The serious and imminent threat of anthropogenic induced climate change, and the inaction of decision makers, is driving the increasing concern children have for their future. The most prominent manifestation of this concern can be observed by children’s participation in global school strikes as students cry in the streets to have their voices heard. Since these protests, a growing demand to find novel approaches that communicate, and support children’s engagement in climate change adaptation has never been more significant. This demand reflects that children are placed outside of adaptation discourses and emphasises that children deserve to participate and author visions for their future. In response, the focus of this thesis is to experiment with creative outcomes that engage children in conversations about adaptation from a critical visual communication design perspective. The outcomes in this research experiment with games that have many unique affordances for participation where the seriousness of climate change can be approached in a playful engagement. This thesis will include practice-based research located at the nexus of community-based adaptation, critical visual communication design and serious fun. This includes the Design Away Carbon Challenge, which opened Australia’s largest one-day educational event, the Future BNE Challenge in March 2019, and the Play to Adapt game, which was included in a classroom workshop with grade seven students at the Queensland Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology. These two events are documented in this thesis and described using semi-structured interview with facilitators, participant observations and images of the events. The creative experiments are also informed by a critical visual discourse analysis on 25 climate change adaptation frameworks. This explored how climate change adaptation discourses are visualised and identifies methods of visually communicating transformational adaptation which seeks to disrupt current visual discourses. The contribution this research has reaches beyond the design field and has implications for education, government, and non-government organisations or anyone who is seeking to engage children in the climate crisis. The imperative for this research, and any other research exploring methods of communicating climate change adaptation to children, is growing immensely as we have come to understand the implications climate change has for humans and the worlds we have created.