Christmas Jumper Day!

Posted: 1st December 2025

It’s Christmas Jumper Day on Thursday 11th December, raising money for Save the Children!

Christmas Jumper Day has been running since 2012, and the money raised goes towards helping children and families with access to education, healthcare, protection, and nutritious food. At Gymboree Play & Music we love an excuse to dress up, and we’re excited to see you come to class in your festive jumpers! But please don’t feel you need to buy a new jumper, second hand will do. Or if you’re feeling creative you could decorate any old jumper with stickers, glitter or tinsel.

We have some templates for penguin, snowman, and robin decorations to help you get started!

And don’t forget to tag us @gymboreeclassesuk and @savechildrenuk and #ChristmasJumperDay in your pix on social media so we can see your sparkly skills!

Your Money Goes a Long Way

£2 could buy a packet of seeds for a family in Kenya to grow their own food, after drought has killed their crops.
£8 could buy a blanket to keep a child in Ukraine warm through winter.
£15 could pay for two weeks of super-powered peanut paste to help a child beat hunger.
£20 could buy enough supermarket vouchers for two children in the UK.
£40 could provide a family in Gaza with a Baby Kit to give them the items they need to provide basic care to their infant.

Donate via our Just Giving page or text GYMBO to 70050 to donate £5

As always, there’s no obligation to donate, or come to class in festive jumpers on the day. If it brings you joy, please go ahead, if not, that’s ok too 🙂.

*When sending a text donation you’ll be billed your chosen donation amount, plus your standard network rate. Save the Children receive 100% of your donation. By texting, you agree to calls from Save the Children about fundraising appeals, campaigns, events and other ways to support. Include NO after your team text code and donation amount to opt out of phone calls e.g. GYMBONO. Queries? 02070126400. Read Save the Children’s Privacy Policy: www.savethechildren.org.uk/privacy

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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

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

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