Holiday Gift Guide

As the end of the year approaches and the holiday season is around the corner, we put together a list of items that would make wonderful gifts for family and friends! Take a look at the list for unique gift ideas from memories, games, books to toys. Enter the giveaways below to have the gifts delivered before the holidays!

Make memories at Stratford, Ontario

Explore the beauty of winter in Stratford. This quaint town is couple of hours from Toronto and would make for a perfect day trip! 

The unique Christmas Trail will be enjoyed by those who enjoy travelling and shopping! For $35 (+HST) participants will get to select six gifts from the festive, trendy holiday items from one of the thirty three stops. Purchase the vouchers at either Destination Stratford or Bradshaw. The Christmas Trail ends on December 20th.

Enjoy the lights on Stratford Festival from December 16th to January 27th happening every night from 5 to 10 p.m. While there, be sure to enjoy a meal or dessert at one of the many restaurants. 

This trip is a beautiful way to make memories and put everyone in a cheery mood in time for the holidays!

Books from Canadian Authors

Review of books - Revenge of the Raccoons and Beautiful You, Beautiful Me and Giveaway of Nosy Parker from Lesley Crewe.

A song book from Jeremy and Jazzy, Turtle and Guy, a story based in Toronto about coping with the feeling of confusion and discovering how to identify emotions in healthy ways. It is an awesome book with colourful pictures for young children to learn about problem solving. There is a QR code linked to activities children will enjoy. 

Jeremy and Jazzy books comes alive through music. It is all about emotions and making mistakes as Jeremy, Jazzy and the gang embark on dazzling adventures where themes like community, mental health and self assurance are celebrated. The book can be read by itself or as a sing-along with the Jeremy and Jazzy Say Hello album and the Jeremy and Jazzy animated series, which is on CBC Kids and CBC Gem. 

Pre-orders Turtle and Guy: A Jeremy and Jazzy Adventure on Amazon.ca and the books will ship on November 15, 2022. It will be available in retail stores in January 2023. 

Giveaway: 

If you live in Canada enter to win the Turtle and Guy book and the puzzle using the giveaway tool below. This giveaway ends on December 9. Please leave comments and follow my social media networks to be eligible to win.

Update: The winner is Darci

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Educational Games

Blobby's Pizza priced at $22 is an educational game with bright colours to teach children age 9 and up fractions, decimals, and percentages as they engage in strategic pizza eating contest! Children will enjoy accumulating the highest bill and building a whole pizza of the same type using the fraction cards while being strategic to use the monsters to steal pizza from other players' tables. 

Full of Bull priced at $20 is a mental math game that helps kids strengthen analytic skills, social and emotional intelligence, and algebraic thinking. The players have to win bids to get points using two shared dice and two hidden dice to calculate the bids, or use chips or bluffs to increase their bid.

Train set and Giveaway

BRIO Train Set can be built together as a family, and would make a good gift for children over 3 years. This toy encourages STEM learning, fine motor skills, and creativity. It is a beautiful way to add holiday cheer each day by watching the steaming train drive around with realistic steam effects! The battery-powered engine produces safe-to-touch steam as it moves and is easily refilled using the water load. 

This festive train set includes snowy tracks, a north pole train station with a Christmas tree and of course, a Santa Claus character. Buttons on top of the train can be used to move forward and reverse, as well as to activate the front LED lights. Crafted to BRIO standards using high quality plastics and FSC-certified European beech wood.This post will be updated as we approach the holidays with more giveaways and ideas!

Giveaway: 

If you live in Canada enter to win the train set using the giveaway tool below. This giveaway ends on December 9. Please leave comments and follow my social media networks to be eligible to win.

Update: The winner is Kathy

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