Happy Birthday Queen V
Three great ideas for your most unusual Victoria Day long weekend ever.
MAKE PLANS FOR A VERY VIRTUAL FESTIVAL
Harbourfront is hosting Virtually Junior all weekend live with free performances, storytelling, music and films for young families online!
Connect to Instagram Live on Saturday for Indigenous Connection; for Storytime with Fay Slift, a BAMDANCE demo, a read-aloud with Wesley King and Quaran-time Storytelling with Toronto's beloved Shoshana Sperling on Sunday and on Monday for a live Q&A with filmmaker Charles Officer.
This is a small sample of the extraordinary list of virtual events to celebrate and enjoy all weekend!
FIREWORKS & SPARKLERS REIMAGINED
It's Queen V's birthday so why not throw her a party? After all, this woman had NINE children of her own and a full-time job.
Put sparklers on the cake, create homemade confetti bombs instead of fireworks and pass out tiaras for everyone!
Sure, you could shell out $8 for a confetti cannon or you could make your own, refillable confetti poppers. If the thought of picking tiny tissue paper tidbits out of your garden doesn't appeal, you could use birdseed and pluck sunflower seeds out your hair instead :-). If your neighbourhood has a FB group, you could also coordinate the paper explosions with everybody heading safely out to the balcony, porch or sidewalk to set off their silent rockets together!
Here are two simple, step-by-step tutorials we really like – kindly ignore the wedding and fourth of July themes.
A CAMP-IN AT HOME
The fine folks at MEC are encouraging families to take to their porches, backyards and balconies for a Big Camp In Weekend. Post a pic of your local "adventure" on Instagram, tag @MEC with the #thebigcampin and you could win a very cool camping gear package!
Download the SkyView Lite app. It's free and lets you locate, identify and animate planets and constellations. As a bonus, the pre-dawn hours of Saturday are your last chance for a while to see the bright planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn as well as their dimmer pal Neptune in the sky.
At just under $70, this is the cheapest backyard fire pit we could find online for s'more-making and campfire song-singing. Other ideas? String fairy lights or paper lanterns, rent or borrow a projector to screen a classic kids flick (your neighbours can watch from their physically distant yard too),
Don't have a backyard? Make a tissue paper campfire, whip out the flashlights, string up some sheets and stream a forest soundtrack to set the mood - here's a crackling fire and gentle rain set that might do the trick.
