Rebecca’s Tumble Tots at Home Photo Diary

Tumble Tots at Home

Tumble Tots at Home – 6 months of virtual fun!

Whilst we are all so excited to have our live Tumble Tots classes back this week, a little part of us, and we know many of our fabulous members, will miss Charlotte’s daily Tumble Tots at Home videos that kept you entertained, amused and smiling during those dark lockdown days. Over 6 months, 132 live virtual classes including 13 Rebecca’s Mom, Michelle Thorpe: baby lessons, 8 action song specials, 7 Gymbobs “Our lockdown experience has been made much better classes and 5 festival days, we sang, we jumped, by Charlotte and Tumble Tots. We really do appreciate we danced, we leapt and most of all we laughed it. It has given us as a family something to get up for along with Charlotte every day at 10am! every day and we all look forward to seeing Charlotte

Friday 28th August was the last show and and her beaming smile. So, thank you once again” Tumble Tots member Rebecca Thorpe, mum “We nominate Charlotte for a special Tumble Tots Michelle, dad John and nan Cynthia Tearle have honorary Damehood!! For keeping us all entertained summed up what tens of thousands of you have for all these weeks, with endless enthusiasm and been telling us about Charlotte’s sterling work commitment. I think all of us in this household are keeping our Tumble Tots and Gymbobs fit and really going to miss Charlotte after this!” healthy whilst the classes were closed. You can re-watch any of these on our YouTube channel:www.youtube.com/TumbleTotsUK

Rebecca Thorpe’s Tumble Tots at Home photo diary spring/summer 2020

My Gloworm competition prizes!

‘I see no ships!’ - pirate fun

Sports Day

Roll up, roll up, it’s Circus time!

Tumble Tots at Home 100th show Holiday at home

With mummy preparing for the final show

We Are NOT “Soft Play” If anything, we are HARD PLAY! By Lucy Baylis, Marketing Manager Tumble Tots

There isn’t an easy way to describe exactly what Tumble Tots is or does in one word, one phrase or even one sentence, but we definitely aren’t “soft play”. There is nothing wrong with “soft play”, as any physical play is good for children’s development, but we are so much more than that...

Yes, we use some foam equipment in our classes (which might look like “soft play”), but this is more like the equipment little ones use in formal gymnastics, and our equipment doesn’t stop there! We also have wooden and handheld equipment, all of which have been specially designed, bespoke to Tumble Tots, to help preschool children develop their fundamental movement skills of agility, balance, climbing and co-ordination (so you won’t find it at any other children’s activity!)

Classes are led by trained staff and unlike “soft play”, grown-ups are actively involved, (don’t worry, we don’t expect adults to crawl through the tunnels!) This gives parents a chance to work with, bond with, and watch their child develop each week and for little ones to begin socialising with other adults as well as children.

Each class is structured and designed to suit the age of members attending (so your little one will never be squished in the ball pit by bigger children), and as they progress in age, skills and development stages, they move up a class to take on bigger challenges.

Children are also taught to take turns (rather than pushing each other down the slide), listen and follow instructions, remember and repeat activities, develop language and communication skills through action songs and rhymes, another reason why we are not “soft play”.

If anything, we are HARD PLAY! We take play seriously, we work and play hard in our classes, staff, parents and carers included, and believe our programme is not just fun but essential for wellrounded development.

We provide the necessary skills for a child’s next steps in life, whether this is another activity or simply helping to build confidence.

Each and every child takes something different away from our classes, so to get your little one involved, please visit: www.tumbletots.com