The Perth Airport Muddy Hands Festival is back for 2025! We are excited to bring this family favourite back to the picturesque Kent Street Weir in Wilson in November 2025. 🌳
The Perth Airport Muddy Hands Festival is an event to encourage children and families to enjoy playing outdoors and being among nature. Kids will have fun taking part in mud play, creating nature crafts and enjoying a number of hands-on activities. The event aims to engage children’s curiosity, letting them choose their own path with immersive experiences, hands on learning and a greater understanding on how to co-exist on this planet with local flora, fauna, and the natural environment. 🌿🌞🌸🦋🐛
This free event features plenty of have a go activities aimed at children aged 1 - 16 (though of course all are welcome!).
Mud zone
From our friends at Nature Play WA:
🌿 Mudster Chef Kitchens
🌿 Two Mud Pits (one for big kids, one for little kids)
🌿 Hose Down Station
Mud Free Activities
🍃 Build your own cubbyhouse with Educated by Nature
🐜 Learn about insects’ life cycles with Eco Action and meet some mini beasts
💐Create your own flower crown with the Freedom Fairies
🧚Meet Sensational Entertainers beautiful Bush Fairies riding Emus!
🐐Pat the adorable animals at the Incredible Creatures farm
🖤💛❤️Learn about Aboriginal culture through storytelling and interactive activities with Millyaan Aboriginal Services
🪺Make a birds nest, decorate a mud-cake or do some mud painting with Little Green Steps
📖🍄🦋Visit our Story Zone for some live entertainment, or if you just need to rest your legs – we have storytelling, puppet shows, and animal talks lined up throughout the day
🌱City of Canning CREEC (Canning River Eco Education Centre) will be open
🌳City of Canning Greening Team Activation
🎪 🎧Feeling overwhelmed? Visit our quiet tent for some relaxation time. There are sensory toys and colouring in available, to help you take a break.
On the Main Stage
🐐Nigel from Incredible Creatures
📖Spectacular storyteller Glenn Swift
🧸Baerlie and Friends puppet show
🧚Storytelling from Sensational Entertainers
Food
🌭 Riverton Scouts
☕Beach Break Van
🫓My Goz
🥗Peter’s Ca Phe
🥔 Satisfried Food Truck WA
🍕The Big Slice
🥟 T Sisters Fresh Food
🥐T Sisters Brunch Bar
🍭Spun & Ko
🥞Miam Miam
🍦 The Milky Monster
Plus all the local favourites from the Canning River Cafe 🥗
Important mud facts
📣 Our mud is all natural with no nasties and is totally kid friendly. Parent’s and carers are welcome to jump on in with their kids too!
📣 We will have 2 mud pits on the day (under 4yrs and over 4 yrs).
📣 The Mudster Chef Kitchens will be back again to let your budding Chefs can serve up Mud Pies, with a side serving of mud.
📣 Then we have a hose down water truck station for when they’ve had enough.
📣 Children must be always supervised by an adult.
Contact with soil is good for you, however if your child has an open wound, please ensure they do not enter the mud pit. If your child has a history of allergies or skin issues, please proceed with caution and ensure they do not remain in the mud pit for an extended period of time.
Event day handy tips
📋 Dress the kids in swimmers and “rashies”, because they are the easiest clothing to remove once covered in mud. Then bring a warm, clean change of clothes for them to wear once they’ve been in the hose down station.
📋 Parents are welcome to get stuck in with the kids on all the mud activities. No judgement here!
📋 Bring an old towel to the hose down area so you can wrap the kids up straight away.
📋 Bring an old bag to put the muddy gear in so you can get it home easily without leaving a trail of ‘mud destruction’ everywhere the kids have been.
📋 Crocs would be ideal for this sort of event but if the kids don’t have a pair to hand, then a pair of old shoes will do fine. They can take them off when playing in the mud activities if they want though.
📋 Once the kids have had enough of the mud make sure you utilise the hose down station before the end of the session, otherwise you might end up in a large queue with cold kids.
FAQ
✔️ Plenty of onsite toilets available (including accessible)
✔️ Event site does have limited free car parking (including accessible)
✔️ Entry to the event and its activities are free (food trucks take Eftpos/cash)
✔️ Dogs are allowed on a lead at all times
✔️ We always have a large free water station at our events
✔️ Thanks to our supporters Plastic Free Riverpark program, our event will be using Go2Cup to replace food vendor single use plastics with reusable serve ware. Just take your plates, cups and cutlery back to the Go2Cup Station once you've finished eating.
Getting here
The event location does have free car parking either in one of the designated car parks manned by our Parking Marshals or on the park verge including ACROD. The City of Canning Depot car park will be open to the public, located on Fleming Avenue, on the corner of Kent Street. We also have another car park available at the City's Administration Building a short walk from the event, on George Street West. Please avoid parking on residential verges though.
On your way to the mud you'll notice some areas closed off for our 🐢 turtle nesting program - keeping clear of these areas is greatly appreciated!
Why not consider also carpooling, walking or riding your bike? 🚲🚶 We will have free bike racks onsite ready to use (bring your own bike lock)!
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