Gymboree

Gymboree Play & Music offer music and sensory classes for babies and pre-school toddlers in the UK. Classes involve parent or carer teaching with fun and interesting activities.

Boy and I have been going to Gymboree since he was 4 months old. We started off in the baby sensory class. Going to be honest, when we started he didn't seem that engaged or bothered, don't know what I was expecting from a 4 month old!! But as time went on he became more and more interested. The classes are a mix of songs, movement, singing, puppets, fibre optics and musical instruments.


Each session is themed, the beach, trains or Christmas (see below)

Each class starts off with mat time. Each child has there own mat with a couple of pieces of equipment such as pom pom, scarves, rain maker, tambourine, maraca or fibre optic glow stick. Babies are encouraged to have tummy time on mirrors which is fab as they are not just staring at the floor, it also a great social activity as all the babies are facing each other and interacting.

The rest of the class is smaller activities that children can visit such as balls, music mat, or light tent. All with the aim to engage babies.

Just after Christmas, once my boy starting "walking", we moved up to the next class. This was a huge jump as its more apparatus based but now he is settled he loves it. We still have group activity at the beginning, but this is more rhymes with the aim to help learning, for instance my head, my shoulders, my knees, my toes.

Then we move onto the chance for the children to explore the activities and start to climb or go through tunnel or post shapes. The activities are left very open and give children the chance to move at their own pace and make of it what they will.

All sessions finish with bubbles, something my boy loves (it was one of his first words!!). Then there is the goodbye song, which is catered for the age group and there is actions for the children to follow 

With your membership you are able to access their open gym sessions, which run normally once or twice a day. These are totally unstructured and just a chance to use the facilities.

The theme running through the whole thing is Gymbo, he is a colourful clown who demonstrates the activities with the session leader. Boy LOVES Gymbo, and his face lights up when he sees him.

I can't recommend this enough, my boy seems to have come on leaps and bounds in his development and personally I think this is because of going to Gymboree. If you want to find out more visit: http://gymboree-uk.com/