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Tiffin Cent
The Tiffin Centre offers exciting outdoor activities and
learning opportunities to make your child’s birthday party
fun and memorable!
Suggested Party Themes
(Some themes are season-specific. Ask for details.)
All Ages
 Cub’s Life/Instincts for Survival: Role playing games help kids
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learn about predator/prey relationships
Life in the Pond: Kids dip-net for pond creatures and investigate
their findings
Wildlife Detectives: Hunt for signs of animals and learn how they
adapt to the environment
“Lost in the Woods” Wilderness Skills: Learn valuable life skills
and how to prepare for outdoor adventure
Outdoor Recreation: Orienteering, Snowshoeing and/or
kick-sledding, Maple Sugar Bush Visit
Children
Youth
Programs for children ages 3 to 8
involve indoor and outdoor activity
and culminate with a craft:
 Nature Discovery Hike: Using
their senses, children explore
nature hands-on
 A Chickadee Feeling: An
introduction to common winter
birds and their habitats while
hiking in the woods
 Land of the Three Bears:
Discover the world of hibernation
Programs for children ages 9 and up
involve outdoor activity and skillbuilding:
 GPS Geocaching: Learn
orienteering skills to find hidden
“treasures”
 Team Dynamics and
Low Ropes Challenge: This
program challenges participants
to work together to succeed at
fun, safe, co-operative games
Don’t see what you’re looking for? Let our Environmental
Educators suggest a program to suit your interests.
Tiffin Centre for Conservation
8195 8th Line
Utopia, ON, L0M 1T0
705-424-1479 ext.263
www.nvca.on.ca
Our Facilities
The Tiffin Centre is made up of more than 300 acres of
conservation lands including wetlands, forest, meadows and
ponds, connected by a series of groomed trails. The hub of the
Environmental Education program is the beautiful John L. Jose
Environmental Learning Centre.
Additionally, the Tiffin Centre features a number of other
facilities to help make your visit fun and educational, including
an outdoor classroom, picnic pavilion, operating maple sugar
bush and low ropes challenge course. We also have equipment
available for groups to participate in show-shoeing, kick-sledding
and GPS geocaching.
All of our facilities, and most of our trails and programs, are
accessible to children of all physical and developmental abilities,
and all-terrain wheelchairs are available for use.
How to Reserve Your Party
Step 1: Call to speak with our education staff at 705-4241479 ext. 263 to select a date and program.
Step 2: Obtain a booking form on our web site at nvca.on.ca
(click on the Environmental Education button and select Birthday
Parties), or call us to request that it be sent to you.
Step 3: Complete your booking form and send it by fax to
705-424-2115 or email to outdoored@nvca.on.ca
Your deposit can be provided by mail, phone or in person.
We accept cash, cheque, debit, VISA and MasterCard.
Party Prices & Policies
3 hours - $270 for up to 20 children ($13.50/add. child)
Includes 2 hrs of programming conducted by Tiffin staff, and 1 hr
in the party room to be planned and facilitated by party hosts.
2 hours - $185 for up to 20 children ($9.25/add. child)
Includes 1 hr of programming conducted by Tiffin staff, and 1 hr
in the party room to be planned and facilitated by party hosts.
Additional hours - $95 per hour for up to 20 children.
Parents and adult volunteers attend free.
DEPOSIT & CANCELLATION POLICY:
A 50% deposit is required to reserve an event. If an event is
cancelled with two weeks’ or more notice, the deposit will be
refunded minus a $50 administration fee. If a cancellation is
received with less than two weeks’ notice, the following
cancellation fees apply: 3-hour party, $135; 2-hour party,
$92.50.
Food Options
Party hosts are welcome to bring
their own food, either homemade or
catered, and must supply all tableware and linens. Please see our
booking form for complete terms and
conditions.
Campfire lunch available!
Let us provide hot dogs with
all the fixings for $2.00 each.
Location
The Tiffin Centre is situated on the
8th Line of Essa Twp. in Simcoe
County, just 4 km south of County
Road 90, and 10 km west of Barrie.