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In today’s Mom Scoop:
🔵 Learn & Play @ The Simcoe County Museum
🕯 The Artisan Market @ Bradford Greenhouses
👨🍳 Kid’s Cooking Class @ Friday Harbour
🍽 Recipe Of The Week: The Ultimate Muffin Recipe
🗞 Local Good News Stories
🌆 What’s Happenin’
Let’s get to it!
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🔵 Learn & Play @ The Simcoe County Museum
Get ready to explore, experiment, and unleash your imagination. The Museum’s newest temporary exhibit, Youseum, invites visitors of all ages to step into the role of creator and experience what it’s like to design your very own museum exhibit.
This fully interactive space encourages hands-on discovery and playful innovation. Visitors can test their engineering and problem‑solving skills by attempting the longest marble run, constructing a sturdy bridge, protecting an egg in a classic egg‑drop challenge, or crafting the perfect paper airplane. Youseum celebrates imagination, experimentation, and the joy of building something uniquely your own, making it an experience for all ages.
📆 Friday March 20, Saturday March 21 and Sunday March 20th - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
🎟 Admission is Adult $10, Senior/Youth $8 and Children $5, Preschoolers and Museum Members are free
📍 The SImcoe County Museum - 1151 Highway 26, Minesing
🫱 The Artisan Market @ Bradford Greenhouses
The Spring Artisan Market Fundraiser is an event in support of Recreation Therapy at RVH. Proceeds will go toward recreational supplies, equipment and other initiatives to help care for patients and their loved ones while admitted to hospital.
Every contribution helps provide meaningful support for patients and their loved ones. 💗
50+ local artisan vendors
Food trucks on site
Easter Photo booth
Door Prize
Silent Auction
Entry by Donation
📆 Sunday March 22 - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
📍Bradford Greenhouses Barrie - 4346 County Road 90, Springwater.
👨🍳 Kid’s Cooking Class @ Friday Harbour
Join us for a fun, hands-on cooking experience designed just for kids! Participants will enjoy making and decorating their own food alongside our culinary team.
Menu Includes:
• Beef sliders
• Pizza making with assorted toppings
• Cookie decorating
• Shirley Temple
Details:
• $40 per child (ticketed event)
• Ages 6–15 only
• Maximum 12 participants
• Activity Room
• Booking & payment required in advance via OpenTable Experience
• Beverages, taxes, fees & gratuity excluded
• Parent/guardian waiver required
📆 Saturday March 21st - 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
📍Friday Harbour
👩🍳 Recipe of the Week: The Ultimate Muffin Recipe
This is the ultimate muffin recipe—starting with a thick and creamy muffin batter, your choice of additions, and two topping options. Customize it with your favourite mix-ins and flavor combinations for endless possibilities like blueberry muffins, lemon poppy seed muffins, and apple cinnamon muffins.
🗞 Local Good News Stories
🌳 Restoration of Oro-Medonte sanctuary drawing national attention. Read more.
❄ ‘All thrill, no skill’: Local resorts offer March break tubing fun. Read more.
🎈 Indoor family fun hops into Bradford Greenhouses with Bounce Bonanza. Read more.
🛍 New south-Barrie shopping plaza aims for summer opening. Read more.
🖌 Local athlete turns childhood dream into pro paintball career. Read more.
📕 Libraries urge residents to defend right to read amid rise in censorship. Read more.
🏀 Bear Creek alumna making buckets, making Barrie proud. Read more.
🎷 Orchestra ushering in spring with Sounds of Nature concert in Barrie. Read more.
🇨🇦 Local veteran pushes for national flag to unite Canada’s 460,000 military veterans. Read more.
🚍 Air Canada adding Muskoka-to-Toronto landline service. Read more.
🧊 Friday Harbour’s Take The Plunge Raises Over $65,000 for RVH Foundation. Read more.
🐶 OSPCA fetches $65K grant to boost pet adoptions in Barrie. Read more.
⛷ Olympic champ gets hero’s welcome at local ski hill. Read more.
🥪 Barrie sub shop supporting Youth Haven during charity initiative. Read more.
🌆 What’s Happenin’
Friday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library Holly Branch - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🎈 Bounce Bonanza @ Bradford Greenhouses - 10 a.m. or 12 p.m. entry - Get tickets.
🏒 Hockey Hall of Fame Exhibit @ Tanger Outlets - Learn more.
🧙 Wicked-Themed Event @ Georgian Mall - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more.
🏆 Kids’ Nature Olympics @ Friday Harbour - 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more.
⛸ The Skate Escape @ Friday Harbour - 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Learn more.
🎥 Friday Flicks @ The Barrie Library Painswick Branch - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Learn more.
Saturday
🧑🌾 Barrie Farmer’s Market @ City Hall - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn more.
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library - various branches - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🏒 Hockey Hall of Fame Exhibit @ Tanger Outlets - Learn more.
🎈 Bounce Bonanza @ Bradford Greenhouses - 10 a.m. entry - Get tickets.
🧙 Wicked-Themed Event @ Georgian Mall - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more.
⛸ The Skate Escape @ Friday Harbour - 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Learn more.
🎈 Bounce Bonanza @ Bradford Greenhouses - 12 p.m. entry - Get tickets.
❄ The Snowed in Comedy Tour @ Georgian Theatre - 7:30 p.m. Get tickets.
🏒 Barrie Colts vs. Niagara IceDogs @ Sadlon Arena - 7:30 p.m. Get tickets.
Sunday
🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library - Holly Branch - 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.
🏒 Hockey Hall of Fame Exhibit @ Tanger Outlets - Learn more.
💇♀ Glam It Up Barrie @ Barrie Chrysler - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Read more.
❄ Family Fun: Nature Bingo @ Friday Harbour - 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Learn more.
👪 Family Sundays @ MacLaren Art Centre - 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Book tickets.
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