SPRING FAMILY FUN GETS UNDERWAY IN AT HOP! EASTER FEST AT PRAIRIE GARDENS
Hop in your car and head to the farm for the 2nd Annual Hop! Easter Festival from Good Friday, April 6, Sat, Easter Sunday & Holiday Monday, April 9 at Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm!
Complete with Easter Egg Hunts, Magic Shows, indoor snowball games, planting programs, spring scavenger finds, chicks and baby lambs, there is a full day of family fun.
Festivities include: Easter Egg Hunt with photos with the Easter Bunny, Snowball Fights, Wildbird Feeders and Kids and Easter Gardening Projects, Mini Tractor Rides, Wagon Ride & Farm Tours, Straw Bale Jumping, Bunny Face Painting, Bunny Ears to color and wear.
Families can also enjoy a pancake breakfast, a Spring Gardening Workshops and the great outdoors in the spring sunshine!
Prairie Gardens Easter Festival Hours - Admissions
We're in the NEWS! Check out Bridget Ryan, Breakfast TV and The Edmonton Journal for stories about the Hop! Easter Fest.
Hop! Easter Festival Day Pass Tickets still available at the Gate or Online!
- Individual - $9.95 per person plus GST.
- Family (4 -19 folks) - $9.25 per person plus GST.
- Children under age 2 are Free!
- Access to Easter Farm Fun, including Easter Egg Hunts, Egg Decorating
- Puppet Shows, Easter Crafts, Storytelling, Kids Gardening Project, and Petting Farm
Please Purchase Advance Tickets for the Easter Pancake Breakfast, which runs from 10am - 12noon all 4 days. Sure helps us out with planning how many pancakes to flip!
More Easter Fun!
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Easter Weekend Pancake Breakfast 10:30am - Noon
Advance Pancake Breakfast Tickets - Adults - $7.00 Kids (12 & Under) $3.50
Buttermilk Pancakes, Farm Fresh Scrambled Eggs, Sausages and Homemade Saskatoon Compote Syrup with hot coffee or chilled juices.
At the Door - Adults $8.00 Kids $4.00 (Subject to availability)
Download PRE-REGISTRATION FORM for Pancake Breakfasts, Lunch Specials and Planter Palooza Workshops! Prices do not include admission.
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Wonderstuff Performers
Join Big D and the Fairy Godmother from Wonderstuff as they bring their own special brand of fun to the second annual Hop! Easter Fest at Prairie Gardens.
Balloon Twisting
Good Friday & Saturday Only
- Bunnies,
- Lambs
- Your Imagination can run wild!
Costs $3 & up
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Wonderstuff Performers
Good Friday & Saturday only
Extra Special Facepainting
Who would you like to be today? Janice Shoults, aka Everyone's Fairy Godmother brings the joy of facepainting to our event with her delightful Snickerdoodles style face art. Whether you would like to have a sparkly bunny face or an intricate Easter creation on your cheek or hand, Janice is here to bring "your inner bunniness" to life.
Cheek $3 Full Face $10
Our own talented Artists will paint Bunny Noses & Whiskers for FREE
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Big D's Magic Show
Big D Wilson has been entertaining families across Western Canada for many years. He brings a great blend of magic, juggling and comedy to "amaze, amuse, confound and confuse". Don't miss Big D's specially themed Bunny shows on 11am & 2 pm Friday and Saturday.
Heather D. Swaine - International Street Performer!
11am to 2 pm on Good Friday and Saturday Only
Heather D. Swain, international street performer will be hopping about Prairie Gardens during the Holiday weekend in one of her many guises. Will you see her as Miss Information, The Queen of Rationalization or perhaps Poope the talking mime?
Both activities are Free!
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10 FREE Easter Activities Included in Admission
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Starlight Theatre & Dave Tyler
Good Friday, Sunday and Hol. Monday. Not on Saturday.
The Tortise & the Hare & My Lucky Day
Come find out who's fastest in a race that will have the kids laughing and adults smiling out loud! Good Friday, Saturday and Hol. Monday. Prairie Gardens Mother Goose Storytelling on Easter Sunday.
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Shadow Puppet Theatre
Roosters off to see the World
What fun! A rooster shadow puppet story!
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Interactive Storytelling with Dave Tyler & Mother Goose
- Caps for Sale
- 10 Little Caterpillars
- White Little Duck
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Baby Lambs & Baby Chicks
Come meet our new flock!
Don't forget your camera - they are soooo sweet.
Enter our "Name the Babies" contest.
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Kids Gardening Projects
Plant up some marigold and viola pots for Easter.
The greenhouses are cozy and warm.
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Wild Bird Feeders
Just in time for the robins coming home for the spring.
We use peanut-free pea butter, corn cobs and sunflower seeds wot welcome them back!
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FREE Easter Egg Hunt
(Indoors or outdoors depending on the Weather!)
An all time favorite fun thing for the kiddies. Every hour!
Yummy!
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Kids Bale Maze
It's great excercise and a way to burn off some cabin fever.
Don't forget your boots!
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Straw Bale Snowball Fort Fights! (Indoors)
This is truly fun and safe - we use stro balls.
Kids challenge Parents... Are you up for some fun?
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Spring Easter Crafts
Easter Egg Decorating & Colouring Sheets for the Kids!
Come learn about natural dyes! All included in admission!
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Easter Gardening & Wildbird Projects
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Your children can learn about the joy of growing thimgs by getting their hands dirty. Plant a seed. Plant a vegetable or herb garden. Or plant a marigold.
The planting teaches children about what the earth can provide. We'll help you get started with a free packet of garden seeds for the veggie patch in your own backyard!
Portable Gardens Planting Palooza!
Dig in on spring amidst gorgeous blossoms with gardening tips for growing portable Flower or Veggie "Bucket Gardens" with the help of horticulturalists! Join us at a workshop to create a cool patio planter. Plant it up & leave it at the greenhouses to grow until Mother's Day - May 13. Cost to register: $5. Includes soil and instruction. Plants and containers extra. Call to register today - 780.921.2272.
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SHOPPING & MORE ACTIVITIES (ADDITIONAL CHARGES APPLY)
- Easter Egg Nest Crafts $3
- Easter Lamb / Bunny Crafts $3
- Lost Lemon Gem Mine! Buckets of ore laden with gems to pan out. $4 -$12
- Prairie Gardens Express Train Ride Ride our cute mini train around the farm. $2
- Fishin’ Pond - win fun prizes. Costs $2
- Garden Centre Shop
- Outpost General Store - Raccoon hats to wooden swords, vintage toys and candy.
- Grandma's Fudge Shop - laden with delectable fudge and Easter treats!
- Farm Cantina and Ice Cream Stoop – laden with delicious festival fare and delicious treats.
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