
The Ontario Science Centre is celebrating its 40th birthday on Saturday, Sept. 26th and you are invited! Enjoy free admission, free showings of the IMAX film North of Superior, hamburgers, hotdogs and juice price under a dollar, birthday cupcakes and more.
Springridge Farm’s Harvest Festival (Milton) begins this weekend. There is a 5 Acre Corn Trail Maze, professional puppet shows, wagon rides, dace painting, fun farm yard with sandbox, barn, etc.). Admission to Harvest Festival: $8 for 2 years of age and old.
Come to Queen’s Park on Sunday, Sept. 27th for Canada’s largest book & magazine festival, The Word on the Street. There will be a marketplace as well as featured authors, poets and storytellers. Visit the children’s area wich includes reading and activity tents for children 0-11yrs as well as a marketplace for children’s literature. Sounds like an amazing way to celebrate reading with your kids!
Visit the Kortright Centre for their Green Home Show and learn about sustainable energy and green building solutions through tours, workshops and demonstrations.
Whittamore Farm’s Pumpkinland (Steeles & Markham Rd.) is already open! Aside from the usual fun at this farm, from now until Oct. 31st, you and your family will also enjoy choosingpumpkins, wagon rides through the haunted forest and best of all, Farmer Frank shoots and catapults pumpkins to unbelievable lengths at the Pumpkin Cannon Show which runs several times each weekend day. We saw this show last year and it was so much fun…but it was cold so I would recommend enjoying Pumpkinland while the weather is still nice and warm.
Markham Museum (North of Hwy. 7) is hosting an Apple Festival. Enjoy a sample from the apple cider mill, activities for kids, museum wagon rides, heritage apple orchard, steam tractor and little train.
If you enjoy art festivals as much as I do, join the St. Claire Festival & Studio Tour (St. Claire Ave. W, Bathurst to Oakwood). There will be activities for kids…but I am not sure what those include!