Our Saturday respite sessions are lots of fun. Children are with us for the full day which means we can explore lots of different activities, giving your child plenty of new experiences with their friends. 

Children will always find lots of choice for how to spend their time at Swings & Smiles with activities including crafts, cooking and sensory play. Saturdays provide a great opportunity to really explore the centre as there's lots of time to try a range of different things. If the weather allows we will also spend time in the garden or go out for walks.

Recently we have been learning to bake biscuits from scratch, then waiting patiently to decorate them. This was a fun way for the children to work on listening to instructions, and to practice a bit of patience waiting to decorate and eat their biscuits! We've been exploring lots of sensory activities, and have even introduced TacPac into the sessions, which involves communication through touch and music. As always, we've been getting stuck into our library of Bag Books sensory stories and having lots of giggles.

We are continuing to spend time in the garden when we can and have really loved racing around the racetrack on the Tomcat trikes! Friendships have been blooming and we've seen lots of lovely collaborative play in the garden during these races and using the musical sensory spinner.

Find out more about respite at Swings & Smiles