Infants

Our youngest division, for children aged 4 to 7 — smaller groups, a gentler pace, and volunteers who know this may be a child's first time away from home.

ON THIS PAGEHow Infants works A gentler day Little trips out

Infants is where playscheme begins. Children aged 4 to 7 get the full playscheme day — activities, entertainment and trips out — shaped around little legs and shorter attention spans.

How Infants works

Infants have their own area of the site, away from the older divisions, and their own team of volunteers. Children are placed into small groups — Wolves, Sharks, Tigers, Monkeys, Bears and Eagles — and stay with the same group and the same volunteers all week, so familiar faces are never far away.

A gentler day

The day runs 9.30am to 3.30pm like the rest of the scheme, but with more time to settle, more quiet corners and old favourites that come back every year.

Infants Story Time — a calm moment in the middle of a busy day
The Infants Party — games, music and party food, just for this division
Arts and crafts in the marquee, including Playscheme Pottery
The Big Show — the whole scheme's daily entertainment
The Carnival on Wednesday afternoon, when everyone joins in together

Little trips out

Infants take shorter, softer trips than the older divisions — the kind of days out made for this age group.

Funtazia soft play
Guys Farm
Smithill's Farm

FIRST TIME AWAY?

For many Infants this is their first time away from home. Tell us anything that will help at registration — comfort routines, toileting, what settles them — and their group volunteers will know before day one.

Ready to join us?

Registration opens 1 March. Infants places go quickest of all.