Playground Survival
Sackville Playground
Sackville Playground is in Corktown at the base of Sackville and King Street East. It’s another newly built playground here in Toronto that is fantastic for kids of all ages. Sackville Playground is surrounded by lots of cafés, coffee shops and parking. Address: 420...
Playground Survival: St. James Park
Playground survival is back – how we have missed you! I never thought I would miss pushing my kids on a swing or watching them tumble down a slide as much as I have. It’s finally time to get back to talking about great playgrounds. Which means great coffee and food...
Leslieville Playground Crawl
Playground fun! Leslieville is full of wonderful playgrounds and even better food & coffee for you. Remember when you were in your 20’s and perhaps did a pub crawl or two? Stopping at various drinking establishments, grabbing $1 pizza along the way and stumbling...
A Pirate’s Life
YO HO YO HO! A PIRATE’S LIFE FOR ME! A Pirate Life This is not a playground per se but it’s a fantastic experience for your kids we discovered last summer. For about an hour and a half – you and your family are completely turned into pirates. This is an immersive...
Playground Survival: Jump For Joy Play Centre
JUMP FOR JOY PLAY CENTRE I think we are coming to the end of winter, but lets get real, in Toronto spring doesn’t truly make an appearance until mid April at least! Which means we still have quite a few weeks of indoor play (and to be fair, when summer hits and you...
Playground Survival: Sprouts, Toronto
Winter is HERE which means my warm, sunny mornings or late-afternoon crisp fall days at the playgrounds are over. And I have to move inside. Luckily, Toronto has a plethora of indoor-play spaces. Some better than others and this is one: Sprouts Growing Bodies &...
Playground Survival: East Lynn Park, Toronto
Or Rusty’s Reach (apparently – but I’ve never heard anyone call it this) Address: 1949 Danforth Ave Near Danforth Ave and East Lynn Ave How to Get Here: I get here by car and find plentiful free parking on the streets around the park. By Subway: It’s a short walk...
Playground Survival: High Park, Toronto
JAMIE BELL ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND AT HIGH PARKAddress: 185 Spring Road, Toronto, Ontario How to Get Here: The playground is found within High Park – I always enter via High Park Road and then you veer to the left. It will become visible on your left with a parking lot...
Apple Picking Around Toronto
UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 2019 Before I had kids, I always wanted to go apple-picking with the Engineer. He was not into this idea. But now that we have kids, he has to go (even though he still loathes the idea – why – I don’t know). And so we go. I do wonder at the...
Playground Survival: Richmond Hill, Ontario
A GUIDE TO FINDING GREAT PLAYGROUNDS FOR THE KIDS AND FANTASTIC COFFEE FOR YOU If your kids are now the age of independent play, chances are, you spend lots of time at the playground. And unless you are a mutant or a saint, this can be pretty boring. This is my guide...
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