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One of our FAVOURITE free things to do with the kids in Perth 🎨✨

We come to AGWA all the time for their ever-changing FREE kids activities and the current one is SO GOOD.

🧵✂️ CRANKY PANTS ✂️🧵
Kids can use all sorts of bits, bobs and materials to create outfits for the characters, themselves… or, if you’re game, YOU 🤪😂 Then take their creations to the CATWALK!

My kids LOVE this one. They happily played for HOURS and the best bit… it’s completely FREE!

There’s heaps happening for FREE these school holidays too 👇

💃 Dancing the Gallery
28 Sep & 5 Oct | 10–11am
Dance, movement games + creativity.

✨ Cardboard Couture
1 & 8 Oct | 10–11am
Create hats, handbags, jewellery + wearable creations.

✏️ Drawing Together
2 & 9 Oct | 10–11am
Drawing games + a collaborative artwork.

🖼️ Family Guided Tours
29 & 30 Sep, 1 & 2 Oct + 5–9 Oct | 11am
A kid-friendly guided adventure through the gallery.

ALL FREE 🙌 Workshops are for families with kids 5+ and require bookings. Tours are best for ages 5–12.

📍 AGWA, Perth Cultural Centre
📅 PLAY DATES: 26 Sep–11 Oct
💰 FREE!

Pair it with Boola Bardip next door and you’ve got a whole day sorted 🙌 be sure to checkout my video on how to score your free annual pass before you go 👀

SAVE this + send it to a Perth parent who needs more FREE school holiday ideas! ❤️

These mummy and me sunnies packs are soooooo adorable! Spotted today in BigW. Would make such a cute Chrissy gift 😎

More special buys spotted at Aldi today included sporting gear (awesome for Xmas!), camping stuff and homewares

RUN to Aldi 🏃‍♀️ They have sooooo many cute lunchbox prep stuff, meal prep, food storage, suction baby plates etc 😍😍😍 All spotted this arvo!

September School Holidays are two weeks away and we cannot wait! Here is some inspo if you’re in Perth these hols! Tag a friend who would find this list handy and be sure to follow along for more 🫶

If I’ve left anything off add it to the comments and help out another parent 🙌

Made with the help of AI. If you find any errors let me know so I can fix them up. Some things you’ll have to prebook. It’s always best to context venues directly as I am not running these events, I’m simply a busy mum planning our holidays and wanting to help other parents out too bully sharing my list 💜

🎨 A Perfect City – WA Museum Boola Bardip — 29 Sep–3 Oct | FREE Kids 5+ can drop in and help create a giant collaborative artwork by designing and building their idea of the perfect city.

🌊 OceanXperience — WA Museum Boola Bardip Until 11 October 2026 (checkout my reel about how to go for free!)

👩‍🎨 Art Gallery of WA – FREE | 26 Sep–11 Oct
Visit AGWA in the Perth Cultural Centre for free art, family exploring and the Gallery’s kid-friendly spaces/activities

🎡 Perth Royal Show 26 Sep–3 Oct
Rides, showbags, animals, entertainment, food and fireworks take over Claremont Showground for eight huge days.

🌷 Yates Springtime Tulip Festival at Araluen until 18 Oct
Wander through Araluen Botanic Park surrounded by hundreds of thousands of colourful tulips and spring blooms.

🎪 Monster Village Fremantle 26 Sep–4 Oct A giant inflatable obstacle-course experience takes over Esplanade Park with climbing, bouncing, sliding and loads of challenges.

🎭 AWESOME International Arts Festival 29 Sep–3 Oct
A huge children's arts festival with theatre, circus, creative activities, performances and plenty of free things happening around Perth.

🏴‍☠️ Totally Lit Trail Fremantle 5–11 Oct | FREE Follow a pirate treasure map around Fremantle, complete challenges at six locations and collect pieces of a special magnetic artwork along the way.

*🧱 Bricktober Perth 10–11 Oct
A huge LEGO exhibition at Curtin Stadium featuring impressive builds, displays and hands-on LEGO activities.

✂️ City of Perth Library School Holiday Crafts 26 Sep–11 Oct | FREE
Drop into the City of Perth Library throughout the holidays for free children's craft activities.

🐉 Catapults & Dragons – City of Perth Library — 29 Sep | FREE
Kids can take part in a hands-on medieval-themed session featuring catapults and dragons.

💃 Bollywood Dance – City of Perth Library — 6 Oct | FREE
Kids can learn energetic Bollywood dance moves in free school-holiday workshops for different age groups.

🔬 Scitech Spring School Holidays — 26 Sep–11 Oct 2026 Scitech’s current program explicitly lists these dates, including Spring Loaded, Dinoshadows and additional holiday workshops.

🎨 Bayswater Hotel School Holidays — 26 Sep–11 Oct 2026 The Baysie itself lists face painting on 27–28 Sep, 3–4 & 10–11 Oct, Paint-a-Brick on 3 Oct and Wizarding Arts & Crafts on 10 Oct.

🏰 Swan Valley Adventure Centre — 29 Sep–9 Oct 2026 Spring School Holidays 2026, with eight program days for ages 7–14.

🎈 Swan Settlers Market Family Fun Day — 27 Sep 2026 free entry, with bouncy castle, face painting and other kids' entertainment.

🐍 Reptiles & Snakes at Swan Settlers Market from 28 Sep

🎯 Giant Inflatable Toss Games at The Henley Brook 27 Sep 2026.

🍕 Kids' Pizza Making at The Stirling Arms 1–8 Oct 2026

🌿 Kids' Nature-Based Craft at Percy's Playground, from 26 Sep 2026

🦘 Kids' Woylie Walks at Whiteman Park — 29 Sep, 30 Sep, 6 & 7 Oct 2026

💦 Perth's Outback Splash — season launches 26 Sep 2026 

🏀 Box Out Mobile Basketball Arcade at The Henley Brook 30 Sep 2026 — Kids can test their basketball shooting skills with fast-paced arcade-style challenges.

🍕 Indigo Oscar Pizza Making — 30 Sep, 7 & 8 Oct, 11:30am–1pm
Kids can get hands-on making pizza during special school-holiday sessions.

✨ The Boat Mindarie Glitter Slime Making 1 & 6 Oct, 1–2pm
School-holiday glitter slime-making sessions at The Boat.

🚂 Castledare Miniature Railway Family miniature-train rides on the first Sunday of October.

🐝 The House of Honey Bee Tour 29 Sep, 10:30–11:15am A school-holiday bee experience introducing kids to bees, honey and beekeeping.

👩‍🍳 OzHarvest WA Kids Cooking 30 Sep
A hands-on children's cooking activity from OzHarvest WA.

🧋Bubble Tea making workshop 26 Sep to 2nd Oct various Chatime locations
hands-on, exciting workshop where kids get to shake, mix, and create their very own delicious bubble tea! 🎨🧋

🪙 The Perth Mint Gold Tour
Tour the historic Perth Mint, watch a traditional gold pour and learn about WA's gold history.

🌸 Bloom Joondalup 26 Sep–25 Oct A spring activation in Joondalup running throughout the school holidays.

🗺️ The Lightkeepers of Joondalup 5 Sep–1 Nov
A FREE self-guided treasure hunt through Joondalup City Centre where families search for 10 hidden firefly beacons, scan them and solve clues to unlock the secret final location.

🍻 Kids Club at The Claremont Sundays
Sunday kids' entertainment/activities at The Claremont during the holiday period.

🛝 Clarty Events School Holiday Program school holidays
Children's messy/sensory play holiday activities. Full dates and program coming soon.

🛍️ Hawaiian Shopping Centre School Holiday Program school holidays, activities listed 10am–1pm daily Meet-and-greets, workshops and children's activities are planned across Hawaiian shopping centres. Individual centre activities, dates and locations coming soon

🎉 Mandoon Estate Family Fun Day 11 Oct
A family day at Mandoon Estate on the final Sunday of the school holidays.

🌅 Scarborough Sunset Markets 26 Sep, 3 & 10 Oct. Saturday evening markets with food trucks, live entertainment and a family-friendly beachfront atmosphere.

👟 Percy's at The Guildford Hotel
daily school-holiday events
Family activities are listed as running throughout the holidays.

🍓 Strawberry Picking — throughout the holidays Spring is strawberry season around Perth, with several farms offering pick-your-own experiences

🏥 Perth Wildlife Hospital Tours school holidays— A behind-the-scenes opportunity to learn about the treatment and rehabilitation of WA wildlife.

🌳 Rio Tinto Naturescape Kings Park- Free nature play at Kings Park, with additional spring holiday activities around the precinct.

🚜 Whiteman Park Tractor Parade — 11 Oct
A special heritage tractor event at Whiteman Park on the final day of the holidays.

🌿 Swan Valley Adventure Day 3 Oct
A family adventure event in the Swan Valley.

🎨 Drawn to Life at Karrinyup — until 11 Oct
A creative school-holiday activation at Karrinyup Shopping Centre.

🌸 Moort-ak Waadiny / Kings Park
Free nature play and family activities at Kings Park alongside its spring program; check individual activities for dates.

🍩 Krispy Kreme Doughnut Decorating
Kids decorate their own Krispy Kreme doughnuts

🍫 San Churro Churro Making
hands-on kids' churro-making/decorating

🌟 Perth Zoo ZOOLights 26 Sep–11 Oct
Perth Zoo's after-dark light experience is listed as returning across the school holidays.

🎪 COME ALIVE! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular, until 10 Oct
Circus, music, acrobatics and performances inspired by The Greatest Showman at Crown Perth.

🎪 The Big Bounce Australia after the hols but worth a mention 10–18 October 2026 The world’s biggest touring inflatable event is coming to Dixon Road Reserve, Rockingham, with The World’s Biggest Jumping Castle