Toronto and Area Weekend Event Guide for Families | March 22-24, 2024
Your weekend guide to family fun and things to do with kids in and around Toronto. Updated each week to bring you the latest family events, activities, festivals, fairs, kids shows and fun things to do in the GTA and surrounding area.
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Family Events this Weekend
FEATURED EVENT
Jurassic World: The Exhibition
- Extended until May 5, 2024
- Square One Shopping Centre, Mississauga
Final extension by popular demand! A 20,000 square-foot experience based on one of history’s largest blockbusters, and features scenes inspired by the beloved films. Visitors walk through the world-famous Jurassic World gates, encounter life-sized dinosaurs, and explore richly themed environments. Guests get an up-close look at Blue the Velociraptor, stand in awe under a towering Brachiosaurus, and get up close and personal to the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.
Crate Clash
Mar 23, 2024
to Mar 23, 2024
The Rose Studio
The ultimate DJ battle showcasing young DJs and DJ crews participating in a 70yr old Jamaican tradition. Local sound crews held community gatherings, where people were encouraged to express themselves through dance and fashion, and DJs would battle for the ...
Easter Fun Activities
Mar 23, 2024
to Mar 23, 2024
Save Max Sports Centre
You are invited to a join for a day filled with fun, crafts, activities, and prizes. Activities includes a short Easter movie, Resurrection Garden, and Egg Hunt. Activities are best suited for ages 4 – 10. Older siblings are welcome ...
Weekend Nature Play
Mar 23, 2024
to Mar 23, 2024
Evergreen Brick Works
Designed to showcase and make available to the public the many benefits of place based outdoor play and learning, the Children’s Garden offers a wild yet urban landscape for child-led play and stewardship-based opportunities for all visiting the Brick Works. It ...
Pingle's Easter-ific Egg Hunt
Mar 23, 2024
to Mar 24, 2024
Pingle’s Farm Market
Your egg-citing adventure will start out with a visit to this year’s Easter Egg Hunt in the play land (BRING YOUR OWN BASKET). Here, you’ll be given a special egg hunt sheet, telling you which Easter eggs the Easter Bunny needs you to find! Once ...
Sweetwater Harvest Festival
Mar 23, 2024
to Mar 24, 2024
Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre
Spring is in the air! Join the Friends of Wye Marsh and Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons for a celebration of the spring season and all things maple syrup! Wander through the sugar bush and visit the sugar shack to watch ...
Visit with the Easter Bunny
Mar 23, 2024
to Mar 24, 2024
Joseph Brant Museum
Hop on over to Joseph Brant Museum for a Visit with the Easter Bunny! Families can book a 5-minute time slot for a private visit with the Easter Bunny (6 family members maximum). Henry’s Camera will be taking professional photos, ...
Spring Cottage Life Show
Mar 21, 2024
to Mar 24, 2024
International Center
The ultimate destination for everything to do with the cottage, the Spring Cottage Life Show will connect visitors with more than 500 exhibitors and experts on topics that impact life at the cottage including protecting the family legacy with succession ...
Maple Syrup Season at Westfield Heritage Village
Mar 3, 2024
to Mar 29, 2024
Westfield Heritage Village
Come discover Maple Syrup Season at Westfield Heritage Village and see for yourself how sap is turned to syrup! This special program will be offered on: Sundays, March 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 March Break days Wednesday, March 13 ...
Maple Syrup at White Meadows Farms
Mar 2, 2024
to Apr 7, 2024
White Farm Meadows
We’ve split your Sugar Bush Trek into two unique portions for a perfect balance of education and enjoyment. Part 1: Your Guided Portion Follow in our sugar-maker’s footsteps as your guide leads you through the re-imagined Native and Pioneer Camps ...
Sweet Water at Crawford Lake
Mar 2, 2024
to Apr 7, 2024
Crawford Lake Conservation Area
It’s one of the most delicious and historic traditions at Conservation Halton and you’re invited to take part! Experience all Maple Season has to offer by visiting Crawford Lake’s Sweetwater Season! Learn about the Indigenous origins and current practice of ...
Bronte Creek Maple Syrup Festival
Mar 2, 2024
to Mar 31, 2024
Bronte Creek Provincial Park
Get ready for Maple! Our next big event will be our Maple Syrup Festival! Come join us we explore the history of making maple syrup and demonstrate some of the great things made with it. Enjoy a tour around an ...
Mountsberg’s Maple Town
Mar 2, 2024
to Apr 7, 2024
Mountsberg Conservation Area
It’s the sweetest time of year at Conservation Halton! The Mountsberg sugarbush has been producing maple magic for more than 150 years and educating the public for over 40 years. The park will tap about 300 sugar maples this spring ...
Maple Syrup Experience at Elliott Tree Farm
Feb 17, 2024
to Apr 7, 2024
Elliott Tree Farm
The Elliott Tree Farm 2024 Maple Syrup Experience kicks off on Saturday February 17 for Family Day Weekend! Join us within an hour of the GTA for our annual Canadian tradition with our famous pancake breakfast at the Horse Barn ...
Space to Spoon
Feb 8, 2024
to May 20, 2024
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
Space to Spoon is a hands-on experience, with stunning graphics and interactive elements for visitors of all ages. The science, technology, and innovation that transform satellite images into agricultural applications are showcased in a way that encourages informal science learning ...
Visit Ripley's Aquarium
Feb 1, 2024
to Mar 31, 2024
Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada
Immerse yourself in a world of 20,000 aquatic animals and discover your own underwater adventure. With more than 5.7 million litres of water, North America’s longest underwater viewing tunnel! Families can get up close and personal with touch exhibits featuring ...
Immersive Van Gogh
Jan 12, 2024
to Mar 24, 2024
Lighthouse Immersive Artspace
From the originators of the Parisian Atelier des Lumières exhibition that has been seen by more than two million visitors worldwide and has inspired the global trendsetting phenomenon of immersive digital art experiences, comes an all-new visually striking achievement that ...
IMAX: Dinosaurs of Antarctica
Jan 8, 2024
to Jun 1, 2024
Ontario Science Centre
Uncover a hidden past when prehistoric giants roamed Antarctica hundreds of millions of years ago Join scientists on a quest to unearth a prehistoric world now lost to ice on the southernmost continent of Antarctica. Discover a colossal amphibian that ...
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