For over 20 years, the Chinese Garden within the Montreal Botanical Garden is lit up every fall by all kinds of Chinese lanterns. Each lantern that can be seen at the Botanical Garden was designed and drawn in Montreal. Then, the specifications of the lanterns are sent to Shanghai where they will be manufactured. When …
“Day and Night” by SmartGames is a game that will help young children develop their eye-hand coordination and their spatial reasoning. This game consists of a base with 3 posts and 10 brightly coloured wooden blocks of different shapes. The game comes with an easel booklet containing 24 coloured cards with pictures that must be …
Almost a year ago, we found out that some of the software used by the Animaplates website was near the end of its life. That’s techno-speak for saying that the software is no longer supported and problems are no longer fixed. So we decided to replace the obsolete pieces of software with new ones, and …
I made a lot of gift boxes using the pattern that you can find here, and I had fun decorating them all in different ways. I had to stop when I ran out of boxes… Let’s see what I did with buttons. First, a heart. And then, balloons. Why not? And a flower: Now, let’s …
We are busy renovating certain aspects of the Animaplates website. Some of these updates are necessary because of software reaching the end of its life, but we also want to take this opportunity to improve the website and make it even easier to use. That’s why we asked for your opinion in a short survey. …
An interview with Jean-François Faucher, author of Panic at Santa’s Workshop, by Holly Ivy the Elf. Jean-François, what gave you the idea to write a Christmas story? Well, ou could say that the idea came to me by itself. One night in December, a few years ago, I was in my chicken coop, putting winter …
One of the things I love most about the Animaplates website is the feedback that I receive from you, my readers. Especially when it includes pictures of your work. Creativity can be expressed in many ways, and that as very visible in a big project like my giant nutcracker. I feel very honoured to be …
Hi there! I am Beaverly. You know… the beaver who loves to read! It’s time to go back to school and I’m very excited to start visiting schools and to discover a lot of new things! I would like to find teachers in Canada who are ready to welcome me into their classroom. Are you …
Hi everybody! Because it is the Summer holidays, I thought I could come back to Canada and visit my friends in the forest and tell them all about my adventures of the past year. I took the opportunity to visit a special exhibition in Gatineau, right next to Ottawa. This exhibition is called MosaiCanada. I …
In early September of 2016, the 26 kindergarten students of Edvig and Jessica of Pasteur Primary School in Bretagne (France) welcomed Beaverly, a Canadian cousin of their class mascot beaver Nestor! Beaverly was accompanied by Joelle and Frank from Ottawa, who also carried her suitcase full of books. Beaverly was going to share her love …
The Animaplates cats wish you happy holidays with a song!
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro mark the first time that the Games are held in South America. After the start of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, most Games took place in Europe. Maybe that was logical, since the tradition of a peaceful sport competition has its origin in ancient Greece, where one of the objectives …