Ottawa
March Break Activities in and around Ottawa: A list of Family Activities, Events & Camps from March 10 – 18, 2018
For GTA and Hamilton activities, see March Break in GTA.
For weekend events, including adult events, concerts and live theatre, see
Things to Do this Weekend in Ottawa
Contents
1. Activities & Events
2. Camps
Activities and Events
Sugar bush
Weekends, March 03 to April 8, 2018 | 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
March Break 12th – 16th, 2018 | 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
The Log Farm
670 Cedarview Road, Nepean
$5.31 + HST per person, Children under 1 are free
Godspell
With an eclectic blend of music, the story of Jesus dances across the stage, concluding with a depiction of the familiar Last Supper and Crucifixion. Boasting a score with chart topping songs by Wicked composer and three-time Grammy and Academy Award winner, Stephen Schwartz, and with a book by visionary playwright John-Michael Tebelak, Godspell is a high energy sensation that has touched audiences around the world for almost five decades. Details
March 8 – 17, 2018
Centrepointe Theatre, 101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa
$25 – $65
Grease
Rydell High, 1959: fast cars, dreams, love, loss, leather jackets, Brylcreem, bobby sox, poodle skirts, pajama parties, rock and roll, burger joints, sock hops, drive-ins, fitting in, busting out, growing up. Greaser Danny Zuko meets good girl Sandy Dumbrowski and teenage sparks fly. But can Danny maintain his cool image and still win the girl? It’s complicated. The whole gang sings and dances around Danny and Sandy’s romance, through such hit songs as “Summer Nights”, “Greased Lightnin'”, and “We Go Together”, recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. Details
March 09 – 18, 2018
Centrepointe Theatre, 101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa
$15.75 – $45.75
Magie lente
Nathalie Derome’s father is a potter, and she grew up in a house where making a mess was synonymous with learning. In Magie lente, she patiently reconstructs a piece of her childhood to share with the audience, along with some songs and poems. Details
March 10 & 11, 2018 | 11:00 AM & 03:00 PM
National Arts Centre – 1 Elgin, Ottawa
$15
Ottawa Jam: Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Event
Get your digits and neurons moving with this hands-on coding event! Discover projects created by local tinkerers with Raspberry Pi microcomputers. Make your own digital game using simple coding programs and increase your digital skills by exploring the full potential of this small, nifty device. Details
March 10, 2018 | 9:30 AM. – 4:00 PM
Canada Science and Technology Museum, 2421 Lancaster Road, Ottawa
Regular Admission
MOMIX Opus Cactus
Celebrating the wonders and beauty of the American southwest, Moses Pendleton’s spectacular Opus Cactus is a gorgeously coloured, richly inventive work of dance fantasy. Graceful and athletic, the dancers dazzle us with their technique, versatility and artistry, as they morph effortlessly before our eyes into luminous, exotic, many-limbed creatures of the desert, soaring outlandish birds, and skittering insect collectives. With music from the Swingle Sisters to Brian Eno as a backdrop, this kaleidoscopic, illusory world beckons us to suspend our disbelief and embrace the wonder. Details
March 12 & 13, 2018 | 08:00 PM
National Arts Centre – 1 Elgin, Ottawa
$53 to 99.50+ charges
Sky-High Magic
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum proudly presents Sky-High Magic.Professor Wick invites you on a tour of his Incredible Magic Factory, where he designs and constructs magical props. As he’ll tell you himself, some of his best ideas come from the pages of books such as Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Pinocchio, and Peter Pan. Pulling some of these classics off the shelf, the professor brings their magic to life as he floats on a magic carpet, steps through a mirror, and even turns a puppet into a real person. These are just a few of the magical adventures in store for audiences when they enter the wonderful world of Professor Wick. Details
Sunday March 11, 2018 | 11:00 AM & 1:00PM
Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa
Free with museum admission
March Break: Out of This World
Visit the Canada Aviation and Space Museum over March Break and learn All About Space! Each day, the museum will focus on a different aspect of basic astronaut training. Learn about flight training, parachute training, and more – with fun, interactive activities. Watch daily demonstrations of Shaping the Future in Space, or take part in self-guided craft activities. Activities will be available for children of all ages. Details
March 03, 2018 – March 18, 2018 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa
Free with museum admission
Barnyard Break
Join us at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum as we celebrate all things spring during our annual Barnyard Break! In addition to our various animal and kitchen demonstrations, join us for special features such as maple taffy on the snow. Young visitors can participate in the children’s story time and get creative with a craft. Details
March 03 to 18, 2018 | 9:30 AM. – 4:00 PM
Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, 861 Prince of Wales Drive in Ottawa
Regular Admission
March Break at the Canada Science and Technology Museum
The all-new Canada Science and Technology Museum provides a highly digital experience for the whole family – igniting visitors with a passion for science and inspiring the next generation of Canadian innovators. Celebrate Canada’s rich history of scientific and technological achievements by exploring Ottawa’s brand-new, state-of-the-art museum! From old favourites – like the cherished locomotives and the Crazy Kitchen – to modern exhibitions and creative, interactive experiences like the ZOOOM – Children’s Innovation Zone and the Exploratek maker studio, the museum offers something for all ages. Details
March 03 to 18, 2018 | 9:00 AM. – 5:00 PM
Canada Science and Technology Museum, 2421 Lancaster Road, Ottawa
Regular Admission
March Break at Canadian Museum of History
See the DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition features over 350 items including rare and never-before-seen concept drawings, models and original artworks, interviews and interactive displays from DreamWorks much-loved and favourite animated classics..
Learn fun circus skills, make your own juggling balls, walk with stilts, and create a modelling clay character during March Break activities inspired by the film Madagascar 3.
Join for engaging, hands-on creative play led by volunteer interpreters, sparking children’s imaginations through dress-up, role play and storytelling inspired by DreamWorks animation.
Make your own colourful Viking shield — inspired by Hiccup from How To Train Your Dragon — and take it with you for protection on your adventures.
Try on different types of clothing to see how garments worn on the lost Franklin Expedition measured up to traditional Inuit kamiks.old and feel a replica of a European-style leather shoe from the exhibition Death in the Ice – The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition and think about how far you would get on snow and ice wearing similar footwear. Step into an underwater archaeologist’s shoes to find artifacts from the long-lost Franklin Expedition, and learn how to search for evidence beneath the waves.
March 10 – 18, 2018 | 10:00 AM – 04:00 PM
Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa
Free with Museum Admission
March break at the Museum
Enter a world of brilliant butterflies. Experience a warm, relaxing, tropical environment with flowering plants and hundreds of live butterflies during the special exhibition: Butterflies in Flight. Follow the epic, true story of 19th-century explorer and naturalist Henry Bates’ fascinating 11-year journey through the Amazon through the movie Amazon Adventure 3D and join for other fun nature themed activities. Details
March 10 – 18, 2018 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa
museum/movie admission
March Break Sugar Bush Magic
Pack up the kids; bring their friends too! Come explore the trails, treat the kids to a taffy stick, enjoy a sleigh ride, hike the trails and grab another taffy for the ride home! Details
March 10 – 18, 2018 | 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Fulton’s Pancake House & Sugar Bush
399 Sugar Bush Road, Pakenham
Free Admission; Horse Drawn Sleigh or Wagon Rides: $3, food: varies.
March Break Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm
Tuesday March 13th through Friday March 16th | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays | February 24 to April 8 2018 | 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Easter Egg Hunt | Saturday March 17& Sunday March 18th
Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm
2452 York’s Corners Rd, Edwards
Free Admission
Taffy on the Snow Tickets – $3.00 incl HST each
Sleigh Ride Tickets – $4.75 incl HST each
Easter Egg Hunt:Adults: $5.25 + HST
Children: $7.50+ HST
Maple Fest
Go on guided tour on the collection and production of maple syrup, Enjoy Play parks, giant slide, double slide, and play structures, Petting farm, touch, feed, learn, Sugar bush, Maple production shack, Farm boutique (maple, honey, and homemade jams), Sleigh ride from the farm to the sugar bush and back Details
Maple Fest: February 25 to April 5, 2108
March Break : 9:00 AM -4:00 PM
Weekends until 05:00 PM
Proulx Maple & Berry Farm
1865 O’Toole Rd. , Cumberland
$5/person + tax (for ages 37 months and older, kids under 3 are free).
Food/Maple Taffy: Extra
March Break at the Library
From Lego Block Party to making puppets, there is plenty to see and do at the library. Details
March 10 – 18, 2018 | Various Hours
Various Ottawa Public Library Branches
Free
Science Workshops
Round up your kids or grand kids and become scientists with Scientists in School and Lee Valley Tools! Details
“Winter is for the Birds”: Thursday, March 15 | 9:15 AM to 10:45 AM
“The Bees Knees”: Thursday, March 15 | 11:15 AM. to 12:45 PM
“And the Band Played On”: Thursday, March 15 | 1:15 AM. to 2:45 PM
“Magnetic Amazement”: Thursday, March 15 | 3:45 AM. to 5:15 PM
Lee Valley Tools, 900 Morrison Dr, Ottawa
$30 for Children, free for Adult supervisor (“lab assistants”)
Family Movies
Cineplex Family Favourites March Break Movies:
Movies:
Wonder, The Boss Baby, Ferdinand, Despicable Me 3 – Details
March 12 to March 16, 2018 | All 4 films are shown each day of the week with staggered start times – 11, 11:15, 11:30, and finally 11:45.
Cineplex theatres
$2.99
Landmark Cinemas March Break Deals – Here
March Break Headquarters
Visit Chapters/ Indigo Stores for free activities.
Arts & Crafts Day: Join us as we create crafty characters with Klutz® and discover your inner artist with ORB hi.def creation system™ – the future of colouring!
Monday March 12 | 11 AM
Unplug and Play: It’s on! Bring the whole family in and test your skills with Hasbro Games. Plus, get ready to pop the lid off your imagination with Play-Doh. Ages 3+
Tuesday March 13 at 11 AM
Lego – What Will You Build?: Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the LEGO Brick and play the Wheel of Creativity! Use your imagination to build a LEGO model & take home your very own deck of Building Cards, available only at Indigo! Ages 3+
Wednesday March 14 at 11 AM
Design & Create: Create an ooniverse with the Oonies Inflator! Plus, let your imagination soar with a fold & fly activity from Usborne, the perfect take home! Create an ooniverse with the Oonies Inflator! Plus, let your imagination soar with a fold & fly activity from Usborne, the perfect take home!
Thursday March 15 at 11 AM
Paw Patrol – Adventure Beach: Trouble is on the horizon! Help us save the day by jumping aboard the PAW Patrol Sub Patroller! Plus make your own Sea Patrol craft! Ages 3–6
Friday March 16 at 11 AM
Free
Funhaven March Break
With over 40,000 square feet of laugh-out-loud fun, Funhaven is Ottawa’s destination for March Break. With a world-class Laser Tag Arena, the latest high-tech Mini Bowling Lanes, Video and Prize Games, Simulators, crazy fun Bumper Cars, Mission Impossible style Laser Frenzy and a jungle gym with built-in Ballocity cannons….. there’s no break from FUN at Funhaven! Details
March Break Weekday | 9AM to 10PM
Funhaven Entertainment Centre
1050 Baxter Road, Ottawa
Various Packages: $24.99 & up
Activities at local Stores
March Break at Toy’s R US: Monday – Friday | 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Visit your local Toys”R”Us store Monday through Friday of your March Break for play time fun with Crayola, Hasbro, Mattel, SpinMaster, and more! Activities offered from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. only. Enjoy daily giveaways from CakePop Cuties and Poopeez! One per child. Limited quantities available daily. While they last!
Home Depot offers free classes/workshops for kids to build things using a hammer & glue like bookends, planters and more.
Activities are free. Contact your local store. All activities will NOT show up on the website and is store dependent.
Michaels also offers art workshops for kids for a nominal fee.
II. March Break Camps & Workshops
March Break Style Camp
In our 5 day March Break Style Camp you will learn the basics and beyond of self-image and modeling techniques. This confidence boosting program will teach you about skin care, nail care, make-up, hairstyling, acting, DIY’s, poise and posture, nutrition, and trend knowledge you can apply everyday. Our March Break Style Camp is taught by a Top International Model and is designed for girls ages 10-17. The camp includes course material, a professional photoshoot and your own fashion show! Details
Monday March 12 – Friday March 16th 9-4 each day.
359 Bank Street, Suite 201, Ottawa
$425 + hst, include lunch and snacks.
March Break Camp “Build a Star”
Become a POP STAR for a week! Make this March Break the best ever with Singing Lessons, Dance Choreography, and Making Your Own Music Video at Sing House Studios in Orléans!! Details
March 12 – March 16 2018
3-200 Vanguard Drive, Ottawa
full and 1/2 day options available. Week – $295 + hst/week
SUPER 8MM FILMMAKING KIDS’ CAMP
Is your child between the age of 10 and 14? Do they enjoy watching movies, telling stories or performing for others? Does your child show an interest in filmmaking? the sign them up for IFCO’s filmmaking Camp! Details
March 12 – 16, 2018 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
140 – 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa
$350.00
Few More March Break camp options.
- Altitude Spring Break Camp
- Spring Break camps @ Camp Fortune
- March Break Spy Camp @ Diefenbunker
- March Break full-day art camp for Kids @ Osgoode Township Museum
- Reptile Camp @ Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo
- 5 Day March Break Program @ Mount Pakenham
- Carleton University Ravens’ March Break Camp
- March Break @ FutureKids
- March Break indoor camps by Ottawa Catholic School Board
- March Break [email protected] Arts Express
- March Break Drama Camps @ Ottawa Little Theatre
- March Break Multi-Sports Camp by Capital Camps
- March Break Camps @ Shenkman Arts Centre
- March Break Camp @ Spring Action Trampoline
- March break camps – City of Ottawa
- University of Ottawa’s Outreach Programs – March Break Camp
- Nepean Visual Arts Centre March Break Arts Camp
- March Break Camps @ Ottawa School of Art
- Amazing Pro+Sports March Break – Pro+ Sports Multisports Camp @ Ashbury College
- Westboro Academy – March Break Camp
- March Break Camps @ Calabogie Peaks Resort
- March Break Camps @ Pawsitively Pets
- Ollson’s Sports Group‘s March Break Hockey Clinics
- March Break Camp – Starr Gymnastics & Fitness
- Basketball Day Camps – Above the Rim Basketball School
- Dovercourt’s March Break Camps
- OCDSB/OCSB March Break Camp @ Soloway JCC
- March Break Camp – Jack Purcell Recreation Association
- Sensplex – March Break Camp
- March Break Skateboard Camp – ondeck Skateboard Shop
- Ottawa Gymnastics Centre – March Break Camp
- Super 8 Filmmaking Kids March Break Camp by Ottawa Arts Council
- National Kids camp – March Break Camps
- Maverick Volleyball – March Break Camps
- SNMC March break Camp
- March Break Horse Riding Day Camp @ Queenswood Stables, Navan
- March Break Nature Camp for ages 7 – 12
- March break camp [email protected] Bishop Hamilton Montessori School
- Next Generation Hockey March Break Camp
- March Break Camp @ Kids Fitness League
- March Break [email protected] Ottawa Rhythmic Gymnastics Club
- March Break Camp @ Olympia Gymnastics
- Soong Badminton Academy‘s March Break Camp
- Y Neighbourhood Day Camps
- March Break Dance Camps @ KV Dance Studio
- Tracy’s Art Studio March Break Art Camp
- Tiny Hoppers March Camp
- March Break Camps @ A Gym Tale
- Hockey Camps
- Canterbury Community March Break Camp
- Scouts Canada March Break Camp
- March Break Pro Skill Development Camp @ Apex Skating
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