A fully equipped child based play centre for parents, grandparents and caregivers to bring babies, toddlers, preschoolers or kindergarten-aged children. Different learning ‘stations’ are carefully planned around themes – always with specific child-learning goals, or outcomes, in mind. The centres toys and learning stations are completely changed every month.

• Interactive Circle Time – See a science experiment or learn the numbers on a calendar -you never know what’ll be part of the daily circle time. Ontario Early Years program staff lead a circle each morning and afternoon when the centre is open. Adults and children gather together to learn songs & fingerplays and hear stories. Sequencing, colours, math skills, early literacy and counting are all part of the learning that takes place during the fun.
  
  
• Field trips and social events – Parent/child excursions are organized regularly by OEYC staff working together with a parent committee. Social events with themes around Halloween, Christmas and Easter, for example, usually based in larger locations such as the legion. Field trips may include a family sleigh ride, visit the pumpkin patch, the zoo, farms, the maple sugar bush, agricultural fair, or a giant OEYC picnic. Check our website or drop by the centre to see what’s new every season.
  
  
• Special Guests come right to the Fenelon Falls centre such as dental health professionals to check your child’s baby teeth, police, firefighters and musicians.
  
  
• Children and parenting parenting books may be borrowed for up to 30 days.
  
  
• Special workshops for parents or caregivers are featured at the Fenelon Falls Ontario Early Years Centre from time such as early literacy.
  
  
• Well baby visits – If your baby is well, but you just want to have him or her weighed, this is the perfect time for you to drop by the centre. A Health Nurse is at the Fenelon Falls centre once a month. You can have your baby weighed and ask any questions you may have about health or development.
  
  
• Developmental screenings – There are regular screenings offered to help you learn more about how your young child (1-6 year old) is doing in a variety of different skills. (In partnership with the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit).
  
  HOURS
• Tuesday: 9:30 - 1:00
• Wednesday: 9:30 - 1:00
• Thursday: 9:30 - 1:00
• Friday: 9:30 - 12:00

For more information call 705-887-9972

• play opportunities
  
  
• pre-math skills like matching, grouping, sorting
  
  
• peer interaction, learning to play well
  
  
• creative arts & crafts
  
  
• physical activities for large and small muscles
  
  
• music and movement
  
  
• science for preschoolers
  
  
• story-telling, language games, rhymes, finger plays
  
  
• kindergarten preparation, and getting ready for school
  
  
• cultural events such holiday celebrations
  
  
• family social events such as potluck suppers, picnics
  
  
• toy lending library
  
  
• lending of children’s books/videos
  
  
• early literacy- getting ready to read, & to print your name
  
  
• social skills like learning to sit with a group at circle time
  
  
• parent education classes, books and pamphlets