What is Toddler Sense Class? How does it help your child?

The popularity of Toddler Sense classes today lies in the informed decision of parents that it is best for their toddlers to develop social, intellectual and physical skills. Being with other toddlers, your toddler learns important skills like negotiation, turn-taking and cooperation that sets the foundation for cooperative play and relationship building. Providing plenty of opportunities for play and learning, your toddler is well equipped for pre-school.    

How Toddler Sense class helps your child:

Exercise and group play forms an integral part of Toddler Sense class that provides he structure and daily routine to toddlers and develops a sense of stability, organization and personal control.

Free flow adventure play in this class offers plenty of opportunity to explore, problem solve and imaginative play. It offers plenty of opportunity to run around and let off steam as toddlers are encouraged to bounce, crawl through tunnels and climb and clamber over equipment and do things that interest them and they want to explore.  

Adventurers in the ages of 18 to 36 months are encouraged to put back the equipment after use helping to keep them busy and stimulated to build self-esteem and confidence.

Structured group of activities like hide-and-seek, music and movement, action songs, rhymes, dance, football, treasure hunts, clapping and patting games, drawing and coloring, puppet shows, parachute activities, and interaction with soft toys builds skills that are needed for healthy brain development. There are also something new and exciting to always look forward to like exploring of a spaceship, climbing a snow mountain, riding on a night train, sailing on a pirate ship and hunting for dinosaurs.

Parents also form a part of the fun, with their support, praise and encouragement helping to build self-esteem and emotional security in the toddlers and equipping them to handle moments of anger and frustration.

The existence of fun and educational activities helps in engaging the toddlers and keeping them happily occupied meeting the learning and developmental needs of the toddlers.

• A simple game as hide and seek brings about rich parent-child interaction and encourages the element of surprise that most toddlers love.


• An educational activity like building with blocks brings about awareness of shape, size, weight and dimension. The fun of demolishing brings relief from stress and tension and teaches them all about cause and effect.


• Pretend play like fitting into boxes promotes spatial awareness in toddlers encouraging parents to see the world from their toddler’s point of view. Also setting the scene for pretend play and imaginative thinking are small world figures, plastic tea-sets, tents, soft toys and picnics.


• One of the best ways to get the toddlers moving are ball games; balls can be  bounced, thrown, kicked, caught or rolled down a slope, with tracking their movement helping to improve eyesight that helps later in reading.


• Fine motor skills are promoted in toddlers with crayons and pencils for scribbling, beads for threading, sponges for cleaning, puzzles, toys and other tools; it coordinates hand and finger movement and sets the base for more complex precision tasks such as writing.


• Obstacle course created with cushions and pillows gives a great opportunity for toddlers to build up balance and coordination skills and controlled use of their feet, while crawling and creeping activities exerts pressure on the palms of their hands helping to stretch the muscles, open the fingers and bringing about greater flexibility of the thumb.

• Music in Toddler Sense class with singing, clapping and body actions enhances fine finger movements, improves eyesight, hearing, concentration and memory, provides an apt outlet for frustration, tension and stress and brings about emotional satisfaction. It has also been found that music has far reaching effects on toddlers with sensory impairments, disabilities and learning needs.


• Repetitive favorite action songs, helps reinforce memory and helps toddlers to control their movements, while interaction with soft toys and puppets and stories helps increase the vocabulary of children.


• Dancing for toddlers with ribbons and scarves not only provides physical activity, but also helps build memory power and encourages toddlers to express their emotions.


Truly Toddler Sense classes encourages toddlers to be physically active, they build muscles, strength and endurance and burn off excess calories and they sure get quality sleep at night.   

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