Family Fun Day 2025

Look out for Big Ted and the wildly popular Monash Children’s Hospital’s Teddy Bear Hospital which will be on site to help check-up and treat our local Monash teddy bears.  The Teddy Bear Hospital includes several stations focused on asthma assessment, X-ray and surgery. Stations are set up as real life hospital or GP scenarios providing kids the opportunity to have a positive and educational experience in simulated clinical setting.  

Get the kids involved in a fun and engaging workshop with Waverley Woodworkers and local business CreativeSparx who will host a windchime making experience.  

If you dare, get up close and personal with some fascinating animals with the Wildlife Wranglers and experience a try-before-you-register with our local sporting clubs, including Aurora Calisthenics College, Fordham Dance School, Fioretto Fencing Club, Waverley Softball Association and Waverley Baseball Club. 

To align with Children's Week there will also be an interactive Chalk Art Workshop and chalk artist located on the basketball court near the playground thanks to the support of our Children’s Services team.  

Step right up and experience the thrill of rides including, the Chairoplane and inflatable slide, giant games such as mini golf and Jenga. 

This year we will also have a giant LED screen showing a series of ABC Kids short movies based on the books by beloved kids’ author Julia Donaldson. Enjoy the much-loved characters from the The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man and more! 

Our Community Stage will be back with a very special line up of fabulous performances from a range of community groups, local schools and performance groups including Salesian College Senior Rock Band, Aurora Calisthenics, The Spring Arts Multicultural Seniors Orchestra, First Step Dance Arts Centre, Bellydancing Spectacular, a welcome from the Mayor of Monash, Voice Code Studios, Magic Shown and Fordham Dance School. 

We will also have several roving performers to enjoy including set times for our stilt walkers, bubble show and interactive workshop and our roving circus performer. We will keep you updated on program times for our performers.  

We have a host of community and Council stalls available on the day with the opportunity to talk to some of our local emergency service heroes.  

Check out Council’s stalls with arts, craft and activities from our Community Strengthening, Youth Services, Monash Public Library Service, MAPh, Active Monash, Community Laws and Sustainable Monash teams! Don’t forget to talk to our teams about the wonderful initiatives happening right across the city. 

We will also host a range of community organisation stalls including Paisley Park Early Learning Centres, Bunnings Chadstone and Suburban Rail Loop.  

• This is a family-friendly event and is alcohol, drug and is smoke/ vape-free.  

• Accessible parking is available via the restricted car park off Power Avenue, and an accessible toilet will be available at the festival.  

• Please leave your dog at home, however guide dogs and companion animals are welcome.