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Splash Island – Toronto Zoo
Visiting Toronto with your toddler? Here is a list of attractions that are fun for you and your big bundle of joy.Things to do in Toronto with Toddlers
A short list of events and tours (like Sesame Street/Paw Patrol) for toddlers are listed at the end of the article.
1. Toronto Zoo
Enjoy a visit to the largest zoo in Canada and 3rd largest zoo in the world. With over 5000 animals, from white lions to polar bears to sea horses, Toronto zoo is sure to enthral you and the little one. There are camel rides, zoo carousels, Discovery Zone featuring the Kids Zoo, Splash Island: an exciting two-acre water play area, Safari Vehicles to climb on, and many interactive experiences designed for little kids. Website
Child (3 – 12): $19.00/ $14.00; Child (2-): Free.
2. Toronto Islands
Take a ferry ride to Toronto’s family fun summer destination.
The island features a myriad of delightful activities from feeding birds to a pettting Zoo at Far Enough Farm, splash pads, beach, a children’s garden inspired by Franklin the Turtle, Centerville Amusement Park featuring train rides and few free infant rides (with paying adult).
3. Pirate Life
Join the scurvy crew and live the Pirate Life: Adventure, Theatre and Cruise. An interactive adventure, become a buccaneer with costumes, face paint and a pirate alias! Learn the ropes of the Pirate Life through storytelling and activities, witness a round of fisticuffs and sword fight, fire the cannons and send a scallywag off the plank! If yer lucky maties, ye’ll find treasure too! Details
July August: 7 days a week.
4. Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada
Ripley’s Aquarium will open up the world of ‘fishies’ for your toddler. With over 16,000 marine animals to see and 6 play zones to jump in, a visit to the aquarium will reveal colourful life in the waters around us. There is an interactive touch pool to feel the backs of friendly rays, and crawl tunnels underneath aquarium tanks where you can peak into the fish tank to make the visit more fun!
5. Toronto Railway Museum
Go for half a kilometer miniature Chugga! Chugga! Choo! Choo! ride located in the park across Ripley’s Aquarium. Details
July – August | Wednesday – Sunday | 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
6. High Park
High Park has something for every member for the family and for your toddler there is a Children’s Garden, High Park Zoo with lots of animals including bison, llamas, and peacocks, Trackless Train, and a castle of a playground – Jamie Bell Playground. The park is home to many species of wildlife, including birds, fish and animals. Details
7. Toronto Beaches
Toronto is home to some of the great beaches in Canada including 8 Blue Flag certified beaches. Build sandcastles, and splash around in the waters of Lake Ontario. Beaches
Hot Zone, Ontario Science Centre
8. Ontario Science Centre
Ontario Science Centre has great activities to kindle curiosity in toddlers. Learn about the diamonds in the sky and connect the dots with star constellations. Go a trip to journey to the Moon, blow giant bubbles and jump in and have fun at JiggiJump: The World’s Greatest Jumping Machine.
770 Don Mills Road, Toronto
Infant (2& under): Free
9. Royal Ontario Museum
Inspire your child’s imagination and sense of discovery with a visit to Royal Ontario Museum. Explore Schad Gallery which displays an extensive collection of animal life and mounted birds. Dig for dinosaur bones and try on costumes at CIBC Discovery Gallery. There are touchable artifacts and specimens like a touchable shark jaw, snake skin at Patrick and Barbara Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on Biodiversity. Website.
Infant (0-3): Free
10. York-Durham Heritage Railway
Have a blast riding York-Durham Heritage Railway. The train ride features face painting, a clown on board who makes balloon animals for each child, and musicians for the kids to sing along. There are theme rides like Teddy Bear Ride where a child with plush animals ride the train for $1, Halloween Train Rides, Ice cream Day trips, and Santa’s Train: Enjoy a visit from Santa during December as the heritage train travels Oak Ridges Moraine from Uxbridge to Stouffville.
11. African Lion Safari
Let your toddler enjoy an ‘African’ safari and see over 100 different species of animals in the comfort of your own car. There are animal and bird demonstrations, elephant rides and a petting Zoo. Details
Children (3-12): $27.95; 2-: Free
Also See:
In addition to above mentioned places, there are plenty of play centres, trampoline parks, and other fun attractions you can visit with your toddler. See Indoor Family Parks in Toronto for more details.
Cool off at splash pads in Toronto – See here. Visit Kidstown – Water Park with your toddler, only waterpark operated by City of Toronto.
Visit farm animals and enjoy fun farm activities – Farms to visit in GTA
In days leading upto christmas, attend a Santa Claus Parade in GTA.
Explore zoos around GTA: Zoos & Petting Zoos in GTA
Upcoming Events for Toddlers:
Woodbridge Fair Grounds, 100 Porter Ave, Woodbridge
May 3, 2024 To May 5, 2024
$25 to $52
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40 Brock Street, Stayner
May 4, 2024
$5
Watch out for the ducks! The Stayner Kinsmen launch their annual Duck Race at Kinsmen Park in Stayner. Featuring 2000 rubber ducks and 200 corporate decorated ducks, the Kinsmen ... »
Centreville Amusement Park, Toronto Islands
May 4, 2024 To May 26, 2024
4162342345
Free Admission/Rides Ticketed
With more than 30 rides and attractions and 14 mouth-watering food outlets, Centre Island’s iconic Centreville Amusement Park is the ultimate summer destination for families with young children! »
Various Venues, Toronto
May 9, 2024 To June 9, 2024
$10 - $20
Children across Toronto and beyond will experience a sparkling stream of theatre, music, dance, puppetry, and performance from around the world in a programme that promises to ... »
Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St E. Toronto
May 10, 2024 To May 12, 2024
$10 - $20
Rising, reaching, longing, and learning – taking risks to go beyond and discovering both thresholds and possibilities. A metaphor for growing up- Up! Is a captivating vocal and ... »
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Toronto is truly a pit.
I can’t imagine a worse Idea then having young kids walk the woods of downsview park. It’s the most shady part of Toronto and has so many murders, rapes and other problems.
Watch Blippy on YouTube. Canada and Toronto has absolutely not even 10% of the places to go visit. It’s beyond sad that a list of of 10 things Includes 7 requiring summer…
“Toronto Zoo splash pad”? Has been closed for awhile… Might as well say chucker cheese and playdium.
@Nicole modern zoos and aquariums have become places that take care to not abuse the animals there. Enough alarm has been raised over the years that those institutions have changed. I can’t speak for safaris, and do not condone the hunting of endangered animals or those coined as exotic, but these different things have stark differences in their purposes. In fact, you can look up how zoos and aquariums are conducting or funding research to help people better understand how to care for, conserve, and rehabilitate members of different species, especially endangered ones. Zoos have come a long way from the days of abhorrent sideshow cages, which were animal abuse and terrible. Zoo enclosures today look so different even outside of their far larger size, and the staff at zoos do not poke and prod and endanger the animals within to get a reaction when attendees walk past. Whether or not a Zoo is mistreating their animals should be judged on a case by case basis, where one can determine if the management and staff are prioritizing the health and needs of the animals there in their infrastructure, behaviour, and policies or not. There are ways to run a zoo or aquarium that are unethical. I do not believe that is the case in todays zoos by-and-large, and would encourage talking to the people at zoos whos job it is to study and care for the animals there. Often you find people who know these animals both by their species, and also as individuals the way I know my dogs names, and they can talk about how they probably hate animal exploitation too, why they choose to work for an aquarium, and the pros and cons of them as institutions. If it turns out one zoo in particular has terrible practices, then that info should be spread far and wide. I only ask to not write off these places as a whole just because of stereotypes, when there is a lot of good they do behind the scenes, and a lot to investigate before passing judgement.
Saddened, horrified and quite frankly shocked by the complete lack of respect for animals in this article. Why on earth in 2019 in a country that considers itself progressive and a nation of self-proclaimed animal lovers are you promoting places that deliberately exploit animals for profit? I am outraged that we are not only bringing children to these horrible places but by doing so we are reinforcing that it is ok to use someone’s body against their will for human entertainment and profit. Places like the zoo, aquariums, marine parks and the safari are outdated and barbaric places that have no place in a world that is evolving and growing more and more outraged by the use and exploitation of animals by enslaving them. It’s time to reject speciesism and boycott this violence and actively speak out against it. Very disappointed that this exists.
Yaarrgh mates looks like lots to do in the city!
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