What’s on around you?
Launching into Learning (LiL)
LiL provides resources to schools to develop and lead initiatives with families and their community to support children’s early learning prior to Kindergarten. Schools focus on the needs of their community and make connections with other groups, services and agencies in the area.
At LiL you will see teachers, parents and children playing alongside, having fun and learning together through experiences such as baby massage, out and about exploring the local community, music sessions, physical activities, water awareness, and Dad’s groups. LiL uses quality learning environments to promote children’s learning through play.
Contact your local primary school for details.
Community programs
Libraries Tas
Join your local library free of charge and raise a reader.
Libraries all over Tasmania welcome children and families to a range of preschool, baby, and toddler programs.
Storytime
A fun 30-minute program for older toddlers, preschoolers and their carers, with books, stories, rhymes, action rhymes and songs. Aimed at children from 3 to 5 years. Reading with your child every day can be fun, and helps develop their listening, memory and word skills.
Rock & Rhyme
Is a fun 30-minute program for babies, young toddlers and their carers, with simple songs, action rhymes and short stories. Aimed at children from birth to 3 years. Make talking, reading, and singing with your child a daily routine, it helps little brains grow and it's fun!
School holiday fun
Check out what is happening at your local library in the school holidays.
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TMAG
mapiya lumi | around here
This exhibition is a specially-developed, age-appropriate museum experience for young children and their carers.
Designed with the child’s perspective in mind, the exhibition takes you through Tasmania as a ‘little big home’ – a place of deep oceans, soaring rock columns and tumbling waterfalls, but also a place for tiny nests, comfy kitchens, and fire pit stories.
‘mapiya lumi’ means ‘around here’ in palawa kani, and reflects a focus in the exhibition on a sense of home and place that is unique to the islands that make up lutruwita/Tasmania.
With a dedicated space for ages 0-3 and a range of exciting spaces to discover for children aged 3 and over, mapiya lumi | around here is a unique new cultural experience for young families visiting TMAG.
Open from 30 April 2021
Kingston Park
The play space provides play opportunities for all ages and abilities and consists of zones specifically designed for babies and toddlers. The playground offers a range of genres of play inspired by animals and habitats native to Kingborough. The playground offers nine unique areas of play that are well signed throughout the play space.
1. Baby Play
Inspired by the Tasmanian Velvet Worm, a creature native to Tasmania and with populations in Kingborough. The decorative shade structure over this relaxing area is inspired by a Rock Daisy and casts intriguing shadows over the space.
Play Elements: The baby play area offers babies and their carers a safe and soft place to sit, feed, lie, roll, crawl and explore. It also offers carers the ability to supervise older children in the adjacent play areas.
2. Toddler Play
Inspired by the Chaostola Skipper Butterfly, the Toddler Play area connects to the Baby Play area by an arbour tunnel, representing a chrysalis. An Agency of Sculpture custom-designed watercourse allows exploratory water play, whilst a potion-making bench encourages imaginative play.
Play Elements: Watercourse, sandpits, swings, potion-making bench, bouncing bee, timber caterpillar and skipper butterfly sculpture.
Kingston, Tasmania