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Summer is still lingering and I've already been handed a costume request, a Thanksgiving headcount, and a strong opinion about porch decorations. How’s your week been? 🙃

This week's scoop has a free Saturday program built for autistic kids, a sloth in a yoga studio, and ten thousand carved pumpkins lighting up Milton. Plus the salmon are jumping, and three spots to watch them near the bottom.

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📍 Burlington 3390 South Service Rd · SAT Sep 26 · 10:30 AM to 12 PM or 1:30 to 3 PM · 💰 Free

Built for autistic children and youth and their families by a 25-year Ontario educator. Hands-on art, movement breaks and story connections, guided or free-choice, with visuals for choosing. Register by THU Sep 24. → Register

📍 Burlington Yoga-Tastic 4 Kids, 3061 Walkers Line · FRI Sep 18 · 6:30 to 7:30 PM · 💰 $45 per person

Suspension yoga in the studio with Hands On Exotics animals moving through: a sloth, a sugar glider, an owl, a kinkajou, a macaw, depending on who is available. Kids, teens and adults, under 7 book with an adult. Register ahead, spaces are limited. → Register

📍 Milton Country Heritage Park, 8560 Tremaine Rd · opens SAT Sep 26, then nightly to Oct 31 · 💰 from $15.95, timed entry

A walk-through of more than ten thousand hand-carved jack-o'-lanterns. Time-slotted tickets cap how many people are on the path at once. Stroller and wheelchair friendly, Access 2 pass accepted, free parking. Weeknights are the quiet ones. → Tickets

Exclusive offers for our community. See full list on our perks page

Fri Sep 18 to Sun Sep 20

📍 Campbellville Mountsberg Conservation Area · SAT Sep 19 · 6:30 to 8:30 PM · 💰 $8 per person plus park admission

A puppet show, real animal artefacts to handle, a craft, then a guided flashlight hike looking for whatever is awake after dark. Bring a flashlight. → Details

📍 Mississauga Meadowlarke Stables South, 2800 Meadowpine Blvd · SUN Sep 20 · tours 11 AM to 3 PM · 💰 $20 per person, pony ride $7

One hour guided around the rescue farm, feeding treats to horses, cows, pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks and turkeys. They ask that visitors stay calm and quiet around the animals, which suits us fine. Book online, no same-day. → Register

📍 Burlington 1333 Lakeshore Rd · SUN Sep 20 · 1 to 4 PM · 💰 Free

Drop-in art making in the gallery studios, materials out on the tables. Runs again SUN Sep 27 and Oct 4 for Culture Days. → Details

📍 Burlington 3430 Fairview St · SAT Sep 19 · from 11 AM · 💰 Free

Tour the learning spaces, meet the instructors, and try a hands-on math or language arts challenge grouped by level. Small groups, so save a spot. → Register

Also on: the Acton Fall Fair FRI to SUN ($15 adult, $10 kids, under 5 free, Kids Pedal Pull SAT 10 AM, the barns are the quiet end), the Royal Duck bounce park at Burlington Centre through Sep 27, and from last week the Asian Heritage Festival SAT and British Car Day SUN.

Mon Sep 21 to Sun Sep 27

📍 Oakville 2431 Dundas St W · SAT Sep 26 · 11 AM to 3 PM · 💰 Free

Sit at a wooden desk and write with ink and pen or on the chalkboard, play with old-time toys, do a craft, meet the historian. Bubbles and a washing station outside. → Details

📍 Oakville Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, 2302 Bridge Rd · SUN Sep 27 · 10:30, 11:30 or 12:30, 40 minutes each · 💰 Free

Live storytelling with call-and-response, animal sounds and a few kids in costume pieces, in English, Arabic and French. Same building, same morning: build a giant beaded creature and make and take a monarch butterfly. → Details

📍 Campbellville Mountsberg Conservation Area · SAT Sep 26 and SUN Sep 27 · 1 PM, plus 11 AM Sunday · 💰 $10 plus HST per person, plus park admission

Small-group Raptor Centre program, 20 people max. Handle real feathers and artefacts, meet the resident raptors and hear how they are cared for. 45 minutes. → Book

📍 Paris 351 German School Rd · weekends 10 AM to 5 PM, last entry 4 PM · 💰 $17.50 plus HST, under 2 free

Farm animals, wagon rides, a corn pit, tractor go-karts, a train ride, a ropes course and a forest play area. They suggest three hours. Still open from last week: Springridge, Downey's and Andrews. → Details

Also next weekend: the Milton Fall Fair FRI Sep 25 to SUN Sep 27 ($12 adult, $5 child online, Sunday 10 to 4 is the quiet day), the Heritage Fibre Festival at Ireland House SAT Sep 26, pay what you may, and the free Hamilton Accessibility Film Festival at The Westdale SAT Sep 26, How to Train Your Dragon at 1 PM.

On the horizon: the free Telling Tales Festival at RBG Hendrie Park, SAT Oct 3 and SUN Oct 4, 70+ children's authors, programming built for kids of all neurotypes, register for free RBG entry.

The Chinook are heading upstream from now to Thanksgiving. Free, outdoors, and the best show is the day after a good rain.

📍 Burlington Cherry Hill Gate, 1131 Plains Rd W · daily, dawn to dusk · 💰 Free trails, parking $3 an hour

Flat boardwalk and gravel on the Grindstone Marshes Trail, with creek crossings where the fish gather. Stay on the boardwalk and off the gravel beds, that is where they spawn. → Details

📍 Mississauga 1695 Dundas St W · daily, dawn to dusk · 💰 Free

Flat paved trails along the river from the main lot. The fish gather below the riffles and you can hear them splash before you see them. → Details

📍 Etobicoke 2 Forty Second St, at the Mississauga line · SAT Oct 3 · 9 to 11 AM · 💰 Free, register

A guided 2 km walk along Etobicoke Creek with TRCA. Salmon life cycle, why they jump, and where to look. Rain or shine. → Register

These run every week, see the full list on our sensory hours page.

🏊 Sensory Swim: SAT 4 to 5 PM @ Tansley Woods CC, Burlington | SUN 3:45 to 4:45 PM @ Sixteen Mile Sports Complex, Oakville | SAT 3 PM @ Milton Leisure Centre ($0-$3.40)

Oakville Trafalgar CC runs THU 2 to 3 PM, weekly.

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See you next week!

Stella

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