Lindsay Follett



Author Bio:

In 2012, after nearly 2 decades of fundraising for BC universities, Lindsay Follett was ready for a change of pace and came on board as the City Editor of Family Fun Vancouver. For 10 years she, together with her husband and their two sons, explored every possible family-friendly event and found constant enjoyment in sharing their adventures with the Family Fun Vancouver audience. In 2014, Lindsay took on the additional role as our National Sales and Marketing Director. After stepping down as Editor in 2022, she is excited to focus all of her time working with clients to promote their family-friendly events on our network. If you wish to promote your event, venue, program, or product to either our national audience or a city-specific audience, please email Lindsay at lindsay@familyfuncanada.com

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Stream Your Favourite Broadway Shows at Home With a FREE 7-Day Trial

Posted on: March 27, 2020

Chicago? Wicked? Come From Away? There are so many wonderful musicals. And since so many of us are sitting at home, anxiously twiddling our thumbs, why not binge watch your favourite shows from Broadway? If you haven’t seen a Broadway show in a while, you can now get a FREE
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FREE (or Discounted) Coding Websites for Kids

Posted on: March 27, 2020

There are so many terrific resources available to help teach kids skills that are essential to today’s workforce that didn’t exist when we were in school. A big one is coding. All of the coding I’ve learned for running Family Fun Vancouver is self-taught and came via the way of
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Occupy the Kids with the 30 Day LEGO Challenge

Posted on: March 26, 2020

Our house is over run with LEGO. And the only one who complains about that is me. My husband saved his childhood LEGO for his future children. My husband had a LOT of LEGO. And then our boys fell in love with LEGO. They have more kits than we know
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Fred Penner is Taking Requests For His Virtual Concert

Posted on: March 26, 2020

Fred Penner was a musical part of my childhood, just like many other Canadian kids. Now, this gentle giant is doing a virtual concert on March 29, 2020, at 12 pm PST on his Instagram and Facebook pages. He writes, “Dear friends, I feel that this challenging time in our lives is an
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Chris Hadfield – An Expert in Space and Isolation

Posted on: March 26, 2020

The International Space Station is responsible for, literally, out-of-this world research. But, thanks to Chris Hadfield, the ISS became more accessible and fascinating to all of us when he was in charge. He was the first Canadian to be the top commander of the ISS. Recently I read his book
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FREE (Or Discounted) Coding Apps for Kids

Posted on: March 26, 2020

Over my years of running Family Fun Vancouver I’ve taught myself enough coding to fix basic issues but that’s it. For a long while I had enough knowledge to be super dangerous and go in and muck up the entire site. As we are experiencing now, the digital world is
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Boredom BINGO! {With FREE Printable}

Posted on: March 25, 2020

“The days are long, but the years are short,” that’s the saying, right?! Well, the days are really, really long when you’re isolating at home during a pandemic. The days are made even longer still when you have kids telling you how bored they are every 15 minutes. Sure you can
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Visit US National Parks, Virtually Of Course!

Posted on: March 25, 2020

When I was pregnant with our first child, my husband and I went on a whirlwind road trip that saw us visit 11 states in a ridiculously short time frame. While we, inevitably, missed a great many sites we did ensure we visited many National Parks. I was determined to
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Join Harmony Kids Yoga on Facebook Live at 10am Weekdays

Posted on: March 25, 2020

If there was ever a time to breathe slowly and find a sense of calm, life in the midst of COVID-19 is it. Big shout out to Jennie at Harmony Kids Yoga for her daily Facebook Live yoga sessions. My own sons have been very fortunate to have Jenny visit
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Visit the Palace of Versailles For FREE

Posted on: March 24, 2020

Art history lesson anyone? The Palace of Versailles is offering FREE virtual tours of its galleries including the incredible Hall of Mirrors, the Grand Trianon and the royal apartments. This tour is offered in partnership with Google Arts & Culture. The Palace of Versailles, whose origins date back to the
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