Looking for family fun this Easter? We share 2023’s ultimate list of Easter events on the Gold Coast, Tweed Shire and Byron Shires – updated daily! Hop to it …
Note: This article is currently in progress. Check back for more activities!
Sunday 2 April
Easter EGGstravaganza
Free Easter EGGstravaganza is taking over Frascott Park on 2 April from 2:30pm with something for everyone to enjoy.
There’s free kids activities, art and crafts, carnival rides, delicious food, live entertainment and a visit from the Easter Bunny!
Who says our fur-babies have to miss out on celebrating? There will also be an Easter bonnet competition where all the best dressed pooches will be seen in their fanciest Easter headwear.
Did we mention the massive Easter egg hunt with over 17,000 eggs to find?
Be sure to bring your rug or chairs to secure your spot on the grass to watch a screening of Peter Rabbit 2 at 6.45pm.
Time: 2.30pm
Location: Frascott Park, 23a Yodelay Street, Varsity Lakes
Entry: Free
Thursday 6 April – Saturday 8 April
Tweed Mall Easter Egg Hunt
Your child will create their own bunny masks in this FREE workshop before collecting their hunt bag and joining Alice for their Easter Egg Hunt around Tweed Mall Shopping Centre. Look out for the Easter Bunny along the way!
Times: Thursday 6th April sessions will run at 3pm, 4pm, 5pm and 6pm | Saturday 8th April sessions will run at 10am, 11am, 12pm and 1pm.
Location: Wharf St, Tweed Heads
Entry: Free
Friday 7 April – Sunday 9 April
Easter on the Esplanade
Hop on down to Surfers Paradise for an Easter EGGstravaganza on the Esplanade, taking place over three nights at the Surfers Paradise Beachfront Markets. You’ll find the Easter bunny bouncing around to the beats on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th. We are expecting over 100 stalls, so pencil the dates into your calendars and get excited for some eggcellent evenings out, where you will experience the following:
- Easter Bunny (will be in attendance for 2 nights)
- Artisan handmade goodies
- Exciting live entertainment (with our musicians getting into the Easter spirit)
- Kids entertainment
- Sweets and treats for all
Time: 4pm-9pm
Location: The Foreshore, Surfers Paradise
Entry: FREE
Saturday 8 April
Meet the Easter Bunny and enjoy some Easter egg decorating!
Hippity Hoppity Easter Bunny is on his way with free mini chocolate Easter eggs!
Meet the Easter Bunny as he hops around Broadwater Parklands at the Peninsula Playground from 9am – 1pm on Easter Saturday. There will also be some egg-citing Easter Egg Decorating, with Easter arts and crafts! Way too much fun to miss out on!
Time: 9am – 1pm
Location: Peninsula Playground, Broadwater Parklands, Marine Parade, Southport
Entry: Free
Kids club Easter egg hunt
It will be an eggscellent activity for Pines Kids Club members this Easter!
Pines Kids Club members have an exclusive opportunity to participate in our Easter Egg hunt throughout the centre. Two sessions available and only 30 children per session. Booking essential.
Time: 9am
Location: The Pines Shopping Centre Access, Elanora
Sunday 9 April
Meet the Easter Bunny on Easter Sunday
Hippity hoppity Easter Bunny is on his way with free mini chocolate Easter eggs!
Meet the Easter Bunny as he hops around the Rockpools and the Great Lawn on Easter Sunday!
You’ll also be able to keep those little hands busy and get creative making some cute and decorative Easter craft decorations, including Easter egg decorating, plaster painting and wood craft. Easter crafts will be held at Casuarina Grove.
Happy Easter everyone!
Time: 11am – 3pm
Location: The Great Lawn, Broadwater Parklands, Marine Parade, Southport
Entry: Free
JW Marriott Ultimate Easter Egg Hunt
If you are staying at JW Marriott then note that in house guests can go along to JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa and take part in the ultimate Easter Egg Hunt!
On Sunday 9 April 2023 between 11:30am – 12:00pm, Families come together and enjoy life’s most meaningful moments, and create lasting memories with the JW Marriott Gold Coast Easter Egg Hunt.
Time: 11.30am – 12pm
Location: JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa, Ferny Avenue, Surfers Paradise
Entry: Free
Sunday Sounds – Easter celebration
Celebrate Easter Afternoon in the Paradise Pt Parklands with Sunday Sounds and the music of Black Tie Affair featuring Caleb Lafaitele and Sana Fai Fai. This is a family and pet friendly event.
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Location: Paradise Pt Parklands, The Esplanade, Paradise Point
Entry: Free
Past Easter events Gold Coast, Tweed and Byron
Saturday 26 March
The Big Easter Scramble at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre | Broadbeach
Celebrate Easter at Pacific Fair on Saturday 26 March at the annual Big Easter Scramble! 300 kids are invited to find 3,000 plastic eggs hidden in The Resort and can exchange their plastic eggs for a Cadbury chocolate Easter Bunny! There is also so much more for the kids to enjoy on the day. Activities will run from 9am – 1pm. Find out more here.
Saturday 9 April
Flagstone Easter Event and Scavenger Hunt | Flagstone
This is a fun-filled day for the whole family. Drive the trail and guess the clues to find the next business or place that you need to find.Once you have completed the trail return to the Tigers Clubhouse and join in with the Side Show Alley Games.
Each child will not only get a prize for completing the trail but they will also either with a constellation prize or a Mini or Major prize each time they play a game. Find out more here.
Easter Hunt & BBQ | Bethania
The Bethania Community Centre will be hosting the Bethania Easter Hunt & BBQ, a free BBQ for all and an Easter egg hunt for the kids. Times are 10am-12pm and 1pm-3pm. Register and find out more here.
Friday 15 April
Community Easter Scavenger Hunt | Varisty Lakes
Hope Church will be hosting a community Easter Egg hunt for the whole family! You can start your hunt at any time during the event times. It’s not a race, its all about the adventure, solving the clues and some great family fun. Runs between 1pm to 5pm. Find out m
Saturday 16 April
Easter Family Fun Day at the Natural Bridge | Springbrook
Enjoy an Easter Family Fun Day amongst the rolling hills of the Gold Coast Hinterland from 10am to 2pm on Saturday 16th April at The Bower Estate in Natural Bridge. Their Easter Family Fun Day includes food and craft markets, live music, games and prizes, ticketed kids craft workshops and Easter egg scavenger hunt and lunchtime picnic hampers.
Easter on the Esplanade | Surfers Paradise
The Easter on the Esplanade event, at the Surfers Paradise Beachfront Markets, will be held on Saturday 16th April! Their Easter Paradise will be a fun atmosphere, filled with themed decorations, local handmade gifts, Easter beats, treats and activities for the little ones with over 100 stalls to choose from.
Sunday 17 April
Easter on the Esplanade | Surfers Paradise
The Easter on the Esplanade event, at the Surfers Paradise Beachfront Markets will be held on Saturday 16th April! It will be filled with a fun atmosphere, filled with themed decorations, local handmade gifts, Easter beats, treats and activities for the little ones! They are expecting over 100 stalls, so pencil the date into your calendars and get excited for an eggcellent evening out, and join us and the Easter Bunny where you will experience lots!
Easter Balloon Show | Coomera
Join The Park Coomera for a very Special Edition Easter Sundae Sesh. For half an hour only, make sure you reserve yourself a seat to watch The Mr Kaboodle Easter Balloon Show.He uses balloons, comedy and magic to create a fun interactive experience for audiences of all ages.He will fill the stage with colour and excitement to draw a crowd. You will see amazing balloon sculptures such as sponge bob, hulk and of course an Easter Bunny!
The show is FREE and kids eat free after 2pm with every regular pizza or salad purchase.
Easter Family Fun Day | Tweed Heads
Head to Seagulls Tweed Heads this Easter Sunday for a great Family Fun Day! There will be rides for the kids, an Easter Egg Hunt, the Easter Bunny, a massive Easter Egg Raffle and so much more! You don’t want to miss it!
Breakfast With The Easter Bunny | Upper Coomera
Join Big Top for a fun and exciting morning with Big Top’s Easter Bunny! All entry will be $20 and include: Easter egg hunt, Breakfast with the Bunny, Large Chocolate Bunny and Eggs, Cuddles with the Bunny, Photos with the Bunny in our Stylishly designed Easter Display and unlimited play!!
Saturday 27 March
The Big Easter Scramble at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre – Booked Out
Chevron One Easter Family Day | Chevron Island
Saturday 3 April
Easter on the Esplanade | Surfers Paradise
Easter Hunt | Bethania – Booked out
Sunday 4 April
Breakfast With The Easter Bunny | Upper Coomera
Easter Sunday on the Farm | Oxenford – Booked out
Easter Fun Market | Surfers Paradise
Easter Hunt & Picnic | Hope Island
Easter Sunday Brunch | Beenleigh – Cancelled
Wednesday 17 April
Easter Hen | Helensvale Library
Get ready for Easter, create a colourful paper hen to decorate your room or give as a gift.
Easter Hen | Nerang Library
Get ready for Easter, create a colourful paper hen to decorate your room or give as a gift.
Easter Hen | Burleigh Waters Library
Get ready for Easter, create a colourful paper hen to decorate your room or give as a gift.
Thursday 18 April
Create an Easter Hen | Runaway Library
Get ready for Easter and create a colourful paper hen to decorate your room or to give as a gift.
Origami hen | Nerang Library
Fold yourself a cute origami hen to guard your chocolate this Easter Holidays. Create a whole flock of chickens or peep of chicks to decorate your room.
Easter Hen | Broadbeach Library
Get ready for Easter, create a colourful paper hen to decorate your room or to give as a gift.
Easter Hen | Robina Library
Get ready for Easter, create a colourful paper hen to decorate your room or to give as a gift. Bookings required.
Family Fun Day | Surfers Paradise
Easter will arrive early at Circle on Cavill this year with a choc-packed afternoon of free family fun taking place on Thursday, April 18 for Easter on Cavill. A celebration of all things Easter, chocolate and family-friendly entertainment, the precinct will put on a hopping good time with face painting, Easter Egg Hunts, a special screening of Easter-inspired movie Hop, and even a visit from the Easter Bunny.
The special event will get underway from 3:30pm until 7pm providing an egg-cellent prelude to the Easter long weekend for families looking for free school holiday entertainment within the Surfers Paradise precinct.
Thursday 18 – Mon 22 April
Easter Fun | Parkwood Tavern
The kids will love the Easter Egg Hunt, Live Music 3-6pm, Jumping Castle, Face Painter
Easter Long Weekend | Benowa Tavern
Jumping castle, Easter Egg Hunt, Children’s entertainment, movies, lollies and more!
Wednesday 5 April
Easter Craft, Southport Library
Join crafty Donna and make eggstra-ordinary, eggstra-special Easter containers!
Thursday 6 April
Easter card-making, Robina Library
Join Anna Wheaton to make some fun papercraft, including a beautiful Easter box that you won’t want to give away. All materials provided.
Thursday 13 April
Kids Easter Disco, Burleigh Town Tavern
The great thing about the Burleigh Town Tavern is not only is it fun and easy to get to for you and the
kids but we hold a regular Kids’ Disco. Complete with a theme and prizes these disco’s are not to be missed. Every child that is dressed up for Easter, receives an entry ticket into the prize giveaway at 8pm.
Friday 14 April
Easter crafts and Easter Bunny visit, Broadwater Parklands
Get into the Easter spirit with egg decorating, bunny design and bunny ear making and a visit from the Easter Bunny himself.
Sunday 16 April
The huge Family Funday is back on Easter Sunday and it will be massive so get in early and book your table. You’ll find the Rock Climbing Wall, Animal Farm, Jumping Castle, and more Balloon Twisters and Face Painters than you can poke a stick at! The popcorn machine will be popping away and the fairy floss machine will be creating fluffy masterpieces – FREE AND UNLIMITED!
Sunday 16 April
Food Truck Feast and Fireworks, Southport
Grab a bite and enjoy the ultimate 80s flashback, then finish it all off with our fantastic Easter fireworks show at Broadwater Parklands from 5pm.
Saturday 9 – Saturday 23 April
Seagulls Easter Sunday Fundays & School Holiday Activities
Easter school holidays at seagulls will be filled with fun as the club holds a series of free Sunday Fundays for families on April 9, 16 and 23 April from 2-6pm. Their annual Easter Family Day returns on Sunday 16 April from 2pm to celebrate the Easter long weekend.
Family entertainment, food, and live music will be showcased throughout the afternoon along with a Roxy Rocket magic show, Easter egg hunt, jumping castle plus free face painting and balloons for the kids. A Frozen, Disney, and Sponge Bob themed jumping castle will be setup from 2pm-6pm every Sunday during the school holidays.
