Community Groups Providing Activities For Children

There are several community groups offering activities for children. If you know of any other groups please let us know.

ABA Coffee Mornings

Babies and toddlers are welcome at all meetings of the Australian Breastfeeding Association. They can play with the other children whilst mum enjoys a cuppa and enjoys the company of other mums. Coffee mornings often have a theme and may have a guest speaker. Get out of the house, make friends, get the chance to finish your cuppa and gain information & support whilst the children play.
Click here for more information and meeting times and places in your locality.

Scouts

The Scouting association offers lots of exciting opportunities for boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 24. Activities include: games, stories, craft and outings for the younger children and moving on to all sorts of outdoor activities for the older children.
For more information on scouting in general have a look at the Scouts Australia webpage or the Tasmanian Branch website. You can contact individual groups by clicking on the group names below.

Groups are in the following localities:
Derwent (Domain), Battery Point, 1st Sandy Bay , 10th Hobart (King St, Sandy Bay), Bellerive, Blackmans Bay, Clarence, Cygnet, Geeveston, Glenorchy, Hounville, Howrah, Jordan River, Kingston, Lenah Valley, Mt Faulkner, Mt Stuart, New Norfolk, North West Bay, Pittwater, Sandford, Spring Bay, Swansea, Taroona, Woodbridge.

Guides

Guides is for girls 5-18 years of age. Guides provides girls with fantastic opportunities to develop life skills, confidence to think and act for themselves, friendship, respect for the environment and a sense of community.
For more information on guiding in general have a look at the Guides Australia webpage. To find out what groups meet near you Click here or Phone: 03 6223 6933

Salvation Army - Mainly Music

The aim of mainly music is to provide an environment where preschool children develop skills including fine motor movements, large motor movements, social interaction, appreciation of music and musical styles and language development to enhance their preschool education. This is done through the use of music, rhythm, rhyme, and other music related activities with the participation of a parent or primary caregiver. Adults can then use the rhymes and songs at home to help with cleaning up, colours, counting and more.

Each week, parents and caregivers join their children for a thirty minute session of music, rhyme, movement, listening and more. The adults participate in the session, as this encourages the children to enter into the actions and singing. After this session the children are given morning tea. The children then have time for free play under adult supervision to enjoy each others company, and to develop social skills. The parents are then treated to a separate morning tea and adult company.

All this for $3.00 a session per family per week. Two sessions are held each Thursday during school terms. 10.00 am and 11.30 am at The Salvation Army 180 Elizabeth Street Hobart.
For more information ph 62 315 440 or email Mainly Music.