Fun and entertainment
PCH response to COVID-19
Some restrictions may be in place, affecting the opening of our play and recreation spaces and equipment.
Find out more under COVID-19: Visiting and staying at PCH.
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Visits to hospital may sometimes be long, but they don't have to be boring. PCH has a range of play and recreation facilities to make your visit or stay more enjoyable.
Fun on Four
Ronald McDonald Family Room in Fun on Four
The Ronald McDonald Family Room in Fun on Four is a place for play and learning for kids and siblings and a comforting and uplifting area for parents and carers. It features a:
- Parents Retreat with comfortable seating for respite
- coffee machine
- Arts and Crafts Zone
- Teen Den equipped with all of the latest video and arcade games
- Cinema Room
- revitalised Book Bunker with enjoyable lounge area
- Soft Play and Toddler Zone
- Explorer’s Zone which includes sensory, construction and imaginative play
Opening hours
All children must be accompanied by a parent or an approved escort and checked in to the area at the reception desk. Children under 10 years must be accompanied during their visit and children aged 10 years and over may be left in the area after being checked in by a parent or approved escort.
- Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm
- Saturday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm
Starlight Children's Foundation
Co-located on Level 4 in Fun on Four is the Starlight Express Room.
Join Captain Starlight and:
- play video games
- enjoy arts and crafts
- get your face painted
- watch and be a part of Starlight TV
- watch a movie.
After 4pm, the Starlight room turns into Livewire, where visitors aged 12 years and older can go to take a break from the wards and participate in fun, age appropriate activities and workshops for older kids. For patients who are unable to leave their rooms, Captain Starlight and Livewire can visit you on the wards.
Opening hours
The Starlight Express Room
Captain Starlight
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 3.30pm
- Saturday and Sunday, 1pm to 3.30pm
Livewire
- Monday to Friday, 4pm to 8pm
- Saturday, closed
On the wards
Captain Starlight
- Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, 9am to 3.30pm
- Saturday to Sunday, 9am to 12pm
Livewire
- Monday to Friday, Sunday, 1pm to 3.30pm
- Saturday, closed
Radio Lollipop
Radio Lollipop broadcasts live every day from their studio on Fun on Four where patients can visit to see for themselves how a radio station operates. You can ring Radio Lollipop on
6456 5629 to request a song, chat, visit, enter some great competitions or even have a go at being a radio DJ.
Radio Lollipop request line hours
Call the studio on 6456 5629.
Telethon Kids Discovery Centre
Budding young scientists can now gain an insight into the world of research thanks to Telethon Kids Institute’s Discovery Centre.
Located on the Ground Level of PCH, the Centre brings together science and health research in a fun and educational way. Through games, children will be able to explore the human body and learn what researchers are doing in the Institute’s laboratories.
The centre features six digital interactives offering more than 25 different games, as well as a range of tactile exhibits.
One of the games encourages children to imitate immunotherapy, working together to help white blood cells defeat cancer cells. Another allows children to find out more about health by viewing the human body using medical scanning techniques, such as X-ray, ultrasound or Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
The Discovery Centre provides a unique engaging experience for children aged 7 and up and you never know – the parents might learn something too!
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm
Find out more
discoverycentre.telethonkids.org.au
Clown doctors
Imagine being sick in hospital, in need of a friend to play, laugh and smile with - that’s the magic of Clown Doctors! Clown Doctors are highly trained, professional performers who spread fun and laughter throughout the hospital, working to uplift sick children and assist in the emotional healing and empowerment of patients and ease the stress of their families and hospital staff.
By parodying the hospital routine with jokes, songs, magic and play, clown doctors engage children at their bedside, helping them to adapt to hospital life. Clown doctors work in partnership with medical professionals to divert children during painful procedures, calm and distract in emergency, encourage and assist during occupational therapy and physiotherapy, using humour to lighten the hospital environment and help parents, family members, hospital staff and most importantly, patients.
The Clown Doctors conduct rounds at PCH on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 10am and 3pm. For more information on how to get support from the Clown Doctors, visit the
Humour Foundation’s website, or call 1300 HUMOUR (
1300 486 687) between 8am and 6pm every weekday.
Kids under 14 years must have an adult with them when they visit. Read the Visiting Fun on Four guide for more on visiting Fun on Four.
Kids under 14 years must have an adult with them when they visit. Read the Visiting Fun on Four guide for more on visiting Fun on Four.