Eltham & Outer East Kids
Heritage pottery studios, reptile encounters and space to run around.
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Why Eltham & Outer East?
Out past the middle ring, kids classes trade shopfronts for space — mud-brick studios, working kilns and animals you can actually touch. Worth the drive for a holiday activity that does not look like every other holiday activity.
Montsalvat Arts Education in Eltham teaches inside Australia's oldest continuously operating artists' colony. Kids Spring Holiday Pottery covers handbuilding over the break and is rated 4.85 from 147 reviews. During term they run Friday Kids Pottery and Monday Kids Pottery with Lily as regular weekly classes, plus Teen Clay on Wednesdays for older kids who want their own session.
Reptile Encounters holds Open Days in Burwood, rated 4.87 from 63 reviews. Further out at Macedon, Wild Action runs a hands-on Zoo Experience with TV zoologist Chris Humfrey — at 4.96 from 394 reviews it is the highest-rated kids activity in Melbourne on the platform.
OXART pottery in Taradale runs Kids at Taradale pottery classes for 6 to 12 year olds and a regular weekday kids class.
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