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Rain, rain, go away!

Posted: 22nd February 2018

Living in the South of England we get our fair share of sunshine compared to the rest of the UK, but the recent cold and wet weather has been hitting us hard!

Here’s our top ten tips on how to make a rainy day fun!

Have a game of musical chairs or practice our freeze dance at home with your own music! You can even get an older sibling to start and stop the music to get them involved too! You can also just dance and move to the music too!
Messy art play! Spread out a cheap cover for your carpet and get out the paints and glitter and have some fun!
Make a space on your floor, remove any valuables and grab a washing basket and some little rolled up socks or other soft items to practice throwing and aiming!
Pretend and play! Use your imagination; build a playfort with blankets and furniture and pretend to be in a castle or a den! Turn off the lights and grab a torch for extra fun!
Read a story together. This will help your little one’s linguistic and phonic development even if they are just listening for now. For older little ones this will help develop their reading and vocabulary skills!
Take a mid day bath and have some fun with toys and bubbles!
Make a rainy day music box! Grab some elastic bands, stretch them over a cardboard box and make a makeshift guitar. With little ones make your own maraccas with rice and a little tube or well sealed recycled carton. You can also buy some little instruments and pop them in a box and let little ones pick them out – similar to our Busy box!
If all else fails and your little ones are desperate to play, go outside and jump in puddles with them and have some muddy fun at the park! Take extra clothes just in case, or something washable or that you can throw away to help cover car seats if driving.
Play hide and seek with some toys!
Come along to Gymboree Play & Music Cheam with your little ones! As well as your classes, you can book one off extra sessions in addition to your normal class date, and we have Open Gym as part of your membership package on Monday and Thursday 12.15pm-1.15pm.

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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