Free Water Play Spaces in Perth

With the weather heating up, we thought it was time to update our list of the best free water play spaces located across Perth.

As well as being fun on a hot day, water play supports whole child development by engaging the senses, strengthening motor skills, and introducing foundational skills for future learning. As children pour, scoop, and splash together, they develop their ability to share and co-operate, and the calming, open-ended nature of water play also aids the development of emotional regulation skills.

Free Water Play Spaces in Perth

Below you will find our pick of a range of fun Perth places to play that include water play as an element of their overall design. Click on the name of the play space to find further information regarding the playful opportunities present at each place.

Perth Central Water Play Spaces

Rio Tinto Naturescape: With a large, running creek, Rio Tinto Naturescape provides children with plenty of place to splash or paddle in the Paperbark Waterhole, or make potions at The Spring.

May Drive Parkland: Another Kings Park site popular with families, the playground within May Drive Parkland includes an interactive water misting forest.

Subiaco Theatre Gardens Playground: Water streams across a custom water table before falling to form a trickling creek that flows into a sandpit pond. The creek includes a series of retractable sluices so the kids can control the flow of water.

Elizabeth Quay Water Park: Bring a picnic and a towel, and get ready to soak in the excitement of interactive water spray jets and colourful lights.

Maniana Park Playground: Features dedicated water play zones with interactive elements for co-operative play and sensory fun.

Maylands Waterland: Features a water feature stream flowing into a variable depth splash pool that includes sprayers, bubbling jets and a tipping bucket.

Perth North Water Play Spaces

Braithwaite Park: Includes a water pump flowing into a tiered water trough.

Yokine Play Space: Features a water pump that flows across a raised water table and then off to form a sandpit pond.

Hyde Park Water Playground: A fun water playground space featuring fountains, overhead buckets, spray jets and water cannons.

Whiteman Park Mini Water Park: A fun place for a splash, with a 30cm-deep wading pool and high waterfall-like water spouts.

Riverlinks All Abilities Playground: Features a raised series of water play channels flowing into a man-made creek bed.

Woodbridge Riverside Park: Includes a large nature-and-water play zone with water pumps.

Pia’s Place All Abilities Playspace: A water pump spurts water onto a raised water table that then flows into a man-made creek bed.

Perth South Water Play Spaces

Booyeembara Park: Booyeembara Park includes opportunity for water play in the shallows of the lake, where you can also watch birds and fish, and floating twig and leaf boats down the small stream.

Bibra Lake Regional Playground: A fun splash pad features tall water misting towers representing bulrushes.

Kwinana Adventure Park: water pump, sluice gates & dam, 90 randomly-sequenced ground sprayers, 4 projecting water blades, tipping pelican buckets

Ngarkal Beach Spray Park, Port Coogee Marina: A small splash pad with spurting fountains adjacent to a small, protected beach.