Mom & Tot Morning at Boston Pizza Ajax with Lionel

On Monday morning, members from momstown Whitby-Ajax met up for a special morning at Boston Pizza Ajax.

The children were quite excited this particular morning because they were anticipating a special visit from Lionel the Boston Pizza mascot.

When we arrived, the children kept themselves occupied while awaiting Lionel's arrival by completing a craft.
This months momstown curriculum is based around hats, so we had a fun little Cat in the Hat inspired crafts and coloring sheets for the toddlers to complete.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the Cat in the Hat Hat Craft, but it is very easy to make.

What you need is:
White and Red Construction Paper
Tape
Stapler
Paper Plate
Scissors

Steps:
Take to pieces of the white construction paper. Lie them vertically on the table beside each other. Tape the seams (in the middle) together. Cut strips of the red construction paper, and glue them on to the white paper. Once you've done this. You can proceed to decorate the hat however you'd like (using stickers, glitter, beans, markers, etc). Once done decorating size the hat to the child's head and staple/tape or glue it together. In our case, we only had toddlers at the event so we made Cat in the Hat crowns, but if you wanted to.... Once you have sized your hat and secured it, you could then cut out the top portion of a paper plate leaving the brim. Insert the cylinder into the paper plate and staple the cylinder (crown) to the plate, which will create a fabulous hat!

Once we finished our craft and colouring, our lunch orders were placed and out popped a special visitor...  LIONEL! A lot of the children were very unsure as to what to think of him. Some cried. Most just stared. Lionel was meant to take individual photos with each child, however we opted to just do a group photo instead.

We had a great time this month, and we're looking forward to our Family Day Lunch at Boston Pizza planned for next month. If you didn't have the chance to come out to this event, and would like to participate in the next one - email info.whitby-ajax@momstown.ca to find out how!