Your summer is in Dubai? looking for the best indoor play area where kids can release their energy and have fun? Then, you are at the right place! below is a complete guide to the top ones.
Awesome Indoor Play Areas For Children to Learn Through Play
“Play and learning are like the two wings of a butterfly- one cannot exist without the other”- Carla Rinaldi
Craft & play center
Craft and Play center is where learning meets fun. Also, it is where you can work quietly while kids are having fun. This play zone is located in Mirdif 35 mall (near aswaaq supermarket- Mirdif). If you want to park close to this edutainment center, then park your car in the mall’s basement parking B1. This children’s learning center is in G level close to Menagerie cafe.
Drop your kiddos in the play area if you want to, and enjoy shopping in the mall. The staff will take care of your children. If you have a child with a disability. Then, keep in mind that they might need to be accompanied by you inside the entertaining zones.
Craft and Play center offers a kid’s hair salon, birthday room, and café. Plus, it offers different types of workshops. Check out their upcoming workshops related to art and craft. These workshops include exciting indoor activities that aim to encourage little minds to release their creativity and have tons of fun. Each week has its own theme that is to maximize children’s engagement level and enrich their learning experience. That sounds cool, right? Be updated with themes and workshops. To do that, follow craft and play on Instagram.
Let’s take you through the play zone
As you walk through the sliding door, you will see five kids play zones. These zones enable children to construct knowledge on their own.
Toddlers’ fun area
This play area is divided into three zones. Each zone provides an authentic learning experience for young children.
Soft play area. This area includes some activities for infants and toddlers. These exciting indoor activities mainly focus on developing children’s gross motor skills.
Dramatic play area. In this area, children are provided with a range of customs of different characters. Also, all items are labeled to support young children’s literacy development.
Storytelling area. Does your child enjoy stories? If yes, Perfect! This entertainment area includes different types of stories for young children. The stories provided are written in both Arabic and English. The main activities of this area are read-aloud and guided reading activities.
Our rating for the toddlers’ entertaining area
In addition to the toddler’s play area, there are other kidz play areas that your child might be interested in such as: Art and craft area, GYM box indoor play area, interactive climbing wall, and sand play area. What is interesting about the interactive wall is that it enables children to have the chance to live the adventure and learn about different types of mountains.
Last word
To spend unlimited hours of fun and joy with your kids at Craft and Play center, we would recommend you to book for a package. The edutainment center’s packages include attractive offerings. Visit Craft and Play’s website to learn more about the packages.
OliOli®Din Discovery Museum
OliOli® is one of the best children’s indoor play areas in Dubai. It is designed for young children aged two to eleven.
OliOli’s story
The edutainment center was developed by 35 artists, educators, and developmental psychologists. They have integrated their craft and 45 hands-on exhibits designed to inspire little minds to learn in exceptional ways.
More about the play area
OliOli offers a number of playful, interactive activities with specific learning objectives. These activities allow kiddos to be active through engaging in hands-on learning activities that promote curiosity and creativity.
To empower their positive play and the imagination run free, OliOli® contains eight galleries that are distributed across two floors. The eight galleries were designed for children to learn through play. The galleries: Air, Water, Toshi’s Net, Creative Lab, Future Park, Fort Building, Toddler Gallery and Cars & Ramps.
It’s ideal for school trips or family visits. Once you arrive at the OliOli® play area you will get an explorer map of the place to discover the galleries in a very easy way, here is some a brief information about each gallery in the OliOli® play area that will make you surprised how time flies while your child will be exploring all of them.
A step into the extreme fun galleries
Air gallery: This play zone contains hands-on activities for preschoolers. These activities promote children’s deep understanding of scientific concepts related to air.
Water gallery: Here is where the enthusiasm begins! it provides many opportunities to discover and conduct science experiments with gravity, buoyancy, density, pressure, etc.
Toshi’s Net: This area will certainly cross your minds! that is because it was built by the world-renowned textile artist called Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam.
Toshiko designed this sculpture to provide children an opportunity to develop their problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
Last Word
There is much more to discover at OliOli® play area! Book your tickets now through the OliOli® website. And not to forget to mention that this indoor play area includes La Petite Treehouse Café which offer nutritious snacks and treats for any time of the day.
Little Explorers
Do you want your kids to enjoy and love learning? Then, we recommend Little Explores, Dubai. The play area is in Mirdif City Center near Magic Planet. We advise you to park your car in L1 where the indoor playground is located. Also, we advise you to visit Little Explorers kids play area during the week and in the Morning after 10:00 am.
What is so special about this indoor play area?
This center perfectly combines education with amusement. Also, it follows one of the top educational approaches known as STEAM; A learning approach that combines science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. This approach is the best because it focuses on providing little minds all skills needed in the future.
The fun zones
The exciting indoor activities are divided into five extreme fun zones. Kids highly recommend the space, water & play zones. You can consider their recommendation if you plan to spend a short time there. However, we highly recommend spending at least ninety minutes there.
Space area. This fun learning zone includes some highly engaging, fun activities for kids designed to teach them all about space via interactive, authentic methods. It provides children an opportunity to expand their imagination and live the adventure. This is one of the best ways in which preschoolers could ever learn about space, that is because they don’t have the opportunity to see what is beyond the sky. What we liked the most about this area is that it offers little explorers some astronaut costumes to help them live the adventure.
water play area 
construction play area 
Measuring speed
Water area. This area includes extreme fun water play activities in which teaches children about the pressure of water and other scientific topics. All activities in this area are unique. For example, there is one activity where kids put a plastic fish and observe its movements according to the change in water pressure. Have you ever seen that before?
What’s more?
In addition to those two edutainment zones, there are three more entertainment areas for kids which are: Free play zone, art and craft zone, and construction zone. Also, there are cooking and drawing workshops activities available for kids.
Last word
Price-related details are available on Little Explorers website. Two things to keep in mind before visiting the play area which are: kiddos under four years old should be accompanied by an adult. Also, children with disabilities are welcomed to explore at Little Explorers. The space is wide enough for 400 children to explore in a safe, play environment.
Mattel Play Town- City Walk
In this fun play zone, young children can dance and play along, sing with some characteristics such as Barney and watch some shows as well. Kids can play and do some building with Bob the builder. little girls can also dance the ballet with Angelina’s character and watch some short films about Thomas while wearing the 3d glasses. Children can also play and have the role of being a fireman.
The live shows of Barney and other characteristics are available on a daily basis. Celebrate your little kids’ birthdays there while having their favorite characters celebrating with them. It is a really ideal place for children to enjoy their time!
location & Parking
The indoor theme park is located in CityWalk Dubai, check Mattel Play Town location on google maps.
If you wonder where to park, don’t worry. That is because Mattel play town Dubai has its parking in the City Walk “J” parking section.
Last word
We highly recommend you to visit this play area with kids. Visit Mattel Play Town’s website to buy a ticket.
Best indoor amusement indoor parks in Dubai
IMG World
Looking for a new adventure with kids? Then, IMG Worlds would definitely be your choice to visit. IMG is one of the most fun indoor play areas in Dubai. IMG Worlds provides a variety of family-friendly activities.The entertainment park has four themed play zones which are: Marvel, Cartoon Network, The Lost Valley, and IMG Boulevard.
Marvel and Cartoon Network’s. This area contains live performances of famous characters such as Spider Man, Iron Man, and The Hulk. In short, it includes most Cartoon Network characters.
The Lost Valley. is a dinosaur adventure play area which contains the biggest and the most enjoyable ride in the whole park. Don’t miss that!
IMG Boulevard area. This area provides shops and restaurants. Spoil your kids with gifts and cakes!
Things to keep in mind
- Children must be accompanied by an adult.
- If your kiddos are under the age of ten. Then, you should avoid any activities that might scare them.
Last word
Create memories with your kids in IMG because we guarantee you that it will last long. Price-related details are available on IMG website. IMG is located near the Global Village.
Best Virtual Reality Park in Dubai
VR Park
Looking for a digital playground? VR park is a virtual reality park located in Dubai Mall, where people have to wear the virtual reality headset in order to play the games in it, which is in our opinion one of the best kids entertainment areas.
How this entertaining area has changed?
A year ago, the park was mostly designed for older people, like teenagers and above who are into gaming. However, currently, it has become more suitable for school age children. For example, there is now a large area for children with less virtual reality games attractions. There are lots of fun kid games and activities too, such as A Ride in the Desert, Fighting Spaceships, Hot Air Balloon Fight in the jungle, football games, etc..
When its ideal to visit this indoor game area?
We would highly recommend you to visit the zone during the week and not on the weekends. That is because it is located in Dubai Mall one of the most crowded areas in Dubai during the weekend.
Last word
At the end and without any exaggeration, VR park is the most incredible play area in Dubai. Visit VR park’s website and get your passess now!
Best role play area in Dubai
Kidzania Dubai
Opening hours
Sunday- Wednesday (10AM – 9:00 PM)
Thursday- Saturday (10:00 AM-10:00 PM)
Location: Dubai Mall
Why Kidzania?
Unlike other indoor fun areas, KidZania teaches school-age children important skills that are needed in their future career. Children have an opportunity to try out different jobs and have fun at the same time.
KidZania offers over 60+ role play and fun educational activities for kids, where they get to choose any job they want. For example, being a firefighter, police man, delivery guy, a doctor, or a radio presenter…etc. Cool is in it?
KidZania allows the little explorers to open a bank account and deal with money and use it to work there. Cool right? take a few minutes and think how this can develop children’s accounting skills and their ability to manage their money at a young age.
Last word
To know more about the prices and to book a ticket, please visit Kidzania website.
The most effective way to develop a child holistically
Since you want to support your child development, you need to know that areas of development (cognitive, social-emotional, and physical) are interrelated. It simply means that one area has the power to affect others either in a positive or a negative way. Let’s take the screen-time as an example, children who spend endless hours on screens might develop critical thinking skills. However, sitting for a long time can negatively affect their physical development.
Also, note that play is a powerful tool in which you can use to support your child’s development. Why? because it promotes skills that support the holistic development of your child. Thus, support their development by taking them to these indoor play areas.
