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Big Discoveries for Little Learners

Designed especially for children from birth to 24 months, Young Explorers offers beautiful spaces filled with wonder, movement, and sensory experiences that support early development and encourage meaningful connections with caregivers.

 

What You’ll Do

Crawl, roll, stack, sort, climb, and explore. Discover lights and shadows, investigate textures, play with balls and loose parts, and engage in imaginative experiences created just for infants and toddlers.

 

What Children are Learning

As they play, children develop:

  • Fine and gross motor skills
  • Sensory awareness
  • Early problem-solving skills
  • Language and communication
  • Cause-and-effect understanding
  • Early math concepts
  • Confidence and curiosity

 

While the spaces are thoughtfully designed for children birth–24 months, older siblings and friends are welcome.

Play Together
Young Explorers

Creativity Connections

This space is designed to spark wonder through color, light, shadow, and texture. Infants and toddlers can explore light and shadows, engage in tummy time on the Tummy Time Circle, and discover hidden surprises in the Seek & Find Drawers. With a mix of active movement and quiet sensory experiences, this area encourages curiosity while fostering meaningful interactions between caregivers and little ones. It’s a perfect place to introduce young children to the beauty of artistic expression and sensory exploration.

Young Explorers

Make It Move

Get ready to wiggle, roll, and move! This area is all about motion, giving infants and toddlers a safe and engaging space to experiment with air, balls, and physical activity. Babies can explore loose parts in the cozy corner, play in the baby ball pit, and crawl over a wave mat. Older babies and toddlers can navigate the climber, peek through windows, and hoist balls up high before watching them roll back down. Along the way, children develop motor skills, problem-solving abilities, and confidence through hands-on play.

Young Explorers

Young Questioneers

Inspired by The Questioneers Citizens’ Park, this space invites little learners to explore early math, engage in pretend play, and practice fine motor skills through hands-on activities. Children can count and sort buzzing bees in their hives, compare ducks by size, and organize pretend food for a playful picnic. They can take a stroll with the pull-along school bus or sell cheese from a giant cheese kiosk. Through sorting, counting, and imaginative play, young children develop critical thinking skills while having fun!

Why This Play Matters

The first years of life are filled with extraordinary growth. Every touch, movement, sound, and interaction helps build connections in a young child’s developing brain. Through sensory experiences, movement, and playful interactions with caring adults, infants and toddlers develop the foundations for learning, communication, and lifelong curiosity.

Growing with Play

Younger Infants

Babies explore through looking, reaching, touching, rolling, and tummy time experiences that support early sensory and motor development.

 

Older Babies and Toddlers

Toddlers begin climbing, sorting, counting, pretending, and experimenting with increasingly complex movement and problem-solving challenges.

Play Together
Ask questions like:

 

  • What do you see?
  • Can you find another one?
  • How does that feel?
  • What happens when we move it?
  • Should we try it together?

Young Explorers is sponsored by: