Nuvo Garage

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10 Windham Drive, Toronto, ON, M2K 1X8

Garage Organization: This great garage organization company offers a complete hands-off service to come to your home, clear out your junk, and transform your garage. They use a heavy duty slatwall installation and a variety of interchangeable baskets and hooks that can hang and host all of your gear. We highly recommend them.

Pedalheads

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101 - 3737 Oak St, Vancouver, BC, bc

Bike Camps for Kids: This is a great local learn-to-bike company for kids. Pedalheads offers eight levels of biking skills and safety instruction to kids aged 3 to 14. Their certified instructors teach beginners and competent riders, and new this year, they have a Trikes ‘N’ Trainers (TNT) program for children aged three years and up. Bring your child’s tricycle, bike with training wheels or even push bike for an hour long, daily program on pedaling, steering, bike safety and most important: stopping and starting! Also new this year, is their Flow Mountain Biking Camps, for children 10 to 15 years of age who are already competent cyclists and looking for a little more challenge. There are locations throughout the Lower Mainland (Point Grey, Douglas Park, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey and Langley) and all camps are one week in duration. They are owned by Atlantis Programs, which offers great swim classes for kids too.

Mario's Gelati Italian Ice Crm

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88 1st Ave E, Vancouver, BC, V5T1A1

Mario's Gelati : The ice cream at Mario’s Gelati Amato Gelato Café is mouth watering but because the parking there can sometimes get complicated our savvy tip is to order your fave flavour in bulk ($41 for 5.7 litres) and enjoy it in the peace and quiet of your own home. It’s a bargain compared to the $13-16 that many gelato places charge for a single litre. You can also stock up on individual servings of tartufo, spumoni, and other frozen Italian desserts that would make a lovely ending to a summer dinner party.

Classy Kids Consignment

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3712 West 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V6R 2G4

Classy Kids Consignment: Classy Kids Consignment in Dunbar, is a fashion-forward store that promises high-end children’s consignment and maternity wear and delivers the goods. Bargain prices for mint condition, fashionable threads, like a knitted dress by Deux par Deux for her and IKKS pants for him.

Kids In Motion

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465B E Columbia Street, New Westminster, V3L 3X6

Kids In Motion: This program is a great alternative for instilling an active lifestyle and an appreciation for the arts into your child from a very young age. Based in New Westminster, Kids in Motion is a relatively new high energy creative arts studio offering parent participation and kids only programs from babies to 8 year olds. The focus of the program is music, drama and dance taught through both creative and traditional play, allowing the children to learn new skills without realizing it. Natasha Young, the founder of Kids in Motion, has one main goal: to send the children home tired and happy.

Eio Kids Store

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3404 Cambie Street, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2W8

eio!: eio! is a great new children’s store, taking centre stage in the much improved Cambie Village, brought to us by the same savvy folks who started www.beautymark.ca. This store is filled with tons of great essentials and gift ideas for babies and toddlers.

Phoenix Gymnastics Club

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3214 10th Ave W, Vancouver, BC, V6K2L2

Phoenix Gymnastics : Phoenix Gymnastics has been offering gymnastics programs in Vancouver for the past 30 years. They have recreational, preschool and competitive gymnastics programs at two locations in Vancouver. Their recreational programs start with kids as young as 6 months of age and run until children are 12. All programs are age-based so that they can focus on specific areas of development, with some programs requiring parent participation. Little ones will enjoy programs like the Wiggles and Giggles, Jumping Jellybeans, Tiny Tumblers, and Leapin’ Lemurs. The programs at Phoenix Gymnastics are all taught by NCCP/PCCP certified gymnastics coaches, who focus on building flexibility, strength and social skills in a fun and low key environment.

Chocolate Arts

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2037 4th Ave W, Vancouver, BC, V6J1N3

Chocolate Arts: For more than fifteen years, Chocolate Arts has been satisfying chocolate longings in Kitsilano. Chocolate Art’s founder and owner, Greg Hook, has something to please every palate and wallet. We like that Hook uses all natural products in his creations and that he likes to “keep it local” using produce from B.C. farmers.

Duff's Famous Wings

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1604 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4G3B7

Place for wings -with or without kids: Excellent wings, excellent service, boosters and all child friendly ammenities. Veggies on the side.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• Place for Wings -with or without kids

Gingerbread Lane

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1107 Lorne Park Road, Unit 9, Mississauga, ON, L5H 3A1

Indoor play centre in west end: Big, clean and new. Good coffee for moms and all kinds of programs, take out and a bakery. Worth the trip.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• Indoor Play Centre in West End

Ward's Island

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Toronto Islands, ON, M5J 1X9

Summer city destination: It's an authentic adventure to a place most people in the city never go. There are beaches, cafes and even tennis courts. You can spend the day and pretend you are far away - bring your bike.

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• summer city destination

Nat's New York Pizzeria

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2684 West Broadway, Vancouver , BC

Nat's New York Pizzeria : Nat’s New York Pizzeria is the hands-down fave of many a SavvyMom. Customers rave about its thin, hand-thrown crust. There are two locations to serve Vancouverites; on West Broadway in Kits, and in the West End on Denman.

La Casa Gelato

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1033 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC, V6A3R9

La Casa Gelato: Rainbow is the only word to describe La Casa Gelato’s legendary range of ice cream flavours—218 flavours on display at any one time! Parking is easy and free samples are plentiful. (Dill pickle, anyone? How about wasabi?) Take part in a Vancouver tradition by visiting this Misceo family business in East Vancouver.

Avalon Dairy

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5805 Wales Street, Vancouver, BC, V5R 3N5

Avalon Dairy: Take a family field trip to the oldest continuously operated dairy in B.C., the Avalon Dairy, in the middle of residential Vancouver. You can buy some organic or conventional ice cream to take home, and arrange for home delivery of their products if you like the thought of getting your milk delivered in old-fashioned glass bottles.

Downey's Farm Market & Winery

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13682 Heart Lake Rd, Inglewood, ON, L0N1K0

Farm for fall destination: Apples, pumpkins and lots of yummy pies and preserves. Kids love the horse drawn rides through the farm.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• Farm for Fall Destination

Potato Skins

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2073 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4S2A2

Cushion covers: Great fabrics and good prices. You can order online if you know the dimensions of your sofa - great for cottages or hand-me-down sofas.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• cushion covers

Creative Bag

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1100 Lodestar Road, Toronto, ON

Place for gift wrapping supplies: It has everything you need in every colour you like - and the price is right.

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• place for gift wrapping supplies

Cookery Doo

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110 Rumsey Rd, Toronto, ON

Kids cooking class: Fun classes for kids and parents, birthday parties and after school sessions all in a nice clean and organized environment.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• kids cooking class

Czehoski

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678 Queen W, Toronto, ON, M6J1E5

Groovy downtown resto: Yummy Halibut, good burgers and great atmo.

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• groovy downtown resto

Don Valley Brick Works

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550 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON, M4W1X8

Farmers market: The best for organic and all natural goodies from local farmers. A must go on Saturdays from May - November with entertainment for the kids

Great Wolf Lodge

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3950 Victoria Avenue, Niagara Falls, ON, L2E 7M8

Ontario family resort: Indoor water slide, mini-put, arcade, story time and of course a spa for mom. All that with a short trip to Niagara Falls.

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• Ontario Family Resort

Greenleaf's

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100 King St. W, Toronto, ON, M5X1A9

Foodcourt lunch: The place actually looks clean and the food is fresh and healthy. No mayo on the chicken salad (but you can add your own).

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• foodcourt lunch

Natrel Rink at Harbourfront

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235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON, M5J2G8

Outdoor skating rink: It feels like you are in a different city looking out onto the lake and there is a great apres ski feel to it with hot chocolate, drinks and snacks in the resto on the side. Lights up at night.

• favourite thing(s) at this place:
• Outdoor Skating Rink

The Friendly Butcher

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3269 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON, M4N 2L5

Uptown butcher: Great meat, great service and lots of other yummy stuff to take hoe. Excellent sandwiches for lunch.

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• Uptown Butcher

The Toy Space

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106 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5V3N7

Downtown toy store: The Toy Space has very cool and unique toys for kids and parents. Run by parents who know what kids want.

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• Downtown Toy store