Tweens' Hobbies

Collecting

- Coins -

• - Coin Collecting for Beginners
  Offers advice for newbies on how to get started, how to pursue this hobby even on a low budget.
• - The Canadian Coin Reference Site

- Comic Books -

• - How to start a comic book collection
  A comic book collection can be a fun and challenging hobby that you can start at any age and on any budget.

- Gems and Minerals -

• - Junior Rock Hound
  An excellent resource for preteens. Explains rocks, minerals, fossils, ...
• - Species For Systematic Collectors
  A Canadian buy, sell and trade site for people interested in mineral collecting.

- Scrapbooking -

• Scrapbooking
  Jazz up your Scrapbooking skills with a couple cool tips.

- Stamps -

• - Basics of Stamp Collecting
  Step by step instructions for the beginners.
• Canadian Postal Archives
  Shows all Canadian stamps issued over the years.
• - Collecting (Canada Post)
  News on latest stamp releases in Canada.
• - Philatelic SuperSite
  
• - The Canadian Forces Philatelic Society
  
• - Stamp Collecting Specialties
  Many collectors limit their scope in stamp collecting to particular countries, time periods, or types of stamps. Popular topical themes are: animals, butterflies, birds, flowers, art, sports, maps, Disney, space, famous people, and many others.

Cooking

• Cook´s Thesaurus
  Suggests substitutions for thousands of cooking ingredients, including low-calorie and low-fat alternatives for dieters, inexpensive substitutes for gourmets on a budget, and innovative replacements for hard-to-find ethnic ingredients.

Magic Tricks

• Magic Show
  Shows how to do coin and card tricks.
• Psychic Stunts
  Is a free educational site, featuring:psychic magic and mentalism and interesting oddities and games.

Radio

This hobby gives you the ability to communicate across the country, around the globe, and even with astronauts on space missions.

• Burlington Amateur Radio Club
• Halton Amateur Radio Club
• Radio Amateur of Canada