Parent Toddler Program
“Physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional growth are more rapid during this time than any other period of life; neural pathways formed during infancy are the foundations for all future learning”
As part of our Parent Toddler program, toddlers of ages 9 to 21 months and their parents attend experiential sessions for 1.5 hours thrice a week.The environment is designed for infants to move, explore, and discover. Because the program is the first socialising agency for most children, the focus is to provide a warm, supportive environment filled with opportunities to develop sensory skills, motor skills, and a positive attitude towards learning.
Day in the Life
Parent Toddler Learning Spaces
Sensory Gym
The sensory gymnasium is every child’s favourite space at Toddler’s Den. It is filled with open-ended and structured challenges that change every week. These challenges bring a parent and child closer as they participate in activities together. They learn to twist, turn, roll, jump, run, balance, and hop. Children strengthen physical skills as they walk on balancing beams, wobble on river stone gonges, fall on crash mats, climb on rock walls, and bounce on animal scooters.
Outdoor Play Spaces
Toddler’s Den is equipped with 3 types of outdoor spaces - active, social, and experimental. In the active play area, children have access to open-ended play equipment where they develop their gross-motor skills through crawling and climbing on mounds. The outdoor social area is an interactive and collaborative space with a sand pit, water tub and a pretend play area. In the experimental outdoor area, children experiment with materials that evoke their multiple senses.
Art and Design Station
The art and design station, equipped with easels and traditional chabudai, allows children to engage with a range of tools and materials to explore textures and create expressive arts and crafts. Children explore a range of paints such as powder, poster, acrylic, dye, tablet, and oil paints and tools such as stamps, sponges, and brayer rollers. They also explore natural materials like clay slurry, leaves and branches, and natural colours from plants.
Sensory Station
The sensory station is equipped with an assortment of materials that stimulate the five senses. Interesting wall and interactive installations as well as natural, synthetic, and montessori materials are a part of this station. These sensory experiences are an opportunity for children to express their emotions and interests. Designed to deepen a child’s conceptual understanding of the world, this studio allows children to immerse in smelling and tasting experiences, listening activities, and touch and feel games.
Block Station
The block studio is an opportunity for toddlers to involve their parents in their favourite play time. Equipped with child-friendly blocks of different sizes, shapes, and textures, the station encourages children to tinker and recreate their thoughts and interpretations of the world. The space features lego blocks, spiral blocks, tube blocks, tangrams, 3D and 2D puzzles, foam blocks, magnetic blocks and much more.
Storytime Station
Here, parents and children have access to a world of books ranging from texture books and picture books, to block-based books. Read-alouds are an integral part of this station and help children enhance their vocabulary and their understanding of the world. Parents hold their toddler’s hand to purposefully listen as well as support them in pronunciation of simple words.
Frequently asked questions
At the Ahmedabad campus, the Parent Toddler Programme is designed for children aged 9 to 21 months.At this stage, children are learning through movement, touch, sound, repetition and relationships. They are beginning to explore the world around them while still finding comfort and security in the presence of a familiar adult.The programme offers a gentle introduction to a group learning environment, where children can explore alongside a parent or caregiver through thoughtfully planned experiences.
Each Parent Toddler intake is divided into modules. Each module is organised around a different theme, which shapes a range of hands-on experiences for children and parents to explore together.Sessions include sensory exploration, music and movement, storytelling, art, open-ended materials and dedicated gym sessions led by our in-house expert.Parents participate with their child, not as observers, but as partners in the experience. This gives families an opportunity to notice how their child explores, communicates, moves, responds and begins to build confidence within a small group setting.
Yes. Parent Toddler can be a strong bridge into Playgroup.Children begin to recognise the school environment, meet familiar educators, interact with other children and participate in group experiences while still having a parent or caregiver alongside them.By the time they are ready for Playgroup, the school is no longer a completely new place. They have already experienced the spaces, met the educators and become familiar with being part of a group. This familiarity can make the transition to independent participation much more comfortable.
The Parent Toddler Programme at the Ahmedabad campus has three intakes each year: June, September and January.
Families can connect with the Admissions Team to understand the upcoming intake, programme schedule and available spaces. Our team will guide families through the enrolment process and help identify the intake that best suits the child's age and readiness.