I normally love spring break. I love the freedom from schedules and I just like to play. Things aren’t quite the same this year, of course, but we’ll make the best of it! We’re looking for family-friendly fun you can enjoy with your kids during spring break, even if some of it might have to be online. The CBE spring break is from March 26 – April 5, 2021, bumping into Easter. (The CSSD break is from April 2 – 11, 2021, and we’ll include whatever fun we find for that week, too.) You never know what spring can hold in Calgary, but whatever it is, we can enjoy the break!
Easter-Themed Online Art Class
Join the Easter eggsperts for an Easter holiday-themed art class! During the class, Andrea and Desiree from We Did It! will be teaching kids how to draw some eggcellent portraits while sketching and colouring some of their favourite elements of Easter!
Read more about it here.
Green Fools Theatre Workshops
Green Fools Theatre has a ton of fun (and free) virtual workshops for kids through the month of March 2021. Kids can learn all kinds of circus and theatre skills, like mime, juggling, physical comedy, and makeup. Take a look and add some laughter to your day.
Read more about it here.
Easter Eggstravaganza at Calgary Zoo
Hop your little bunnies down to the zoo for the 2021 Easter Eggstravaganza! The family-friendly fun is designed to help you say ‘goodbye’ to winter and ‘hello’ to the warmer weather. This year, the zoo is spreading the fun over 4 days, from April 2 – 5, 2021, to ensure this is a safe and physically-distanced experience for visitors to enjoy. Read more about it here.
Easter Crafts and Activities
Looking for Easter fun at home? Our Family Fun Edmonton site has this great article on alternative egg decorating, simple crafts, and fun games. Keep reading, be inspired, and celebrate a wonderful Easter, despite everything!
Read more about it here.
Bridgeland Arctic Adventure
Until March 31, head to Bridgeland for an Arctic Adventure! It’s an adventure course and scavenger hunt, designed to get you outside, safely enjoying winter. The 7.5 km adventure course could take you more than 2 hours to complete, but you can do as much or as little as you like. It’s a choose your own adventure experience with an icefield traverse, a snow beach, and human curling. Read more about it here.
Credit: Parks Foundation Calgary
Embrace the Outdoors
Or, find other ways to Embrace the Outdoors! As winter slows down here, the Parks Foundation Calgary and the City of Calgary have partnered to bring you Embrace the Outdoors, with some unique options beyond the sledding hill or the skating rink.
Read more about it here.
Inglewood Nature Break
Take a Nature Break at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary and explore the outdoors with free, drop-in programming! From March 29 – April 1, 2021, your family cohort can come anytime between 11 am and 3 pm to learn more about the natural and cultural history of Calgary. You can explore a 1 km walking loop with nature stations and fun activities and games.
Read more about it here.
Heritage Park Ghost Tours
This event is only for adults and teens 16 and up, but Heritage Park Ghost Tours are back. Hear the stories of ghostly encounters all throughout the Park; from one of the oldest buildings in the city to one of the most notorious for being haunted.
Read more about it here.
Board & Card Games
Spring break is a great time to break out the games! It truly would be too big of a task to share with you all of the great, family-friendly games out there today . . . because it is plentiful and exhaustive. Find some personal favourites from the Family Fun Toronto editor.
Read more about it here.
Boredom Bingo
Nothing to do during spring break? Enter, Boredom BINGO! An easy-to-see, easy-to-use system for managing kids’ boredom independently. (It’s worth a try, anyway.) You as the parent get to decide what their reward will be for getting a BINGO on their sheet, so it is customizable to your family.
Read more about it here.
Start Your Own Home Garden
Spring has sprung! Celebrate the start of the new season and keep the kids busy by planting your own home garden – March and April are the perfect months to start your indoor seedlings. If you’ve never had much of a green thumb, now is the time to bring the great outdoors inside with seedlings, succulents, and house plants.
Read more about it here.
Have a wonderful spring break, Calgary!
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