Happy Valentine’s Day!

Hi Owlkids Family!

If you’re looking for ways to celebrate this sweet holiday together, you’ve come to the right place! Here are some Valentine’s activities you can enjoy as a family.

• Take turns naming one thing you love about each family member. Don’t forget the pets!
• Make a special treat together. Try this cocoa fruit dip.
• Cut out paper hearts and tape them to string to make garland. Then decorate the house together.
• Make a confetti Valentine’s card for an older person in your family, like a grandparent or aunt or uncle. This video shows you how.
• Dye white flowers pink with this experiment.
• Build a giant 3D heart sculpture out of Lego blocks.
• Read a book together about how we are all connected: You Are Stardust by Elin Kelsey. There’s even an app to go along with it!
• Craft some friendship bracelets. Choose a set of colours that represents your family.

Whatever you do this Valentine’s Day, we hope it is filled with lots of love and laughter!

We Saw Disney on Ice!

Hi readers,

Have you ever heard of Disney on Ice? It’s a live performance of your favourite Disney characters … skating on ice! This year’s performance is called Disney on Ice: Find Your Hero and it’s all about recreating tales of heroism from famous Disney stories. It stars Micky, Minnie, and many of their friends.

Chirp readers Norah, Alistair, and Milo got to see a Disney on Ice performance this week. Let’s hear what they thought of the show!

Norah, Alistair, and Milo in front of the Disney on Ice stage. The show is about to start!

“I liked how Eric’s boat fell apart so fast in the storm. And I liked when Moana’s boat and the staircases moved by themselves around the ice. I was a teensy bit scared when the firecrackers went “KABLOOEY!”  I think other kids would like to see this show because it has lots of characters and maybe they can even get a snack.” – Alistair, 6

“The one time when Rapunzel whacked Flynn in the head with a frying pan was funny. The next time too. Flynn made funny noises. I liked Flounder, too.  He was so cute. I think other kids would like to see the cute Flounder in the show with Ariel too.”-  Milo, 3

“My favourite part of the show was when the princes lifted the princesses off the ice and the princesses did acrobatic things in the air. I also liked when Ariel got her new feet and was lifted up into the air on this pulley-thing and did acrobatics. It also had cute characters like Maximus, Olaf, Sebastian, Flounder, Lumiere, Cogsworth, and others.  The Ursula costume was very impressive.” – Norah, 8

Sounds like a great show, thanks Alistair, Milo, and Norah!

Disney on Ice: Fine Your Hero is playing across North America until April 2023. If you are in Ontario, you can check out these upcoming shows:

Toronto – Feb 3-5/Scotiabank Arena

Ottawa – March 9-12/Canadian Tire Centre

Happy New Year!

Hi Readers,

Tonight marks the last day of 2022. When we wake up tomorrow it will be a new year! We hope you have a fun New Year’s Eve and a great start to 2023! We are excited to bring you 10 new issues of Chirp in 2023. We have all kinds to great issues coming up, including DINOSAURS, ART, DOGS, and more!

What was one of your favourite memory from 2022? Share it in the comments below.

See you next year!

• Jackie

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays to everyone who is celebrating today. We hope you have a wonderful day full of family, feast, laughter and … SNOW!

The Chirp Team

The January/February issue is here!

Hi Readers,

The January/February issue is full of DINOSAUR fun and it will be roaring into your mailbox soon! You will meet lots of dinos in this issue and you will also meet an underwater animal that has been around since prehistoric times.

Whale sharks swam in the oceans when dinosaurs ruled the land! These gentle giants have been swimming around for millions of years. Wow! Check out this video of a baby whale shark swimming with a group of scuba divers.