If your child is hoping to try a new activity in 2025 – or let’s be honest – as a parent, you’re looking for something different for them to try, you’ve landed on the right page, because we’ve found some incredible local kids class providers.

We’re really excited by the huge range of fun and interesting kids’ classes on the Central Coast. Perhaps your child wants to get into basketball or drama? Learn circus skills? Or master parkour, gym and ninja obstacle courses? There’s something here to suit.

Scroll through to find an activity your kids are sure to love. Oh, and bonus! Lots of these classes offer a FREE trial and/or term discount exclusively to Playing in Puddles’ readers, so be sure to take them up on that.

Now, let’s sing, backflip and pirouette our way through 2025!



Mini Hoopers classes with Central Coast Basketball, Terrigal

Designed for children aged 3 to 5 years, Mini Hoopers is an engaging basketball program newly launched by Central Coast Basketball in 2024.

The program teaches your little ones the fundamentals of basketball while also developing essential skills such as hand-eye coordination, gross motor skills, basic counting, social skills, and learning to take turns.

During the sessions, children will do a general warm-up, play colour- and number-recognition games, learn how to pass, catch, dribble, shoot, and take part in obstacle courses. We know that when kids engage in fun, active programs such as this, it builds a foundation for future sports participation and develops a love for physical activity, so the benefits continue long beyond each term!

Registration comes with a pack of goodies too – a size 2 ball, Mini Hoopers Singlet and water bottle for your tot, plus a Keep Cup coffee mug for their carer. Love that!

We like that these sessions cater to ages 3 to 5, which means siblings can often do it together. That there is winning for the kids and the adults.

Age group: Kids aged 3-5 (and their adults).
Where: Breakers Indoor Sports Stadium, Duffys Road, Terrigal.
When: Wednesdays 4pm – 4:45pm. Fridays 9am – 9:45am. Term 1, 2025 start dates: Wednesday 12th February, Friday 14th February.
Cost: $150 for new participant (Includes size 3 ball, Mini Hoopers Singlet, water bottle and coffee mug for carer). $100 for returning participant.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0243 853 577
Website: https://ccbasketball.com.au/



Obstacle classes with Ninja Kids Erina

Have a child, tween or teen who swings, bounds and leaps over anything and everything? Get them to Ninja Kids Erina: it’s an obstacle gym packed with monkey bars, warped walls, salmon ladders, rope nets and trampolines. Their classes are fabulous for kids with boundless energy and a tenacity to challenge themselves as well as those who simply love the idea of swinging like a monkey.

Ninja Kids Erina runs classes for kids aged 5-15. They teach a combination of skills from parkour, gymnastics and trampolining to equip your kids with the skills to tackle myriad awesome obstacles. Participants get to balance across beams, flip into foam pits, swing between grip holds, clamber up ropes, climb bouldering walls and lache between bars. It’s a heap of fun and gives kids definite street cred.

These classes are such a fun way to increase your kids movement and fitness. The kids feel like they’re playing, but all the while they’ll be increasing their flexibility, strength, endurance and growth mindset.

Another plus is that classes are based on ability rather than age. They have beginner, intermediate and advanced classes, and kids move up after being assessed by their coaches. Within each stage they break kids into ages for each class: we think this is such an excellent way to do it.

You can book in for a free beginner trial class here.

Age Group: 5-15 years.
Where: Ninja Kids Erina, 3/5 Bonnal Rd, Erina.
Class levels: All students do a trial to assess their skills and determine their appropriate class level. Children in the beginner class progress to the intermediate and advanced class after being assessed by Ninja Kids’ coaches.
When: Classes run Monday-Thursday. You can view class times here.
Cost:
$234.33 (includes insurance and booking fee)
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0415 569 149.
Ninja Kids Erina’s Website
Creative and Active Kids Vouchers Accepted



O’Grady Drama, multiple locations across the Central Coast

Have a little star in the making? O’Grady Drama’s kids’ performance classes are now open for enrolments, and they’re offering Playing in Puddles’ readers 10% OFF their first term!

O’Grady Drama’s kids’ classes are a great way to nurture your child’s passion for the performing arts while helping them to develop social skills, boosting their confidence, and providing them with an opportunity to make new friends!

There are so many reasons to love these classes:
+ With drama classes, kids learn essential skills to prepare them for life at school AND beyond.
+ Theatre studies stimulate creativity, curiosity and a growth mindset.
+ O’Grady Drama runs classes for teenagers and high-school students as well as for younger kids.
+ Theatre classes help children develop vital communication skills, and build confidence and self-esteem.
+ Your kids will learn improv skills, stage presence, and voice training.
+ O’Grady Drama classes are available all over the Central Coast – at five key locations.
+ You can use your Creative Kids voucher!
+ Most importantly, kids have a tonne of fun in these classes!

Mention Playing in Puddles and get 10% OFF your child’s first term.

Age group: Kindy up to Year 12.
Where: Classes are held at Erina, Terrigal, Kanwal, Berkeley Vale and Umina. View the website for details.
When: Classes operate after school and Saturday mornings on the Central Coast. Youth Theatre Classes operate from 6pm during the school term.
Cost: $230 per term – family discounts apply for two or more students attending. Creative Kids Voucher Accepted.
Contact: Tim Doyle on 0403 368 517.
Website: O’Grady Drama.
Creative Kids Voucher Accepted



Terrigal Physie


Terrigal Physie is all about providing age-appropriate, fun, inclusive, family-focused dance classes for girls and women ages two to 60 plus. Yep, that means you can sign up to their classes too, sharing the awesomeness of physie with your daughter. No dance experience? No worries. They welcome everyone, with classes for all abilities. It’s also really affordable.

Not quite sure what physie is? Well, physie (or physical culture) is the fusion of dance and sport and has some fabulous benefits:

+ It increases confidence
+ Good posture is required, and this comes from building strength and balance.
+ You’ll get fit and improve your cardiovascular health.
+ Physie increases your flexibility.
+ Classes such as physie help balance your mind and improve your mood with hits of serotonin.
+ Physie improves your emotional health by helping you get social and make new friends.

Physie mixes together all kinds of dance types (think jazz, hip hop, basic ballet and contemporary) with choreography to the latest, age-appropriate music. Physie is a really affordable class, and a great way to build teamwork skills, make friends and share a common activity and interest with your daughter.

For further information visit their website or request an information pack by filling out an Expression of Interest Form here.

Mention Playing in Puddles and your first week of classes are FREE!

Age group: Girls and women aged 2-60+
Where: Terrigal Physical Culture Club, Leisure and Learning Centre, Duffys Road, Terrigal
Contact: Melinda on 0412 004 397 or email [email protected]
Website: Terrigal Physie
Active Kids and Creative Kids Vouchers are accepted.



Roundabout Circus, Gosford


Are you keen to defy gravity? Ever wondered how to master tumbling, juggling, spinning plates, or swinging on a trapeze? Now they are some nifty tricks you don’t pick up at school. BUT you can master them at Roundabout Circus!

Roundabout Circus is the Central Coast’s community circus and they run a heap of term-time classes for people of all abilities and all ages – yep, even adults! Always wanted to learn fire spinning, ride a unicycle or hula hoop? Well, you can at Roundabout! They also teach classes in aerial silks, lyra and Acro jam.

The teachers at Roundabout are highly trained and very experienced in circus skills so you really will be learning from the best. Plus, as well as being a creative and active kids provider, they offer Playing in Puddles’ readers FREE annual registration!

These sessions are a lot of fun and you can bet your bottom dollar that the tricks you learn will give you awesome playground cred.

Playing in Puddles offer: Mention Playing in Puddles and get FREE annual registration

Age group: From ages 1+ to Adults.
Where: Roundabout Circus, 96 Showground Rd, Gosford.
When: Multiple sessions weekly.
Cost: For class cost information, visit the Roundabout Circus website.
Contact: 0243 117 133 or email [email protected] 
Website: Roundabout Circus
Active and Creative Kids Vouchers Accepted


This feature was created in partnership with Central Coast Basketball, Roundabout Circus, Ninja Kids Erina, O’Grady Drama, and Terrigal Physie.

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Written By: KATIE STOKES

Founder & Editor

After working in print and online media for more than a decade, Katie launched Playing in Puddles in 2017. A mum of three young boys and local of the Central Coast, Katie loves discovering and sharing all that’s happening in our region.