Activities for 5–8 Year Olds in Limerick

Limerick School of Acting

The Limerick School of Acting, founded in 1992 by renowned actor Nigel Mercier, has been the go-to destination for young and older talent in Limerick and beyond. With over 40 years of experience on stage, screen, and television, Nigel...

Rossbrien - Mother & Toddler Group - Adapt - Domestic Abuse

Mother, Baby and Toddler Group at ADAPT House in Rossbrien, Limerick, is run by ADAPT Domestic Abuse Services as a weekly space for mothers and their toddlers to meet others in similar situations. Staff facilitate play activities...

The Fame Factory Stage School, Raheen

The Fame Factory is a stage school and performing arts studio in Raheen, Limerick, established in 2011. It teaches dance, speech and drama, singing and acro dance to children from age 4. Contact the studio by phone or through Instagram...

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DrawLimerick Children's Art Education

DrawLimerick runs Saturday art classes for children aged 6 to 12 and for secondary students in 1st to 3rd year, at the Kilmurry Arts and Heritage Centre in Castletroy, Limerick. It also runs seasonal art camps throughout the year....

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Alliance Française de Limerick - French for Kids

Alliance Française de Limerick, based at Pery Square, offers French for Kids classes for children from age 4 up to 12, with each class listing its own age group. The current timetable includes Débutants, a one-hour beginners class for...

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Foynes Yacht Club - Junior Sailing Academy

Foynes Yacht Club on the Shannon Estuary runs a Junior Sailing Academy for ages 8 to 18, with Irish Sailing certified courses. Start Sailing (ages 8 to 12) teaches rigging, launching, steering and capsize recovery over three days....

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Dance Limerick - Children's Dance Clubs

Dance Limerick, based in the John's Square studio in Limerick city, runs Saturday dance clubs for children aged 2 to 14, with separate clubs for ages 2 to 3, 3 to 4, 5 to 8 and 9 to 14. The 5 to 8 club moves through ballet basics, jazz...

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Designer Minds (Limerick after-school club)

Designer Minds runs a weekly STEAM after-school club at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, for children from 1st to 6th class. Each week children get hands-on with projects, challenges and experiments: learning to code, completing LEGO...

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Clonshire Equestrian Centre

Clonshire Equestrian Centre sits on 120 acres of parkland at Clonshire Beg near Adare, Co. Limerick, with indoor and outdoor arenas, cross-country courses and 70 stables. Qualified instructors teach lessons for all ages and abilities,...

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Stonehall Visitor Farm & Wildlife Park

Stonehall Visitor Farm & Wildlife Park sits at Curraghchase in Kilcornan, Co. Limerick, running alongside Curraghchase Forest Park and about six miles from Adare. It's a step up from a typical petting farm, with a genuinely wide mix of...

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King John's Castle

Perched on King's Island beside the River Shannon, this 13th-century Anglo-Norman castle brings 800 years of Limerick history to life for young visitors. Kids can walk the original castle walls and towers, climb battlements, and explore...

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Wild Encounters Mini Zoo

Wild Encounters Mini Zoo in Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick, calls itself "the small zoo with a big heart," and the scale is genuinely a selling point: it's compact enough to explore properly in a couple of hours without children flagging...

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Rugbytots - Gaelscoil An Ráithín

Gaelscoil An Ráithín in Mungret, Limerick, is the venue for a Saturday morning Rugbytots class for children aged two to five, run under the Rugbytots Ireland franchise and coached locally by Peter Hodnett. The class is held in the...

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Rugbytots - Milford Gym

Rugbytots Ireland brings Rugbytots' rugby play programme to Milford Gym in Castletroy, Limerick every Saturday, for toddlers through to early primary age. Two age groups run at Milford Gym: two to three and a half year olds have a...

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Little Kickers Limerick

Little Kickers Limerick runs its preschool football classes at Limerick Educate Together Secondary School on Groody Road, part of the national franchise built around confidence, coordination and social skills rather than competitive...

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West Limerick Sports Complex

West Limerick Sports Complex is a not-for-profit facility in Killeline, Newcastle West, built around an 18-metre heated swimming pool alongside a gym with Technogym equipment, a group exercise studio, sauna, steam room and a coffee...

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Empire Dance Academy (Abbeyfeale)

Dance and gymnastics classes for boys and girls with Abbeyfeale enrolment advertised by Empire R'n'R Dance School Ireland alongside other Munster venues.

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Claire Halpin Yoga and Pilates - Kids Yoga

Claire Halpin Yoga and Pilates runs a Kids Yoga & Mindfulness class for children aged 4 to 12 at the UL Sport Arena, University of Limerick. The sessions combine breathwork, creative movement, yoga games, storytelling and mindful...

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Dance Academy Limerick

Dance Academy Limerick operates from Castletroy Town Centre in Limerick, offering classes in ballet, Cecchetti, jazz, lyrical and tap. Children can start at age 3 with creative dance and movement, moving into formal ballet from age 4,...

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Little Stars Music School (Sarah O'Kennedy)

Little Stars Music School, run by Sarah O'Kennedy, offers music classes for children aged 1 to 6 at 19 The Oaks in Annacotty, Co. Limerick. Classes covering this age range typically combine songs, simple percussion instruments and...

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Limerick Print Makers - Kids Art Courses

Limerick Print Makers runs kids art classes during school terms for two age groups, 5 to 8 and 9 to 12, at its studio on John's Square. The programme covers printmaking, clay work, painting and drawing, giving children hands-on...

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KidsComp - Limerick

KidsComp runs in-person coding classes in Limerick for children aged 5 and up, teaching programming concepts through Scratch, Minecraft Education Edition and robotics or STEM kits. The hands-on approach is aimed at building...

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Little Kickers

Little Kickers' Monaclinoe classes in Limerick take children aged roughly 18 months to seven through four progressively independent stages of preschool football. The youngest group is a parent-toddler programme, while older children...

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Little Kickers

In Limerick city, Little Kickers' Park venue runs preschool football classes for children from about 18 months to seven years old, structured across four age-graded stages. Parents take an active role in the youngest sessions before...

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Little Kickers

Little Kickers' Moneteen venue in County Limerick offers preschool football for children aged roughly 18 months to seven, moving through four stages of growing independence from parent-toddler sessions to more self-directed play. The...

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Little Kickers

At Gouldavoher in Limerick, Little Kickers runs its globally recognised preschool football programme for children from about 18 months to seven, split into four age-appropriate stages. Younger children participate with a parent close...

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Kilmallock/Caherconlish/Hospital/Ballylanders Toddler Group

This listing, based at Rosbrien Road in Dooradoyle, Limerick, is part of the Hospital Family Resource Centre's network of parent and toddler groups, which run weekly during school term across several south Limerick locations including...

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Kilmallock/Caherconlish/Hospital/Ballylanders Toddler Group

The Hospital Parent and Toddler Group, based at the Family Resource Centre in Co. Limerick near Knockainey Road, Coolalough, meets every Wednesday, 10am-12pm during school term. It's part of a wider network of toddler groups also...

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Kilmallock/Caherconlish/Hospital/Ballylanders Toddler Group

In Caherconlish, Co. Limerick, the local Parent and Toddler Group meets every Thursday, 10am-12pm during term time, at the Millennium Centre. It's run through the same Hospital Family Resource Centre network that also covers...

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Down Syndrome Limerick - Parent and Toddler Group

Down Syndrome Limerick hires the swimming pool at Bawnmore every Saturday from 11am to 12pm, giving children and adults with Down syndrome a dedicated hour in the water with a swim coach on hand to help build confidence and encourage...

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Aura Leisure Centre

Aura Leisure Centre's Limerick pool on Corbally Road, Grove Island, offers the full Aura Swim Academy programme, from baby classes up to teen lessons. Swim Baby suits babies who've had their second inoculations, up to roughly 30 months,...

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Whitethorn Equestrian Centre

Whitethorn Equestrian Centre in Knocknasnaa, Co. Limerick, offers riding lessons, camps and Tiny Tot sessions for children from around one year old right through to fifteen, catering to complete beginners as well as more advanced...

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Swim Max - Private Swimming Lessons in Limerick

Swim Max offers Private Swimming Lessons at its Limerick pool in Crossagalla, suited to children from babies right through to teenagers, for families who want one-to-one attention from an instructor. As with the group classes, lessons...

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Newcastle West Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Newcastle West Parent, Baby and Toddler Group, also known as Kids & Co, meets every Thursday from 9.30 to 11.30am during term time at the Desmond Complex in Co. Limerick. Babies and toddlers make new friends while playing, and parents...

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Limerick Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Limerick Parent, Baby and Toddler Group, also known as Park and Playgroup, is one of the longest-running toddler groups in Limerick City, meeting every Thursday morning from 10am to noon during term time at St Michael's Church on...

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Limerick Library Toddler Group, Storytime & Art

Watch House Cross Community Library in Moyross, Limerick, runs a free programme of family sessions covering toddler play, storytime and craft. The Parent and Toddler Group meets every Friday from 10.30am to noon during term time, with...

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Kilmallock/Caherconlish/Hospital/Ballylanders Toddler Group

The Ballylanders Parent and Toddler Group meets every Tuesday, 10am-12pm during school term, at Our Lady's Day Care Centre in Co. Limerick, one of several toddler groups run through the Hospital Family Resource Centre network alongside...

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Killeedy Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Killeedy Parent, Baby and Toddler Group meets every Thursday from 10 to 11.30am during term time at The Ash in Gortnaclogy, Ashford, Co. Limerick. It's a friendly space for children to socialise with plenty of toys on hand, and the...

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Kaleidoscope Kids Newcastle West

Kaleidoscope Kids in Newcastle West runs a varied programme for children from preschool age up to teens at the Community Centre in Newcastle, Co. Limerick. Friday afternoon classes (4.30-6.30pm, €20) mix yoga, mindfulness, Lego and...

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Irishtown Limerick Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Irishtown Parent and Toddler Group is hosted by Garryowen Community Development Project at 2 Garryowen Road, Limerick, meeting every Tuesday from 9.30 to 11am during term time. Mams, dads, grandparents and other carers of babies through...

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Glin Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Glin Baby & Toddler Group offers a warm, welcoming space for parents, grandparents and caregivers with young children at Coel Corbrai Community Hall on Main Street, Glin, Co. Limerick. Sessions run on Fridays from 10 to 11.45am, though...

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Glenroe / Ballyorgan Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Glenroe/Ballyorgan Parent and Toddler Group meets once a month, on the first Friday from 10am to noon, at The Local Hub in Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick, and is free to attend. Beyond the regular monthly meet-up, the group runs festive...

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Feenagh / Kilmeedy Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Feenagh/Kilmeedy Parent, Baby and Toddler Group meets twice a week - Mondays and Wednesdays from 10am to noon during term time - at Feenagh Community Centre, Co. Limerick. Children socialise and take part in fun activities in a safe,...

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Down Syndrome Limerick Toddler Group - Newcastle

Down Syndrome Limerick's toddler group meets at its Castletroy Park Business Centre premises in Newcastle, Limerick, once a month, giving under-5s with Down syndrome and their siblings a relaxed space to play, sometimes alongside extras...

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Castleconnell Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Castleconnell Parent, Baby and Toddler Group, also known as ACM Kidz, meets every Friday from 10 to 11.30am at Shannon House, ACM Community Centre, Co. Limerick. It's a relaxed setting for parents to meet others, swap ideas and...

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Ballybrown / Clarina Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Ballybrown/Clarina Parent, Baby and Toddler Group meets every Tuesday morning from 10 to 11.30am during term time at Ballybrown/Clarina Community Centre, Co. Limerick. It's a pop-in session with no need to commit to a full term - just...

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Abbeyfeale Parent, Baby and Toddler Group

Abbeyfeale Parent, Baby and Toddler Group meets every Tuesday from 11am to 12.30pm at St Ita's Community Hall on Convent Street, Co. Limerick, and is free to attend. The morning is packed with exploring, songs, simple cooking and...

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RINKA Kids Fitness & Wellbeing

RINKA Kids Fitness & Wellbeing runs non-competitive fitness classes for children aged 3 to 10 at its base in Moylish, Limerick, at €10 per lesson. Each session mixes things up rather than following a fixed routine - expect dance and...

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