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The best value family day out at the Sydney Royal Easter Show
Spend your Easter weekend celebrating everything that makes Australian culture great.
The Sydney Royal Easter Show is the best value day out in Sydney, with 12 hours of free entertainment, competitions, exhibits, activities, and more every day once you come through the gates. From rides, showbags, food and animals – there’s something for everyone!
They Sydney Royal Easter Show will run from the 22 March until the 2 April. This year’s show boasts more FREE activities than ever before, including over 100 entertainment offerings, animal experiences, displays and more!
FREE Epic Entertainment
Airtime Freestyle MotoX Team
Witness Australia’s original, longest running and most successful freestyle Moto X team defy gravity with breathtaking moves and stunts. The Airtime Freestyle MotoX Team will take to GIANTS Stadium daily at 12.35pm and 8.25pm – get there early to secure your spot!
Famous Fireworks Finale every evening!
The festivities don’t stop once the sun goes down, head to the main arena each night to finish the day with a dazzling 15-minute firework display.
Other FREE entertainment offerings include:
- Chicken Run, Run Chickens Run! Lunchtime Entertainment
- Counting Sheep Display – Livestock Entertainment
- David & Goliath – Stadium Truck and Trophy Kart Challenge
- Farmer Dave’s A Day in the Life of a Guide Dog
- Live Music Artists
- Marching Bands
- Murray Wilkinson and his Working Dogs
- Street Parades
- Sydney Royal Horse Show Entertainment Showjumping
- THE BEANIES – Early Childhood Show
- V8 Ute Challenge – Evening Entertainment
- Working Ducks and Dogs – Livestock Entertainment
- Wrangler Federation Rodeo Challenge
FREE Animal Experiences
Farmyard Nursery
A crowd favourite, the Farmyard Nursery returns better than ever – grab a cup full of kibble to hand feed the animals with goats, sheep and chickens free roaming. With over 750 free-range animals there’s no shortage of furry friends.
Other FREE animal experiences include:
- Bee-zeebo
- Elders Sydney Royal Beef & Dairy Cattle Show
- Walk an Alpaca
- Goat Mountain
- I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! Animal Walk
- Sydney Royal Frog & Reptile Show – Snakes, Lizards, Frogs and Geckos
- Chicken Hatching
- Sydney Royal Rabbit Show – Rabbit Hopping
- Sydney Royal Wildlife Australia Show
FREE Events across the Show
Sydney Royal Woodchopping & Sawing Competition: the only place to watch 5 World Championship competitions.
This year the world-class Woodchopping and Sawing competition celebrates 125 years from its first appearance at the Show and for the first time ever will feature the Women’s World Championships! The Sydney Royal Woodchopping and Sawing Competition is the only comp nation wide to include five world title events, including the crowd-favourite 325mm Tree Felling contest.
Other FREE events include:
- Sydney Royal Horse Show Heavy Horse Barrel Race
- Sydney Royal Horse Show Police Horses
- Sydney Royal Horse Show Polo: Australia v India
- Sydney Royal Horse Show Pumpkin Snatch
- World Championship Campdraft Competitions
- Sydney Royal Horse Show Tent Pegging
- ADVANCE™ Sydney Royal Dog Show: Breed competitions, Agility Trials, Canine Hero Awards and so much more!
- Better Living Australia Festival of Dog Sports
- Sydney Royal Cattle Show Purebred Steer Auction
FREE Educational Offerings include:
- Childrens Bee Hotel Workshop
- The Journey of an Egg
- Flora Kulchas Kids Workshops
- Pumpkin Bowling Competition
- Woolworths Fresh Food Kids Discovery Tours Immersive Experience
- Woolworths Ag Discovery
FREE Displays and Demonstrations include:
- Ag Sculptures
- Scarecrow Competition
- Sydney Royal Arts & Crafts Show Perishable Cooking Competition
- Sydney Royal Arts & Crafts Show: over 5,000 entries across 300 classes!
- Sydney Royal Flower & Garden Show
- RAS Show Pies
- Aviary Bird & Tame Parrot Display
- Sheep Shearing Demonstrations
- XAG – large agriculture drones
The Sydney Royal Easter Show is transforming Sydney Showground from Friday 22 March until Sunday 2 April. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster.com.au.