Guided Tour: Skating, sledding and sleighs on Mount Royal

January 5, 2010

Montreal’s landmark park doesn’t let winter cramp its style: the Beaver Lake area of Mount Royal is a hub for skating, sledding, tubing, horse-drawn sleighs and mulled wine. Even if you have young kids of different ages, the mix of activities and the availability of all kinds of winter equipment make it fairly easy to [...]

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Guided Tour: Village du Père Noël

December 27, 2009

Village du Père Noël
Address: Autoroute 15, Exit 76 in Val-David, around 45 minutes north of Montreal
Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Dec. 19, 2009 to Jan. 5, 2010.
Cost: Age 0 to 1, free; age 2 to 65, $12.50.
Website: www.noel.qc.ca
Telephone: 819-322-2146
This family attraction has been around since 1953, based on the idea that its Val-David location [...]

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Guided Tour: Caillou Discovers Winter at the Biodome

December 23, 2009

There aren’t too many places that offer kids a “polar play area,” where they can try a little “ice fishing”, dress up like a penguin or polar bear, build up and bash down foam “ice cubes”, and make themselves at home in an igloo. This is one of the super features of the annual Caillou [...]

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Montreal Winter Break Activities for Kids

December 17, 2009

With schools out for two weeks and some day cares closed for the holidays, many parents will be thinking:

“Does this mean it’s time to put away the Halloween decorations?”
“Can we still book Hawaii? How about Plattsburg?”
“Isn’t Chinese takeout so much more festive than home-cooked turkey?”
“All I want for Christmas is to sleep in. [...]

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Guided Tour: Christmas Village at Complex Desjardins

December 10, 2009

Complex Desjardins Christmas Village
Dates: Nov. 21 to Dec. 24
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends, hours vary during the week. Check the schedule.
Address: 150 Ste. Catherine St. W. or 175 René Lévèsque St. W.
Website: http://www.complexedesjardins.com
Every year, Complex Desjardins sets up its Christmas village, which is a super destination for families with children from one [...]

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I Spy Montreal Gift Guide

December 6, 2009

Lots of us like to shop for local, handmade gifts, but it’s not always easy to track down all the great stuff out there. Here’s a list of locally-based businesses – some online and some traditional – that sell great items for babies and children. Several of them are run by parents who somehow manage [...]

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This Just In: Christmas Bazaar with Kids’ Workshops

December 5, 2009

I have a weakness for craft fairs, but browsing handmade products is typically not a child-friendly activity. So many lovely displays to crash into. So many delicate objects to squish. So many questions like, “Mom, can we go now?”
So, I’m happy to tell you about a Christmas craft bazaar that is hosting some workshops just [...]

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Should You Take the Kids to: Montreal Comic-Con

December 3, 2009

As a mother of two sons, I have come to realize that superheroes are not a phase.
They are part of our family.
They are a way of life.
Before they were verbal, our sons would lunge at images of Spider-Man. Soon after first words like “duck” and “bottle” came words like “The Fwash” (The Flash), “Batman” and [...]

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This Just In: Craft Fair with Kids’ Activities

November 27, 2009

With the weather looking yucky this weekend, you might be interested in a Montreal craft and gift fair called the Salon du Cadeau Thématique, which has some fun kids’ activities on the agenda this weekend. The event has a medieval theme, with various groups performing and offering workshops.
The fair starts today at 5 p.m., running [...]

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This Just In: Write to Santa and He’ll Write you Back

November 25, 2009

Canada Post has set up its annual post box for Santa, so that he gets his mail up at the North Pole. What you might not know is that if you include a return address, you will receive a letter back – in the same language you wrote to Santa.
If you want to help [...]

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