The Children's Storefront
826 Bloor St W M6G 1L9 Toronto, ON, Canada

Lacing builds fine motor skills and this version explores some basic shapes. You will need paper plates, cardboard or styrofoam trays, pencils, markers and a ruler. For the circle, I traced a round lid. An adult (or closely supervised child) will need a sharp tool to make the holes a knitting needle, sharp pencil or chopstick, for example. A shoelace was pulled from an old shoe for the lacing activity. Apologies I forgot to demonstrate a basic triangle

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Join us Monday morning to talk about introducing solid food #storefrontforever

This is great. It labels all the things we teach our kids when we move from a place of authoritarianism (instinct in this graphic since it’s the socially normalized, adultist way to treat children). And alternatives in line with what we actually want to model. Found at The Gentle Mamma

Italian baby learning to talk.

New rules about kids with runny noses / school https://www.cbc.ca//ontario-covid-children-screening-1.574

Looking through my toy binoculars to learn about the trees in the parkette

Supplies - paper plate of cardboard cut to circle paint, crayons, markers or stickers pipe cleaners

This is a beautiful time of year to LOOK at nature. It is also a great time to practice LISTENING. On a recent hike, I heard insect noises over the wind and followed them until I could see the creatures making the sounds. Spend enough time outside to let your kids be curious about the world and encourage them to explore it with their own senses of seeing, hearing, smelling and touching. (Make sure to remind them NOT to taste anything without asking you first! )#storefrontforever

Preschoolers - Joys and sorrows, trials and triumphs. Tomorrow morning #storefrontforever

This site will help you find out the wait times at various sites Good to book mark it for your future use Https://covidwaits.com/

Nut-free granola bars from our cookbook. Perfect for school or after- school snack. Combine first five ingredients and spread out on a rimmed baking sheet. Toast for 10 minutes in 350F oven. Meanwhile, mix wet ingredients and salt in a small saucepan over medium-low heat for 2-5 minutes. Transfer toasted seed mixture into greased 8 square baking pan. Pour wet ingredients over and mix thoroughly. Press down firmly on bars to form an even layer. Refrigerate until firm (30 minutes or more). Cut into bars.

Getting ready to make nut-free granola bars. Ingredients- Oats, unsweetened coconut flakes, sunflower seeds, flax meal, dried fruit, tahini, unsweetened apple sauce, honey, vanilla extract and salt. Equipment- 8 square pan, rimmed baking sheet, *stovetop and oven *, mixing bowls and cups,saucepan, *oven and stovetop cooking need grownup help!

Baked oatmeal cooked this morning

It’s Orange Shirt Day - a day to honour the children taken from Indigenous families and sent to residential schools. The repercussions of residential schools are ongoing. We are not free until all of us are free. Let’s educate ourselves and our children. When we know better, we do better. https://www.cbc.ca/kidscb/the-feed/what-is-orange-shirt-day #storefrontforever #orangeshirtday #reconciliation