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You'll be chasing the kids to keep up with this selection of fascinating and fun experiences.

Do a workshop at Floriade

Get creative with this hands on horticulture Bunnings kids' workshop designed especially for kids. Get hands on and pot your own plant at the Kids' potting up workshop with the help of the City Services Floriade's Gardening Team.

Paint a Floriade gnomes

Visit the brightly coloured gnomes living in Gnome Knoll. Yours could be on display too, simply purchase a gnome onsite during weekends and school holidays, get painting and enter the best gnome competition. Gnomes are also available for $12 from Eckersleys and Rodney’s Plants Plus. 17–18, 24–25 September, 1–16 October

Make your own glass object

Watch glassblowing from the Canberra Glassworks 'hot shop' and then try making your own glass bead or tile at the only contemporary glass centre of its kind in the country. On Sundays, head next door to the Old Bus Depot Markets for a leisurely shop and bite to eat.

Ride a roller coaster at Questacon

Family fun is guaranteed at a place where you can ride a roller coaster simulator, challenge each other to a six metre free fall and watch in awe at the lightning bolt exhibit. Explore the themed exhibition rooms at Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre.

Get scientific at CSIRO Discovery

Make faces for the facial recognition software, feel the strange sensations of 3D cinema and don a white coat to observe objects under a microscope at CSIRO Discovery, part of the Australia's largest science research organisation.

Sport in action at the AIS

Inspire your little sporting dynamo with an athlete-guided tour of the Australian Institute of Sport. You may see swimmer Alicia Coutts in training or a gymnastics session. Afterwards at Sportex test your own sporting skills.

Take the family tour to the zoo

Go behind-the-scenes at the National Zoo & Aquarium with a Zooventure or Family tour. Help feed animals, look a big cat in the eye or hand-feed a giraffe or bear.

National Gallery of Australia

Stimulate your little Picasso with a trip to the National Gallery of Australia. The NGA has rooms designed especially for kids and run specific programs during school holidays and many weekends.