Best Experience Gifts for Guelph families

If you live in Guelph, here is a great list of activities for families with kids...


Sometimes you look around and realize that there is just too much stuff.  Toys here, crafts there.  You need some more ideas for gifts?  Here is a brief list of "Experience Gifts" for Guelph, or areas near Guelph.

• In Guelph
• Riverside Carousel pass
• Children's Art Factory - 10 pack of passes
• Guelph Museum - membership for the year
• Woodlawn bowling gift card

• In Kitchener
• Kitchener Museum - family admission
• In Toronto
• Metro Toronto Zoo passes
• Ontario wide
• Cineplex Odeon movie passes

When are the Outdoor Pools and Splash Pads Open? 2017 Version

this is going to be a great go to guide for when these places are open and where they are located

SPLASH PADS - open June 26 to September 4

• Norm Jary Park
• 22 Shelldale Crescent
• Hours: 10am to 7pm
• West End Community Centre
• 21 Imperial Road South
• Hours: 10am to 7pm
• Hanlon Creek
• 505 Kortright Road W
• Hours: 10am to 7pm

OUTDOOR POOL - open June 24 to September 4

• Lyon Park
• 299 York Road
• Hours: 10am - noon, 1pm - 4pm, 5pm - 8pm

WADING POOLS -open June 30 to September 4

• Sunny Acres Park
• 45 Edinburgh Road N
• Hours 10am - 1pm, 3pm - 7pm
• Mico Valeriote Park
• 235 Elizabeth St
• Hours 11am - 3pm
• Exhibition Park
• 81 London Road
• Hours: 10am - 1pm, 3pm - 7 pm

Fairy Door Spotting On Guelph Trails

Along the trail by the river, there are apparently little random doors that have been built into some trees along the trail.  Someone has taken the time to create a little alternate world, where fairies have homes with little doors that lead to them.

It's kind of a neat idea.

• You'll find the doors on random trees
• some places to find them include behind Lyon Park
• they supposedly start at the end of Audrey Avenue (take York Road)

more information to come as we gather it.

People have vandalized the doors in the past, but some good Samaritans in Guelph have gone out of their way to replace the broken doors, as well as add some new ones.

Springridge Farms in Milton for Easter

There is lots of fun to be had around Easter time.  One great venue is Springridge Farm in Milton.

Their Easter Festival Egg Hunt happens over 3 days: April 14, 15, and 16 from 10am - 4pm.  If you went on Friday, you might have noticed that it was really busy.  They open at 9, and the Easter Egg Hunt starts at 10 but they hit capacity by then.  Around 11,  the wait to get in was about 1.5hr.

For the egg hunt, the eggs are empty and then submitted at the end to get the candy (a widely used strategy).

As per their website:

Admission to Easter Festival is $12 per person, ages 2-92, and includes:

*Egg Hunt with the Easter Bunny
*Bunny Face Painting
*Easter Puppet Show
*Baby Animals
*Fun Farm Yard Activities
*AND MORE!

Dress appropriately for the weather conditions at the farm (boots are recommended for visiting the Fun Farm Yard in springtime).

So admission for a family of 4 with children over 2 years of age would come out to $48.  Not a cheap day out.  But still loads of fun.  Activities include slides, animals to pet, a large sandbox...

If your child is really young (say 12 months or under) they might not get as much out of it as they would in a year or so.