Some of our services are closed or have different hours over the Christmas and New Year period.

Visit your favourite places or discover somewhere new in Boroondara during Children’s Week (19 to 27 October). 

Our kids activity passport is your ‘mini guide’ to our child-friendly city, designed for children 3 years and older. 

Inside you’ll find recommended places to visit, special events for kids and families and creative activities for indoors and out. For extra fun, every booklet comes with stickers for kids to add to their passport as they go.

Collect a free printed copy from Hawthorn Arts Centre, your nearest library or our customer service counter in Camberwell from mid-October or download a print at home version here. You can visit your nearest library to get this printed.

Halloween Spooktacular

For more family fun this month, check out the free events on in Boroondara for Halloween. From a Haunted Kew Courthouse to in-store trick or treating, face-painting and more, visit Halloween Spooktacular to see what's on.

Key venues for Halloween fun include: 

  • Ashburton Community Centre
  • Burwood Village Shops
  • Camberwell Fresh Food Market
  • Greythorn Central
  • Kew Junction
  • Maling Road.

Children’s Week events 

  • Come along to the Emergency Services Family Fun Day at Boroondara Farmers Market on 19 October. 
  • Join us at Kew Traffic School on Friday 25 October to meet community heroes who help keep us safe. 
  • Visit Hawthorn Arts Centre during Children's Week to see the Pattern Recognition exhibition (until 26 October) and get creative with a fun activity in the Explore and Create space.