Our Learning Environments

At Child’s Play, we know that when children feel safe, valued, and comfortable, they can truly thrive. That’s why our centres are designed to feel like a home away from home – nurturing, secure, and inspiring for every child.

We create inviting spaces where children aged 0 to 6 years can explore, learn, and grow. With features like our indoor/outdoor program, children can choose where they feel happiest – inside or out.

Indoor-Outdoor Facilities

Our indoor-outdoor program allows children to make their own decisions about their learning and how they want to play. These spaces support play-based learning and are designed to feel homey and nurturing while also stimulating a child’s imagination and development.

At Child’s Play, our children are able to move fluidly between indoor and outdoor spaces at all times of the day and evaluate the risks associated with different types of play in a safe and secure environment. Our facilities are flexible and change to accommodate the different stages of development and to support our children’s interests.

In an indoor-outdoor environment, your child’s activities can range from playing with dolls, hula hooping, experimenting with food dye, making play dough, jumping in puddles and climbing to the tallest slide.

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Common Questions About Our Environments

Designed with our children in mind: Children are always curious. With indoor-outdoor environments, we can facilitate your child’s curiosity and develop long-term projects for your child to get involved in. Our learning environment also supports our curriculums that emphasize play-based learning through exploration and the environment. Fresh Air and Vitamin D: In an outdoor environment, your child has the opportunity to get as much fresh air as they need which is fantastic for their development including gross and fine motor skills. An outdoor environment also encourages our children to explore and even nap outside. Communication and Social Skills: Through an open environment and play-based learning your child will develop lots of social and communication skills. Often we see children participating and working in groups to complete an activity or play a game.

It gets messy. At Child’s Play, we don’t recommend coming to childcare in your best clothes as playful days can get messy. From paint to mud, sand, soil and play dough, we have all sorts of fun textural activities for your child to get involved in. It's ok and actually beneficial for children to get messy and dirty so they can understand the consequences of their actions and also be exposed to the elements, this can be a great teaching point with the children.

Sensory play includes any activity where our children actively use their five senses. This particular type of play facilitates exploration that is natural and only limited by our child’s imagination. We encourage sensory play because children are natural explorers wanting to see, taste, touch, smell and hear different things every day. Sensory play is vital to their emotional, cognitive and physical development. In particular, we see improved focus, better regulation of emotions and a better understanding of their place in the world when children engage in sensory play at Child's Play ELC.

Yes, we do! At all of our facilities, we try to accommodate a sensory space to help children settle into childcare. This room will have a variety of sensory activities including sensory balls and play dough. It will also have different lighting available, including a projector light, to assist the children and re-engage them with visual stimulation. We find this initiative to be very helpful for all children as they are able to comfortably focus on a specific task and educators are able to build that bond with them.

The Best Environment to Thrive In

At Child’s Play, we strive for best practice in childcare every single day. Our flexible learning environments allow us to adapt and grow alongside your child’s needs.

If you’re considering childcare for your child, we’d love to connect with you! Simply register your interest using the form below, and once submitted, you’ll be able to book a tour at one of our centres. Let us show you what makes Child’s Play the perfect place for your little one to thrive.