You have a little scientist at home! A messy, adorable, little scientific explorer that loves to investigate, experiment and explore as they begin to learn about the world and their place in it.
This is their class.
This is their
Join us for skill building, brain boosting, irresistibly fun messy sensory play classes for your little one to scoop, squish, dig, dump, mix, mash, taste, splash and explore in all the ways they love. Thoughtfully created, hands-on activities to promote growth and development in big ways. (It’s also, really, really fun!)
Ways to play:
Register for a 6 week session.
Sign up for a drop-in spot.
Create your own class with friends.
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Say YES to the MESS! Learn What Makes a Play Labs Class Special ← →
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THOUGHTFULLY CREATED PLAY
Not just messy materials.
Each sensory play activity is designed to naturally support each developmental level building on skills they already have while providing opportunities to try new ones.
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EXCITING MESSY MATERIALS
Each class features multiple sensory activities and each activity features its own unique Play Labs messy materials, engaging themes, sensory tools, toys, animals, dinosaurs, trucks and more.
Infant ages enjoy edible and taste-safe materials, perfect for those mouthing. For ages 2-5, the fun also includes non-toxic, child-safe play like scented fluffy foams and baking soda fizzing experiments.
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"THIS IS SO COOL!"
Our most heard quote! Drive trucks through messy town, splash in colorful water play stations, dig and dump in scoop & pour bins, swim fish through edible squishy oceans, swirl fizzy potions, pop giant flubber slime bubbles and dance along to the music.
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CHILD-LED
Play is child-led with sensory stations set-up to be attention grabbing and naturally engaging. Each class is guided by a responsive play teacher. During the session we learn about your child and get to know how to make their experiences even better. Many children begin as a Tummy Timers and return through Kindergarten (we even visit their classrooms!)
Messes are a child’s practice tries, their learning by doing and how they build confidence in their own abilities. Messy class is about the process. A chance to find out “what if I…”
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Big Fun. Big Impact.
Supports better eating. Boosts confidence to independently problem solve. Creates a love of learning. Builds connections in the brain that support learning. There are so many benefits.
Let’s create a generation of curious kids, brave problem solvers, resilient, emotionally regulated kids that aren’t afraid to try things they’re not perfect at and keep going even when it’s messy. A generation of independent thinkers that find spaces to try out their big ideas. There are so many benefits to messy play, at home or with Play Labs, say YES to the MESS!
Sensory Play Class by Age
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Brain building, skill building classes that inspire your baby’s curiosity, encourage motor skill development, early language and offers small group socialization. Explore color, movement, texture and more in classes filled with sense-stimulating activities developed with input from early education teachers to support this period of amazing growth and development!
Your child will explore tactile manipulatives and sensory toys, water play activities, music, bubbles, squish bags, bottles and more. Your little one can get in on any of the edible activities using toes and watching you and the kids around them manipulating materials.
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We provide the fun and take care of the colorful messes when it’s done.
Cost includes handmade messy materials, multiple handmade edible activities, fresh and not reused.
Special lower rate use code “Tummy” at checkout!
Ages 4-7 Months
$35/Class
$210 6 Week Session
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Your baby is changing every day. At three-four months, you now have a little person staring up at you, with wake times long enough for new experiences. Classes begin at 4 months. Here’s a guide to know if your baby is ready to join us.
Is your baby starting to work on physical skills like reaching and grasping?
Have they become aware when their environment changes (going outside vs home)?
Are they becoming curious about new things (staring at things for longer periods of time?)
These will mean your baby is ready and will benefit from classes!
Note: We want to encourage new moms and caregivers to join us by offering a lower cost and refundable classes for any missed classes for any reason. If baby sleeps longer, come late- many do! Sometimes it’s just about having the goal to do something out of the house, even if it doesn’t happen, right? Isolation is not only a possibility when caring for an infant this young, but a given.
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Perfect for those putting everything in their mouths.
Big changes happen when a child learns to sit, crawl, and even starts walking! Your little one has quite literally changed their world view and can now engage in new and exciting ways! Classes feature multiple sensory activities, tools, bins, baskets, and unique messy materials made by Play Labs. Your child arrives to a series of sensory stations ready to be explored- each with a different theme, materials with endless ways to explore.
At this age, activities and materials are exciting for little hands and also safe to put in their mouths! Edible activities with baby safe ingredients like yogurt finger painting, rainbow spaghetti and ponds of pureed green peas!
Classes are relaxed with music and end with bubble “storms” and a stamp.
Recommended for ages 8 months-2 years.
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Session $240
We provide handmade, exciting messy materials with edible play created fresh and not reused. Cost covers materials, class time and cleanup when it’s done.
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Join us in the Play Lab and let your child dive into the world of messy play! They won’t believe their luck as they can scoop, squish, mash, dump, pour, splash and explore in all of the messy ways they love. These little problem solvers are now able to participate in longer and more complex activities, but getting and keeping their attention isn’t always easy. That’s not a problem in the Play Lab! Classes feature multiple sense-stimulating activities both group and individual (at their own sensory table.) The excitement grows as we add in unique sensory tools, trucks and animals, bubble blizzards, music and more. The best part, you leave the mess with us!
Messy play isn’t just fun, it’s a powerful tool to encourage growth and development. Activities are exciting and colorful to encourage your child practice important skills. We practice real life skills like pouring and scooping while also building on their skills of investigation, multi-step processing, task persistence and decision making. Classes promote physical skill building like spatial awareness, balance, coordination and builds up pre-writing muscles. Activities are opportunities to practice cognitive skills like reasoning, problem solving, independent play and independent emotional regulation. Inspire their curiosity in a way that lets them love learning.
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Bring Play Labs to your child’s Pre-K or K classroom. Learn more.
Class is full of colorful, sensory play activities set-up to inspire their curiosity as well as use their scientific minds to explore, investigate and experiment themed, multi-step activities with big colorful results. Activites use non-toxic messy materials, unique sensory tools and other add-ins that extend engagement and expand play. Mini lab coats make these explorers feel like a real scientist.
We provide opportunities for creative open ended messy play as well as STEM themed activities. Color mixing with squirt bottles, tactile sensory bin mixes with up to 10 unique materials, buckets of flubber slime, potion making, fizzy science experiments and more!
Messy play isn’t just fun, it’s a powerful tool to encourage growth and development. Investigation, experimenting, multi-step processing, task persistence and decision making. Activities are opportunities to practice cognitive skills like reasoning, problem solving, independent play and independent emotional regulation. Inspire their curiosity in a way that keeps them loving learning!
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Session: $240
We provide handmade, exciting messy materials with edible play created fresh and not reused. Cost covers materials, class time and cleanup when it’s done.
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STRENGTHENS COGNITIVE SKILLS LIKE REASONING, PROBLEM SOLVING, DECISION MAKING
INTRODUCES EARLY, FOUNDATIONAL STEM INCLUDING SPATIAL AWARENESS, VOLUME, CAUSE & EFFECT, SORTING, USING SENSORY AND SCIENCE TOOLS
PROVIDES A CHANCE TO STRENGTHEN GROSS AND FINE MOTOR SKILLS, TRACKING, BALANCE, DEXTERITY, PINCER GRIPS AND PRE-WRITING SKILLS.
AIMS TO PROLONG ATTENTION SPANS WITH A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES SO ENGAGING, EVEN A BUSY TODDLER WILL LOVE.
HELPS TO BOOST CONFIDENCE & RESILIENCE AS THEY BUILD TRUST IN THEIR OWN ABILITIES TO INDEPENDENTLY PROBLEM SOLVE.
SUPPORTS BETTER EATING AND SENSORY TOLERANCE.
BRAIN BOOST: PLAY ACTIVATES MULTIPLE REGIONS OF THE BRAIN AND SPARKS NEW NEURAL CONNECTIONS THEY NEED TO MOVE ONTO MORE COMPLEX TASKS.
SEE BELOW AND BENEFITS PAGE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF SENSORY PLAY.
Learn more
It’s not only what they’re doing, it’s what it’s doing for them.
Messy play is so much fun, but it’s actually how the brain reacts to sensory play that makes it have such a big impact on growth and development.
Brain boost.
Sensory play is so effective at promoting cognitive growth because it activates multiple areas of the brain simultaneously. When areas are stimulated together, they form connections and are given a chance to learn to work together. These connections are what’s needed to move onto more complex tasks and supports thought processes, language, emotional regulation and memory. A connected brain is one that can take in and process information faster, easier. It’s been shown that sensory play has the biggest impact at ages 0-3. That’s this amazing period where the brain can take in more information than at any other stage. This is how it builds the circuitry needed to do-everything! One way parents can help is by providing opportunities for more connections and sensory play is like fireworks sparking those new connections. (After play, big naps are often needed!) *Articles cited are on the Benefits page and even more research is being published.
Mini-Scientist.
Your baby was born a scientist! From birth they innately know how to learn about the world around them, it’s a crucial skill needed for survival! Babies actually rely on the same scientific process as real scientists by observing, testing, hypothesising, testing, testing, testing, concluding and applying, repeat. We can help keep this skill sharp by giving chances to practice. Sensory play is a fun way to bring out their inner scientist since it’s filled with open-ended, new and attention grabbing things to learn about. *Articles cited are on the Benefits page.
Memory making.
An opportunity to slow down and enjoy some fun together. Grown-ups love the play too! Meet other parents and caregivers in a relaxed and welcoming space.
Early, often and easily.
Parents can offer this meaningful play early, often and easily. No buying and creating materials, setting up or cleaning up.
Not at home.
Being messy is easier to allow when it’s not at home.
Variety.
Classes aren’t just one sensory activity. Each class features multiple activities, materials and ways to play. Each activity is thoughtfully created to be safe developmentally appropriate- and curiosity inspiring. Each 6 week session features new and different activities and materials- mixed in with the favorites.
Why you will love child-led classes…
Parents and caregivers can jump in and play along or step back and let their kiddo dive in on their own. It’s important grownups let their kiddo lead the way. Try not to offer too much instruction or guidance. This is your child’s chance to learn through experience. In messy class they can make things overflow, dump a big bucket into a tiny cup, drop things that are too heavy or slippery. Classes are designed to be a space of “cause/effect” instead of “right way/wrong way.” Classes are “yes” classes to encourage the focus to be on the mess making, instead of their grownups reaction to their mess making.
Letting them explore in their own way promotes self-guided, independent play, confidence, longer attention spans, persistence, self-confidence, task persistence and sets your little one up for a love of learning!