Play in a Tree
Explore plank bridges, yellow trees, and a soft climbing areas for lots of hands-on discovery... check out our Infant, Toddler, and Preschooler Activities:
Infant ActivitiesYoung babies who are not yet mobile will enjoy holding the balls in this space, watching the various flowers as you spin them, and exploring the many different textures. Older babies are beginning to test new motor skills such as sitting, crawling, and perhaps even walking. By exploring the park, they learn about hard and soft, cool and warm, and the feel of different textures.
Toddler ActivitiesYoung toddlers can use the space to develop ideas about how things work. Through their active experimental play, they learn how to make the same things happen over and over. Young toddlers love throwing balls and retrieving them or running to get the balls that you throw for them. Older toddlers are developing concepts about how things fit together.
They enjoy matching and sorting objects, such as collecting all the red balls. Toddlers try things over and over and over and over. While this may be boring for caregivers, it is a vital activity that strengthens connections in young growing brains.
Preschooler ActivitiesPreschool children have well developed motor skills, but still need opportunities to test these skills in new ways. Parts of the park such as the rope bridge will let them do just this. Learning to walk on a surface that moves requires problem solving and new ways of balancing. Preschoolers will also use this space to experiment with new ideas.
They may race balls down the ramp, investigate how the balls go up the tube, or create pretend scenarios from their own imaginations.
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