Mini Monkey Gym HQ

Did you know, adults play a VITAL role in our little one's development?! 😀

⭐️ Many theorists in early education highlight the important of the adult's role in children's learning and development. ⭐️

Vygotsky stated that adults are scaffolders for children, helping them to accomplish their goals and aiding them in their growth.

In a Mini Monkey Gym class, we love and encourage for our adults to really join in! Not only is it great fun, but you'll find your little one's join in so much more too! 😃⭐️

Find your local class now:
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💚 Happy Fathers Day to all our Mini Monkey Gym daddies and grandads! 👨‍👦
It's so lovely to see you spending special moments with your little ones in the gym!

1, 2, 3, 4 … the benefit of numbers and counting! 😀

Lots of activities in Mini Monkey Gym classes use numbers and counting, both in songs, activities and props! 🎶

Children need to experience and play with numbers in many forms. ⭐️

Early number awareness can include the ability to match objects to one another, such as similar colours, numbers and shapes. 🌈

Using numbers in songs, rhymes and activities adds meaningfulness to learning numbers that ignites a future love of math! 💚

How does Mini Monkey Gym support your little one's communication and language development? 🗣🧠

💚 Singing with, to and around children is vital in communciation and language development. It helps improve memory, recognise rhymes and differentiate sounds. (Top Tip: leave a pause at the end of a rhyme to wait and see if they can fill in the word!)

⭐ We talk with all our mini monkeys as they use the equipment, talking through what they are doing, praising their skills and giving advice. Encouragement is SO important!

💚 During prop time, we often incorporate guessing games. We will shake Booboo's tub of props and listen to the noise, guessing what we believe is inside!

⭐ Rhymes create and develop phonological awareness skills, in preparation for reading

Visit the website now or send us a message to find your local branch:
www.minimonkeygym.co.uk

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At Mini Monkey Gym HQ we are experts in child development and the children’s activity class sector. We know that during the first years of a child’s life brain cells are busy making millions of connections. We offer babies and young children as many activities and opportunities to move and explore their environment as we can.

Take a look to find out more! https://whatson4kids.co.uk/activities_children_babies

Don't be shy - sing with us! 🎤😀

Not only will your Mini Monkey become much more engaged with the activity if you are joining in too, but singing with our little ones has so many benefits!

⭐ Singing helps develop language by hearing new words, songs and learning rhythm and tone
⭐ Repeating songs is great for helping children to remember information
⭐ Children who partake in musical activities have been shown to develop stronger social skills than peers who do not! Music creates opportunities for cooperation and teamwork
⭐ Children and adults can use music to express themselves, and in turn understand and learn to manage emotions
⭐ Cognitive skills can be developed as new concepts are learned such as counting

Find your local class now to experience the wonderful world of Mini Monkey Gym, bespoke soft playgym classes with sensory, rhymes and music. A 3-in-1!
www.minimonkeygym.co.uk

Read more about the benefits of music to young children: https://www.cela.org.au/publications/amplify!-blog/jan-2023/four-benefits-of-singing-in-early-childhood #:~:text=Singing%20can%20help%20children%20develop%20language%20skills&text=When%20children%20sing%2C%20they%20are,are%20important%20for%20language%20development.

What are fine motor skills? 🤔

Click on the photos to find out!
Fine motor skills are super important not only for learning to write and draw! They also aid in promoting overall holistic development, creating independence and promoting brain development! 🧠😀

💚 We provide structured classes specifically designed to enhance your child's fine motor skills in a completely safe and soft play gym environment, whilst also having lots of fun! 💚

Our Baby Monkey classes regularly include visual tracking activities. What are tracking activities? 🤔

Visual tracking is one of the most important fine motor skills for our developing little ones. By 9 months, babies can see depth and full colour! 🌈

By 2-3 months, babies are able to track movement with their eyes.
Tracking movements help develop:

⭐️ The vestibular system - the system that creates balance and motion to control eye movements.

⭐️Midline crossing - the ability to move the eyes to cross the imaginary line dividing the two sides of the body

⭐️Attention skills - creates and develops the ability to sustain focus and concentrate on one thing

All of these skills being developed every week in our classes, paired with bright, enticing sensory equipment and songs and rhymes to really solidify learning.

Explore, move, share and grow at Mini Monkey Gym!

www.minimonkeygym.co.uk

Mini Monkey Gym classes can benefit your baby from BIRTH! Do you know why?

During the first year of a child's life, the brain is growing rapidly and becomes full size faster than any other part of the body. 🧠

Babies tune into their social environment and absorb vital information during their first few months.

We use repetition to teach the basis of social development. Sounds heard the most are learnt faster!

This is why our songs incorporate movement and gestures to help baby establish a connection between the words and the music, and we sing them lots and lots! 😀

Did you know … early brain development relies on the repetition of words, songs, rhymes, ideas and skills? 🤔

⭐️Repetition helps secure foundations for early learning in our little ones, creating a sense of reliability and security and develops memory skills. ⭐️

This is why at Mini Monkey Gym we sing all our songs twice, with our songs for each class running over two weeks of our themes. 😊

It’s also great fun to use rhyme and repetition in songs!🎵💚

Our Baby Developmental courses for 0-10 mths give you and your baby the opportunity to experience lots of sensory activities as well as movement and exercises. 🤗💚

Our pom poms and ribbons provide a tactile sensory experience for touching, playing, co-ordination, songs and visual tracking! 😃

Mirrors are a lovely way to engage your little one as they watch themselves in the mirror, perfect distraction for tummy time! (and they don’t get a sense of self until around 18 months, so they are really intrigued at who is in the mirror!) 🪞

We have so many noisy bells, shakers and rattles to get your little ones attention. During tummy time, these can be a great attention grabber, whilst also working their muscles and visual tracking skills 👀

And we still have so much more to explore...... come and join us to see!

Play is absolutely ESSENTIAL for your little's ones all-round growth and development....so why not choose a venue that provides a 3-in-1 experience of physical play, sensory activities AND music?

⭐ As Early Years Experts, we follow the teachings of many great theorists that highlight just how important play is and the multitudes of benefits it contains ⭐

Here at Mini Monkey Gym, we support your journey with your child as they learn and grow. 💚

All our venues and classes are provided in a completely soft and stimulating soft play-gym environment. 😀

Find your local venue by visiting our website or message us now!
www.minimonkeygym.co.uk

⭐️ Freedom of exploration and movement for little ones is SO important to enable them to practice their all important gross motor skills - that's why ALL our gym equipment is SOFT! ⭐️

Does this make us Soft Play? Definitely not......

Our structured, professionally developed gym programme incorporates exercises, activities and skills for each age group to benefit the various stages of babies and toddlers development.

So first and foremost we are a skill based gym class - it just so happens our equipment is soft so children can independently move in a safe environment. 🤸‍♀️

We are The Original Soft Playgym Programme for 0-5's! 😊

Visit our website now to find your local branch:
www.minimonkeygym.co.uk

Happy Easter to all our Mini Monkey families across the UK! We wish you all an eggstra special Easter with your little ones....with lots of chocolate! 🐰🐣🌻🌷🍫😁

Music ignites all areas of your children's development! 🎼😃

Music is a key part of Mini Monkey Gym lessons, with set movement songs and rhymes, parachute songs and background music in each lesson from various cultures and languages.
This aids in your child's development and building skills for school readiness, such as:

⭐️Social-emotional
⭐️Motor
⭐️Literacy
⭐️Language
⭐️Cognition

Songs and music can help the body and mind learn to work together simultaneously, learning sounds, movement and meanings of words.

Find your local Mini Monkey Gym branch now:
www.minimonkeygym.co.uk

⭐️ BUSINESS FOR SALE !! ⭐️

⭐️ We are looking for the right candidate to take over the much loved Mini Monkey Gym Poole and Bournemouth Franchise area ASAP!

⭐️ Due to personal reasons Vickie is looking to close down at the end of March. Vickie would love to see MMG Poole and Bournemouth continue for all the local families who love the classes. If you, or someone you know, is interested to find out more then please contact Vickie directly ASAP on 07876710427

⭐️ Vickie is offering the business at a fantastic price of £5000 + VAT per franchise area ( Poole or Bournemouth both with large surrounding territories)

⭐️ The current territory includes as far east as New Milton, as far north as Verwood and as far west as Wareham.

⭐️ No experience is needed as full initial and ongoing training and support is offered by the MMG Team.

⭐️ This is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy running your own baby and toddler classes flexibly around your own schedule and commitments.

Vickie would love to speak with any interested parties, don't delay and contact her today!

***ATTENTION ALL MINI MONKEY MEMBERS!!***
An important email went out last night to all of you about an exciting development that you, and your Mini Monkey, can be part of.
It's for MMG MEMBERS ONLY so have a read!! 😊

If you didn't receive the email just send us a message with your email address and we'll resend it to you! 😊

Penny
Mini Monkey Gym Founder

❤ Supporting baby and toddler development through structured physical play in our soft playgym ❤

Movement is crucial for brain development and learning in the early years of a child's life. Offer your child a variety of ways to move and explore at a Mini Monkey Gym class near you and enjoy some special time together......👩‍👦😍

🌷Happy Mothers Day to all our wonderful mummies and grannies - hope you get spoilt today!❤️🌼🌷

What else is there to say?! 😁

⭐️Looking for flexible working around your children?⭐️
Book in a 1-2-1 Discovery Chat with us to find out how we can support you with flexible family friendly working that is both emotionally and financially rewarding!

⭐️Be your own boss in 2024 with the support of an established UK network of franchisee’s.

⭐️ Love your 'job' and work the hours you choose around your family.

⭐️Be part of the UKs only baby and toddler soft playgym franchise

⭐️No experience neccesaary as we provide all the training and support you need for success

⭐️Tried and tested baby and toddler gym and sensory programmes since 2009!

⭐️7 different programmes to offer from Birth to age 5 yrs giving multiple revenue possibilities

😊Contact us today to find out more!
Penny @ [email protected]

💚 Prop of the Week! 💚 Our prop activities are a favourite for many of our mini monkeys!
Not only are they super fun, but they also provide so many learning and developmental benefits for your little ones! 😀

⭐️ Each week we have a prop to accompany and strengthen the learning of the theme. For example, using bean bags to help practice balancing! ⭐️

Our pom poms, ribbons, bean bags and more all have multi-purpose uses for each our classes! They aid our little one's in developing their physical skills, co-ordination, agility, concentration, body perception and SO MUCH MORE!

Visit our website now to find your local branch:

www.minimonkeygym.co.uk

Our Mini Monkeys learn through play based physical, musical and sensory activities in our specially designed soft gym.
Explore, Move, Share and Grow at Mini Monkey Gym UK!

One of the many ways that a Mini Monkey Gym class can help your little one's development is through meeting other children! 👧👦

Your little ones can develop their social and emotional skills by meeting new children and adults, interacting with others and playing alongside them. 😀

💚 Children go through 6 stages of play, and even when very young play in stages such as 'onlooker' or 'parallel' where they observe others, or play alongside others. This does wonders for their development and gives them so much learning potential! 🧠💚

Then, when they're a bit older, they will start to play associatively and co-operatively and this is where all those communication skills will flourish! 🤸

Find your local Mini Monkey Gym branch now:
www.minimonkeygym.co.uk

What are gross motor skills? 🤔

Gross motor skills require whole body movement and involve the stabilising core muscles in the body. Examples are sitting, jumping and climbing stairs! 🤸‍♀️

Gross motor skills are super important not only for your little one's development, but they also aid in promoting health, easing stress and frustration, boosting confidence and promoting brain development! 🧠😀

💚 This is why we provide structured classes specifically designed to enhance your child's gross motor skills in a completely safe and soft play gym environment, whilst also having lots of fun! 💚

How can you help your little one during our classes? 🤔

Little Monkeys (6‐18 mths)
🖐Being really hands on with your Little Monkey is the best way to be. Sit them on your lap, show them the actions by bringing their hands together for clapping, stretching their arms up and getting up on your feet with them and taking them through the actions. Helping them join in is key for their learning so don't be afraid of being hands on....throwing them around, up and down and even upside down! Movement is so important for brain development so giving them different opportunities to move, that they can't access themselves, is a great thing! 😊

Cheeky Monkey? (18 mths ‐ 3yrs)
Our Cheeky Monkeys are very active, soaking everything up like a sponge and have very short attention spans! 🤣 The focus here in getting them to join in is by doing it yourself, getting up and doing the actions so that they can follow by example. Don't worry about being silly in class, join in as much as you can and eventually they will follow your lead and imitate you, just as they do in other aspects....ever heard/seen them talking into a telephone....they are copying you!!

We love to encourage our parents and carers to really get involved at Mini Monkey Gym, and yes that means all the songs and dances! 😄 It aids your little one’s cognition and development SO SO much, and you get to have fun too!

😁We're so excited to be hosting family activities for the Under 5's at both Gone Wild Festivals this year! 🤸‍♀️

We'll be there with some Sporty Workshops, Parachute Play and Parent and Toddler Yoga!

Family Activities - Gone Wild Festival Norfolk 2024 Activities for all the family. Enjoy the ultimate family weekend with Bear Grylls at Holkham Hall, Norfolk.

Did you know sensory play provides SO many benefits to our little ones?

👉Sensory activities provide children with chances to explore, practice curiosity, creativity and problem solve

👉Sensory play heightens the senses as we explore new materials, textures and resources

👉Sensory play can be comforting and help ease anxiety

👉Brain development is strengthened, enhancing memory and the ability to achieve more complex tasks

👉Fine and Gross motor skills are developed whilst exploring different sensory resources
....and so much more!

This is why Mini Monkey Gym incorporates sensory play into our classes, because it's so important!!

Check out your local Mini Monkey Gym branch now.
www.minimonkeygym.co.uk