FEATURED PROGRAMS
HEARTH COOKING AT THE VILLAGE
- Availability: Tuesdays, September 2 to November 14, 2025 | January 13 to April 17, 2026
- Program Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Cost: $23.10 per student
This winter, students can get busy cooking over a fire in the historic Half Way House to create a variety of treats!
Make soda bread and waffles, churn butter, and grind spices. Learn all about the ingredients and kitchen tools available in 19th century Ontario.
This full-day program also includes a tour of select Village buildings, and lots of fun and games!
End the day by tasting the culinary delights you’ve created!
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
TEAM BUILDING IN THE VILLAGE
- Availability: Year round
- Program Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Cost: $19.45 per student (Except where noted)
Some skills never go out of style. The Village’s new interactive team building programs promote perseverance, responsibility, helpfulness, respect, and positivity.
Enjoy fun and learning against the backdrop of the heritage Village!
Choose from:
- Innovation & Imagination (grades 4-6): Students work in groups and travel back and forth in time to analyze and describe a variety of unique objects!
- Skills & Strategies (grades 7 and 8): Using the historic Village as a backdrop, students work together to solve challenges!
- Great Village Bake Off & Amazing Chase (grades 6 and up): In groups, students decipher a historical recipe and take part in an exciting scavenger hunt throughout The Village! Cost: $23.10 per student
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
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The Village at Black Creek offers education programs suitable for all grade levels, all year round. All of our programs are based on the Ontario curriculum for Social Studies, History, Environmental Studies, The Arts, and Health and Physical Education.
PRICING:
- Half Day Programs: $14.70 per student*
- Full Day Programs: $19.45 per student*
*Except where indicated.
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WINTER EDUCATION PROGRAMS
INVENTED: PROPELLED BY IMAGINATION
Suitable for Grades 3 to 8
- Availability: Year round
- Program Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Full day program)
- Cost: $19.45 per student
- Maximum number of students per day: 60 students
Explore the historic Village and learn how the 19th century was time of rapid change!
Visit our newest interactive exhibit, Invented: Propelled by Imagination, and discover how the scientific advancements of that era shape how we see the world today. Delve deep into breakthroughs in botany, computer science, geology, physics, and medicine!
See how inventors, writers, and illustrators of diverse backgrounds imagined a different future and birthed a new genre: science-fiction – where the impossible becomes possible!
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
MANY HANDS
- Availability: September 2 to November 14, 2025 | January 13 to April 30, 2026
- Program Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Cost: $23.10 per student
This indoor program takes place in a cozy heritage log house! Cook on a real wood stove, churn, and prepare butter, card wool, and learn to use a spinning wheel.
In our workshop weave on a barn loom, engage in wood working, and explore various tools, then enjoy a snack made with “many hands”.
Spend the second half of the day exploring select buildings in the historic Village.
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
PARLOUR PLAYTIME
- Availability: Tuesdays, September 2 to November 14, 2025 | January 13 to April 17, 2026
- Program Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Cost: $19.45 per participant
Come into our Victorian parlour to play just like people from long ago! Play with toys, try traditional games, dance, engage in interactive storytelling and make a special craft. Visiting our many farm animals is part of the fun!
This play-based program is perfect for preschool to grade 1 students and primarily takes place indoors.
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
EXPERIENCE & EXPLORE THE MAPLE SEASON
- Availability: March 3 to April 10, 2026
- Program Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Cost: $19.45 per participant
Learn all about the traditions and the cultural significance of the Maple Sugar season!
Get hands-on and discover how maple trees are identified and tapped for sap. Explore tools and artifacts used and how 19th century people learned the skills to process sap into maple syrup and sugar.
End your visit with a taste of delicious maple syrup!
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
BACK TO SCHOOL
- Availability year round: Excluding July/August
- Program Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Pricing: $19.45 per participant
Join our costumed schoolteacher and spend a half day as a student in our 1860s schoolhouse. Work on a slate, participate in a spelling bee, play 19th century games and practice the 3Rs.
Spend the second half of the program exploring select buildings in the historic Village.
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
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SPRING & FALL EDUCATION PROGRAMS
ON-SITE TOUR + SKILL BUILDING WORKSHOP
- Duration: 3 hours plus 30-minute lunch break (full day program)
- Program Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Build on knowledge gained in the interactive tour to develop skills and deepen understanding. Choose from different workshops that combine learning, skills development, and active fun!
- Includes guaranteed lunch space for 30 minutes
PROGRAMS AVAILABLE
CHRISTMAS PAST
- Availability: November 26, 2025 to December 19, 2025, Wednesday to Friday
- Cost: $19.45 per student
Learn about the holiday and winter traditions of the many communities living in 19th century Ontario. Hanukkah, New Year’s and Indigenous celebrations are also explored!
Engage in a variety of unique activities in homes and trade shops. Students participate in interactive storytelling, traditional dancing, and indoor games.
We hope your class will join us this holiday season!
PLEASE NOTE: Christmas Past is a full-day program – 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
SENSORY ADVENTURES
Suitable for Junior Kindergarten to Grade 2
What would you find on a farm long ago? Use your senses and learn about the roles that family members, farm animals, and plants played on a family farm.
Choose from the following workshops:
- Stories, Games & Toys: Play with an assortment of games and toys from the past and enjoy an interactive story to further understanding about everyday life long ago.
- Explore the Garden: Use your senses and explore our Village gardens. Plants seeds to take back home and watch them grow!
- Get Crafty: Continue the fun and create seasonal heritage craft with our talented educators.
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
YESTERDAY’S CHILD
Suitable for Grades 2 to 3
Discover the everyday lives and challenges of different communities that lived and worked in 19th century Ontario. Topics covered include food, clothing, education, recreation and work, and the roles of children.
Choose from the following workshops:
- Artifact Discovery: Discover how different types of objects teach us about the everyday lives of people in the past. Get hands on with artifacts from our collection and learn about different types of artifacts, how to identify them, and why they are important. Please bring a photo or picture of an object that is important to you to share with your class.
- Nature in The Village: Go on a nature hike around The Village and discover how newcomers to Canada used plants, animals, and the environment around them. Identify plants, explore heritage gardens, and discuss the impact growing communities had on the land and waterways. What lessons can we learn from the past?
- Outdoor Sports & Games A: Play a selection of 19th century sports and games and examine archival photos and artifacts. (Dancing, hoop & stick, lacrosse)
- Wonderful Wool: Learn how wool is processed by learning to card, spin and weave wool on a barn loom.
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
SOCIETY & CHANGE
Suitable for Grades 6 to 8
Enter the world of Confederation-era Canada. Interpret, analyze, and evaluate Canada’s past through the eyes of women, children, and the various religious and ethnic groups that contributed to our country’s development.
Choose from the following workshops:
- Artifact Discovery: Discover how different types of objects teach us about the everyday lives of people in the past. Get hands on with artifacts from our collection and learn about different types of artifacts, how to identify them, and why they are important. Please bring a photo or picture of an object that is important to you to share with your class.
- Outdoor Sports & Games B: Play a selection of 19th century sports and games and examine archival photos and artifacts (baseball, graces, stilts
- It’s Time to Debate! Participate in a lively debate at our Town Hall. Debate topic: Rebellion, 1837. Teachers are sent an information package to prepare for the debate ahead of their visit.
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
BUILDING A COMMUNITY
Suitable for Grades 3 and up, ESL groups
Explore The Village as you travel to trades shops and houses and discover the many challenges that faced communities in the 19th century. Study various perspectives on the economic and social realities of the day. Learn about survival and how to how to build a community.
Choose from the following workshops:
- Artifact Discovery: Discover how different types of objects teach us about the everyday lives of people in the past. Get hands on with artifacts from our collection and learn about different types of artifacts, how to identify them, and why they are important. Students are asked to bring with them a photo or picture of an object that is important to them to share as part of the workshop.
- Meet the Flynns: As a refugee dual faith family living in the Toronto Region, the Flynns faced many challenges similar to those faced by newcomers to Canada today. What was it like to be a refugee working class family in the Toronto Region? How did their ethnic background and religion impact their lives? How did gender influence their experiences? Visit their home and place of work and engage in a variety of hands-on activities!
- Nature in The Village: Go on a nature hike around The Village and discover how newcomers to Canada utilized plants, animals, and the environment around them. Identify plants, explore heritage gardens, and discuss the impact growing communities had on the land and waterways. What lessons can we learn from the past?
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
BACK TO SCHOOL
Join our costumed schoolteacher and spend a half day as a student in our 1860s schoolhouse. Work on a slate, participate in a spelling bee, play 19th century games and practice the 3Rs.
Spend the second half of the program exploring select buildings in the historic Village.
Call (416) 667-6295 to book
