Cool 4 Kids – Free Lets Party Show | Adelaide Fringe | 28 Feb 2025

For more information and all enquiries please visit the Adelaide Fringe website.

At Play & Go Adelaide we make every effort to provide accurate information to the best of our knowledge at the time of publication. We recommend confirming times, dates and details directly before making any plans as details may be subject to change.

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