Welcome to The Playhouse

A positive first experience in group activities can help children feel confident, comfortable, and socially connected. The Playhouse follows a child-cantered, play-based approach focused on creativity, comfort, and social interaction, in which the child’s first experience of being outside the family and home can be positive, enriching, fun and rewarding for the child and his/her family. We believe that acceptance, love, approval, and security are vital to the emotional and social development of young children. We aim to create an environment that supports creativity, confidence, exploration, and social interaction , while valuing the rich diversity of culture and experience each child brings with them. In this age range, play is the child's right and is an essential part of the learning process. Play is the child’s work, and at The Playhouse this is taken very seriously. Our play-based approach is child-centered rather than subject-centered, and we believe children benefit from creative play, exploration, and shared experiences. The children are given unlimited opportunities for free play with large and small toys, for climbing, jumping, rolling, balancing and swinging, building with blocks and lego, playing in the sand-pit and symbolic play (dressing up, home corner, kitchen corner, dolls etc.), but will also be invited to join in adult-led activities such as singing, drawing, cooking, painting, chalking, cutting and sticking, making collages, modelling with clay and plasticine, doing puzzles etc. They will explore nature through observing the weather, planting flowers, and participating in outdoor activities. At these ages children enjoy discovering the world around them through community experiences and social interaction. Children enjoy exploring their local environment through supervised outings and community activities, to the local park, library, market and stores; they also enjoy specially organised one-off visits to local places of interest.  We offer monthly themed creative activities and workshops for children. Our annual projects are: sensory month, oceans and sea creatures, recycling and junk modelling, spring garden planting (including vegetables), horses (to coincide with the Festa de Sant Medir horse festival in Gràcia in March), Easter, cars and construction vehicles, dinosaurs, Christmas, my body, water play and water science, food, and many others related to books and stories, as well as anything the children may show us they are interested in. We bring these themes to life through songs, arts and crafts, stories, and creative activities, based around the theme of the month.