SoundGarden
SoundGarden is a giant sensory sound garden offering an immersive environment in which babies and young children can explore nature’s stage.
- Butterfly painting: learn about colour and symmetry by creating beautiful butterflies to release into the garden.
- Nature's sounds and music: try to mimic the sounds in your gardenusing noise-makers including bells, drum pads and rain-shakers; and crawl under giant flowers to listen to lullabies from around the world.
- Honeycomb, magpie’s nest and tree trunk theatre: dress up and role play as garden animals.
- Plant pot puzzler: learn about day and night when animals might visit your garden by solving the puzzle inside a giant-size overturned plant pot
- Leaf cradle: a soft play area for babies not yet walking, with touchy-feely objects to grab onto and a dew-drop xylophone triggering noise and vibrations.
Desert Discovery
Desert Discovery is a touchy-feely desert-themed environment offering babies and young children the opportunity to explore, build, create and communicate.
- Boulder mountain and cactus construction: children don hard hats and vests to mine soft ‘boulders’ and create their own structures, also using a unique bucket lift to transport materials and telephone to communicate and work together.
- Storytime tent: dress up and role play as a variety of desert dwelling people and animals and gather around a fire pit to share stories of your adventures.
- Desert in the dark: learn about day and night and discover what happens when it gets dark in the desert. Not every living thing goes to sleep, and children can meet some of those that don't!
- Baby oasis: a vibrant, padded area for babies not yet walking, with noise-makers and tactile, touchy-feely objects to investigate.
Other galleries also suitable for Early Years visitors are:
Me & My Body
Find out what makes each of us special: links with personal, social and emotional development.
Our Global Garden
Investigate what makes animals and their homes special: links with knowledge and understanding of the world.
House & Garage (Living & Working Together)
Take part in role-play opportunities which develop communication and language skills: links with language and literacy.
Shop & Bank (Living & Working Together)
Develop mathematical concepts through real life scenarios: links with mathematical development.
The Eureka! Park
Eureka! values outdoor play and the outdoor park has a range of play and active learning opportunities:
The PlayScape
The PlayScape inspires a range of play and active learning situations, creating opportunities for collaboration and developing a variety of physical and social skills. The innovative setting comprises built structures and natural materials, creating a visual impact with unexpected surprises.
Outdoor Activity Boxes
Activities and props to encourage individual skills, group dynamics and creative play outside. Available every term apart from December, January and February.
Giant Sand Pit
The natural tactile qualities of the giant sand pit at Eureka! make it ideal for play-based and active learning.
