Interactive Play for Improving Maternal Mental Health
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Gymboree Play & Music’s baby classes (0–18 months) introduce your little one to a calm, sensory‑rich environment designed to support early development and bonding. Babies experience gentle movement, songs, sensory play, baby‑sized apparatus and nurturing activities that stimulate brain development and build early social awareness. Grown ups learn simple ways to support tummy time, strengthen core muscles and encourage visual tracking, helping babies grow confident as they explore new sights, sounds and textures. With guidance from expert teachers, each session promotes communication, relaxation and connection, laying the foundations for healthy physical, cognitive and emotional development.
Discover a calm, sensory-rich space designed to support your newborn’s early development. Enjoy songs, movement and gentle play that build strength, spark curiosity and nurture bonding. Expert teachers guide you through activities that inspire confidence and stimulate growing minds.
Enjoy a calm, nurturing space where you’ll learn soothing, baby‑led massage techniques that support relaxation, digestion and deeper bonding. Gentle strokes help your little one feel secure, settled and understood, while expert instructors guide you with confidence every step of the way.
You and your child will explore a fun, movement‑rich space designed for babies on the move. Together you’ll enjoy songs, gentle challenges and equipment‑based play that build strength, confidence and early social skills as your little crawler discovers new ways to move and explore.
Your little one will experience songs and sounds from around the world, building listening skills, language development and early emotional awareness through instruments, singing and movement. There’s no better time to start building a love of music.
You and your little one explore different musical styles, instruments and rhythms alongside children of all ages in this mixed-age class. As well as musical development, sessions support social and emotional learning, and siblings of different ages are very much welcome.
Your baby gets to explore music, art, signing, literacy and mindfulness all in one themed sensory session, with lots of exposure to language, movement and sensory play. Each class follows a new theme, so there’s always something exciting to discover.
As your little one finds their feet, this class gives them the space and equipment to build strength, balance and confidence through physical challenges including tunnels, slides, bridges and swings. Sing-alongs and group activities incorporate social skills and memory building along the way.
You and your baby learn around 100 signs together through songs, games and activities, with Gymboree Play & Music as the first commercial partner of The Makaton Charity. It’s a lot of fun and a great way to build communication before speech develops.
Bring your little ones together to explore a lively, mixed‑age play space where babies, toddlers and older siblings learn side by side. Imaginative play, shared activities and open‑ended equipment build confidence, creativity and social skills as families enjoy playful adventures together
Included in all Gymboree Play & Music memberships, your child gets free time to explore the equipment and playscapes at their pace, with you close by. It’s a wonderful chance to revisit what they’ve been working on in class and follow wherever their curiosity takes them.
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Both of my children (3.5 years and 11 months) go to Gymboree Play & Music and love it. My toddler goes to their drop-off Lego class which she raves about. It's very creative, working not only on Lego skills but also painting, drawing etc. My infant son loves his Gymboree Play & Music Crawlers class - particularly loves crawling all over their props, through the tunnels, etc. Great way to get the infant crawling over obstacles! Gymboree Play & Music is part of our weekly schedule for both kids and we look forward to participating every week. Invaluable!
Gymboree Play & Music was a lovely and positive experience for my son Leo. We started when he was 9 months and he is now 3 years old, I wish we had started sooner.
He loves the songs (which is part of our daily singing at home), the freedom to explore and he was happy there. He looks forward to class every week and once class is over he will tell everyone about Gymbo and what he did.
For me, I liked that it taught him how to get down safely from a height, how to learn to use his body, and touching on different topics every 2 weeks. It gave me confidence in other environments to trust that he has the ability that he learned from Gymboree Play & Music and to trust him.
I’ve been taking both my newborn and toddler to Gymboree Play & Music for a couple of months now and both boys are really loving the classes and open gym sessions. It’s a great way to meet other mums, entertain toddlers at witching hour(!) and get ideas for sensory play with babies. Sophie and Cat are fantastic and have so much energy and loads of different ideas for the classes, plus make sure the activities it’s help children meet their development milestones as well. Highly recommend this if you’re thinking about joining!! Thanks so much Sophie, Cat and the wider team :-)