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These full colour, made in Canada playing cards are an excellent way to pass the time during a rainy camping trip and are a great souvenir to take home. They showcase 52 must-visit national parks from across Canada.
Official poker size (2.5” wide x 3.5” tall)
This item is part of Parks Canada official merchandise, meaning every purchase supports national parks, historic sites and marine conservation areas.
Made by Parks Canada in Toronto, ON.
$12.99
Now you can sketch and colour in style with these beautiful Haida pencil crayons featuring indigenous art designed by Haida artist T.J. Sgwaayaans Young.
Set of 12 double ended coloured pencils with 24 colours to choose from, offers a wide range of vivid colours that help inspire children's self-expression and imagination.
Made with cedar wood from sustainably managed forests.
Native Northwest products are guided by the following principles:
Designed by Native Northwest in Vancouver, British Columbia.
$59.99
Who will be the fastest? The goal of this board game is to slingshot all your pucks through the hatch as quickly as possible, before your opponent gets theirs through the hatch. The rules are you can only use one hand and the pucks can only be propelled through using the elastic. To start a round, each player claps, and away you go!
For ages 4+
Dimensions: approx. 25"L x 13"W x 1.25"D.
Click here to order replacement pucks.
Made by Rustik Games in Montreal, QC.
$32.99
The perfect family activity for when you are stuck inside over winter, family game night or for rainy days at the cottage.
For as long as there have been road-trips, kids have been doing their part by proudly announcing passing road signs to the adult behind the wheel. These lowly sentinels hold vital information that is faithfully proclaimed from the catbird seat in order to avoid catastrophe as the road unfurls ahead. Local Traffic Only! Windy? Don’t Light! Brake for Snakes! Join us on this road-trip through the Maple Syrup Capital of Ontario. Sweet Corn Ahead! Welcome to Lanark County.
Stunning photographs and design by Micheal Bainbridge, reproduced in vivid wide-gamut colour, and mounted on genuine Eska board.
Piece Count: 1008 unique shapes (if 1000 is good, 1008 is better!)
Finished Size: 68.6 x 48.3 cm (27" x 19")
$14.99
This Balloon Boat is perfect for bath-time. A wonderful alternative to plastic bathtub toys, the durable and solid design of the Balloon Boat means it will keep on floating and is ready for years of play.
So simple to use, just blow the balloon up through the exhaust jet at the back of the boat. Block the exhaust jet with your finger, put the boat in the water and watch it zip across the water like a jet boat!
Comes with a post to attach a bowline to secure the boat (or to pull it back from the far end of the tub or pull it back to you if you are playing in open water)
Want a different balloon colour, shape or size, no problem. You can replace the included balloon with any balloon with a standard-sized opening. It's fun to see how far the boat will go with different sizes of balloons.
The Balloon Boat comes in unfinished wood with no paint, stains or toxic finish. Just leave it to dry on the side of the tub when bath time is done.
Appropriate for children aged 3 and up
Dimensions approximately 6.5" x 3.5"
Made by Thorpe Toys in Waterloo, Ontario.
$2.99 $5.99
Pop tops, when spun fast, will turn over and "pop" on their stem! Available in blue, green and red. Spinning tops made from hardwood.
Sold individually. If ordering online, please select your colour preference.
Appropriate for children aged 8 and up.
Dimensions approximately 4cm x 4cm x 2cm.
Recommended for Ages 8+
Caution: Item contains small parts and may present a choking hazard. Not suitable for children under age 3.
Made by The Toy Maker of Lunenburg in Hatchet Lake, Nova Scotia.
$2.99 $3.99
You supply the rotational energy needed for lift-off with your hands Push with your right hand and watch this Hand Helicopter take to the skies.
This helicopter really flies! You supply the rotational energy needed for lift-off and away it goes into the air! It is a surprisingly fun toy for something so simple!
It is essentially a propeller on a stick. You put the stick between your hands and push forward with your right hand - like rolling a bit of playdough in your hands.
Then let it roll off your hands and watch it take off, flying through the air!
Enlist a friend to play catch, or just throw and catch it yourself.
A classic toy that is heirloom-quality and built to last. These are toys that can be handed down from generation to generation.
Made of natural wood with no paint, stains or toxic finish.
Appropriate for children aged 5 and up
Dimensions approximately 5.75" x 5.5"
Made by Thorpe Toys in Waterloo, Ontario.
$4.99
Get the ball through the hole. A classic game of skill based on the traditional game of Bilboquet.
It looks simple enough: pick up the paddle, gently swing the ball in an arc and have it fall through the hole in the other end of the paddle.
However, it is a great test of hand-eye coordination. It takes much more subtlety than is anticipated. After you practice for a while you can definitely get it in the hole much more often.
Makes a great party favour, desk toy or stocking stuffer.
Appropriate for children aged 3 and up
Dimensions approximately 8" x 1.5"
Made by Thorpe Toys in Waterloo, Ontario.
$34.99
Ottawa's Byward Market is full of life in this bustling 1000-piece puzzle, featuring famous landmarks like the Beavertails stand, the Byward Market building, Parliament, the National Gallery and the Alexandra Bridge. It also has hints of Market mainstays like the Lapointe Fish market and Mercury Lounge.
- 1000 pieces
- Size: 19 1/4" x 26 5/8"
- Puzzle board and box board are made from 100% recycled material and are 100% recyclable
- Printed with soy-based inks
- No shrink wrap to minimize plastic use
- Puzzle pieces sealed in a recyclable bag
Designed in Toronto by The Paperhood
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Classic wooden yo-yo's make their return. Teach your kids all your skills, or play with it yourself, a yo-yo is the classic fidget spinner. Available in blue, green, natural, and red. Made from maple.
Appropriate for children aged 8 and up.
Dimensions approximately 6cm x 6cm x 3cm
Made by The Toy Maker of Lunenburg in Hatchet Lake, Nova Scotia.
$16.99
A fun and simple paddle boat kit that your child can assemble themselves.
Kids LOVE being able to assemble and then play with this toy right away!
For your older child, this fun kit comes as 9 separate pieces that you and your child can put together in about 5 minutes. This DIY kit includes detailed instructions for easy assembly.
Then just wind up the paddle and watch the boat paddle it's way across the pond, pool or tub.
Children love playing in the water, and our Paddle Boat Kit gives them the unparalleled experience of making and playing with their very own toy.
A classic toy that is heirloom-quality and built to last. These are toys that can be handed down from generation to generation.
Click the red button in the top left corner for a quick demo!
Made of natural wood with no paint, stains or toxic finish.
Appropriate for children aged 5 and up
Unassembled Kit Dimensions approximately 8" x 2"
Made by Thorpe Toys in Waterloo, Ontario.
$24.99
Let children discover the rich culture of Canada with this educational map puzzle. Parents and children can play together and celebrate Canada's birthday every year! Made using medium-density fiberboard, cardboard, and paper.
Appropriate for children aged 4 and up.
Dimensions approximately 30cm x 20cm x 1cm
Made by The Toy Maker of Lunenburg in Hatchet Lake, Nova Scotia.
$32.99
The perfect family activity for when you are stuck inside over winter, family game night or for rainy days at the cottage.
The Hangdog Channel is nestled in the world’s largest chain of freshwater islands. Rock faces scraped bare from the wind, twisted white pine, and the wide, wild water of the 30,000 islands are woven into the Canadian identity. The rugged beauty of the Canadian Shield requests the observer to be still, and listen to the heavenly chorus of nature.
Wendy Wood is a Canadian landscape artist who lives and paints in the Haliburton Highlands of Ontario. When she’s not painting, she weaves, makes maple syrup and likes to do puzzles.
Reproduced in vivid wide-gamut colour, and mounted on genuine Eska board.
Piece Count: 1008 unique shapes (if 1000 is good, 1008 is better!)
Finished Size: 68.6 x 48.3 cm (27" x 19")
Made by TheOccurrence in Merrickville, ON
$19.99
Study insects in this fun observation laboratory.
Kids love to learn about the world around them and creepy crawlies. This bug box gives them a close-up view of some of our closest neighbours - insects.
The opening is large enough for large insects and the soft mesh is fine enough to enclose even small insects. Comes with a leather strap handle for you to carry your entomology laboratory around with you.
Once they are done their observations, just leave the box outside, open the door and allow the insect to escape.
This bug box is a great new way let your kids get close-up time with insects in a way that is non-destructive and eco-friendly.
Appropriate for children aged 3 and up
Dimensions approximately 7.5" l x 1.54.25" h x "3.5" w
Made by Thorpe Toys in Waterloo, Ontario.
$27.99
For sentimental or scientific reasons, flower presses have been helping people preserve memories for centuries. This wooden flower press is ingeniously simple!
Put your fresh plant leaves and flowers between the cardboard inserts, fit the top piece back on and tighten the wingnuts. Place somewhere with some ventilation and allow it to press and dry the plant matter.
The dried flowers and leaves make great art or addition to art pieces! Try framing them behind glass or making homemade cards with them.
The cardboard inserts are reusable and will dry themselves due to airflow through their corrugation furrows.
Full instructions are included.
Appropriate for children aged 3 and up
Dimensions approximately 7.5" l x 1.54.25" h x "3.5" w
Made by Thorpe Toys in Waterloo, Ontario.
$24.99
This sturdy wooden school bus comes with 4 removal passengers and is super cute!
Great for pre-schoolers with older siblings who have started school to play and imagine their own school journey.
With a friendly driver at the wheel and room for four happy passengers, easy-rolling wheels and smooth edges, this durable 5-piece wooden playset makes for hours of fun and leaves plenty of room for a child's imagination.
A classic toy that is heirloom-quality and built to last. These are toys that can be handed down from generation to generation.
Made of natural wood with no paint, stains or toxic finish.
Appropriate for children aged 3 and up
Dimensions approximately 8.5" x 5"
Made by Thorpe Toys in Waterloo, Ontario.
$29.99
The perfect family activity for when you are stuck inside over winter, family game night or for rainy days at the cottage.
‘namaxsala is inspired by a story told to the artist, Mary Anne Barkhouse, by her grandfather Fred Cook. In the story, her grandfather helps a wolf cross a treacherous piece of water in a boat, on the West coast of Canada. “My grandfather’s stories always offered an alternative view for considering the world around me,” the artist remembers. “And so, I relate one of them here, to help negotiate cooperation with the ‘other’ and inclusion of the wild.”
The photograph, taken by Michael J. Bainbridge captures Barkhouse’s installation, locked in a perpetual gaze with Parliament. In the image, we also see the flags on Parliament Hill at half mast in recognition of the unmarked graves across the country of residential school children that never came home.
This deceptively simple image evokes a shared fate and highlights our need for critical introspection as a country.
‘namaxala is a Kwakwala word meaning ‘to travel in a boat together’. The sculpture of 'namaxsala can be seen and admired in person at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec.
Mary Anne Barkhouse is an Indigenous artist belonging to the ‘Namgis band of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation of British Columbia. She currently resides in the Haliburton Highlands of Ontario.
Reproduced in vivid wide-gamut colour, and mounted on genuine Eska board.
Piece Count: 504 unique shapes (if 500 is good, 504 is better!)
Finished Size: 42.0 x 59.4 cm (16.5 x 23.4")
Made by TheOccurrence in Merrickville, ON
$29.99
A dog hand puppet! Have some fun with the little ones and watch their imaginations run wild. Stage your own theatrical production, teach them manners, or read them to sleep with these adorable wool puppets.
Every single puppet is completely one of a kind, made with reclaimed wool that is unique from the colours and textures used for the next puppet.
Size: 12" height (30.5 cm)
Made by Cate & Levi in Toronto, Ontario.
$39.99
Fun for the whole family! The classic game of cribbage helps children learn the new common core math.
The crib board comes with 6 metal pegs that can be stored inside the board on the side.
Made from hardwood.
Click here to add a deck of playing cards from Parks Canada to your order so you will be ready to play!
Appropriate for children aged 8 and up.
Caution: Item contains small parts and may present a choking hazard. Not suitable for children under age 3.
Dimensions approximately 35cm x 12cm x 2cm
Made by The Toy Maker of Lunenburg in Hatchet Lake, Nova Scotia.
$29.99
A unicorn hand puppet! Have some fun with the little ones and watch their imaginations run wild. Stage your own theatrical production, teach them manners, or read them to sleep with these adorable wool puppets.
Every single puppet is completely one of a kind, made with reclaimed wool unlike the colours and textures used for the next puppet.
Size: 12" height (30.5 cm)
Made by Cate & Levi in Toronto, Ontario.
$12.99
This simple, sturdy toy echoes the classic design of the Astin Martin, smooth with plenty of speed. We’re pretty sure that James Bond would have one of these on his desk!
Ready for your imagination and perfect for little ones who are just starting to play with rolling toys. Perfect for your Formula 1 (F1) loving crew too!
Made from natural wood - maple or pine - with no paint, stains or toxic finish, there's no problem if it also occasionally becomes a wooden chew toy.
Built to last, the durable and solid design of this wooden car means it is ready for years of play.
Appropriate for children aged 3 and up
Dimensions approximately 5.5" L x 2.75" W x 2.5" H
Wood may be darker, or lighter, than shown in image.
Made by Thorpe Toys in Waterloo, Ontario.
$29.99
The perfect family activity for when you are stuck inside over winter, family game night or for rainy days at the cottage.
Kurt Swinghammer is a Toronto based artist and musician. His modern take on an iconic subject, The Red Canoe, is an ongoing series of large-scale acrylic paintings that explore receding colour relationships within a repeated composition. He has created animations for Buffy Sainte-Marie and Bruce Cockburn, illustrated a children’s book of Stompin Tom Connor’s songs, composed music for The Nature Of Things, and art directed the Let Your Back Bone Slide video by Maestro Fresh Wes. He has released a dozen albums of his own music and his work is represented in the Permanent Collection of The Canada Council Art Bank.
Piece Count: 504 unique shapes (if 500 is good, 504 is better!)
Finished Size: 42.0 x 59.4 cm (16.5 x 23.4")
Made by TheOccurrence in Merrickville, ON
$29.99
The perfect family activity for when you are stuck inside over winter, family game night or for rainy days at the cottage.
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish. Lesser known fact, between 333 and 322 BC, Aristotle provided the earliest taxonomic classification of fish, describing 117 species. Luckily for us, Emily S. Damstra is a living Ontario artist and illustrator whose work explores many facets of nature as well as ichthyology. This collage includes some of her Great Lakes watershed fish illustrations, many of which appear in the book "Guide to Great Lakes Fishes" by Gerald R. Smith.
Emily Damstra is a Canadian artist who lives and paints in Guelph, Ontario. Emily finds satisfaction in observing, celebrating, and sharing the details of nature through drawing and painting. Emily's work can be found in many other publications and on coins in Canada and in the USA.
Reproduced in vivid wide-gamut colour, and mounted on genuine Eska board.
Piece Count: 504 unique shapes (if 500 is good, 504 is better!)
Finished Size: 42.0 x 59.4 cm (16.5 x 23.4")
Made by TheOccurrence in Merrickville, ON
$34.99
This two-player game is like a 3D version of Tic-Tac-Toe or 4-in-a-row. Folds down for easy storage and stacking. Made from hardwood.
Appropriate for children aged 8 and up.
Dimensions approximately 19cm x 14cm x 4cm
Directions:
Made by The Toy Maker of Lunenburg in Hatchet Lake, Nova Scotia.
