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14-20 MAY kidsfestshellharbour.com.au Welcome to the 10th KidsFest Shellharbour – the biggest community run FREE week-long festival for children, their families and carers in NSW. SUNDAY 14 MAY MONDAY 15 MAY TUESDAY 16 MAY “All Aboard the KidsFest Express” BaptistCare Warilla North Community “Helper Friends” Emergency Services supported by The Housing Trust, Centre Open Day Expo LendLease and Shellharbour City 9.30am-11.30am 10am-2pm Council 2-6 Hill St, Warilla North Illawarra Rural Fire Service Control Centre 37 Airport Drv, Albion Park Rail 10am-3pm Various interactive activities for families Illawarra Light Railway Museum including Matilda’s farmyard, circus, Art Meet emergency service workers from NSW 48a Tongarra Rd Albion Park Rail project, Library presenting a puppet show, a Rural Fire Services, Fire Rescue NSW, NSW Celebrate Mothers’ Day and visit from Bangu, singing, rhyming and Police & NSW Ambulance. Kids will get to bring the family together. stories at Paint Shellharbour ReAD crawl through a smoke house, try the fire trucks Mothers, Grandparents tent, Magic Moo Music and hair powerful hose, climb inside an ambulance, sit and their families are colouring & nails with Nu You on a police motor bike and make their own our guests of honour. Hair. Emergency Services helmet with Bunnings. Free Call 1300 656 169 sausage sizzle provided by Bunnings to secure a Golden Park and Play Family Pass for 9.30am-11.30am Park and Play Mood park, Tongarra a 1 hour family 9am-11am Road, Albion Park Barrack Heights Public School Hunter St, Barrack ticket to ride the Heights steam trains. Fun play sessions across Shellharbour for kids 0-5 Fun play sessions across Shellharbour for kids Covered footwear yrs and their carers 0-5 yrs and their carers must be worn on the miniature train Clothes and Toy Swap Kidstime for toddlers ride. BYO Picnic. 10am-11.30am 10.30am Albion Park Anglican Church, Albion Park Library, Russell St, Albion Park • Community 253 Tongarra Road, Albion Park engagement Stories, rhymes, songs and a simple craft for activities with Come 10am to donate/swap up to children aged 3-5 LendLease including giant 30 items, which are in good condition (no Lego, story time, the interactive stains or holes please) and sorted in sizes, Girls Junior Boxing Calderwood Community Tree and then have a chat and some morning tea. 4pm-5pm* (6-12 years) create art using recycled materials with Swap kicks off 10.30am-11.30am You are Lake Illawarra PCYC, Reddall Parade, Lake Honora. Art created will be displayed welcome to take the number of items that Illawarra at the Calderwood Valley Sprout Hub you came with. For more info contact Church Boxing for Fitness – gets kids active in a fun and (community centre) on Sunday 21 May Office 4256 2103/ Tneal 0425 841 056 1.30-3pm. interactive environment *Free 12 month membership (for under 18s) and • Fruit kebabs courtesy of the Housing Lapsit for babies free access to activities during KidsFest Trust 11am-12noon Albion Park Library, Russell St, Albion Park. • Shellharbour City Council will host lots Rhymes, songs, reading and play for 0-2 years Come & Try Rhee Taekwondo of free fun and activities including crafts The family Martial Art (3-6 years) grandparents love sharing. Kidstime for toddlers 5pm-5.30pm 6pm-6.30pm (7-12 years) • Felted Monster Puppets 10:30-1pm – 11am-12noon Oak Flats Library, Cnr Central Ave and Fisher Centenary Hall, Tongarra Children will make their own felted hand Road, Albion Park puppet using colourful wool fibres and St, Oak Flats & Warilla Library Cnr Lake soapy water. Entrance and Shellharbour Rds, Warilla • Lantern making – help make a lantern Stories, rhymes, songs and a for our 10 year celebration finale parade simple craft for ages 3-5 years • UOW Travelling STEM Roadshow: Promotion of Science - Technology - Boys Junior Boxing * (6-12 years) Engineering - Maths (STEM) Education via 4pm-5pm Lake Illawarra PCYC, 3D printing, drones, bottle rockets, balsa Reddall Parade, Lake planes and driving an open-wheeler racer Illawarra driving simulator. • Symbio Wildlife Park Zoo2You – Meet Boxing for Fitness – gets animals and reptiles and see how the kids active in a fun and Illawarra Credit Union’s Wildlife Saver interactive environment program helps protect our natural *Free 12 month environment and endangered animals. membership (for under 18s) and free access to BREAKING NEWS: activities during KidsFest If you are thinking of getting a personal or home loan, mention KidsFest and Illawarra Jishukan Credit Union will donate a percentage of the 6pm-8pm* (6-12 years) loan balance to KidsFest Shellharbour for Lake Illawarra PCYC, Reddall the life of the loan Parade, Lake Illawarra *Free 12 month membership (for under 18s) and free access to Don’t Forget activities during KidsFest Bring a hat, water and sunscreen and a picnic Come & Try Rhee Taekwondo Tae Kwon Do The family Martial Art (3-12 years) 6.30pm-8.30pm* (6-12 to all outdoor events. 6pm-6.30pm years) Shellharbour Public School Hall, Towns Street, Lake Illawarra PCYC, Reddall Parade, Lake In case of wet weather Shellharbour Illawarra check the website for updates *Free 12 month membership (for under 18s) and kidsfestshellharbour.com.au free access to activities during KidsFest The theme for this milestone Community and Country’, with the carers. Events are held at a range of event is ‘KidsFest Shellharbour program featuring over fifty events for venues throughout the Shellharbour Celebrating 10 years- Children, children 0-12 years, their families and Local Government Area. WEDNESDAY 17 MAY THURSDAY 18 MAY FRIDAY 19 MAY Cardboard Creations Communities for Children Picnic National Walk Safely to School Day Crew Park, Cnr of King St & Queen St, Warilla 10am-12 noon Encourages parents and carers to walk to school Blackbutt Forest Reserve; Enter off with their children and promote safe pedestrian Enjoy play at its best! Come and invent, imagine Shellharbour Road. Some parking onsite and behaviour. www.walk.com.au/WSTSD/ and build using cardboard boxes presented by in side streets off Woodlands Drive. Healthy Cities Talk Project and the 2528 Project The Little Diggers ‘Love Your World’ Come along and help the Mayor of 10.30am-12pm (Pre-schoolers) Playgroup Day hosted by Early Years Care Shellharbour celebrate Paint Shellharbour 10am-12 noon Cardboard creation activities, Park and Play, REaD’s mascot Bangu’s first birthday. Enjoy reading, healthy eating, musical instrument Blackbutt Youth Centre, LOT 201 Cygnet Ave, free activities such as Paint Shellharbour Shellharbour City Centre making and a mini walk. REaD’s Reading Tent and Music Mat, Come and join in the fun and 2.50pm-4.30pm (Primary Years) face painting, art and craft, with Cardboard creation activities, Scouts reading, ball games, get back to nature with many tunnelling, reading and healthy eating Wollongong hands on activities to Conservatorium’s ChiME encourage sustainability Artists Studio Visit music activities, and outdoor fun, nature 10am-11am weaving, potting up craft, make a fruit Shop 2 , 30 Queen St, Warilla plants and a tea kebab, share stories party, Park and and see a musical Mary Wingrave and Anita Larkin will give Play, Munch and show. Don’t forget children a tour of their studio, showing their Move, Billy Back to wear clothes artworks, discussing how they are made and Pack and that you don’t mind answering children’s questions Barnardos Play getting dirty in. Ranger van. Lapsit for babies Skills 4 Life 10.30am-11.30am Bring a picnic, hat, 9.30am-10.30am Oak Flats Library, Central Avenue, Oak Flats sunscreen and rug. Shellharbour City Rhymes, songs, reading and play for children Alternative location Stadium, Croome Rd, aged 0-2 in case of bad Albion Park weather will be Warilla Library. Pre-school sports Music & Dance Celebration with Sing a development (3-6yrs) Song Dance Along Tinker at Tinkerage 11am-12 noon Lapsit for babies Koninderie Community Based Preschool 10am-2pm Dunmore Recycling and Waste 10.30am-11.30am 222 Princes Hwy Albion Park Rail Disposal Depot, 44 Buckleys Road, Warilla Library, Shellharbour Rd, Warilla Rhymes, songs, reading and play for children Singing, dancing and music from all around the Dunmore aged 0-2 world [email protected] Children will be able to see just what tinkering Daniel Dwyer’s Amazing Magic Show Boys Junior Boxing* and fixing stuff is all about. 1pm-2pm 4pm-5pm Ravensthorpe Guesthouse & Restaurant Lake Illawarra PCYC, Reddall Parade, Lake Bring along a broken toy and see if it can be 56 Tongarra Rd Albion Park Illawarra fixed, made into a one-of-a-kind thing. Boxing for Fitness – gets kids active in a fun Children MUST be accompanied by an adult Boys Junior Boxing and interactive environment to and during this activity who is willing to 4pm-5pm* (6-12 years) *Free 12 month membership (for under 18s) help them tinker. Gold coin donation Lake Illawarra PCYC, Reddall Parade, Lake and free access to activities during KidsFest appreciated. Illawarra Girls Junior Boxing Boxing for Fitness – gets kids active in a fun and Come & Try Rhee Taekwondo interactive environment The family Martial Art (3-12 years) 4pm-5pm* (6-12 years) *Free 12 month membership (for under 18s) and Lake Illawarra PCYC, Reddall Parade, Lake 6pm-6.30pm free access to activities during KidsFest Shellharbour Public School Hall, Towns Street, Illawarra Shellharbour Boxing for Fitness – gets kids active in a fun Tae Kwon Do and interactive environment 6.30pm-8.30pm* (6-12 years) Jishukan Lake Illawarra PCYC, Reddall Parade, Lake