On Wednesday, October 22, the TOYBOX team participated in the 2025 Pine Creek Preschool Fair in Austin, Manitoba! This year, our special friend Nume came along to explore seven exciting learning stations: Vision (seeing), Audiology (hearing), Language (speech), Therapy (OT/PT), Gym Activities, and Literacy & Numeracy. Children received an event passport card to collect stickers from each station. The TOYBOX team hosted the Literacy and Numeracy stations, where families were i

Recently, the TOYBOX team visited the UWSA Daycare for a TOYBOX Training Day with Early Childhood Educators (ECE)! Here, we introduced the TOYBOX project, discussed child development, and had the opportunity to try out some TOYBOX activities. Collaboration with community members is such an important part of the project, and this was demonstrated during our time at the UWSA Daycare. It was wonderful to be able to listen to and share individual experiences of facilitating learn

On October 15th, TOYBOX took a road trip to Rouseau River Anishinabe First Nation to visit the Head Start Program.  We got a chance to talk about the TOYBOX project with the educators and members of the Head Start program. This involved how to bring TOYBOX to life within the program and our previous visits to other Head Start Programs around Manitoba. The discussion started by introducing the importance of play during learning and finding the perfect learning zone between chi

TOYBOX provided free weekday one-hour children’s programming for people staying at the wildfire evacuation sites in Winnipeg, MB.

On September 20, Toybox made a wonderful connection with University of Winnipeg students during Community Building Day! Our table was set...

September 20, 2025 Over the weekend, TOYBOX travelled to Teulon, Manitoba to attend their annual pumpkin festival! We set up a table...

September 3-4, 2025 The TOYBOX team came in ready to roll into the school year by attending the University of Winnipeg Students'...

Written July 17, 2025 Updated August 12, 2025 Starting mid-July, the TOYBOX team has started facilitating children's programming at...

June 20th Six TOYBOX team members were invited to attend Oak Street Nursery School’s annual summer picnic. Here, families of the Oak...

June 9 - June 11, 2025 While in Hong Kong, student and faculty members of the TOYBOX research team profiled presentations at...

May 31-June 3, 2025 At the beginning of June, the TOYBOX team travelled to Toronto to attend the Canadian Society for the Study of...

May 20, 2025 Recently, the TOYBOX team attended The Assessment and Instruction in Mathematics (AIM)  conference held in Montreal, Quebec....

April 9 & 16, 2025 Recently, the TOYBOX team had the wonderful opportunity to be at the Foire petite enfance en santé et bien-être...

The University of Winnipeg Psychology Department, Treaty 1 Territory April 25, 2024 ToyBox team members had the great opportunity to...

Presenter, Anthony Ferens On March 21and 28, the TOYBOX research assistants and community members had the opportunity to learn more and...

February 21, 2025 Last month, as a part of I love to read month, a team of TOYBOX researchers introduced parents, caregivers, and their...

This past Monday, on February 3rd, 2025, a crew from TOYBOX made up of research assistants and community members were invited to host a...

Recently, the TOYBOX team had the amazing opportunity to visit Churchill! During our visit, we were hosted by Duke of Marlborough School...

On Wednesday, October 23rd, TOYBOX had the opportunity to attend the 2024 Wellness Fair in Austin, Manitoba! Six stations were set up for...

October 2, 2024 The TOYBOX team had the wonderful opportunity to speak to three groups of caregivers and staff at The Peguis Family...