Why brave airport security, border delays or high-priced activities when there is affordable family fun available right in your own backyard?
Black Creek Pioneer Village is running its second annual March Break Fun at specially reduced prices.The week-long event features hands-on indoor and outdoor activities that gives kids a chance to escape our high-tech world in favour of the kinds of old time fun children would have enjoyed living in an 1860s Ontario village.Activities include a maple syrup festival including all-day pancake breakfast and maple sugar treats, children's games, a chance to attend a one-room school house and lessons in period dancing. Horse-drawn wagon rides are free with admission.Sofia Sharma, a literacy teacher at North York's Shoreham Public School, said students love field trips to the village."We hear 'Wow' a lot when we take the kids to Black Creek. They realize that the things there are seeing are real and that this is how people really lived. That has a lot of impact on the children," she said."The hands-on aspect of Black Creek Pioneer Village is very important to our ESL students. It makes things tangible for them and for all the children. Seeing the differences with how people lived and did things in those days helps them discover new connections with other parts of the world we live in today."Village general manager Marty Brent said the village is pleased to offer families week-long fun."By creating a special week-long program directly geared towards children and reducing admission prices across the board, we feel we're offering a wonderful option for families during the March Break holiday," she said.March Break Fun runs from March 13 to 21 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. During the event, admission will be $10 each for adults, teenagers and seniors and $7 for children aged five to 14. Children four and under get in free. Parking is $6.The village is at 1000 Murray Ross Pkwy. southeast of Steeles Avenue and Jane Street.For more information, visit www.blackcreek.ca/whatson