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National Day Of Play

Posted: 27th July 2024

Come and celebrate The National Day Of Play with us at Gymboree Play & Music Bristol!

Non-Members are welcome along for free!

Playday is the national day for play, celebrated each year across the UK on the first Wednesday in August. Playday 2024 will be celebrated on Wednesday 7 August.

We are delighted to announce that the theme for this year’s Playday is …

Play – the culture of childhood
Supporting play, fun and friendships

This year’s theme celebrates the rich and lively culture of children’s play. Every child plays – playfulness is a distinct feature of behaviour across generations and cultures. Playing generates a culture of childhood.

Playing is vital for children’s health, happiness, and creativity. Through play:

children develop a sense of, and value for culture
cultural exploration is encouraged, fostering an appreciation for diversity
children work together, negotiate, and build relationships.
children feel connected to each other and their neighbourhoods
children create and pass on games, songs and stories.

Play is every child’s right – on Playday and every day.

This Playday, we are calling on everyone – families, playworkers, and all those who work with children across the UK, to join together to foster a culture of supporting play.

Details:

Wednesday the 7th of August

1pm – 1:45pm

Open Play with Bubbles at the end too!

0-5 Years

Open to Members and Non-Members for free!

Reviews

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!

Natalia, Hampstead

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.

Sheena, Sevenoaks

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 :-)

Pippa, Tunbridge Wells