| | | | | group, skill, and modularity. |
| One of the best ways to keep your child active and | | | | The demand for indoor play centers, whether in the |
| happy is to have some indoor games which your child | | | | form of full Family Entertainment Centers, or |
| can enjoy. Indoor preschool games can be played in | | | | specialized Childrens Entertainment or Edu-tainment |
| any room of the house and these can be real fun as | | | | Centers continues to rise. With a tense global |
| well. | | | | situation, and growing parental need to provide |
| Mother's Day Scavenger Hunt - This is one of the | | | | children with safe, quality play time and experiences, |
| most interesting games to play indoors with your | | | | the interest in Indoor Playgrounds and indoor |
| child. This is almost a perfect game for preschoolers | | | | play-centers continues to expand. However, in many |
| to play. Follow the steps to know how to play | | | | cases as much as we love soft indoor playgrounds - |
| Mother's Day Scavenger Hunt. Take a print out or | | | | it can be an operators challenge to ensure a solid |
| buy the mother's day scavenger hunt game cards. | | | | return on that activity investment. |
| You can easily get one off the net, if you are not | | | | The indoor playground industry is relatively new. |
| keen on spending money for the same. Cut along the | | | | Among the existing players in the indoor playground |
| lines and have cards of individual letters. Now, hide | | | | industry, competition is fragmented. The only |
| the letters in the room or better still, in the whole | | | | company with a strong national presence is Surprise |
| house! Finally, send your preschool kid off to find | | | | Land, possessing over 250 store locations across the |
| these cards, one by one. | | | | United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. A |
| PlayZone in Brewster began 15 months ago as an | | | | significant threat also exists from Connell Corporation, |
| indoor playground where parents could take their | | | | which has started an indoor playground concept of |
| children for a few hours of supervised play and hold | | | | its own, Jungle Play. Although Jungle Play is still in a |
| birthday parties. It is now expanding its arts center, | | | | testing phase, Connell's has the resources and |
| with offerings from music, dance and acting classes | | | | experience to expand its concept rapidly. In addition, |
| for children to yoga, martial arts and improvisation for | | | | there are numerous regional players with fewer than |
| adults. | | | | 10 stores across the nation, although relatively few |
| Indoor playground equipment is not entirely different | | | | of them are actively seeking franchisees. |
| from outdoor structures, but they are generally | | | | Playgrounds set off small energy explosions in kids, |
| smaller, softer, and more modular. Adding interactive | | | | sending them catapulting through equipment, jumping |
| fun and creative play to stores, daycares, | | | | on and off swings, and moving in and out of games, |
| restaurants, preschools, parks, places of worship, and | | | | negotiating it all like cab drivers in rush hour. Quick, |
| even homes, the different types of indoor | | | | seize-the-moment games, whether they're centuries |
| playground equipment are designed to teach children | | | | old or invented in an afternoon, always have been |
| cooperation, sharing, coordination, and imaginative | | | | the mainstay of playground activities--and knowing a |
| games. They differ by size, type, targeted age | | | | great game is important social currency among kids. |