Family Drop-In Activities take place the last Saturday of every month at The Canadian Canoe Museum. And on Saturday, January 27th you can stay one step ahead of winter by making a hand warmer sachet. The size of the palm of your hands, a hand warmer can take the chill off while you are enjoying the winter outdoors. You’ll have a variety of choices including a hand warmer owl or canoe.
Source: https://www.canoemuseum.ca/upcoming-events
Once you are done with the family drop-in activities there will still be plenty to do and see. In fact, save the link to the website to be sure you don’t miss any upcoming events.
The site https://www.canoemuseum.ca/family-visits outlines the “Family-friendly! Interactive! Educational!” activities to keep everyone engaged:
- Puppet Theatre complete with Canada’s wildlife creatures.
- Craft Station where kids can decorate, cut out, and shape their own cardboard canoes.
- Canoe Drum is a full size 16’ canoe turned into a drum that just screams ‘play me’.
- Building Table includes Roy Toy building sets and little wooden canoes on a play table where kids can spend time building boat houses, boat sheds, or…
- Voyageur Encampment invites the whole family to climb under an overturned 36’ birch bark canoe, where it is possible to imagine oneself falling asleep along the bank of the French River.
- Kids can also try a true to life 90lb canoe pack or pick up a paddle and try to paddle 50-60 strokes per minute just like the voyageurs.
- Dress-up is for the whole family. Everyone can try on woolen Hudson Bay Company capotes, mittens and booties and try weaving a snowshoe, or learn to finger weave the iconic Voyageur belt, the ceinture flechee.
- Experience a modern day canoe (on industrial springs) that kids can get into to rock and roll their way through the whitewater. The canoe is even equipped with paddles.
- Relax and read in the reading nook with canoe and nature-themed children’s books.
- Experience the fur trade with real beaver pelts to encourage kids to contemplate how this country depended on the beaver fur trade.
- Sit in a birch bark winter wigwam and gather around the faux fire, listening to a recorded story being told by a Mi’kmaq elder.
Source: https://www.canoemuseum.ca/family-visits
Family Drop-in Activities are the last Saturday of the month. Admission is free with Museum admission or Family Membership.
Family membership is only $50/year and includes free admission, discounts on kids’ workshops, March Break, Summer Camp and the store, and special events throughout the year.
Address: 910 Monaghan Road Peterborough, Ontario K9J 5K4 Canada
Phone: (705) 748-9153
Website: https://www.canoemuseum.ca/
https://www.canoemuseum.ca/family-visits
Bethany Ontario 
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