KidsFest Finale at Killalea Reflections Dusk Magic Lantern Parade, Feast & Reserve Movies Saturday 25 May 12noon-4pm 4pm-8pm ‘Frasers’ by kiosk, Killalea Drive, Shell Cove Killalea Camping Ground, Killalea Drive, Shell Cove National Park family Activities & performances Bring your water bottles and a picnic. guided walk • The Scouts Climbing Wall Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony with 9:30am-12noon • Make a kite and fly it Uncle Gerald 4:30 Presented by Nature Engagement Tours. • Activities from Shellharbour City Council’s Lantern Parade 5pm Bookings required, 30 places available, go to Environment team Official closing ceremony 5:15pm www.trybooking.com/496005 • EARLY YEARS CARE Creativity station – Star gazing with Amateur Astronomy Club Make your own creature or art work from recycled Stories with Lilli Pang and Richard Campbell Come & Plant Winter Veggies at the materials BYO picnic, plates & cups Koori Men’s Group Community Garden • ‘Paint with Magic’ storytime & painting activities 10am-12noon with Sandi Wooton Make damper with Fred’s Bush Tucker with Pramila’s Creations 2 Wilga Cres, Albion Park Rail • Beat Construction with the Wollongong Cook up a vegetarian feast BBQ sausages (gold coin donation) BBQ & coffee available Conservatorium of Music • Join the famous Storage King Sack Race FREE Movie Screening of the original ‘Storm Boy’ Itsy Bitsy Builders • UOW Motorsport’s Racing Simulator 6pm (18 months - 3 year olds) 11am-11:30am • Circus Play Zone with Honora & Sarah Shellharbour City Library, College Ave, Camping overnight • Live performance by young artists Grace Shellharbour City Bookings essential ph 4237 8589 Mae, The Red Bandanas, Kayla Shay, Minna and BYO tent, mat, sleeping bag, torch, food, drink Duplo building with stories, songs and rhymes. friends and Roo Theatre 12-3pm Free Kid’s DIY workshops • Lantern making with Bertie – come make a 11am-1pm lantern for our finale parade. Bunnings Warehouse Shellharbour Performance by the Gumaraa Aboriginal 15 Shandan Circuit, Albion Park Rail Dancers

For enquiries email [email protected] or call Shellharbour Visitors Centre on 1300 656 169

KidsFest Play Spots – businesses Paint Shellharbour REaD book boxes, welcoming of children and families. encouraging whole community to read, talk, 1. Collect your Contact KidsFest Shellharbour if you sing and rhyme with children from birth. passport at any know of a business you’d like to nominate as Come join Paint Shellharbour REaD’s Reading major KidsFest event a PlaySpot. Tent and Music Mat at events. Book boxes Acorn Lawyers have a safe play area and are at locations across Shellharbour City 2. Collect Stickers box of toys for kids Shellharbour Village Treasure Trail for your passport 15 Victoria St, Wollongong – Collect your treasure trail quiz from the www.kidsfestshellharbour.com.au by attending lots of Athlete’s Foot has a box of toys for children Shellharbour Visitors Centre (open everyday 9am-5pm), Cnr Addison & Wentworth Sts, events and PlaySpots Shellharbour Village (Behind Shellharbour 3. Answer questions playsp t Cafe Four Play area for kids Country Kitchen) Shop 7-8 151 Tongarra Rd, Albion Park & hand in passport to The Eye Store has children’s play area Shop 25, Warilla Grove Shopping Centre go in prize draw

Download Tread Shellharbour App NSW Government’s Active & Creative Kids Need Larger itunes.apple.com/au/app/tread- program is giving $100 vouchers for registration, shellharbour participation and membership costs for sport, fitness Print? Use your device to download our free and active recreation & creative activities with Day by Day Tread Shellharbour app from your app registered providers. To apply go to www.service. ? Program available store. The app includes trails for Albion nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-active-kids-voucher Park, Shellharbour Village, Killalea State www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-creative-kids-voucher on the website Park and the Lake Art Trail. Thank you to our sponsors, event hosts and volunteers Platinum Gold Silver Bronze

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W ! E ’ U R O E Y LO KE CAL – LI Friends of KidsFest for children, their families and carers in NSW Albion Park Rail SaCC Warilla Child Care Centre Sandi Wooton Shellharbour Anglican School Calderwood Christian School Indian Australian Cultural Farmborough Rd SaCC Wollongong Amateur Lilli Pang Maggie Moo Music Symbio Wildlife Park Association Little Missy & Moo Astronomy Club Paint Shellharbour REaD Shellharbour CWA Greater Union Cinemas Shellharbour Grace Mae Music Meg Costelloe Park & Play Koninderie Community Albion Park Men’s Shed Kind Art Ed Pty Ltd Based Preschool Roo Theatre Company kidsfestshellharbour.com.au Fred’s Bush Tucker Big Fat Smile Shell Cove Volunteers Rent A Fence Welcome to the 12th KidsFest Shellharbour - the longest running communi y The theme for this milestone event is ‘People, Play, Nature, Nurture’, with the program featuring over fifty FREE events for children 0-12 years, their families and carers. The theme celebrates kids and their carers coming together to play in beautiful community spaces, nurturing run FREE week-long festival for children, their families and carers in NSW. our relationships and ourselves. Events are held at a range of venues throughout the Shellharbour Local Government Area.

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All Aboard the KidsFest Express Calderwood Valley Circus Capers Park and Play Park and Play Communities for Children Picnic Skills For Life – Pre-school sports and 10am-3pm 9:30-11:30 9am-11am 9:30am-11:30am 10am-12noon social development skills (3-5yrs) Illawarra Light Railway Museum Calderwood Valley Sprout Hub, Corner of Escarpment Barrack Heights Public School, Hunter St, Barrack Central Park, The Boulevarde, Oak Flats Blackbutt Forest Reserve; Enter off 9:30am-10:30am 48a Tongarra Rd Albion Park Rail Drive and Brushgrove Circuit, Calderwood Heights Fun, free play activities for parents. carers Shellharbour Road. Shellharbour City Stadium, Croome Rd, Albion Park Bring the family together picnic, play and ride Create a circus character, learn some skills, play in Fun, free play activities for parents. carers and and children 0-5 years. Don’t forget your Some parking onsite Rail the steam trains. Book your free family pass at the circus zone & perform. This is a hands-on, children 0-5 years. Don’t forget your sunscreen and sunscreen and hat! and in side streets off ‘Love Your World’ hosted by Early Years Woodlands Drive. www.trybooking.com/496066 interactive session for families that like to roll up their hat! Nature Play Morning Care sleeves and have a go. Come along BYO Picnic and drink bottle. “Helper Friends” Emergency Services 10am-11:30am 10am-12noon Park& Play will be there too with fun, free Expo The Shallows Park, Shell Cove and help us Blackbutt Youth Centre Activities include: celebrate Paint play activities for parents, carers and 9:30am-12noon (general public) (Cnr of Harbour & Cove Blvd) LOT 201 Cygnet Ave, Shellharbour City Centre • Steam train and Shellharbour children 0-5 years. Don’t forget School groups 11:30am-2pm miniature train rides. Enjoy a morning of art, craft REaD’s Come and join in the fun and get back to nature your sunscreen and hat! Illawarra Rural Fire Service Control Centre NB Covered footwear and play in nature to foster mascot with many hands-on activities to encourage must be worn on the 37 Airport Drv, Albion Park Rail Babies Love Books connections to the land and Bangu’s 3rd sustainability and outdoor fun, pop up adventure miniature train ride 10am-10:30am (0- 18 Meet emergency service workers from NSW Rural each other presented by Little play, farm buddies, nature craft, healthy treats, • Symbio birthday. months) Fire Services, Fire Rescue NSW, NSW Police, NSW Wild Ones and Frasers Property Enjoy free Maggie Moo Music sessions, make a paper pot Wildlife Park Oak Flats Library with Marvellous Meg, plant a seedling Shellharbour Zoo2You – Ambulance & SES. Kids will get to crawl through a Kids Disco activities such 61 Central Ave, Oak City Council Plant Nursery and ‘Paint with Magic’ Meet animals smoke house, try the fire trucks powerful hose, climb 10am-12noon as, Farmyard Flats storytime & painting activities with Sandi Wooton. and reptiles inside an ambulance, get up close to the Touchdown Warilla North Community Centre, buddies, LEGO Don’t forget to wear clothes that you don’t mind and see how KidsFest Helicopters Helicopter, sit on the NSW Surf Life Hill St, Warilla North building blocks, the Illawarra Storytime Saving Jet Ski and make a badge and bookmark with nature activities, a getting dirty in. Credit Union’s A fun time for kids with music and dance 11am-11:30am (3-5 Bunnings. Free sausage sizzle provided by Bunnings kids disco, cardboard Bring A Buddy Bowling Day Wildlife Saver & fresh fruit provided by COLES. Special reading by a Babies Love Books program years) creations, face painting, 11am-12:30pm Oak Flats Library Firey and Bangu at 9:30am of Alpacas With Maracas 10am-10:30am (0- 18 months) transition to school activities, Warilla Bowls And Recreation Club, Jason Ave, helps protect Warilla Library our natural 61 Central Ave, Oak Flats for the Paint Australia REaD Book Relay. art and craft, reading, ball games, Barrack Heights. Crn Lake Entrance & Shellharbour Roads, Warilla environment and Warilla Library Mini Paper Plane Workshop at HARS aviation Paint Shellharbour REaD’s Reading Tent and Art An introduction to the game of indoor bowls with a endangered animals Activities, Wollongong Conservatorium’s ChiME music Makers museum NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORY TIME! friends and family team with FREE BBQ • “Be Inspired” 11am-11:30am (3-5 years) activities, Park and Play, Billy Back Pack, Barnardos 10:30am-11am (3-5 years) 9:30am-11:00am Creativity Party. Come Shellharbour City Library, College Ave, Shellharbour Play Ranger van and much more. Itsy Bitsy Builders and be arty and crafty with Warilla Library Illawarra Regional Airport, Corner of Boomerang and (18 months- 3 years) City & Warilla Library Crn Lake Entrance & 11am-11:30am Early Years Care Cnr Lake Entrance and Roads, Albion Park Rail Bring a picnic, hat, sunscreen and rug. Check City Library, College Ave, Shellharbour City Shellharbour Roads, Warilla website for alternative location in case of bad • Come and jam on amazing instruments Rds, Warilla Babies Love Books Duplo Building Program with stories, from different cultures with Jam n Bread Join thousands of kids around Australia as we read weather. Create your very own Fairy Garden. Limit of 15 10am-10:30am (0- 18 months) songs & rhymes • ‘Paint with Magic’ storytime & painting activities Albion Park Library, Russell St, Albion Park ALPACAS WITH MARACAS at the same time with fun, Babies Love Books with Sandi Wooton children. Bookings essential: eventbrite.com.au/e/ Girls & Boys Junior fairy-gardens-kids-fest-warilla-library- games and craft! 10am-10:30am (0- 18 months) • Circus Play Zone with Honora KidsFest Storytime Boxing • Join the famous Storage King Sack Race tickets-60731645988 11am-11:30am (3-5 years) Sing a Song Dance Along Shellharbour City Library, College Ave, Shellharbour 4pm-5pm* (6-12 • Interactive robotics demonstration with Gong Girls & Boys Junior Boxing Albion Park Library, Russell St, Albion Park 11am-12noon Invaders 11am and 1pm Koninderie Community Based Preschool City years) 4pm-5pm* (6-12 years) Barrack Heights Free Play Pod Taster • Live performance by young artists Grace 222 Princes Hwy Albion Park Rail KidsFest Storytime Mae, The Red Bandanas, Dear Violet, Minna, Kayla Lake Illawarra PCYC, Reddall Parade, Lake Illawarra Session PCYC, Reddall Singing, dancing and music from all around the 11am-11:30am (3-5 Shay and friends 10am, 12pm and 2pm. Boxing for Fitness – gets kids active in a fun and 3pm-4:30pm (closed event for Barrack Heights Parade, Lake years) • Lantern making – help Bertie make some big interactive environment Public School students and their world with special musical reading of ALPACAS WITH Illawarra Shellharbour City lanterns for our finale parade at Killalea State Park families) MARACAS *Free 12 month membership (for Library, College Ave, Boxing for on Saturday Barrack Heights Public School Magic Show with the amazing Daniel under 18s) and free access to Shellharbour City Fitness – gets activities during KidsFest Girls Junior Boxing Dwyer kids active 1pm-2pm Come and try a Come and try Rhee 4pm-5pm* (6-12 years) in a fun and BREAKING NEWS: Lake Illawarra PCYC, Ravensthorpe Guesthouse & Restaurant WHEEL game of interactive If you are thinking of getting a personal or Taekwondo – the Reddall Parade, Lake 56 Tongarra Rd Albion Park Basketball environment home loan, mention KidsFest and Illawarra family Martial Art Illawarra Dress up as your favourite costumed character and 3pm-4pm Credit Union will donate a percentage of 6pm-6:30pm (all ages) *Free 12 month help save the day, as Daniel uncovers some cheeky, Shellharbour City Stadium, the loan balance to KidsFest Shellharbour Centenary Hall, Tongarra Boxing for Fitness – membership (for under mischievous magic toys that threaten to make a big Croome Rd Albion Park for the life of the loan. Road, Albion Park gets kids active in a 18s) and free access to fun and interactive mess. Party games, modelled balloons will follow the Try your skills at Wheelchair activities during KidsFest Jishukan show. Bookings requested www.trybooking.com/496037 environment Basketball with the Illawarra’s National Fishing by the Lake hosted Free Kid’s DIY workshops 6pm-8pm* (all ages) Wheelchair Basketball team the Roller *Free 12 month Girls & Boys Junior Boxing* 11am-1pm Lake Illawarra PCYC, Hawks. All participants receive a family pass to by Fisheries NSW membership (for 4pm-5pm Bunnings Warehouse Shellharbour Reddall Parade, Lake attend Roller Hawks game. Bookings requested go to 3:30pm-5:30pm under 18s) and free Lake Illawarra PCYC, Reddall Parade, Lake Illawarra 15 Shandan Circuit, Albion Park Rail Illawarra www.trybooking.com/496028 A free family fishing afternoon fishing on the access to activities Boxing for Fitness – gets kids active in a fun and *Free 12 month membership shore of Lake Illawarra with tuition, bait and some during KidsFest interactive environment Come and try Rhee Taekwondo – the fishing equipment provided or bring your own. We’ll (for under 18s) and free family Martial Art access to activities during Come and try Rhee *Free 12 month membership (for under 18s) and free meet East of the boat ramp at Windang. 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