Can I make an infant sleep area without an expensive build in?
How do I turn a big empty room into an inviting and manageable childcare space?
How can I separate play spaces from the feeding area?
I got runners! I need to better control transitions.

In this practical session Iain and Bogdan will tackle some of the most common requests the LKG team has heard over the years in doing hundreds of floor plans. Whether for a learning area or a whole new centre, from multi-functional and multi-age learning areas in tight spaces, to finding ways to create cozy nooks, we’ll share tips, solutions, and floor plans that you can use whatever the size of your next project.

Duration: 46 mins

When you step into your new child care room, you want to hear “Ahh!” not D’Oh! 

If the learning environment is the third teacher, planning should be meticulous, involving the entire community and a lot of fun, too. 

Whether you’re upgrading a learning area or leaping into a big build, join us for ideas on planning your new space, this session will share:

• Tips for working with an architect/designer
• Walls are a resource
• Locating learning areas/zones
• Maximizing floor space for local licensing standards
• Some common opening day disasters and how to avoid them.

First in a series of 20 minutes sessions where you’ll see tips & strategies and real world Canadian examples, plus get exclusive resources – guides, floor planner, sample layouts -- to help you plan your childcare room or learning area!

Duration: 45 mins

Join us as we explore classroom layout applying the Curiosity Approach to learning.

This web workshop will consider the child’s rights in classroom design, inspired by noted EC educator and author Sandra Duncan. We’ll look at how we can implement these rights into classroom layouts that respect the need for play and exploration, active learning and creating opportunities for thinking critically.

Join Julie as she shares how you, too, can create a classroom that is child-centred, accessible and that ignites a child’s natural curiosity to explore.

Duration: 45 mins

Whether you’re an early childhood educator, centre director, or dedicated caregiver, you strive to create infant environments where children feel safe, nurtured, and ready to explore.

In this 30-minute webinar, we’ll explore Canadian infant rooms to uncover the principles behind creating spaces that are not only safe and functional, but also calm, beautiful, and responsive to the unique needs of infants.

 As part of our webinar series focused on different age groups, this “Spaces That Inspire” session highlights thoughtful planning strategies and practical insights from educators, supported by inspiring examples of developmentally appropriate infant environments.

What you’ll learn:

• Examples from real Canadian infant rooms.
• Key elements of inspiring infant spaces, including layout and flow.
• Design principles for creating purposeful zones: quiet, active, dramatic, messy, and transitional.
• Strategies to control clutter to reduce overstimulation and restore calm.
• Using multi-purpose furniture to maximize space and respond to infants’ developmental stages.

Guided by best practice and Canadian curricular standards, join us for inspiration on planning your next infant room or refreshing your existing infant spaces.

All attendees can get a certificate of completion and enter a draw for a give away of quality play resources.

Duration: 40 mins

Whether you’re an early childhood educator, a center director, or a passionate caregiver, you aspire to create learning environments where children will find comfort, joy and thrive.

In this 30-minute webinar, we’ll look at four specific Canadian toddler rooms to explore the principles behind creating environments that are not only safe and functional, but also beautiful. First in a series of webinars with each focusing on a different age group, we’ll share planning strategies and practical tips from educators backed by inspiring examples of engaging, and developmentally appropriate spaces.

 What you’ll learn:

• Examples from real Canadian toddler rooms.
• Key elements of inspiring toddler spaces, including layout and flow.
• Design principles for creating purposeful zones: quiet, active, dramatic, messy, and transitional.
• Strategies to control clutter to reduce overstimulation and restore calm.
• Using multi-purpose furniture to maximize space and respond to toddlers’ developmental stages.

Guided by best practice and Canadian curricular standards, join us for inspiration on planning your next toddler room or refreshing your existing toddler spaces. All attendees can get a certificate of completion and enter a draw for a give away of quality play resources.

Duration: 30 mins

Planning your outdoor learning area is an ongoing process that balances designing for the long-term with daily adjustments. Like an indoor classroom, the environment should be able to evolve with children’s interests and developmental needs, guided by observation and thoughtful changes over time.

In this 30-minute webinar, we’ll explore outdoor play spaces in Canadian childcare settings and share principles for creating environments that are safe, inviting, flexible, and supportive of meaningful outdoor play.

As part of our webinar series focused on different age groups, this “Spaces That Inspire” session highlights thoughtful planning strategies and practical insights from educators, supported by inspiring examples of well-designed outdoor play areas.

What you’ll learn:

• Real examples from Canadian outdoor learning environments and how educators use natural spaces.
• How thoughtful layout and pathways encourage exploration, movement, and independence.
• Creating meaningful play areas such as nature discovery, construction, dramatic play, and creative zones.
• A look at new additions in the 2026 outdoor collection, including dramatic play units and storage options.
• Inspiring outdoor activity ideas.

Guided by best practice and Canadian curricular standards, join us for inspiration on planning your next outdoor classroom or refreshing your existing space.

All attendees can get a certificate of completion and enter a draw for a give away of quality play resources.

Duration: 30 mins

Presenter: Anna Coules & Bogdan Pospielovsky

In this 30-minute webinar, we’ll explore simple, inclusive design strategies that help children in early years settings identify their own needs and comfortably engage with calming spaces.

What you’ll learn:

• How thoughtful room design empowers children to make choices that support comfort, focus, and confidence.
• Designing Quiet Zones that are accessible, calming, and engaging for children of all abilities.
• LKG’s NEW Quiet Zone furniture.
• Selecting the right resources and materials to enhance Quiet Zones.
• Using inclusive visual cues and signage with Widgit Online and communication devices to support understanding, independence, and self-regulation.

All attendees can get a certificate of completion and enter a draw for a Fidget Set giveaway.

Duration: 30 mins

Tables and chairs do more than fill a room — they shape how kids learn! Join us for a practical session on how thoughtful furniture choices and placement can improve focus, behaviour, and learning outcomes. We’ll also showcase LKG’s NEW modular tables and seating!

Duration: 45 mins

Totes, display, adjustable, lockable... Oh my!

When the environment is the 3rd teacher, even a shelf can influence learning. Effective and versatile storage solutions in early years classrooms are crucial for maintaining an organized space, enhancing efficiency, safety and accessibility.

Join us for this 30-minute webinar as we explore:

• New 2025 storage systems that promote independence and foster ownership and responsibility, regardless of abilities or developmental stages.
• Tips and strategies for sorting through and choosing different storage options making the most of limited space.
• How flexible and modular storage units can be adjusted as classroom needs change, supporting different activities and group sizes.

Plus a draw prize and a certificate of completion for all attendees.
If you or your team can't attend the scheduled time, just register and you’ll receive a notification when the recording is available for anytime viewing.

Duration: 30 mins
Presenters: Bonnie Ip & Bogdan Pospielovsky

Beautiful and interesting spaces for children not only enriches play opportunities but encourages self exploration. In this presentation Mark Rocamora, ECE will show how the design of the learning environments can makes connections to Developmentally Appropriate Practice in your learning environments.

Drawing on his frontline experience at Centennial College's Early Learning Centre at Progress Campus, Mark will share examples of how to provoke, invite and encourage creative expression using a variety of materials in different learning areas.

Duration: 45 mins

If a new early year’s classroom is in your future, you have to consider Roomscapes. A unique collection of interconnecting shelves, gates, and dividers, Roomscapes is a flexible system that can turn any open space into a learning environment. Discover the power of a well-organized classroom that genuinely becomes the third teacher: managing flow, encouraging positive behaviours, and inviting self-directed learning.

 In 25 minutes, Iain and Bogdan will show how Roomscapes can transform a space -- tool free, without an expensive build-in -- that can adapt to your community’s changing needs. We’ll also look at how to get started within an existing space while profiling some real Canadian childcare centres with Roomscapes.

Duration: 25 mins
 

Join us for a 30-minute webinar for an inspiring look at what’s new in the early years learning environments. What you’ll learn:

Whether you’re refreshing a single learning area or reimagining your entire environment, this session will provide practical strategies, inspiring visuals, and trend-forward solutions to help you design engaging spaces for young learners.

What you’ll learn:

• A first look at the Connections Furniture Collection with innovative, inclusive design that creates accessible spaces for all learners.
• New dramatic play furniture to inspire infants, toddlers, and preschoolers during imaginative play.
• How to use light and colour to spark STEAM learning
• Unique infant and toddler furniture and resources that nurture sensory exploration and movement.
• Innovative approaches to small world and block play.

All attendees can get a certificate of completion and enter a draw for a give away of quality play resources.

Where: Virtual

Duration: 30 mins

Presenter: Bonnie Ip

Join an engaging webinar for educators exploring the power of storytelling in early learning environments. Using The Peaceful Orange Blossoms by Bahaa Zouki, this session demonstrates how meaningful stories can support learning across multiple developmental areas while fostering inclusion and engagement.

What you’ll learn:

• Benefits of storytelling for literacy, numeracy, emotional literacy, and critical thinking.
• How stories can support inclusive and responsive learning environments.
• Discover practical, story-based activities that actively engage children.
• Connect storytelling to children’s real-life experiences.
• Encourage curiosity, collaboration, and exploration through shared narratives.

All attendees can get a certificate of completion and enter a draw for a giveaway of The Peaceful Orange Blossoms.

Duration: 45 mins

Presenter: Bahaa Zouki

Vibrant dramatic play areas can be inviting storytelling hubs that ignite curiosity and promote meaningful learning experiences. In this webinar, we’ll explore creative ideas for encouraging young children to bring their stories to life. 

In this 30 min webinar you’ll see:

• How to create a dedicated space for puppets and dress-up, where children can freely engage in imaginative play.
• See dolls and dollhouses that foster empathy, promote an understanding of diversity, and enhance problem-solving skills in young learners.
• Explore how to create themed environments or “mini-worlds” to promote literacy and storytelling.
• NEW for 2025 -- the latest enticing and inspiring upgrades for your dramatic play area.
• Practical strategies for organizing and designing spaces for collaborative play and self-expression.

Duration: 30 mins
Presenters: Anna Coules & Bogdan Pospielovsky

Dramatic play centered around food, from the store to the kitchen, sparks a child's imagination and provides valuable opportunities to develop communication, math, literacy, and STEM skills.

In this 30-minute webinar, we will explore how open-ended furniture, and blocks can inspire children to build their own food-themed dramatic play environments, such as a grocery store, kitchen, lemonade stand, or restaurant.  

Thinking of refreshing your play kitchen?
Join us for an exciting look at the latest modern wooden designs, featuring everything from sleek, compact styles to timeless traditional kitchens. We’ll also explore how a variety of kitchen dramatic play furniture and diverse play food can reflect different home styles.

Duration: 30 mins
Presenters: Anna Coules & Bogdan Pospielovsky

Nature engages and stimulates a child’s imagination, making outdoor learning a powerful way to foster creativity.
By reimagining outdoor classroom spaces, we can create dynamic areas that encourage exploration, imagination, and hands-on learning.

Join us for a 30-minute webinar as we explore:

• The latest 2025 trends and products in outdoor furniture and educational tools.
• Strategies for designing inspiring outdoor spaces that stimulate creativity, foster cooperative learning, and support cognitive and emotional development.
• Opportunities to engage with nature in an urban landscape.

Duration: 30 mins
Presenters: Anna Coules & Bogdan Pospielovsky

Duration: 45 mins

Outdoor areas can mean so much more for early childhood educators than a place for children to burn off excess energy. But where to begin in transforming an outdoor play area into an outdoor classroom?

Join Iain and Bogdan as we look at planning your outdoor learning area.

• Organizing your space into learning areas
• Rot Rules –embracing natural processes in your space
• Balancing nature in your furnishings while protecting your investment
• Incorporating water
• Making room for trikes and scooters

Plus sample plans, care guides and other materials to help you reimagine your outdoor area.

Whether your centre is adjacent to a woodlot, or surrounded by tarmac, we’ll share the LKG furnishings play resources and strategies that can help make discovery learning outdoors possible.   

Outdoor learning doesn’t stop when the snow falls. Many Canadian jurisdictions mandate outdoor learning for kindergarten, and pre-school year-round. And fantastic natural learning opportunities abound -- freeze, melt, snow, ice etc.

In 25 minutes, we’ll share some practical tips and strategies for caring for and maximizing the life of your outdoor classroom equipment. Including:

• Inspecting, lubricating and simple fixes for trikes, scooters, turtle buses and strollers.
• How to care for different outdoor wood furnishing: acetylated, cedar, eucalyptus and Thermory wood
• Safe cleaning and refinishing tips

And More...!!

Duration: 25 mins

Our outdoor environments are all so often underutilized and looked upon as a space to let children burn off their energy and solely engage in their free play.

The outdoors affords children with opportunities to explore and learn about the world around them and can be viewed as a classroom without walls.

In this session, we will discover and discuss the possibilities when recreating our indoor learning environment in the outdoors, regardless of the weather.

Across Canada, early years educators are embracing the challenge of taking their classrooms outdoors. Iain (LKG Sales Manager) and Bogdan (Director of Marketing) will demonstrate a variety of furnishings for teaching outdoors that harness a child’s natural need to play and explore.

Topics discussed:

• Explore the world of Outlast by Community Playthings. See what sets these products apart and how they are built to last a lifetime, in all weather conditions.
• Compare various wood options for outdoors, including Outlast’s acytelated wood, Canadian red cedar and other options.
• See examples and ideas for implementing these products in a variety of environments to help take indoor curricular strands - creative arts, math, language arts, science etc. - outside
• Learn sanitization and care tips

Informed by pedagogy and real world examples, this presentation will give teachers, ECE’s, centre managers, principals and administrators practical information for sorting through a variety of outdoor learning products.

Wood outdoor learning equipment and furniture that inspires independent, open-ended play. From a tables and benches, to blocks and mud kitchens, the Outlast line of weatherproof wood furniture is warrantied not to warp shrink or rot even in Canadian conditions for life. Smooth surfaces for writing and drawing, water tables and mud kitchens for investigation and experimentation, a block and plank system that fosters engineering, gross motor development and risky play. We’ll show you how Outlast – endlessly, flexible, and portable – can adapt to your changing needs without the cost of a built-in play-structure. Plus, what happens when you stick an Outlast table in a frozen pond for 6 months.