Wonder Wagons

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WONDER WAGONS

The Pathway Project is pleased to partner with the Peterborough Child and Families Centres’ Toy Lending Library to provide Pathway’s ‘Wonder Wagons’, mobile educational learning kits. 

Wonder Wagons are a perfect resource for any parent or educator who needs help engaging children with nature-based learning tools. 

These activity-based mobile kits are linked to themes from ‘Animals in Winter’ to ‘Birds’ to ‘Trees’.  Other supplies available include clip-boards, sit-upons and a picnic blanket.

To book a bin, call the toy lending library to set up a pick-up time: 705-748-9144 ex. 310

Visit www.ptbocfc.ca for more information.

Library Hours

Tuesdays: 9:30 am to noon, In-person by appt

Wednesdays: 9:30 am to noon In-person by appt

Thursdays: 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm In-person by appt

Saturdays: 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month, 9:30 am to noon In-person by appt

 

 

  • Note: Book a wagon to transport your bin(s)

Large Bin – Primary Art

  • Leaf Man (book)
  • Crayons
  • Art paper
  • 5 large Paintbrushes
  • 20 small Paintbrushes
  • 5 large watercolour blocks
  • 10 glue sticks (and instructions for butterfly or artist palette nature art)
  • 7 small rulers
  • Modeling clay (and instructions for clay nature art: impressions, fall bouquets)
  • 2 rolls masking tape (and instructions for Nature Bracelets)
  • Note: Book a wagon to transport your bin(s).

Large Bin – Junior Art

  • Andy Goldsworthy A Collaboration with Nature (book)
  • 12 Watercolour paint sets
  • 100 Pencil crayons
  • Pad of art paper
  • Modeling clay (and instructions for Clay Faces)

 

Large Bin – Winter

  • Animals in Winter (book)
  • Hibernation game instructions and 6 small containers
  • Animal signs bingo
  • 3 winter tracking sheets
  • Tracking stick and instructions
  • 1 ruler
  • Stranger in the Woods (book)
  • Stranger in the Woods kit including hat, mitts, and scarf for the snowman
  • Over and Under the Snow (book)
  • 12 plastic pails and shovels, 8 metal spoons for shoveling snow
  • The Snowy Day (book)
  • Snowflake observation squares
  • Snowflake identification sheet
  • 8 small magnifiers
  • The Manitous (storybook)
  • Maple Moon (book)

Large Bin – Wonder

  • I Wonder (book)
  • Rabbits, Squirrels, and Chipmunks (book)
  • Quick Reference to Wildflowers of Ontario (poster)
  • Frogs, Toads, and Turtles (book)
  • 12 large magnifying glasses
  • 4 rulers
  • Mini tape measure
  • Soup or mud kitchen mini pots and pans
  • 5 wicker collecting baskets
  • 2 jute rope
  • 4 Texture Sensory Boxes
  • Forest game ideas
  • Colour matching paint chips

Large Bin – Bugs

  • 4 green and yellow viewers
  • Peterson First Guide to Insects (book)
  • Caterpillars, Bugs, and Butterflies (book)
  • 6 telescoping Butterfly Nets
  • 2 mini bug nets
  • 12 bug boxes with magnifier lids
  • 2 bug containers with tweezers
  • 7 laminated Litter Critter identification sheets
  • Minibeast hunt sheet
  • Insect hunt ideas
  • Plastic bugs for Insect hunt ideas (“camo trail” and “what is insect”)

Small Bin – Birds

4 Bushnell Binoculars

2 Kona Binoculars

Birds in Winter (book)

Birds, Nests and Eggs (book)

Quick Reference to Ontario Birds (book)

A sheet of ideas with websites: Christmas Bird Count, Backyard bird count

Small Bin – Binoculars

4 pair blue Bespin Binoculars

4 pair green Kidwinz Binoculars

4 pair Celestron Binoculars

Large Bin – Tracks

Tracks, Scats and Signs (book)

Big Tracks, Little Tracks (book)

Quick Reference to Animal Tracks of Eastern Ontario (poster)

2 rulers

Tracking Stick and instructions

Small bin – Trees

Quick Reference to Trees of Eastern Canada (poster)

Trees, Leaves, and Bark (book)

2 tree wheels for identifying Ontario conifers

Coniferous tree key

“Trees Provide Food” sheets

“Trees Provide Medicine” sheets