Service & Workshop

6 months - 4 years

: up to 8 children

3'11"W x 4'10"W x 4'H

115 lbs.

Interactive Service and Workshop offers infants and toddlers a chance to have fun and explore. The structure can lend in support for raising, crawling, and walking around. The numerous play features motivate social play and supports child development.

• Gear Wheels
  • Social-Emotional: Cooperation skills and turn-taking are supported when turning the gear wheel.
  • Cognitive: Cause-and-effect understanding and logical thinking are supported when turning the vertical gear to make the horizontal gear run.
• Bell
  • Cognitive: Understanding cause-and-effect when ringing the bell.
  • Creative: Leaving a mark in creating a sound rhythm when ringing or knocking the bell.
• Tumbler
  • Social-Emotional: Cooperation skills and turn-taking are supported when turning the tumbler from each side of the panel.
  • Cognitive: Cause-and-effect understanding for toddlers when spinning the tumbler.
• Steering Wheel
  • Cognitive: The manipulative steering wheel stimulates cause-and-effect understanding and invites dramatic play which supports language and communication skills.
• Microphone
  • Cognitive: Inspires dramatic play which stimulates language development. Cause-and-effect understanding is supported when discovering that the microphone can be shifted to different positions.
  • Creative: Positioning the microphone in different positions can support symbolic thinking.
• Fuel Handle
  • Social-Emotional: Cooperation skills and turn-taking are supported when fueling vehicles for friends.
  • Cognitive: Dramatic play stimulates language development.
• String with Knobs
  • Social-Emotional: Turn-taking and cooperation are supported when pulling the string from side to side with friends or caregiver.
  • Cognitive: An understanding of object permanence is supported when the knob disappears and reappears when pulled.
  • Creative: Leaving the knob in different positions can support symbolic and creative thinking.
• Flap Door
  • Physical: Tactile stimulation from leaning the body through rubber doors.
  • Social-Emotional: Stimulates turn-taking.
  • Cognitive: Suggests a theme and supports dramatic play, which stimulates languages and communication skills.
• Funnel
  • Social-Emotional: Trains cooperation and turn-taking as children put materials through.
  • Cognitive: The passing of materials through funnels supports the children's logical thinking and for younger children the understanding of object permanence; that materials don't vanish, but run through at the other end.
• Pot
  • Cognitive: The pot can be removed, stimulating cause-and-effect understanding. Filling and emptying the pot stimulates logical thinking and the understanding of concepts such as empty and full.
  • Creative: Placing the pot in other areas of the play space in creative ways can support symbolic and creative thinking.