Fun and entertainment
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 stay more enjoyable.
Our entertainment and recreation hub
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Level 4 houses PCH's main entertainment and recreation hub. It has lots of fun spaces, games and activities for patients, families, carers and visitors to enjoy, away from the wards and clinics.
Visiting Fun on Four
An adult must accompany all children and adolescents under the age of 18 years to and from the Fun on Four area.
For children aged under 10 years, an adult must stay with them while they are here.
Children aged over 10 years, can stay on their own as long as they have been signed in to PCHF's Fun on Four, Starlight Children's Foundation or Radio Lollipop.
Located on Level 4 is:
Perth Children's Hospital Foundation's Fun on Four
© Philip Gostelow
Run by
Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation as part of its ongoing partnership with the Child and Adolescent Health Service, kids of all ages can:
- play video games
- create arts and crafts
- have their face painted
- watch the latest movie releases in the bean bag cinema
- play outside in our playground
- read a book in the Book bunker.
Staff and volunteers from Perth Children's Hospital Foundation are on-hand and encourage you to get involved in daily activities in the Fun on Four area. For the full week’s schedule, look under ‘What’s on’ in the Patient Entertainment System (PES).
For your safety, please ensure you are practising physical distancing and good hand hygiene. Please also be aware that there will be limits in place on the number of people in Fun on Four at any one time.
Opening hours
Patients and their families can visit Fun on Four between 9.00am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday, 10am and 2pm on weekends. Fun on Four is closed on public holidays.
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.
Gardens and outdoor play space
Our outdoor recreational space at PCH includes the Family outdoor play area on Level 4 and the green space outside the northern entrance on Ground Level.
Kids can play outside in the Family outdoor area, which includes:
- a therapy garden
- climbing walls
- music garden with musical instruments to play
- amphitheatre
- play equipment
- a sensory garden
- wheelchair friendly ramps.
The gardens of the northern greenspace, located between the hospital’s northern entrance and the QEII Medical Centre multi-deck carpark, feature native plants and trees, as well as areas to sit and relax.
In room entertainment
Each bed at PCH has a Patient Entertainment System (PES) that allows patients and families to access free-to-air and Foxtel television, patient and hospital information (like what's happening this week on Fun on Four).
Find our more about the Patient Entertainment System and how to use it here.
CAHS Arts Program
The CAHS Arts Program provides a range of creative and interactive activities and initiatives to patients, including:
Find out more
Read more about the CAHS Arts Program.
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.