Pitch a tent in your backyard and go camping! Our local council often have activities for kids over holidays. Some are for nothing, others are for gold coin donation. Local libraries and museums usually have school holiday activities too

Your local library usually has school holiday activities. Your local council often has a list of activities in the area too. I used to like taking the kids to the museum, who also have school holiday activities. Then there’s always parks, drive around and visit different ones

Make day trips to the beach or different parks, take a trip to the city, botanic gardens etc.

there are some good comments here

What did you end up doing?

most councils also have a list of good holiday program activities too

What did you end up doing?

Did you end up finding any good cheap holiday activities?

What did you end up choosing?

Swimming at the swimming pool

Craft, picnics, scavenger hunts, visits to relatives, playdough, movie nights (set up your lounge like a cinema)

you can try camping or picnics

Offices irks has a kids club that runs free activity s during holidays!

People have offered some great suggestions here, thank you.

Some great ideas posted thanks!

Some great suggestion given – our kids love going on picnics – parks with good play equipment or near ponds where they can feed ducks.

Picnics and family walks are great fun

Flying kites always look up for power lines be careful,picnics in a safe gated park,swimming,bush walking,riding bikes,fishing,playing board games,the council usually run free activities,walking the dog,gardening,washing the cars,does a local church run free kids activities,does the school run free activities,leave the TV & vidoe games switched off during the day & only allow no more then 2 hours at night time you will have happier kids.kids need to go outside & play.Campling in the backyard & have a sausage sizzle,visit museums & other free places,paint & draw,learn a new craft,play a sport ,do some volunteer work, Bye Have fun

Go to a taping of a television show! You can get free tickets to Millionare Hot Seat (Docklands) or The 7pm Project (Chapel St) and more. X Factor auditions are coming up too, and audience tickets to that are free and that’s Australia wide! Some of them are 14+, 16+, etc though so check before you book!

Internet free school holidays. Okay I pack a picnic and we go to darling harbour it’s a beautiful park. We do cooking we do chalk art. .. Believe me when the first day we do house work. So the kids help we lean every thing then we have the rest of the holidays but start your week with what you need to do…so they help and the you have there time…I tell my we can go here and there but we must take all food and drinks with us.. I know you will see things but I,m sorry the answer is no..cook Phillip park swimming centre is awesome … It’s really the best. .. Sausage sizzle movie day at home where they get to invite a friend… Also kids love doing fun stuff eg washing and hosing windows .. Etc… Make it fun make a reward at the end of the day like a sausage sizzle… Chicken burgers for dinner…