Toronto and Area Weekend Event Guide for Families | October 11-14, 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
Halloween Nights of Lights & Pumpkinville
- September 28 – October 31
- CF Sherway Gardens, 25 The West Mall, Toronto
- 15% Off with code: CHILDSLIFE
Back for it’s fifth year for the 2024 season, this year’s experience features NEW installations with more than 1.5 million LED and RGB lights animated and synchronized to your favourite Halloween tunes. Continue the fun at the end of the trail, inside of Pumpkinville, featuring larger than life pumpkin sculptures and village.
FEATURED
Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience
- Until November 30, 2024
- Downsview Airport Lands, 30 Hanover Rd, Toronto
A multi-sensory experience with record crowds in Milan, Brussels and Los Angeles, designed to awaken the joy of imagination, play and wonder for children and adults of all ages. The event delivers dreamy experiences using a magical combination of optical illusions, lasers, bubbles, balloons and 360-degree projection technology.
Hercinia Arts Collective
Oct 13, 2024
to Oct 13, 2024
Downsview Airport Lands
Experience the joy of circus arts in this immersive workshop! Participants will have the opportunity to try various props, including juggling, balancing plates, diabolo, flower sticks, and hula hooping. This workshop offers a fun opportunity to explore and practice multiple ...
Astronomy Family Nights at David Dunlap Observatory
Oct 12, 2024
to Oct 12, 2024
David Dunlap Observatory
Families will be introduced to the wonders of astronomy through a presentation on a variety of exciting astronomy topics, followed by age-appropriate celestial activities while interacting with RHDDO Astronomers! All individuals/family members attending this program must be registered and a ...
Woodbridge Fair
Oct 12, 2024
to Oct 14, 2024
Woodbridge Fairgrounds
Join all the fun at the annual Woodbridge Fall Fair! Make Thanksgiving weekend even more special by visiting our Fall Fair! Join in the tradition of celebrating our community together with old-fashioned fun – it’s a taste of the country, ...
Brooks Farms Fall Fun Festival
Oct 12, 2024
to Oct 13, 2024
Brooks Farms
The outdoor event highlight of the YEAR! For over a decade, Brooks Farms hosts an awesome Fall Fun Festival that gets bigger and better every year. Come out and enjoy the beautiful autumn season Brooks Farms style! Wagon Rides Zip ...
Ball's Falls Thanksgiving Festival
Oct 11, 2024
to Oct 14, 2024
Ball’s Falls Conservation Area
The Annual Ball’s Falls Thanksgiving Festival will bring back many of your favourite features, including 150+ in-person craft and artisan vendors, delicious foods, craft beverages and wines, local farmers’ market vendors, live acoustic music and children’s entertainment, historical demonstrations, heritage ...
PumpkinFest Toronto
Oct 11, 2024
to Oct 14, 2024
Downsview Park
Enjoy a weekend filled with unlimited midway rides, unlimited inflatable fun, a sprawling pumpkin patch, local food trucks, live entertainment, tons of family photo ops, and so much more! PumpkinFest Toronto is the place to be thanksgiving weekend! The family ...
Mountsberg Spooktacular Halloween
Oct 4, 2024
to Oct 27, 2024
Mountsberg Conservation Area
Mountsberg’s family-friendly Spooktacular Halloween starts October 4 and runs Friday to Sunday evenings from 4:30 pm to 10:00 pm until October 27. Spooktacular is a unique Halloween experience that blends haunted fun with education, offering a chance to learn about ...
Spooky at illumi
Oct 3, 2024
to Oct 31, 2024
7174 Derrycrest Dr, Mississauga, ON
SPOOKY AT ILLUMI offers an ultimate fall experience for people of all ages and will feature Halloween scenes, iconic horror film soundtracks, whimsical jack-o-lanterns, scarlet spiders, neon skeletons, glowing ghouls and more. The journey spans across 600,000 square feet, which ...
Pumpkinferno
Oct 2, 2024
to Nov 2, 2024
Discovery Harbour
A spooky start to Halloween! Pumpkinferno creeps into Discovery Harbour for a hauntingly good time! Experience the phenomenon of PumpkInferno’s magical outdoor exhibits of artificial hand-carved pumpkins! For those looking to test their courage, make your way to Grim Reaper’s ...
Woolly Bear October
Oct 1, 2024
to Oct 31, 2024
Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory
They’re everywhere! Woolly bear caterpillars become more visible in late fall and this beloved creature is the focus in October. Come see our woolly bears up close! We will reveal the truth about the woolly bear’s stripes and you’ll discover ...
Visit Ripley's Aquarium
Oct 1, 2024
to Oct 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 ...
Elora Monster Month
Oct 1, 2024
to Oct 31, 2024
Town of Elora
An Annual favourite! Dozens of activities are scheduled during the month-long celebration, a self-guided tour leads visitors through Elora’s historic downtown and showcases a hauntingly beautiful collection of illuminated sculptures created by artist Tim Murton called The Twilight Zoo — ...
Camp Spooky at Canada's Wonderland
Sep 28, 2024
to Nov 2, 2024
Canada’s Wonderland
Camp Spooky returns to Canada’s Wonderland this fall with family-friendly daytime Halloween activities and attractions every weekend. If you’re looking for things to do with the kids this Halloween, look no further! Included with park admission, Camp Spooky features trick-or-treating, ...
Bird & Animal Programs at Mountsberg Nature centre
Sep 28, 2024
to Oct 27, 2024
Mountsberg Conservation Area
Visit Mountsberg Conservation Area from Saturday, September 28 to Sunday, October 27 and get up-close with our birds of prey at one of our 45 minute raptor experiences: Hawk Walks: Join Mountsberg Raptor Centre staff and one of our Harris’ ...
Halloween Nights of Lights & Pumpkinville 2024
Sep 28, 2024
to Oct 31, 2024
CF Sherway Gardens
Halloween Nights of Lights is BACK FOR THE FIFTH YEAR for the 2024 season. This year’s experience features NEW installations with more than 1.5 million LED and RGB lights animated and synchronized to your favourite Halloween tunes. Continue the fun ...
Brick-or-Treat Monster Party
Sep 27, 2024
to Oct 31, 2024
LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Toronto
Are you ready for a Halloween Adventure like no other? The Brick-or-Treat Monster Party is coming to LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre and it’s going to be a boo-tacular event for the whole family! Here’s What’s Waiting For You: Monster-tastic LEGO® Build ...
Curious George and the Golden Meatball
Sep 21, 2024
to Nov 10, 2024
Wychwood Theatre
Curious George and the Golden Meatball Live! At The Wychwood Theatre 76 Wychwood Ave. Toronto, ON Everyone’s favorite mischievous monkey and his friend in the yellow hat sing and dance up a storm in this adventure-filled musical! Join Curious George, ...
Culture Days
Sep 20, 2024
to Oct 13, 2024
Multiple Locations in Ontario
Celebrate arts, culture, and heritage with over 1000 FREE events across the province. The Ontario Culture Days Festival is an annual celebration of arts, culture and heritage taking place each fall across the province. September 20 to October 13, 2024. Visit ...
Pingle's Harvest Festival
Sep 7, 2024
to Oct 31, 2024
Pingle’s Farm Market
It’s the best time of the year; fall on the farm! Join us in celebrating the season at Pingle’s Harvest Festival. Featuring: Giant Corn Maze Pick Your Own Flower Fields Visits with the Animals Trikes & Race Track Sandbox Wagon ...
Canada's Wonderland Fall Weekends
Sep 6, 2024
to Nov 2, 2024
Canada’s Wonderland
It’s time for another fall season at Canada’s Wonderland! Get ready for big thrills and world-class attractions and fall events at Canada’s premier amusement park. The park features more than 200 attractions including 18 roller coasters like Leviathan, Yukon Striker, ...
AGORA Path of Light
Aug 30, 2024
to Oct 27, 2024
Blue Mountain Village
AGORA is an unusual and magical space inspired by storytellers and cycles of life in nature. As participants walk this circular path, they will encounter a series of interactive lighting installations based on the five elements of air, space, earth, ...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
Aug 17, 2024
to Oct 27, 2024
Al Green Theatre
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by author/illustrator Eric Carle has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1969 selling more than 43 million copies worldwide. This critically acclaimed production of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show’ features a menagerie ...
Apple Picking at Chudleigh's Farm
Aug 17, 2024
to Oct 27, 2024
Chudleigh’s Entertainment Farm
Apple picking at Chudleigh’s is in full swing! It’s the perfect time to visit the farm and lose yourself in nature by picking fresh apples straight from the tree. Some of the best memories are made in the orchard 🍎 ...
Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience
Aug 8, 2024
to Nov 30, 2024
Downsview Airport Lands
Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience, offering tactile play and virtual reality, is making its Canadian debut in Toronto on August 8, 2024. The multisensory experience, which has drawn record crowds in Milan, Brussels and Los Angeles is designed to awaken ...
Lite Brite: Worlds of Wonder
Jul 30, 2024
to Oct 14, 2024
The Distillery Historic District
Discover the world of Lite-Brite, with thousands of colourful lights. Have fun exploring, playing games and creating your own art in our most gamified immersive experience yet! The new show features an immersive narrative with interactive lights, gaming stations and ...
Space: A Journey to the Moon and Beyond
Jul 30, 2024
to Oct 14, 2024
The Distillery Historic District
In an out-of-this-world immersive experience, take an extraordinary journey across the galaxy. Fly through a technicolor nebula, kick up dust on the moon, see Saturn’s rings up close, and weave through an asteroid belt. A giant leap into the unknown, ...
Light: Visionary Perspectives Exhibition
Jul 13, 2024
to Mar 17, 2025
Aga Khan Museum
Marking the Aga Khan Museum’s 10th anniversary, Light: Visionary Perspectives will explore light’s multifaceted impact. Featuring contemporary installations by prominent international and Canadian artists, including Anila Quayyum Agha, Tannis Nielsen, Olafur Eliasson, Kimsooja, and Anish Kapoor, the exhibition delves into ...
Wild Cats at the ROM
Jun 15, 2024
to Oct 20, 2024
Royal Ontario Museum
The purr-fect exhibition for the whole family! They are ferocious wild predators with razor-sharp retractable claws—and they may be in your home! Domestic house cats (scientific name Felis silvestris catus) are just one of the felines set to take over ...
COMING SOON
Dinos Alive: An Immersive Experience
- October 25 - December 22, 2024
- Downsview Airport Lands, 30 Hanover Rd, Toronto
Just Announced! Go back millions of years to a land ruled by giants, an immersive experience that brings you face-to-face with dinosaurs that dominated the world for 140 million years. Fun for the whole family – get your tickets before they’re extinct!
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