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PLAYDAY in Watford

Posted: 19th July 2023

It’s Playday on Wednesday 2nd August – the national day for play!

Playday is a national initiative organised by Play England, Play Wales, Play Scotland and PlayBoard Northern Ireland. This year’s theme for Playday is ‘playing on a shoestring – making every day an adventure‘. It’s about focusing on the everyday low-cost or no-cost play adventures that children can enjoy at home, in settings, and in our communities.

Play is essential at all ages and stages of childhood, and is particularly important during times of crisis.
Play helps children make sense of the world around them, deal with challenges, and build resilience.
Play is fun, enabling children to make friends, blow off steam, and cope with stress and anxiety.
Play is vital for children’s health, happiness, and skills development including creativity, imagination, and sense of adventure.

We at Gymboree Play & Music Watford know more than most about the benefits of play! So to celebrate Playday we’re throwing open our doors and offering a FREE session for any little ones aged 0-5 years to come and play on our playfloor at the Atria Shopping Centre!

N.B. Our free Playday Party is on Thursday 3rd August as we’re closed on Wednesday!

Open to members and non-members, just book in below!

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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