Eeek… the summer school holiday is here! Don’t fret, there are plenty of camps, activities and adventures on the Gold Coast to keep the bambinos busy this summer.
Here’s the best of what’s in store for kids and their grown-ups this summer school holiday on the Gold Coast. ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
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The Big Wedgie
Broadwater Parklands
Daily through school holidays
The Big Wedgie is an EPIC inflatable waterpark with 4 massive inflatable waterslides that are like nothing else you would have experienced! There is one for every age and level.
Summer holiday STEM camps with Junior Engineers
Locations across Queensland
12 December 2022 – 13 January 2023
Let Junior Engineers inspire your child this summer with their 2 and 3 day STEM camps. Whether your kid is a coding rookie or budding tech superstar, there is something for them. Classes include Lego Mindstorm, app development, film making, stop motion, robot building with Arduino and coding with Minecraft, Roblox and Micro:bits. Kids in the City subscribers get 10% off when you use the code CITYCOAST10.
The Ultimate Summer Indoor Play Area: BOUNCE Gold Coast
December 10, 2022 – January 22, 2023
BOUNCE Gold Coast 5 Sunlight Drive, Burleigh Waters QLD 4220, Australia
BOUNCE is the perfect playground to develop your freestyle tricks these school holidays. It’s the ultimate indoor play area to develop and harness balance, coordination and agility through a unique blend of fun, freestyle, progression and development.
Indoor gelball skirmish school holiday sessions
Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during school holidays
Gelsoft, Yatala
Gelsoft Australia is the Gold Coast’s most fun and exciting combat sport venue! Perfect for families, players use Gelsoft blasters in team-based games, in a safe and dynamic battlefield.
Fresh As Summer at Paradise Centre
December 17, 2022 – January 22, 2023
Paradise Centre, Surfers Paradise
Paradise Centre is feeling as Fresh As Summer, and so will you when you visit this December and January! They have the juiciest line up of fresh, fruity, and free entertainment, live DJs, giveaways and so much more to keep the whole family entertained.
Fast-track holiday swimming lessons and kids activity hub
January 9 – 12, 2023
Various Kingswim locations
Fast Track is a 4-day program of holiday swimming lessons which run during the school holidays by Kingswim.
Lesson duration ranges from 30 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the class level. Fast Track is open to all families, whether they are already in the Kingswim program, swimming somewhere else, or are new to swimming altogether. Everyone can benefit from the intensive holiday swimming program.
Kids Imagine | Write like an author
HOTA, Surfers Paradise
January 10 – 12, 2023
Held in a fun and supportive setting at HOTA, this school holiday program is for young writers aged 7 to 14.
Kids Animal Pottery Workshop
The Craft Parlour
January 11, 2023
At this cute little pottery workshop your child can learn to make their own personalised clay animal planter or animal mug!
School holiday activities across the region
Iceworld summer school holiday public sessions
December 12, 2022 – January 20, 2023
Boondall & Acacia Ridge
Iceworld is the coolest place to be this summer holidays and has plenty of public session times for you to get your ice-skating fix!
2-hour weekday sessions will be held from 10.30am and 1pm and they also have their usual evening and weekend options.
Monster Jump & Splash
January 8 – 22, 2023
Sandstone Point Hotel, Bribie Island
Things are about to heat up these summer school holidays with Australia’s hottest new attraction, Monster Jump & Splash coming to Sandstone Point Hotel! Enjoy a bounce bonanza on our mobile inflatable obstacle course followed by a cruisy cool down on the Splash attractions!
Discover miniBOUNCE these Summer school holidays!
December 10, 2022 – January 22, 2023
Westfield Carindale, Carindale
miniBOUNCE is an active adventure-play centre specially designed for pre-school kids. Everything at miniBOUNCE is designed to offer fun, active-play experiences that help develop a positive relationship with physical activity for life.
Lord Mayor’s Children’s Program presents Revolting Rhymes
January 19, 2023
Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane City
Frighteningly funny and seriously silly, Revolting Rhymes takes the world’s best-loved fairy tales and rearranges them with hilarious twists.
The Lord Mayor’s Children’s Program is a series of fun and engaging performances free to the public that run during the Queensland school holiday periods as part of Brisbane City Council’s City Entertainment program.
Summer of Seals at SEA LIFE Sunshine Coast!
December 12, 2022 – January 31, 2023
SEA LIFE Sunshine Coast, Mooloolaba
It’s the Summer of Seals at SEA LIFE Sunshine Coast Aquarium! From 10 December 2022 to 31 January 2023, the Mooloolaba attraction is celebrating the much-loved marine mammals with a range of school holiday activities for families to enjoy.
Looking to travel across the region these holidays?
Check out what’s happening during the summer school holiday in Brisbane and Sunshine Coast here:
Or visit our What’s On calendar for more events and activities across the region.
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