Toddlers live their best lives in Blackpool's new child-friendly cafe.
Youngsters can be as 'noisy as they like' as they play in the ball pool, play dress-up, or learn about gruesome facts throughout history.
Sweet Treatment can be found on Talbot Road and there's something to suit babies to older kids.
Youngsters can be as 'noisy as they like' as they play in the ball pool, play dress-up, or learn about gruesome facts throughout history.
Sweet Treatment can be found on Talbot Road and there's something to suit babies to older kids.
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00:00 When people go out with children they very much feel like they have to try and keep the
00:06 child quiet, keep the child to sit still. It's the complete opposite here. A parent
00:12 can actually sit still for 5-10 minutes while they can watch the children play because it's
00:17 in view of them. There's so many different bits for kids to touch that we're actually
00:22 more making an effort to get them involved. Over on the counter we have a bell so that
00:28 they can ding the bell. So it's all about, you can be noisy, you can touch stuff, you
00:33 can do stuff, you can explore. Children learn through play so I put these
00:46 items out so that they can explore anything that I think they're going to find fascinating
00:51 and like you're saying how they can learn through them. I have information cards as
00:56 well so for instance they can learn about the light bulb and how it was invented. We
01:03 also have a wheel of misfortune and every fact on that you spin it to find out how you
01:10 might have died in the Victorian age but every death actually is true.
01:15 That sounds quite gruesome as well. But that's how you spark the interest of
01:20 kids so body parts, they like it. It's just like the programme Horrible Histories, it's
01:26 why it was so popular. So I'm not trying to scare kids, I have loads
01:39 of things that are fun but I'm trying to spark that interest, get them into something that
01:44 they're fascinated with because learning is so much fun.
01:56 People see the role play toys and straight away think that we're just for little ones
02:00 which obviously we have lots to cater for them but what I've tried to do is balance
02:04 it out for families that have children of different ages so that we've got something
02:08 to interest everybody. So our overall theme is our treatment theme
02:33 but we also have a monthly theme so at the moment we're in Jurassic January, next month
02:38 we're in I Love to Travel and each month we aim to offer something new so that kids want
02:43 to keep coming back and exploring different things.
02:46 [Music]