Kids Activities in Vaughan

Putting Edge provides a phosphorescent indoor mini-golf course that is fun for all ages. The 18-hole course features challenging twists and turns amid a glowing battleground seemingly created by a doodle-crazed ogre with a highlighter and artistic vision. Upbeat music adds to the fun as you expertly navigate your way through the incandescent irrigation routes and prove to your date that your putting skills are untouchable, like the bottom of Lake Ontario or Celine Dion's hair.

Nuf House provides year-round fun for tykes between the ages of 2 and 12, with an indoor playground, costumes for dress up, prop swords, and arts and crafts. They host themed parties in their venue, from classic princess parties to knight tournaments and cooking classes. For the youngest kids, they provide daycare throughout the year, giving them a safe, supervised space to play, learn, and explore their creativity.

The indoor playground at Jiggles and Giggles features a range of fun equipment. There are inflatable bounce castles, seesaws, and a jungle gym with slides—to mention just a few of the facility's offerings. Parents can keep an eye on kiddies from the comfort of an onsite cafe.

Balls rumble down World Bowl’s 40 polished lanes as the glowing lights of video projection screens glint off determined bowlers’ eyes. Seated beside their chosen lane, bowlers can lace up their shoes, listen for the echoes of crashing pins, and refer to a computerized scoring system that keeps track of every strike, spare, and wandering turkey. Between games, roll over to World Bowl's fully licensed snack barwhere servers refill empty stomachs and hollow bowling balls with pizza and drinks such as draft beer, cocktails, and wine. Bowlers can also opt to check out disco bowling on Friday and Saturday nights for alley antics paired with hip-shaking tunes or sharpen their hand-eye coordination through button-smashing melees or foosball matches in the arcade.

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Reflecting on this childhood, Chris Keating sometimes feels as if he didn't exist. His parents' divorce left him with very little tangible evidence of his formative years, so he's spent his adult life as a photographer making sure children can look back fondly at warm family memories. Chris Keating and his Calgary staff have made this a reality for more than 3,000 families since opening the doors to Towne Photography in 2006. There, the professional photographic crew shoots posed and candid shots of families, children, couples, and babies at picturesque parks or against their studio backdrops, and they also snap triumphant graduate portraits, intimate prenatal shots, and provocative passport pics that make border crossing a breeze. Their ironclad guarantee allows unsatisfied clients to request reshoots, reprints, or resizing on all photographs, and they vow to remake or recapture any artwork that sustains damage over the years. Chris also takes his photographic knowledge on the road to conduct Betterphoto Workshops across the United States and Canada, teaching novice photographers how to artistically preserve their most precious memories.

When George Gardiner began collecting ceramics in 1976, he was only interested in decorating his home. But soon his passion for pottery and porcelain grew, and, rather than build a second home entirely from teapots, he co-founded the Gardiner Museum in 1984 with his wife, Helen. Today, the museum's collection has ballooned to include more than 3,000 pieces, encompassing everything from Japanese sake pots and Canadian ceramic sculptures to Italian Renaissance maiolica plates.

Objects from the core collection share space in the museum with special exhibitions. One of these is the annual 12 Trees of Christmas, a display of holiday trees. The museum supplements its showings with events such as lectures and ceramics-inspired meals, as well as clay classes for budding adult and child ceramicists. Visitors can even take home pieces from the Gardiner Shop, which sells Canadian ceramics, as well as international jewelry, scarves, and glasswork.