Our garden always provides lots of fun times whether it is tending our vegies, playing sports or doing our messy play.
Parks are always entertaining and of course free. I use the Melbourne Playgrounds website to hunt out new and interesting playgrounds and to find ones with good facilities too.
However, one of the cheapest and varied forms of entertainment comes in the form of our Friends of the Zoo membership. For a fee of $69 per year we get unlimited entry to the 3 zoos in Victoria - Melbourne, Werribee and Healesville. We only need to go 4 times in the year to pay for itself. We have now gone 3 times in the last 10 days alone. We are halfway through our year's membership and I have lost count how many times we have been but it is probably around 10 so far. So well and truly got our money's worth even with another 6 months to go.
It is such an entertaining time for B with lots of things to explore and animals to see. There have been times when they are really entertaining and other times not so much. But of course as we are frequent visitors it doesn't matter too much. We can also pick and choose which animals we see and don't have to push ourselves to get round it all to get our money's worth. This was especially helpful when B was still having afternoon naps as we could just go for a couple of hours, he could run around and burn off some energy, have some lunch and then head home. This is not as important now that he is not sleeping in the afternoon but we still don't need to push ourselves and get overtired.
Here he is getting up close and personal with one of the gorillas at Werribee:
Another free entertainment is the Melbourne Museum. As I have a concession card it is another free activity and very entertaining. We haven't been there for a while but will plan another trip soon.
What about you? What are your simple, cheap or free ways of keeping kids entertained? I would love to hear from you.
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