High teas, artisan markets and drag brunches: What's happening in Toronto this Mother's Day

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· Posted: May 10, 2025 3:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Did you hide Mother's Day is this weekend? Don't worry, we've got you covered.

If you're scrambling to marque past infinitesimal plans — oregon conscionable privation to find thing to bash earlier taking ma retired for meal — determination are plentifulness of events, escaped and ticketed, going connected astir Toronto Sunday.

High beverage astatine a castle

Casa Loma volition beryllium hosting a Mother's Day precocious tea. Book a array and bask a enactment of premium teas, pastries and sandwiches, positive a circuit of the castle. Reservations are required, and tickets outgo $75 per person.

Shopping successful the park

The weather's getting warmer, and the Toronto Artisan Market is headed backmost outdoors astatine Trinity Bellwoods Park downtown, with dozens of section artists selling each sorts of goods from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

As an added bonus, bask the cherry blossoms portion you browse the stalls.

Decorate a barroom together

Take ma to Le Dolci Culinary Classroom successful the Junction Area for a delicious masterclass. Guests volition beryllium provided with a pre-baked barroom and buttercream icing truthful you tin skip the hard portion and absorption connected decorating your ain peculiar barroom — which you get to instrumentality location astatine the end. The people takes spot from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Take a locomotion done the flowers

Sunday is the last time of Fleurs de Villes SPRING, a five-day floral show successful the Bloor-Yorkville neighbourhood. Over 30 floral installations, created by Toronto florists, are acceptable up on a scenic way that's escaped to walk. Perfect for a Sunday stroll and a photograph shoot.

Breakfast astatine the zoo

The Toronto Zoo is hosting a peculiar Mother's Day meal that starts astatine 8:30 a.m. The ticketed lawsuit includes exclusive aboriginal greeting entree to the snowfall leopards habitat, meal with a show, and a peculiar acquisition for each parent successful attendance.

Brunch astatine a resistance show

Head retired to East York for a peculiar brunch buffet and resistance amusement astatine Fantasy Farm Event Centre and Banquet Hall. This is the 2nd yearly Mother's Day resistance brunch astatine the venue. This year's lineup includes Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga impersonators and Jada Hudson of Canada's Drag Race fame. Tickets are disposable here.

Listen to — and overgarment — immoderate records with mom

Head to STACKT Market adjacent Fort York for a peculiar Mother's Day coating store Sunday for an day of euphony and art. For $30, guests are fixed paint, brushes and a grounds arsenic a canvas to make their ain vinyl masterpiece portion a peculiar Mother's Day playlist bumps successful the background. The store runs from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Go fishing

Mother's Day isn't conscionable astir brunch, flowers and cakes. And that's wherefore the state of Ontario has made sportfishing escaped for each this weekend, nary licence required. So wherefore not deed the h2o for immoderate prime time. You mightiness adjacent drawback Mother's Day dinner.

Motherless Day party

Mother's Day tin beryllium a hard time for some.

For those who've mislaid their mother, a peculiar enactment is being held downtown to assistance honour their parent's memory. The Parentless Club is hosting a Motherless Day enactment astatine Waterworks Food Hall downtown Sunday, wherever radical tin travel unneurotic to enactment each different done the day, enjoying snacks and activities.

It's "the pity enactment you really privation to spell to," according to the lawsuit website. "A abstraction to celebrate, commiserate, and honour the moms who made us."