Little Senses Pre Walkers – from confident sitting to those first wobbly steps
Little Senses Pre Walkers is the natural next step after Pre Crawlers , a joyful, lively and increasingly active class designed for babies who are sitting confidently, crawling, beginning to pull themselves up or working towards those exciting first steps.
Held at Katie’s House, our dedicated home in East Grinstead, this class gives your baby the freedom and confidence to explore, move and discover at their own pace, while continuing to support the incredible sensory and developmental changes happening during this stage.
This is where things really start to move!
Your baby’s world is getting bigger.
Their strength and coordination are developing, their memory is improving and they’re beginning to understand so much more about the people, objects and environment around them.
They may be reaching, crawling, pointing, clapping, pulling themselves up or suddenly disappearing across the room after something that has caught their eye! They often end up on my lap and I LOVE it!!
Through sensory play, movement, music and thoughtfully planned developmental activities, we create opportunities for babies to explore their eight sensory systems while supporting balance, coordination, body awareness, communication and emerging gross and fine motor skills.
Learning through movement, repetition and play
At this stage, babies are becoming wonderful observers.
They watch other babies, imitate actions and begin to demonstrate skills they’ve spent months developing, whether that’s shaking a maraca, reaching into a basket for a favourite prop, clapping along to a song or following something as it moves around the room.
Familiarity also becomes increasingly important.
Your baby may begin to recognise Katie’s House, anticipate familiar parts of their class and remember our Hello song from week to week. These repeated experiences can help create a sense of familiarity and security while giving babies the confidence to explore a little further away from their grown-up.
Our activities encourage babies to move, investigate, communicate, problem-solve and discover what their bodies can do, all while having enormous amounts of fun.
And just like in all of our classes, we’ll explain the why behind the activities so that you understand what your baby is working on and how you can support their development through everyday play at home.
No rush to reach the next stage
Pre Walkers is often the Little Senses stage that babies stay in for the longest and that’s exactly how it should be.
The journey from confidently sitting to independently walking is enormous. There are so many skills to develop along the way: reaching, rotating, crawling, transitioning between positions, kneeling, pulling to stand, cruising, balancing and eventually stepping independently.
That’s why our classes are stage-based rather than simply age-based. Turning one doesn’t mean your baby suddenly needs to move into a toddler class.
They stay in the environment that’s developmentally right for them until they’re ready for their next adventure.
Is Pre Walkers right for my baby?
Pre Walkers is best suited to babies who are sitting confidently through to taking their first wobbly steps.
At this stage, your baby may be:
- Sitting independently and confidently
- Crawling or beginning to explore other ways of moving
- Reaching, rotating and moving between different positions
- Spending longer periods playing independently
- Turning towards interesting sounds
- Exploring toys with both hands in increasingly complex ways
- Clapping, waving or beginning to point
- Understanding simple cause and effect
- Developing an understanding of object permanence
- Becoming increasingly engaged with music, action songs and familiar routines
- Pulling themselves to stand or beginning to cruise
- Taking their very first wobbly steps
Your baby doesn’t need to be doing everything on this list. Confident sitting is the starting point, everything else can develop along the way.
Come and grow with us at Katie’s House
All of our Little Senses Pre Walkers classes now take place at Katie’s House in East Grinstead, our dedicated home for The Sensory Network.
With space to move, explore, play and grow, Katie’s House gives babies the opportunity to become increasingly confident in an environment that becomes familiar to them week after week.
Every week of Pre Walkers brings something new, so you can join us at any point when your baby is ready.
Not quite sitting confidently yet?
Pre Crawlers is the perfect stage for you. When your baby is ready, you can move seamlessly into Pre Walkers, there’s never any rush.
Click the BOOKING tab to find your class and secure your space.
Spaces are limited, so if your preferred class is full, we recommend joining the waitlist or grabbing a space in another available Pre Walkers class. We’ll always contact our waiting families as soon as a suitable space becomes available.
