School holiday program

Check out the amazing array of events on offer for kids in the school holidays. 

Events appear here approximately three weeks before the school holidays, with the exception of the December/January holidays, which vary.

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Download a copy of the City of Unley School Holiday Program December 2025 - January 2026(PDF, 1MB)

Big Summer Read

Read, complete challenges, and read some more to be rewarded along the way.

VIP Christmas Reading Lounge (Ages 6-9 Years)

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VIP Christmas Reading Lounge (Ages 8-12 years)

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Tween Christmas Movie Crafternoon

Get in the festive spirit with a Christmas movie Crafternoon! For ages 10-15 years

Let's Make A Christmas Pageant Float!

Join us to design and decorate a fun Christmas pageant float that shines bright for the holidays!

Drop-in Lego at Goodwood Library

Create with Lego! Make towers, animals, forts or challenge your friends to a competitive build.

Drop-in Lego at Unley Civic Library

Come and spend some time creating with Lego. Make towers, animals, forts or challenge your friends to a competitive build.

Tween Bookish Crafternoon

Crafting and casual book chats for ages 10-15 years

School Holiday Fun @ Unley Museum - Making Magic Monsters With Craft

Get crafty and make your own magical monsters at Unley Museum this school holidays!

Circus Elements Circus Workshop

Circus skills for ages 6-12 years

Circus Elements Circus Workshop

Circus skills for ages 6-12 years

Felt Sewing Workshop

Sewing craft for ages 6-10 years

Storytime for School Starters

Stories, songs and craft for ages 4-6 years

Digital Art Play and Create

Come and try digital art for teens 12-18 years

Come and Try Early Years Summer Picnic

Sing and dance with your baby ages 0-3 years

Kids Reboot STEAM Club

Join us at our fun Kids Reboot STEAM Club!

School Holiday Fun @ Unley Museum - Create a Selfie With Collage

Come hang out at Unley Museum and make a cool selfie collage during the school holidays!

Twilight Tunes returns in 2026!

Our hugely successful Twilight Tunes series returns in 2026 with an exciting lineup of free music, food and local artisan delights.

We also have some great activities online.

Storytime book lists & crafts

A theme based list of Storytime book recommendations and matching crafts.

Kids Reboot

Explore science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.

Virtual Escape Room

A cyber investigation team needs your help. Use maths, observation and problem solving to solve puzzles, get past an AI security bot and discover who is behind the crime.

Cooking with Karyn and Caitlin

Karyn and Caitlin cook up a storm. As part of our school holiday program this series of videos offers a chance for school aged children to cook along with our two star presenters.

Drawing with Lauren

Local illustrator, Lauren Mullinder, has created some more amazing sessions showing us how to draw some amazing creatures.

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