In the ballet “The Magic Toy Shoppe,” something enchanted happens each night when the titular shop closes: its toys come alive.

They are creations from around the world, so French clowns mingle with Cossack ponies and Italian tarantella dancers.

Audiences can see it all unfold this weekend, when Eastern Connecticut Ballet gives two matinee performances in Old Lyme.

Gloria Govrin, ECB artistic director, choreographed the piece, inspired by Respighi’s music based on Rossini’s piano pieces. That was the music for the original “Magic Toy Shoppe” ballet — 1919’s “La Boutique Fantasque,” danced in its 1919 debut by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.

After ECB’s matinees, kids in the audience can step onstage and have their photos taken with the dancers. They’ll each get a toy as well.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a new toy to donate to the Spring Toy Drive, which is coordinated by Lymes’ Youth Services Bureau benefitting area children’s hospitals and shelters. Everyone who donates a toy is entered into a drawing to win an American Girl Doll or a prize from “The Magic Toy Shoppe’s’” sponsor, The Bowerbird.

— Kristina Dorsey

Eastern Connecticut Ballet’s “The Magic Toy Shoppe,” 3 p.m. Sat. and Sun., Lyme-Old Lyme High School Auditorium, Lyme Street, Old Lyme; $12 kids, $18 adults in advance at ECB’s studio, 435 Boston Post Road, East Lyme, or the Bowerbird, Old Lyme; tickets at door $14 for kids, $20 adults; kids 3 and under admitted free if sitting on a parent’s lap; (860) 739-7899.