Teddy Bears Picnic

About the event

Teddy's big day out

The Teddy Bears Picnic is back at Manning Park, bringing a magical day of fun for families and little adventurers! This much-loved community event is set to be bigger and better than ever, with live stage shows, interactive play zones, sensory activities, and plenty of opportunities to meet your favourite characters.

Stage Lineup Coming Soon!

We’ve got an exciting lineup of stage performances planned for this year’s Teddy Bears Picnic, filled with music, magic, circus fun, and singalong favourites that the whole family will love. Stay tuned... the full schedule will be shared soon!

Activities & Attractions

Join us for a day of fun, laughter, and adventure! Highlights include:

• Stage shows and magical performances
• Roving entertainment throughout the event
• Sensory play stations, bouncy castles, and interactive zones for little explorers
• Meet & greets with local heroes and cuddly animals
• Face painting, pony rides, and creative activities
• Parenting and community stalls offering information, support, and resources for families
• Carnival rides and games

This event is not a dog friendly event. Please keep your furry friends at home.

Food Trucks 

Enjoy a variety of tasty treats from our food trucks, including coffee, ice cream, gozleme, bao buns, and more:

• A Place of Space
• Baolicious
• Franny's Kitchen
• Happy J Corn Dogs
• Little Bull Espresso
• Milky Monster
• Pide Bakery
• Unicone
• Yummy Kingdom
• Friends of the Community – offering Teddy Bear picnic packs for children at a discounted show price of $4.50

Pack a picnic, grab your teddy, and join us for a memorable day of play, laughter, and family-friendly entertainment.

Cockburn Community Toy Swap 

Is your home full of toys your kids have outgrown or no longer play with? Bring them along to our Cockburn Community Toy Swap at the Teddy Bears Picnic next week!  With over 27 million toys ending up in landfill each year, this is a fantastic way for our community to reduce waste and give pre-loved toys a new lease of life. 
 
Here’s how the Toy Swap works:

• Bring along a toy or toys in good condition to the designated Toy Swap area
• Exchange your toy for something else your kids will love – absolutely free!
• For safety reasons, we cannot accept button battery toys, bicycles with chains, or baby equipment such as car seats, baby chairs and baby bottles – but baby toys are fine.

Wastewise & Carbon Neutral 

The Teddy Bears Picnic is committed to being a Wastewise and carbon neutral event, helping minimise the impact on our environment while still delivering a fun and family-friendly day out. As part of this commitment:

• We use Go2Cup to provide reusable and compostable alternatives to single-use plastics.
• Waste stations are available throughout the event, supervised by our Waste Champions to help you sort your rubbish correctly.
• Free filtered water and bottle fillers are provided for your reusable drink bottles.
• Cans and bottles are collected, with all money raised through Containers for Change donated to the local community group Friends of the Community.
• The carbon emissions from attendee travel, food consumption, and onsite generators have been offset through planting mixed native trees and shrubs in WA and permanently cancelling international carbon credits.

 
Cockburn comes alive
This event is part of the epic Cockburn Live line-up for 2025–2026.