Fun for everyone with a packed program of winter activities
Published: 03 Jul 2025 2:50pm
Council has lots on to keep your kids busy and entertained these winter school holidays in Wagga Wagga and our surrounding villages.
We have a range of fun and engaging activities in store for all ages and interests organised for every day of the holidays at our various cultural facilities and the Botanic Gardens Zoo & Aviary.
Indoors, outdoors, or in the pool, there is something for everyone and, even better, many of the activities on offer are free!
Put a trip to the Botanic Gardens Zoo & Aviary on your list of holiday activities; explore this wonderful facility and meet all the animals that call it home.
You can even have an up-close and hands-on adventure with some of the furry and feathered residents during the regular meet and greet sessions at 11am every day of the school holidays.
The Zoo & Aviary will be open from 9am to 4pm each day until the new school term starts on 21 July.
Wagga Wagga City Library’s holiday program will see regular and new events presented, from craft, colouring-in, board games, a reading challenge and a teddy bear picnic, to Storytime at the Botanic Gardens and Riverside Playground.
For more details of what’s on and to book your spot at the Teddy Bear Picnic:
Our Civic Theatre will be a place of magic, adventure, lights and laughter with its kids and family shows over the holidays.
Be thrilled and awed by the amazing prehistoric creatures at Erth's Dinosaur Zoo, a jaw-dropping live show packed with prehistoric puppets, or book tickets to see your favourite picture book by Alison Lester come to life on stage.
IMAGINE LIVE combines live action and animation with digital puppetry in a large-scale, multi-screen performance.
For more details of what’s on and to book your tickets:
For kids and teens, we also have our school holidays Winter Art Camp at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, where you can stay warm and be creative with a range of art workshops inspired by the Gallery’s 50 Years celebratory exhibitions.
There will also be the Creation Station in the main gallery, and other activities for families to do together.
Limited spots are available for the workshops, so bookings are essential. For more details:
At the Museum of the Riverina – Botanic Gardens site, there’s free Aussie animal origami to make, the return of the LEGO® Minifigure Hunt, and more.
At the Museum’s Historic Council Chambers site, you can see its latest exhibition Wagga Wagga AUDIO/VISUAL, join in the retro fun with Mario Kart: Old School Meets New School or take a snapshot in history with the Photobooth Time Machine drop-in activity.
For more details of these and other activities at the Museum:
If you are looking for ways to keep your kids moving and learning over the holidays, Wagga Leisure has an action-packed range of programs, from tennis sessions for youngsters and teens at the Jim Elphick Tennis Centre, or the Youth Power training sessions at Workout Gym, to intensive swimming lessons at the Oasis Aquatic Centre.
To find out more or book for these sessions:
For more information about other activities happening in our Wagga Wagga and surrounds region, head to Visit Wagga Wagga's What's On page: visitwagga.com/calendar
