Activities for babies and toddlers near the Gardens

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Permalink Reply by Harringay 4eva on July 20, 2017 at 15:36

Downhills park & over the road to Lordship Rec. Lordship Rec has a great play area, paddling pool, pond with ducks & 'the hub' - a community centre/cafe which has loads of activities for children. Also visit Burleigh road playgroup. Tottenham green leisure centre is great it's got a library, soft play, swimming pool & children's activities.

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Permalink Reply by Jo B-S on July 20, 2017 at 17:18

Woodlands park children's centre is just out the back and has different things for babies and toddlers including a gardening club, which i think is free. Bean and Barley has a soft play and a range of singing classes, as does Blend and Music and bean. There's a library up st Ann's road that has a toy library, although not been to it yet.

Welcome to the neighbourhood!

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Permalink Reply by Nicola on July 21, 2017 at 8:11

Zip Zap on Friday mornings at the Salisbury is really nice.

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Permalink Reply by Ali on July 21, 2017 at 18:48

Thank you so much for all your suggestions everyone! What a great group this is!

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Permalink Reply by Robert Pike on July 22, 2017 at 10:55

We have a 17 month old. Chestnuts Park has an excellent play area and if you want a good walk it is well linked to Downhills Park via Cornwall Rd. Downhills in turn is linked to Lordship Rec. Lordship Rec has a wooded section and duck pond. The Hub building caters for families with several activities. Downhills cafe has a music session - Tiny Folk Singers - on a Monday. The boy loves it.

For play groups there is Woodlands and Triangle.

For swimming I go to Tiny Swimmers at South Harringay School. Chestnuts School also offers swimming.

Sundays at Woodberry Wetlands is good for quiet walks; pond dipping for newts; and dragonfly spotting. The London Wildlife Volunteers love telling my son all about the abundant nature. For a longer walk you can get theready via Finsbury Park and carry on to Clisold Park. In September Walthamstow Wetlands opens. This is a huge new nature reserve.

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Permalink Reply by claire taylor on July 22, 2017 at 11:32

At Marcus Garvey library there's Story time and Sing-along every Monday from 10.30 til 11.30. You could look into Wood Green's or St Ann's libaries for something similar if they're nearer.

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