Toronto Botanical Garden

Spend the day wandering through 17 themed gardens including formal terraces and courtyards, creative carpet beds, a kitchen and herb garden with a bee hotel, a knot garden, pollinator garden, and a woodland walk and bird habitat. Other features include Toronto’s first straw bale shed with its growing green roof.

Children learn about nature and gardening through hands-on activities in the Teaching Garden. There are actually a series of demonstration gardens here, and the path is marked with dinosaur foot prints. Kids plant, cultivate and sow vegetables, which are donated to the North York Harvest Food Bank when they are harvested. Unique features include the stegosaurus in the Dinosaur Garden and the giant butterfly sundial in the Spiral Butterfly Garden.

Toddler Programs

TBG offers programs for children as young as six months. Come to the Weston Family Library for Library Story Time for nature stories and songs. Sprout Club is a program for tots (18 months to 3 years) and their caregivers with activities such as songs, crafts, puzzles and more.

Day Camps

Summer Day Camps for kids aged 3 to 10 gives them a chance to reconnect with nature in the Teaching Garden and the Wilket Creek ravine. There are several nature related themed camps, including Garden Art, Garden Art, Animal Camp, X-Treme Plants, Bug-o-logy, and Wild in the City.

March Break Nature Camps, for ages 4 to 10 involve interactive, educational and engaging activities in TBG’s nature-themed classroom, expansive garden and nearby ravine.

Family Events

Weekend programs are offered throughout the year for the entire family to connect with nature including a Garden Sleepover, Halloween Howl, Harvest Day and Earth Day.

Birthday Parties

Celebrate your child’s birthday this year with a garden party. Party goers will explore, harvest and water plants in the Teaching Garden. They will also play a game of Pollination Relay outside and create nature-based art to take home. They’ll provide the space, materials for crafts and activities and staff time. You provide the food and snacks.

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