🗓️ Melbourne CBD ➝ More CBD picks
Songbirds (Wednesdays during term) A free weekly session of songs, rhymes, and stories for babies and toddlers up to 18 months. It’s a lovely way to support early language skills and meet other parents. 📍 CBD
Undertow: ArtPlay (Thursday 11 – Friday 12 Jun) A wordless sensory performance for pre-walking babies and their grown-ups, using light, sound, cloth, and shadow to tell a story. 📍 CBD
Queen Victoria Winter Night Market (Wednesdays until 26 Aug) Street food, live music, and roving performers across the market’s sheds and laneways — a free mid-week night out the whole family can enjoy. 📍 CBD
🗓️ Melbourne NORTH ➝ More north-side picks
CURIOSITY: Building Breakthroughs (Tuesdays – Sundays) A hands-on LEGO® exhibition where kids explore engineering, maths, and science through building their own creations. Open to all ages. 📍 Bendigo
Bubble Planet (Daily until Monday 31 Aug, excl. Tuesdays) Ten themed rooms of oversized bubbles, balloons, and surreal sensory landscapes to explore together. Kids 2 and under enter free. 📍 Brunswick
Frozen in Time (Saturdays + Sundays until 28 Jun) Free craft sessions featuring snow globes, penguin mosaics, and biscuit snowmen. Plus, life-size prehistoric creatures and a scavenger hunt. 📍 Greensborough
🗓️ Melbourne SOUTH ➝ More south-side picks
Winter Solstice Lantern Workshop (Thursday 11 Jun) Get creative and make your own lantern for the winter solstice. Free, drop in anytime. Suitable for all ages and materials provided. 📍 Brighton
Wombat Wanderers (Fridays until 26 Jun) Child-led nature adventure for ages 3–6 at a local Flora and Fauna Reserve with nature crafts, bush walks, storytelling, and songs every week. 📍 Langwarrin
Family Storytime (Fridays + every second Saturday during term) Stories, songs, and rhymes for ages 0–5 to build early language and literacy skills. Free, no booking needed. 📍 Clarinda
🗓️ Melbourne EAST ➝ More east-side picks
ReWild Your Family Forest School (Tuesdays until 23 Jun) Hands-on nature learning for ages 3–12 in Warrandyte bushland — campfire cooking, wildlife exploration, whittling, and more every Tuesday. 📍 Warrandyte
Children’s International Film Festival (Various dates until Sunday 5 Jul) Thirty kids films from around the world show across Melbourne cinemas. Programmed for ages 3 to 12. 📍 Hawthorn
Heide Art Babies (Tuesdays – Fridays) A weekly session of gentle sensory play, storytelling, puppets, and gallery exploration at Heide for babies from newborn to 12 months and their grown-ups. 📍 Bulleen
🗓️ Melbourne WEST ➝ More west-side picks
Rhyme Time (Tuesdays during term) Rhymes, music, and books for ages 1–5 to build early language and literacy skills. Free, no booking required — just turn up. 📍 Manor Lakes
Tuesday Winter Art Playgroup (Tuesday 9 Jun) A creative indoor playgroup for ages 1–5 with painting, drawing, and stamping — mess is fully encouraged and parents are welcome to join in. 📍 Newport
Bush Babies (Wednesdays until 24 Jun) Gentle, sensory-rich nature play at Brimbank Park for babies and families. Suitable for ages 0–2. 📍 Keilor East
