Monday 20 September
Rocky Shore Ramble
As part of the Reef Guardian Council program, Council are hosting a Rocky Shore Ramble. Join Council’s Natural Areas team and local marine expert, Natalie Lobartolo, to explore the rocky shores at Bargara.
Search for sea snails, barnacles and sea cucumbers hidden amongst the rocks and learn about this valuable coastal environment.
Please wear closed in shoes such as reef walking shoes or sneakers that can get wet, hat, sunscreen and bring along a water bottle.
Bookings essential, via email at parksadministration@bundaberg.qld.gov.au or call 1300 883 699.
Date: Monday 20 September
Time: 1.30 - 2.30pm
Cost: Free
Location: Bargara
Age: 5 – 12 years. Children must be supervised by a parent or guardian.
Lego and Board Games
Drop into Bundaberg library and join a game or create something with Lego.
Bring a friend or maybe make a new friend, we have board games for a variety of ages and preferences. No bookings required.
Date: Monday 20 September
Time: 9.30am - 12 noon
Cost: Free
Location: Bundaberg Library
Age: All ages
Flight Club
Discover the wonders of flight this summer at Flight Club! An action-packed holiday experience all about the scientific principles behind how and why things fly.
Test your skills with our glider challenge and learn how to make your flying machine reach for the skies.
Discover what makes air travel achievable with loads of immersive activities.
Date: Monday 20 September
Time: 10:30 - 11:30am
Cost: $5
Location: Hinkler Hall of Aviation
Age: 8 - 13 years old
It’s Rocket Science
Calling all young scientists, budding engineers and space fanatics. Discover the wonders of rockets and space technology in this adrenaline fuelled holiday experience.
Discover the secret to successful rocket flights, learn all about the scientific principles behind how and why things fly. Make a simple bottle rocket from recycled items then experience the spectacular fun of launching water propelled rockets to high altitudes…all from a simple soft drink bottle!
Date: Monday 20 September
Time: 9 - 10am
Cost: $5
Location: Hinkler Hall of Aviation
Age: 8 - 13 years
Pop-up Story Time at Watawa Recreation Trail
Make a colourful parrot, enjoy stories and play at one of the Reading Hunt locations.
Park in May Street and follow the path next to Gin Gin State School. Bring a picnic rug and some morning tea.
Wet weather venue: Gin Gin Community Hub.
Date: Monday 20 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Watawa Recreation Trail
Age: All ages
Outdoor Art Room
Join Messy Myrtle and the team for a turtally fun morning of activities. Create your own fish puppet; make a shark hat and build your own mini reef complete with coral!
Date: Monday 20 September
Time: 10am – 1pm
Cost: Free
Location: Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery Park
Age: 5+ years
Tuesday 21 September
Flight Club
Discover the wonders of flight this summer at Flight Club! An action-packed holiday experience all about the scientific principles behind how and why things fly.
Test your skills with our glider challenge and learn how to make your flying machine reach for the skies. Discover what makes air travel achievable with loads of immersive activities.
Date: Tuesday 21 September
Time: 9 - 10am
Cost: $5
Location: Hinkler Hall of Aviation
Age: 8 - 13 years old
It's Rocket Science
Calling all young scientists, budding engineers and space fanatics. Discover the wonders of rockets and space technology in this adrenaline fuelled holiday experience.
Discover the secret to successful rocket flights, learn all about the scientific principles behind how and why things fly.
Make a simple bottle rocket from recycled items then experience the spectacular fun of launching water propelled rockets to high altitudes … all from a simple soft drink bottle!
Date: Tuesday 21 September
Time: 10:30 - 11:30am
Cost: $5
Location: Hinkler Hall of Aviation
Age: 8 - 13 years
Daisy Quokka (Cinema)
When an unbearably adorable, eternally optimistic Quokka named Daisy wants to achieve the impossible, she enlists the guidance of a washed-up former champion to help her achieve her dreams!
Featuring an all-star voice cast (including Grant Denyer, Lucy Durack and Karl Stefanovic), this new animated feature film brings to life a spirited set of Australian animal characters for a fun and inspiring adventure.
Date: Tuesday 21 September
Time: 11am
Cost: Free, bookings essential
Location: Moncrieff Entertainment Centre
Age: Rated PG, mild themes, family-friendly sensory screening (modified lighting and sound)
Wednesday 22 September
Colourful Badges and Velvet Flowers
Something to wear and something gift to a loved one. Create your own colourful badge to wear and colour a flower, with a raised black velvet texture, to gift.
Date: Wednesday 22 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Bundaberg Library
Age: 4+
Outdoor Art Room
Join Messy Myrtle and the team for a turtally fun morning of activities. Create your own fish puppet; make a shark hat and build your own mini reef complete with coral!
Date: Wednesday 22 September
Time: 10am – 1pm
Cost: Free
Location: Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery Park
Age: 5+ years
Illuminating Light Show with Dr Joe
A fun and inspiring science show that explores the hidden science in the bright, nosy world around us!
Explore the colours of light and find out what makes colour. A great show with lots of potential for building science toys to make and keep!
Date: Wednesday 22 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Isis Cultural Centre Hall
Age: 6 - 14 years
Thursday 23 September
Ooze and Gooz with Dr Joe
Learn about atoms and molecules, experience those endo- and exo-thermic chemical reactions, gaze at the glory of arcs of spectral plasma, and get your hands grotty with our totally safe, totally gross hydrophilic sodium acrylate slime!
Date: Thursday 23 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Bundaberg Library
Age: 6 - 14 years
Outdoor Art Room
Join Messy Myrtle and the team for a turtally fun morning of activities. Create your own fish puppet; make a shark hat and build your own mini reef complete with coral!
Date: Thursday 23 September
Time: 10am – 1pm
Cost: Free
Location: Childers Arts Space
Age: 5+ years
Paper Sailboat
Get crafty with paper plates and colours to create a paper sailboat.
Date: Thursday 23 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Childers Library
Age: 3 - 12 years
Friday 24 September
Geology Rocks! With Dr Joe
How do we know what the world is made of?
This geology exhibit showcases hundreds of some of the most beautiful stones available! We also go on an amazing journey to explore how we know what we know about the earth, such as how old it is, why earthquakes happen, and what the moon is made of! And, naturally, we end by exploding a homemade volcano, complete with vicious lava flows!
Date: Friday 24 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Gin Gin Community Hub
Age: 6 - 14 years
Outdoor Art Room
Join Messy Myrtle and the team for a turtally fun morning of activities. Create your own fish puppet; make a shark hat and build your own mini reef complete with coral!
Date: Friday 24 September
Time: 10am – 1pm
Cost: Free
Location: Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery Park
Age: 5+ years
Saturday 25 September
I've Been Meaning to Ask You
Why do you have to go to work? How come adults drink to have fun? What was lifelike before the Internet? Would you rather be a billionaire or have kids?
This is a show full of questions asked by young people and answered by adults. Watch as age collides with experience as audiences young and old come together in a revealing tell-all.
Adults take a back seat as a powerful panel of 9-13 year olds, from our own local community and families, tackle the answers they receive to the questions they’ve always wanted to know.
Date: Saturday 25 September
Time: 2:30pm and 6:30pm
Cost:
- Adult $35
- Concession/Student $28
- Group 6+ $26 each
- Group 10+ $24 each
- Family of 4: $60
Location: Moncrieff Entertainment Centre
Age: 9+ years (smoke, haze/fog and strobe lighting)
Monday 27 September
Velvet Art Flowers
Create a beautiful bouquet by colouring flowers with a raised black velvet texture design.
Date: Monday 27 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Gin Gin Community Hub
Age: 6+ years
Tuesday 28 September
Paper Plate Bugs
To help celebrate the interactive Mini Beasts exhibition come and create your own mini beast using a paper plate and other materials provided.
Date: Tuesday 28 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Bundaberg Library
Age: 2+ years
Wednesday 29 September
Water Bugs
Join Council’s Natural Areas team at Baldwin Swamp to learn about water ecology by studying water bugs. Dip in your net and see what you can find.
Please wear closed in shoes, hat and sunscreen and bring along a water bottle.
Date: Wednesday 29 September
Time: 9 - 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Baldwin Swamp
Age: 5 - 10 years. Children must be supervised by parent or guardian.
Colourful Pig
Use recycled materials create a cute and colourful 2D pig.
Date: Wednesday 29 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Childers Library
Age: 3 - 12 years
Thursday 30 September
Cotton Drawstring Bag
Add your own colourful design to personalise a little cotton drawstring bag.
Date: Thursday 30 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Gin Gin Community Hub
Age: 5+ years
Leaf Wreath
Decorate a paper wreath with colourful paper leaves and flowers that are sure to bring a smile to your face.
Date: Thursday 30 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Childers Library
Age: 5 - 14 years
DIY Name Garland
Create your own name garland using upcycled coloured card and string. Perfect addition to any bedroom or area you want to claim as your own.
Date: Thursday 30 September
Time: 10am
Cost: Free
Location: Bundaberg Library
Age: 7 - 18 years
Every day activities
Reading Hunt Gin Gin
Have fun exploring Gin Gin.
Find 6 little signs at 9 different locations and enjoy simple activities to improve early literacy skills.
Date: Every day
Time: Open 24 hours at most locations
Cost: Free
Location: Gin Gin
Age: All ages
Garden Kids activity sheet
Unscramble words, circle objects, spot the difference and more in this holiday’s fun Garden Kids activity sheet.
Date: Every day
Time: 9am - 3pm Monday to Saturday, 9am - 4pm Sunday
Cost: Free
Location: Brochure stand at Café 1928, Bundaberg Botanic Gardens, 6 Mt Perry Road, Bundaberg North
Age: 4 - 7 years
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