Pickering Indoor Activities

Walking the plank is one of the scariest things you can do as a buccaneer, but not at Mega Fun 4 Kids. On its pirate-ship play structure, the plank is a slide kids can zoom down while their fellow playmates pretend to steer the vessel. Elsewhere in the 2,800-square-foot indoor playground, youngsters aged 8 and younger cook meals in the play kitchen, play dress-up in the costume corner, and ride a mini rollercoaster. Along with daily playtime, Mega Fun 4 Kids hosts frequent events, including family nights with movies and pizza and visits from kids’ celebrated characters such as Tigger and the third guy who voiced Piglet. For birthdays, staff party consultants plan soirees that delight kids with private time on the playground and can include extras such as jumping castles or screening of a favourite movie.

In 2006, local Richmond Hill pin proprietors Marty and Russ took over Richmond Hill Pro Bowl's 32 lanes, renovating a few years later to trade an older lime-green scheme for more contemporary furniture and patterned lobby carpeting. As serious bowlers vie for supremacy on glossy 10-pin lanes and eight 5-pin lanes, bumpers allow kids to feel similar pin-toppling satisfaction. Select evenings bring cosmic bowling's glowing mixture of live DJ music and intergalactic atmospheres with blacklights. Marty and Russ add merriment to birthday parties inside a private room with packages including pizza and hot dogs, celebratory bowling, and ball returns that emit frosted cakes.

Praised by the Toronto Star as “one of the world’s top period-performance orchestras,” the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra dazzles music fans with an aural kaleidoscope of euphony. Based out of Toronto's imposingly grand Trinity-St. Paul's United Church, the group comprises a choir of angel-voiced singers and a virtuosic chamber orchestra that are dedicated to authentic period performance. An intense commitment to accuracy leads the musicians to adopt centuries-old performance techniques, such as playing only instruments styled after 18th century versions.

Lou and Marianne Fenninger founded Art Source in 1978 in a 200-square-foot basement. When demand for the couple's poster prints exploded, they soon expanded their products and services. Within a few years they'd outgrown the basement, and moved into the 6,000-square-foot showroom they occupy today.

Nowadays, Art Source reaches every corner of the globe, distributing art for both retail and wholesale clients as far-flung as Europe, Japan, and New Zealand. The shop helps customers find perfect pieces for complementing their room decor and covering up unsightly fire extinguisher cases with 10,000 stock images of classic, modern, local, and international art, as well as an original art design service, all available for custom printing. Additionally, Art Source's staff help patrons preserve cherished pieces with custom framing services that can wrap works of any size in a carefully designed and assembled border.

Glowing monkeys scamper toward a neon waterfall, and a knight bearing a radiant yellow lance rides past a bright orange octopus emerging from the ocean. What appears to be a time-traveling session gone awry is really the evolving environment within Putting Edge’s indoor black-lit mini-golf course, which whisks players to deep seas, Aztec jungles, and medieval times. Since opening its original location in Canada, Putting Edge has now expanded to 17 North American locations, all of which invite guests onto its challenging 18-hole courses to seek victory over opponents and the forces that keep their teeth from not glowing as brightly as they could. Elsewhere, the facility houses private party rooms, concessions, and an arcade filled with gamer favorites such as air hockey.

When Toronto native Thomas F. Ryan invented five-pin bowling in 1909, it caught on so quickly that soon Canadian geese began travelling in flying V formations to show their support for both the sport and the newly discovered concept of aerodynamics. And today, at Parkway Bowl, visitors can enjoy the game however they please, lacing up shoes on one of the 20 five-pin lanes or four hybrid lanes that toggle between five- and tenpin setups. Bowlers can also add bumpers to compensate for poor aim or attend glow-in-the-dark bowling sessions to compensate for poor outfit choices.