Creative and educational activities for 2-5-year-olds and their parents/carers.
Mini Mariners (2-5 years and carers)
Selected Tuesdays and Saturdays during term time and school holidays. New theme every month.
Explore the galleries, sing and dance in interactive tours with costumed guides. Enjoy creative free play, craft, games and story time in our themed activity area.
June: Pirates Ahoy
Let's follow the treasure map around the museum to find the secret treasure cave. Learn how to sing, dance and scrub the deck like a pirate. Then you can decorate your own pirate hat or parrot puppet to take home and enjoy some special pirate science experiments.
Tuesdays 4, 11, 18, 25
Saturdays 8, 22
10.30–11.15 am and 11.30–12.15 pm
July: Alphabet Animals
A is for anemone, Z is for Zebrafish. Take a journey through the zoo-phonic alphabet of all things furry, feathered and finned as we spot amazing animal specimens and objects in the museum.
Enjoy touch tours with creature specimens, movement, songs, games, craft and free play in our themed activity space. Make your own animal puppet or block-printed hat to take home.
Tuesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and Saturdays 13, 20 July
August: Aquanaut Adventurers
Dive, dive, dive into an imaginary underwater adventure. Enjoy touch tours with shipwreck and sea creature specimens, movement, songs, games, craft and free play in our themed activity space. Make your own painted submarine, sea creature puppet or hat to take home.
Tuesdays 6, 13, 20, 27 and Saturdays 10, 17 August
Ages 2–5 + carers
Child $12. Adult $8 Members FREE.
Booked playgroups welcome.
Online bookings essential
