The Spring School Holidays in Queensland are the best time of year! The weather is warm enough for kids to venture into the water, but cool enough so the whole day can be enjoyed outside. The Brisbane Kids website is filled with walking trails, playgrounds, places to swim and day trip ideas if you want to head out and about! You will also find events on the “What’s on” part of the menu.
Below is a featured list of things to do in Brisbane these school holidays. You can find all of these ideas on our website by using the search bar, or click here. Remember, this is not an exhaustive list, just some fun events and ideas the Brisbane Kids team found when planning their own holidays for their kids.
The Best Brisbane School Holiday Ideas
Our holiday guide is free for you to read and is guaranteed to give you lots of unique ideas on how to make the most of the September school holidays with your kids. This includes the best events, activities, playgrounds, day trips and nature apps to help you get your kids outside! We also have included a heap of discount coupons to save you money over the school holidays.
September School Holiday Ideas
September School Holidays 2024
- Book the kids into a school holiday workshop or program.
- Look at the Brisbane Kids Events Calendar to see what’s on.
- Day trip to Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, pack a picnic or enjoy a bite to eat in their cafe. Take a 1.7km walk through the rainforest and end up at their famous discovery centre, where the kids can look at the natural world in more detail.
- Visit the rescued deer at Lyell Deer Sanctuary on Brisbane’s northside. Just past Samford, the kids can enjoy hanging out with and feeding a very lucky group of much-loved deer. It is only open on Saturdays and Sundays, with entry being super affordable for families.
- Pack the bikes and enjoy morning riding at the Bracken Ridge BMX Track. This sits directly next to an awesome skatepark.
- Walk to King Island at low tide. King Island (accessed via Cleveland) awaits, with lots of low tide discoveries to be made on your walk!
- Spend a day at Maleny. Visit the Maleny Botanic Gardens and Bird World. Grab a bite to eat at a local cafe, or enjoy a bushwalk to Kondalilla Falls
- Climb Mount Coolum at sunrise.
- Day trip to the Gold Coast for the Swell Sculpture Festival (6th – 15th September 2024).
- We challenge you not to smile when you see the gorgeous fairy penguins at SEA LIFE Aquarium Sunshine Coast.
- Design and make a possum box or bird box (Bunnings has lots of DIY videos for this).
- Grab a butterbeer at The Store of Requirement at Samford on Brisbane’s northside.
- Get lost at Amaze World on the Sunshine Coast. (TIP: There’s a discount voucher in our Spring magazine for you to save money on admission!)
- Sign up for a geocaching app and head out on a treasure hunt (read our beginners’ guide first).
- Go on a Zog Forest Adventure at the Ginger Factory. (TIP: There’s a discount voucher in our Spring magazine for you to save!)
- Bake a spring-themed cake. Help the kids make some fondant flowers and teach them how to follow a recipe.
- Visit an escape room with your older kids and see who can solve the clues. (TIP: There’s a Fox in a Box Escape Rooms discount voucher in our Spring mag!)
- Buy some big chalk from a discount shop and draw happy designs on your driveway.
- Visit some op shops and plan Halloween costumes.
- Go to the Redcliffe Museum for free.
- Make a family time capsule.
- Meet up with some friends for a game of laser tag at Laserzone in Lawnton.
- Explore Queensland Museum Kurilpa and marvel at the free exhibits.
- Declutter the kids’ toys and have them choose 5 to give to a charity.
- Plant some giant sunflowers.
- Book in for a Cosmic Skydome show at the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium at Mt Coot-tha.
- Picnic and play at New Farm Park, followed by a CityCat ride down the Brisbane River.
- Head to Old Petrie Town for their Sunday market.
- Play some putt-putt at one of the many indoor or outdoor courses in Brisbane.
- Spend a day at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens at Mt Coot-tha. Take the kids on the Hide ‘n’ Seek Children’s Trail, for a play in the playground and a picnic on the lawn.
- Head to Sandgate on the low tide for fish and chips, followed by a stroll out on the flats to spot the soldier crabs.
- Escape the heat and head to Iceworld for some ice skating.
- Unleash the ninja within on Urban Xtreme‘s ninja course.
- Visit Kumbartcho Sanctuary on the northside for a play in the playground, visit the fairy garden, and take home some super cheap native seedlings.
- Everyone can have something different for dinner, followed by fairy floss as tall as the kids, at Eat Street Northshore.
- Enjoy over 200 original arcade and pinball machines at Australia’s Largest Freeplay Retro Arcade, 1UP Arcade.
- Head to Roma Street Parkland for their Kids’ Collective holiday workshops.
- Visit the chickens and goats at Albany Creek Produce Centre, Capalaba Produce Centre, or at the Samford Lifestyle Centre.
- Smell the blooms at the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers (13 September – 7 October 2024).
- Picnic and koala spot at Daisy Hill Koala Centre.
- Try your luck at scoring a strike at one of the many ten pin bowling alleys in Brisbane.
- Take a Brisbane City Hall Clock Tower Tour in the Brisbane CBD and finish with a slice of cake at the Shingle Inn City Hall.
- Find some local pine trees, and collect pine cones. Paint and hang to bring some nature inside.
- Book a whale-watching day cruise from Brisbane (June to October).
- Take the kids indoor rock climbing at Crank Indoor Climbing.
- Spend the day at the multi-storey super playground, Flagstone Adventure Park.
- Spend a day hiking at Springbrook National Park – choose one that finishes at a waterfall.
- Explore the flower fields close to Brisbane and take some Insta-worthy snaps along the way.
- Have a ball roller skating together as a family at Skate Paradise in Hillcrest, or Skateaway Albany Creek.
- Take in a family-friendly show, or simply make the most of the free installations that form part of the Brisbane Festival.
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