Melbourne School Holiday Activities for Kids

Melbourne School Holidays : Activities for Kids

Each and every Melbourne School holidays you can choose from a plethora of school holiday activities across the city for you to enjoy with the kids. We’ve pulled together our complete guide to Melbourne School Holiday Activities to help you create your calendar for the period. Make sure you bookmark the page – we will …

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What to Feed Ducks : Feeding Ducks with Kids

feeding ducks with kids

When the kids were little, heading to our local lake to feed the ducks was one of our favourite activities. Initially, we would take the remainder of our loaf of bread, and take it in turns to rip the slices apart and throw them to the ducks, geese and other water birds. As it turns …

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Day Trips from Melbourne : Maldon with Kids

Day Trips from Melbourne : Maldon with Kids

Melbourne is one of our favourite cities to visit and explore as it has a bounty of incredible sites. Expand that to day trips from Melbourne and you can never get bored exploring this place. Our recent explorations took us to Maldon in Victoria’s goldfields. Yes, Maldon with kids is quite an adventure to enjoy! …

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Virtual Room Australia : VR Experience for Kids

Virtual Room Australia : VR Experience for Kids

Both Sunshine and Striker are at that age where they want a little more independence around the experiences we engage in as a family. Finding activities for tweens and teenagers that they’re happy to enjoy with mum and dad can be challenging to find. Discovering Virtual Room Australia and their VR Experience for Kids totally …

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The Best Melbourne Annual Passes for Families

The Best Melbourne Annual Passes for Families

When it comes to gifting for kids my default present is typically an experience due to my very strong belief in collecting memories before things. Often we plan a trip away, or we organise a day out, or even just a nice dinner out. For friends and family in Melbourne, I usually look at Melbourne …

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Great Ocean Road Tour with Kids

Great Ocean Road Tour with Kids

The Great Ocean Road is a 250-kilometre long road that wraps along the southwestern coastline of Victoria from Torquay through to Allansford. It is touted as one of the most beautiful drives in the world and a trip that should feature on any Australian bucket list. Over summer we took the Great Ocean Road Tour …

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Things to do on Phillip Island with Kids

Things to do on Phillip Island with Kids

Phillip Island is a beautiful destination for a long weekend or holiday adventure with the kids just under two hours out of Melbourne CBD. If you’re really keen, you could probably do a day trip here during the summer months when the days are a little longer too. With a wealth of things to do …

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14 Australian Museums to Visit From Your Living Room

14 Australian Museums to Visit from your Living Room

With social distancing now a thing across the world, and most Government travel advice to pause international travel for the moment, visiting museums and art galleries is tricky. But did you know that there are a plethora of places and spaces that offer virtual tours? Yes, 14 Australian Museums to Visit From Your Living Room! …

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Strawberry Picking Around Australia : Find a Strawberry Farm Near Me

Strawberry Fields Farm : Pick Your Own Delights on the Sunshine Coast

Picked right, the Strawberry is one of the most satisfying fruits to munch on. Across coastal Australia, you can find pick your own at a plethora of Strawberry farms. Strawberry picking each season has become one of our favourite activities with the kids. To help you find a Strawberry Farm where you can pick your …

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Mornington Peninsula Hot Springs with Kids

Mornington Peninsula Hot Springs with Kids

When it comes to Victorian Bucket List destinations, Mornington Peninsula’s Peninsula Hot Springs with kids needs to be on the list. We head to the Hot Springs in the summer of 2020 and quickly decided that it was one of our favourite Victorian experiences. Thank you to Peninsula Hot Springs for hosting our visit. All …

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Mornington Peninsula Farm Gates : Cherry Farms and More!

Mornington Peninsula Farm Gates : Cherry Farms and More!

Our addiction to honey has taken us to a few interesting places. On our recent road trip to Victoria, we added Mornington Peninsula to our itinerary, not only for the Hot Springs but because of the honey. This morphed into a Mornington Peninsula Farm Gate experience which saw us eating berries, honey and a whole …

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A Day at Gumbuya World Melbourne with Kids

A Day at Gumbuya World Melbourne with Kids

When we were invited to Gumbuya World over summer I jumped at the chance before even asking the kids what they thought. An instant wash of nostalgia swept over me, and I was transported back to my childhood where Gumbuya Park and its giant pheasant seemed to feature in a multitude of road trip memories. …

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Guide to Phillip Island Penguin Parade with Kids

Guide to Phillip Island Penguin Parade with Kids

Introducing the kids to Phillip Island’s famous Penguin Parade has been one of our Kid Bucket List items that also draws a whole lot of childhood nostalgia for me. I was Sunshine’s age when I first visited Phillip Island. We were on school camp. I can remember the excitement of heading to the Penguin Parade …

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