Benefits

Great Play starts children on a path to a physically active life.

By participating at Great Play, our Players:

• Have fun: Great Play, first and foremost, is a great experience each and every visit.


• Experience the thrill of success at Great Play and beyond.


• Start on the path to a healthy, active life: Success and confidence lead to the desire to play more, which leads to greater mastery of skills and more confidence. Success leads to success, and a lifetime of physical activity will follow.


• Achieve their full physical potential by developing the right skills at the right time, through tapping into key, age-specific developmental windows.


• Develop good physical fitness, including strength, endurance, flexibility and good body composition.


• Acquire well-tuned motor and sport skills.


• Get plenty of “touch time”: we design our activities to minimize "waiting in line" time and maximize the hands-on experience that keeps it fun and helps develop skills.


• Develop life skills: While we get there through play, this is about more than play. Pursuit of physical ability leads to life-balance, making the right choices about diet, drugs and drinking; having good focus and study skills; and overall confidence.


• Achieve academically: Research shows that children who are physically active are also more prepared to concentrate and learn.


• Build self-esteem and confidence in their physical abilities and all facets of their lives.


• Get in the Game! both here and beyond.