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Holiday Market – December 11 + 12, 2021

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We are so excited to be hosting our our second annual Holiday Food + Artisan Market!

Join us December 11 + 12, 2021 from 10am-4pm both days in the parking lot in front of New West City Hall!

Grab last minute gifts, stock your table for the holidays, and have a fantastic holiday experience while shopping local.

New this year we are proud to offer an opportunity for 6 marginalized food or craft vendors to apply for a holiday market scholarship. The intention of this scholarship is to provide more opportunities for vendors who face barriers in bringing their products to market in the pursuit of equity and inclusion. As a community market it is important to us that our market accurately reflects our community and so we have 6 opportunities available for self-identified marginalized vendors to have their stall fees, membership fees, and insurance fees covered for this weekend market (approximately $225 value) to make this a more accessible opportunity for all. 

Apply for a regular or scholarship stall in our application by clicking here.

 

Final Sprout Club Activity!

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September 2nd – Last Week of Sprout Club!

Make wind chimes with us! Created by Holly Nickerson – Guest Artist!

 

Supplies :

  • 1 super cool stick. The bigger the stick the bigger the chime!
  • colourful knitting yarn. You can use any colour or colour combination you want. The multicoloured skeins make for the coolest looking chimes!
  • large metal washers
  • scissors 

 

Step 1- wrapping the stick:
– cut a piece of yarn that is approximately 8x the length of your stick. 
– fold the yarn in half and tie around one end of the stick being sure to leave some stick showing on either end. 
– take the two halves of the yarn and together wrap them tightly around the length of the stick until you get to the end. Remember to leave some stick showing in either end!
– once the stick in wrapped tie the end by looping the two pieces of yarn into a simple knot, and then knitting them together to make sure it’s extra secure. 
 
         
 
Step two- make the chimes!
– for each string on chimes you want three pieces of yarn, each cut to approximately 10 inches long. You can have as many or few chimes as you like. More strings = more noise! In the example image my chimes are approximately 3” apart. 
– starting by tying the first piece of yarn to the top of one washer making sure to knit securely. 
– take the second piece of yarn and tie securely to the opposite end of the washer. 
– at the loose end of this second piece of yarn tie another washer. Repeat this one more time. At this point you will have three pieces of string tied around three washers. 
 
 
Step 3- jazz up the chimes (optional)
– you will notice that there is lots of excess yarn hanging off of the strings you just created. You can either trim the excess string for a cleaner look or….jazz up your chimes with extra washers! Feel free to tie additional washers to the excess yarn the more washers you have, the more the chimes will make music. In the example image I have a combination of trimmed and I trimmed chimes
 
Step 4- assemble!:
– tie each string of chimes you just created to your super awesome stick. Cut an additional piece of yarn that is the length of your stick plus an additional 2 inches on either side. Tie this piece of yarn to either end of the stick and use it to hang your chime. Voila, you’re all done! 
 
 
Thanks for making with us this year!

Sprout Club Week 5 Instructions!

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Week # 5 – July 29th

Activity Title Colourful Leaf Prints

 

Instructions:

 

  1. Find as many leaves as you want (the more interesting the veins on the back of the leaf the cooler the art)
  2. Colour whatever designs you want onto the back of it
  3. Press leaf, coloured side down onto the paper
  4. Take leaf off and enjoy!

 

Supplies :

  • Blank sheet of paper 
  • As many leaves as you want
  • Markers

 

Learning Goals:

 

Making Colourful Leaf Prints prompts children to be more aware of nature. and allows them appreciate, and learn more about the anatomy of leaves.

Sprout Club Week 4 Instructions!

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Join us every week until September 2nd at the Sprout Club Tent for a free activity or craft that looks at nature and food systems.

You can find the tent off of Queens Ave next to the Info Tent.

This week our Sprout Club activity is from our Guest Artist, Holly Nickerson, and she has made up some special step by step instructions with photos!

Rainbow Nature Scavenger Hunt:

Supplies:
– Construction paper, or other sturdy paper in white, green, red, blue, pink, yellow, and black. One sheet of each is more than enough. 
– glue stick to adhere the paper pockets to the white construction paper base 
-scissors to cut out the pockets
– markers, crayons, pencil crayons….anything to decorate the sheet with and label the pockets!
 
Steps:
1. Using only the coloured construction paper cut out a 4”x4” square of each colour.
*pocket options* measurements given are approximate. Feel free to make your pockets larger or smaller depending on the size of your paper and how crafty you want to get with it! Just be sure to leave some room for those folded edges, otherwise there won’t be any pockets!
2. Create a 1/2” fold on three of the edges on each square
 
3. Using the glue stick, glue the folded edge of each coloured square onto the sheet of white construction paper to form a colourful pocket. Be sure that all of the non folded edges of the squares are all at the top so items can be placed in the pockets!  *TIP* when gluing the pockets onto the white construction paper be sure to leave some space for decoration!
4. Using markers, crayons, or pencil crayons (really whatever you like!) decorate the page. Some options are to label each pocket with the colour name, put your name at the top of the page, doodle some designs of the items you want to collect…..and more!
 
5. Go scavenge! The goal is to find one item in nature that corresponds with the colour of the pocket you created, and to place that item in the pocket. Get creative, it’s not just grass and leaves that are green 🙂
 

COVID PROTOCOL UPDATE 07/06/2021

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COVID PROTOCOL UPDATE! (July 6, 2021)

The PHO Orders for markets have changed and we are working on a slow and safe transition towards loosening (and ultimately eliminating) our restrictions. Please bear with us as we do our absolute best to keep everyone safe and adjust.

Starting July 8th shoppers can enter and exit at three locations:

  • the top of Tipperary Park (where our entrance has been),
  • in front of City Hall (where our exit has been),
  • *new* at the bend at 4th and Royal.

With three entrance/exits we are no longer able to support priority entrance, and now all shoppers can join us beginning at 3pm.

Going forward customers can now move around inside the market in any direction as long as distance is kept and others can pass safely.

Please keep in mind that though the restrictions have been mostly lifted, COVID-19 is still very real and many people around you have not had their second vaccine or are at a different level of comfort than you. Please be considerate and keep your distance, consider continuing to wear a mask, and be understanding to staff and volunteers at the market.

The caution tape will remain up, and we are still unable to have dogs at the market.

Above all else, remember that everyone is doing their best and being respectful of others is key.

As further adjustments are made we will keep you updated! Have questions? Please email us.

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