
Special Events, Courses and Activities

Canadian Red Cross Babysitting Course
Provided by Lauren Smithson
Sunday, May 26, 2019
9:00am to 4:00pm
Course Description
The Babysitting course, refreshed and revised, now has a greater emphasis on First Aid skills. The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviours to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. This updated curriculum, complete with new science, also provides improved learning when it comes to giving the appropriate care in the event of an emergency.
Prerequisite
Ages 11 and up (by the end of 2019)
Course Content
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First Aid Content: Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911), glove removal, recovery position, conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone), CPR (baby/child), illness, asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer), anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen), poisoning, insect stings, wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns), head, neck and back injuries, broken bones, seizures
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Safety tips for children of all ages
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Tips on starting your own babysitting business and babysitting fun kit
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What are the respective rights and responsibilities of the babysitter and the family hiring one
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How to make the children's environment safe and enjoyable
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Some great games and other ideas for having fun with the kids while babysitting
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What to do if anything makes the babysitter uncomfortable
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How to cope with common problems, like tantrums and crying
Course Includes
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Red Cross Babysitting Book
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Red Cross Babysitting Certification Card
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A day of fun and learning facilitated by Lauren Smithson
What to Bring
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Writing utensils
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A cabbage patch sized doll or stuffed animal
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Lunch, snacks and a labeled water bottle
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Please encourage your future babysitter to write down or keep on file in their head any specific questions they have about babysitting and or safety topics…our course covers a lot of content, however I do like to know if there are specific questions or scenarios that anyone has.
Introducing Lauren Smithson...
My connection with children has taken me a long way in my life. I have been able to use SuperFin, my aquatics school, to inspire, motivate, and enforce a positive attitude and healthy lifestyle within children for decades. As my company and I have grown, I have learned that teaching swimming is so much more than properly doing strokes in the water. It teaches children about problem solving, setting goals, and the importance of fitness for a healthy body, mind, and spirit. It has also helped me connect to my team of strong, enthusiastic women, as well as the caring and hard-working guardians of our students. These relationships have encouraged me to think about why I am in this profession, and why I have decided to dedicate my life to working with children. I realized I have about a billion “whys”, which include: my love for children, my desire to be a mentor and guide my students as well as my team towards a progressive lifestyle, and so on. My passion for teaching in the water and out of the water is something that I am very excited to extend into the Canadian Children’s Theatre Co. community with the Baby Sitting Course…I can’t wait to connect with your children, learn and have fun!
Lauren Francis-Smithson
$85

Holiday Fun Days
Join us for some Festive Fun including:
Christmas Crafts, Carnival Games, Prizes,
a Jingle-Bell-Rockin' Dance Party and MORE!!
$30 per Child
Register for our Public Party on:
Saturday December 19th 1pm to 3pm
(Book early as the group size will be limited)
OR
Book a Private Party for close family & friends
(For groups of 4 to 8 children)
Sunday December 13th 1pm to 3pm
Saturday December 19th 10am to 12pm
Sunday December 20th 10am to 12pm
Sunday December 20th 1pm to 3pm
For Private Parties
To get your party started, please complete the following request form. Once your party has been booked, participants will be able to complete the registration form and online payment below.

Halloween Fun Parties
Wear your favourite costume and join us for a Pizza Lunch/Dinner, Crafts, Costume Fashion Show, Monster Mash Dance Party, Carnival Games and lots of Prizes!!
$40 per Child
Recommended for Ages 3 and up
Halloween Fun Night
Saturday October 29th 2022
5:00pm to 8:00pm
Halloween Fun Day
Sunday October 30th 2022
11:00am to 2:00pm
Includes: 2 slices of pizza (cheese or pepperoni), juice or water and a Halloween themed ice cream sundae for dessert
Advanced registration is required. Please complete the registration form below to reserve your child's spot today. Payments can be made online using the button below the form, or contact us to make arrangements for an in-person payment.

Holiday Whobilation
Sunday December 11th 2022
Featuring...
Dramatic Readings of The Grinch
Starring Canadian Children's Theatre Co. Performers
Families will enjoy a festive afternoon full of live theatre, caroling, crafts, holiday games and prizes! Join us as we celebrate the holiday season.
Choose from two event times:
Join us from 1pm to 3pm with our live performance at 2pm
OR
Join us from 3pm to 5pm with our live performance at 4pm
3pm to 5pm is SOLD OUT!
Get Your Tickets Today!

Aurora's Santa Under the Stars Parade
Saturday November 23rd 2019
6:00pm to 8:00pm
We are looking for enthusiastic participants to join us as we walk in the Aurora Santa Under the Stars Parade this year! The parade will travel south on Yonge Street from Orchard Heights Blvd. to Murray Drive. Participants will be provided with a Santa's Elf or Toy costume to wear. Performers and their families are all welcome to join us. Please R.S.V.P. to Miss Martin (preferably one week prior at the latest) at jennifer.martin@childrenstheatre.ca and you will be provided with all of the necessary information.

Holiday Fun Days
Calling all parents!! Looking for a little extra (kid-free) time to finish your Holiday To Do List? We've got you covered!
Drop your kids off for a FUN day of holiday games and activities, crafts, carol singing and a pizza lunch (while you finish up your shopping & wrapping). We'll even help the kids cross something off their list - send them with the gifts that need to be wrapped and we'll send them back all wrapped up in their handmade wrapping paper and unique flare.
FINAL FUN DAY!
Monday December 23rd 9am to 5pm ~ $70/child
Ages 3 and up. Pre-registration is required.
Please complete a registration form in advance.
Online payment is available below.

Holiday Fun Nights
aka Kid-Free Nights for Parents
Calling all Parents!
Are you looking for a little extra (kid-free) time to finish off your Holiday To Do List?
We've Got You Covered!
Drop your kids off for a FUN night of crafts, theatre games and a Jingle Bell Rockin' Dance Party! Each night will feature a new holiday craft project and will include a pizza dinner and dessert.
Friday December 23rd from 5:00pm to 8:00pm
featuring...
A Beautiful Wooden Holiday Centrepiece
$40/child includes dinner and all craft supplies
Recommended for Ages 3 and up
Complete the form below to reserve your child's spot today!
Online payment is available below the registration form. Alternatively, please make arrangements for an in-person payment.

A Jolly Happy Holiday
Sunday December 8th 2019
12:00pm to 5:00pm
Featuring...
Performances of Frosty the Snowman
at 1pm & 3pm
Starring Canadian Children's Theatre Co. Performers
Families will enjoy a festive afternoon full of live theatre, caroling, crafts, holiday games and prizes, hot chocolate, Christmas cookies and more! Join us as we celebrate the holiday season. Get your tickets today!

Halloween Fun Days
Dress up and join us for 2 hours of Crafts, Carnival Games, Prizes, a Monster Mash Dance Party and MORE!!
$30 per Child
Sunday October 24th 2021
10:00am to 12:00pm OR 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Sunday October 31st 2021
10:00am to 12:00pm OR 1:00pm to 3:00pm OR 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Tickets go on Sale Tuesday May 3rd 2022
Tickets can be purchased online by clicking on the desired production below. From there, you can choose the number of tickets you require for your desired show date and time.
Purchasers will be assigned the best available seats at the time of booking and will receive an email confirmation once their order has been fulfilled.
No Refunds or Exchanges.
Tickets can be picked up at the theatre 30 minutes prior to show time.
Doors will open 15 minutes prior to show time.
Tickets go on Sale to the General Public on Tuesday April 25th
(following our in class family pre-sale)
Purchasers will be assigned the best available seats at the time of booking and will receive an email confirmation once their order has been fulfilled.
No Refunds or Exchanges.
Tickets can be picked up at the theatre 30 minutes prior to show time.
Doors will open 15 minutes prior to show time.

The Man Who Came to Dinner
Directed by Thom Stoneman & Aidan Naworynski
Featuring our Show Time for Teens Program Performers
Sheridan Whiteside —critic, lecturer, wit, radio orator, intimate friend of the great and near great— having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on their doorstep and breaks his hip. The result is a tumultuous six weeks of confinement. Whiteside turns the Stanley household upside down, forcing everyone in town to cater to his egotistical demands. Meanwhile, his essential secretary has given her notice after falling in love with a local reporter, and Whiteside must engage every weapon in his considerable arsenal of guile and manipulation to keep her in his employ—including blackmail, deceit, and the intervention of the fading actress Lorraine Sheldon and the elegant British wit of playwright Beverly Carlton. A three-ring circus of machinations and celebrity appearances ensues.
Friday May 12th 2023 at 7:00pm
Saturday May 13th 2023 at 7:00pm
Nineteen on the Park
19 Civic Avenue, Whitchurch-Stouffville
$15 for Children & Students ~ $25 for Adults

Mary Poppins
Directed by Jennifer Martin & Aidan Naworynski
Featuring our Kids Get Staged Program Performers
Everyone's favourite practically perfect nanny takes the stage in this Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious musical adventure. The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family members how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren't the only ones upon whom she has a profound effect. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that "Anything can happen if you let it."
Saturday May 13th 2023 at 11:00am - SOLD OUT!
Saturday May 13th 2023 at 3:00pm - SOLD OUT!
Sunday May 14th 2023 at 11:00am
Sunday May 14th 2023 at 3:00pm - LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Nineteen on the Park
19 Civic Avenue, Whitchurch-Stouffville
$15 for Children & Students ~ $25 for Adults
Tickets can be purchased online by clicking on the button below. Purchasers will receive an email confirmation once their order has been fulfilled. No Refunds or Exchanges.
All tickets are General Admission and can can be picked up at the theatre 30 minutes prior to show time. Doors will open 15 minutes prior to show time.

Legally Blonde
Featuring the Performers from our
Musical Theatre Camp for Ages 11 and up
College sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods doesn't take no for an answer. So when her boyfriend, Warner, dumps her for someone serious, Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and heads for Harvard Law School! While there, she struggles with peers, professors, and her ex. With the support of some new friends, Elle quickly realizes her potential and sets out to prove herself to the world. This all singing, all dancing, feel good musical comedy is so much fun, it shouldn't be legal!
Saturday July 15th 2023 at 2:00pm
Theatre Aurora
150 Henderson Drive, Aurora
$15 for Children & Students ~ $20 for Adults
This show will run approximately 2 hours with intermission
Tickets are General Admission
Doors will open 15 minutes prior to show time

Charlotte's Web
Featuring the Performers from our
Summer Theatre Camp for Ages 8 and up
Based on E.B. White's loving story of the unlikely friendship between a pig names Wilbur and a little spider named Charlotte, this play is as charming and timeless as the book itself. Wilbur has a problem: he desperately wants to avoid the butcher! Charlotte, a fine write and a true friend, hits on a plan to fool Farmer Zuckerman - she will create a miracle. Spinning the words "Some Pig" in her web, Charlotte weaves a solution which not only makes Wilbur a prize pig, but ensures his place on the farm forever!
Friday August 11th 2023 at 7:00pm
Theatre Aurora
150 Henderson Drive, Aurora