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November 2019
Kindermusik Wiggle and Grow (18- 36 months)
Wiggle and Grow is a super-fun, music-filled learning experience. In these 45-minute classes, young children enjoy singing, dancing, and instrument-play activities that are designed to promote cognitive development, encourage social skills like sharing and turn-taking, and cultivate early literacy skills. Wiggle and Grow classes offer monthly enrollment and a year’s worth of exciting 4-week sessions, each with its own theme. Bring the learning home with physical home materials that include a book and CD with all of the lyric songs.…
Find out more »ZUMBINI Classes!
The Prefect way to bond and have fun with your children! Registration is now OPEN for our Fall session of family musical fun! 12 weekly, 45-minute classes which include songs, rhythmic rhymes, movement, dance and instrument play. Designed for caregivers and children aged 0-4, these activities are presented as informal, non-performance-oriented musical experiences--developmentally appropriate for children and easy for parents and caregivers--regardless of their own musical ability. Just come, have fun all while bonding with your child and meeting other…
Find out more »THE POLAR EXPRESS™ Train Ride
JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE! Join us for this magical trip where York-Durham Heritage Railway will be providing service to the North Pole onboard THE POLAR EXPRESS™ Train Ride this holiday season. The magical story comes to life starting in our enchanted Christmas tent with a magical tree lighting followed with the train one hour t round-trip train ride to the North Pole. Set to the sounds of the motion picture soundtrack, with singers and dancers passengers will relive the…
Find out more »Santa Train
All Aboard with Santa! We have received news from the North Pole that Santa will be joining us on our decorated and heated heritage train. This popular train ride is a great family holiday experience. On-board entertainment keeps everyone occupied while waiting for Santa's arrival. Have your wish list ready to share with him when he visits children big and small at their seats. Complete your trip with a gift for each child. Why not create a new family tradition…
Find out more »Pickering Santa Claus Parade
The Kinsmen and Kinette Club of Pickering hosts this annual event. Community groups and Businesses are invited to participate in the parade.
Find out more »Festive Wreaths Workshop
Get Ready for the Holidays with Earthbound! Join our gardener, Robin Tench, to create your own gorgeous festive wreath. We will have beautiful natural materials from our own tree farm on hand to help you create your masterpiece! November 23, 2019 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm $25 per adult $10 per child This program is designed for adults, however, children may accompany you and create their own wreath or craft for an additional $10.
Find out more »Breakfast with Santa and Navy League Canada Oshawa Branch
Join the youth cadets, officers and volunteers from the Navy League of Ontario, Oshawa branch for their first annual Breakfast with Santa! Guests will receive a hot homemade pancake breakfast with sausages and fresh fruit plus desserts served by the youth cadets from NLCC Hawkins #36 & RCSCC Sir Francis Drake #106. Come and have your child’s photo taken with Santa. Craft Table activities for children will be available. Time: 9:00-11:00AM Where: Storie Park Community Centre, 101 Mill St., Oshawa…
Find out more »December 2019
Sunday FUNday – The Victorian Home at Christmas
See just how different life was for families around a Victorian home, especially at Christmas! Explore roles of the family, tools and gadgets that made their life easier and how the Victorians decorated their homes for the holidays. Get hands-on with real artefacts from the Victorian Era used in real Victorian homes, over 150 years ago! Sunday FUNdays are held on the first Sunday of the month. Admission is free and allows you to interact with Museum staff and its…
Find out more »Whitby Santa Claus Parade
One of the highlights of the year is the annual Santa Claus Parade. Approximately 20,000 people line Brock Street each year to watch the marching bands, dance groups, floats, clowns and musical entertainment - all in anticipation of catching a glimpse of Santa Claus and his reindeer.
Find out more »Port Perry Santa Claus Parade
This year's theme is Christmas in Toyland! One of the largest and best ‘twilight’ parades in Durham Region. Don’t miss this exciting and colourful event.
Find out more »Lamplight Tour
The Lamplight tour is a time-honoured tradition at the Oshawa Museum. Our signature event allows visitors young and old to tour through the Museum homes that we decorate to reflect a Victorian Christmas. Oil lamps provide the only light in Henry House and looks just as the Henry family would have lit their home back in the 1800s. The Durham Storytellers are narrating, “The Ballad of Jennie’s Wedding”; her tale of getting married in Henry House in 1873. Victorian style…
Find out more »January 2020
PA Days at Earthbound Kids
Earthbound Kids offers year round PA Day & Holiday Day Camp programs for kids 4 to 12 years of age. Our popular Saddle Club program for kids 6-12 years is a great opportunity for kids to learn to ride and care for horses, more experienced young riders have a chance to improve their skills while everyone has fun with friends in the fresh outdoors. Our Treetop PA Day programs offer a great well rounded day for kids 4 to 12…
Find out more »March 2020
March Break at Earthbound Kids
Get out on the farm for the March Break! Earthbound Kids offers full week and single day programs for kids 4 to 12 years of age. Our Saddle Club program for kids 6-12 years is a great opportunity for kids to learn to ride and care for horses, more experienced young riders have a chance to improve their skills while everyone has fun with friends in the fresh outdoors. Our Treetop March Break program offers a well rounded day for…
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