Things To Do over the Easter Holidays in and out of Sydney

What to do over Easter in Sydney?

The Easter Holidays bring with them a challenge. Go or stay in Sydney. After being credit crunched you maybe feeling a little recessed and somewhat unstimulated to go anywhere or ‘do’ anything.

Easter Things To Do in Sydney

If you really aren’t that keen on joining the painfully slow migration of out of Sydney, there is an alternative. By Good Friday Morning there should be a little more room in Sydney. Shouldn’t we make the most of it? You don’t have to go far to have a good time and doesn't have to cost much.

Sydney Royal Easter Show - 1 to 14 April 2010

Sydney Showground in Olympic Park.

Famous for show bags, smelly animals, a rodeo and wood chopping. Kids love it. Make sure you bring buckets of patience (and cash) with you.

Sydney Royal Easter Show

Sydney Family Show - 1 to 14 April 2010

Entertainment Quarter Showring, Moore Park, Sydney.

The Sydney Family Show features a wide range of attractions including all things Easter as in bunny, eggs, egg painting, hunts and show bags (minimum price is $4, so consider making and bringing your own). Then there is story telling, circus acts and juggling, a laser show, animal nursery, pet parades, stage shows and reptile displays. Pets are invited to enter the pet parade. Just make sure you don't lose them. There are also planned American Muscle Cars display, a Psychic and Alternative Fair and Technology Fair on different days. Check website below for more details.

There are over 30 all age carnival rides and you can ride as much you want for an entire session for a flat fee.

Sydney Family Show

Kids in the (Sydney Olympic) Park - 2 - 18th April

Kids in the Park is held at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush. It offers a range of sporting, creative and plain old fun things to do for children of all ages up to 106. Activities include ANZ Stadium Tour, Soccer Camp, Archery, Diving, Cookie Making, Kite Flying, Golf, Mini Golf, Water Playground, Writing Workshops and much much more. For more details see below:

Kids in the Olympic Park

The Bald Archy - 1 April - 25 April

Bald Archy provides artists of all styles and standards with the opportunity to create humorous, dark satire or caricature portrait paintings of the rich and famous. The results range from the hilarious to the bizarrely vulgar. Winning portraits include Kerry Packer, Amanda Vanstone, Edmund Capon, Shane Warne, Dame Edna Everidge, John Howard and Pauline Hanson, Robbie and Gai Waterhouse, Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Kennett, Cardinal George Pell, Tony Abbott, and Ian Thorpe.

The Bald Archy is internationally famous for being the only art competition in the world to be judged by a sulphur-crested cockatoo called Maude. Its satirical irreverence and larrikin comic approach has proved to be a big hit with artists and public alike. Its a lot of fun. The finalists exhibition draws in record crowds wherever the portraits are shown. If you can, get yourself down to Ultimo and enjoy:

ABC Ultimo Centre
700 Harris St, Ultimo
Hours: Daily 10am – 4pm
Admission: Free
Tel: 02 8333 1500

Hoopla Festival - 2 - 5 April 2010

The annual Hoopla walks the tight ropes, does the trapeze, eats the fire and stunts the daredevils. Its a circus at Darling Harbour. A long weekend of the world's best acrobats, stunt performers, street artists and circus entertainers.

Hoopla Festival

Pay a Visit Town Hall - 6 March 2010 – 26 April 2010 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (but closed Good Friday & Easter Monday)

Unvaulted Exhibition - Town Hall Reopening

Unvaulted is a free exhibition little treasures and gifts that were hidden in the vaults of Town Hall. On display includes rare items of Australian colonial furniture and silver, HMAS Sydney memorabilia, a lock of hair purportedly from the head of Napoleon; ceremonial 'tools of the trade', including keys, trowel and spades, and some contemporary images of Sydney Town Hall which will show amazing architectural details of the building.

Last entries 3:00pm, lower Town Hall, Sydney Town Hall, 483 George Street Sydney

Tango Festival - 30 March until 4 April

Learn it, experience it, enjoy it. The Tango Festival is open to all. Argentine Tango teachers from Buenos Aires will be giving the dance lessons so step to it!

Tango Festival

Space Explorers required at Sydney Observatory - 3rd April to 18th.

Grab your spacesuit, say farewell to Mumcontrol (or Dad) and blast off to the Sydney Observatory for the adventure of your holiday time. Get dressed up as an astronaut, make your own alien, launch a water-powered rocket and much more. Saturn awaits to be explored (and it is an amazing planet) along with 3-D Space Theatre. There's a lot of space in space and we need the right people to fill it. Start your space career here.

Before you take off sydneyobservatory.com

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