Messy Play Wek at Houghton Valley Playcentre

Playcentre Messy Play Week is a free event for families with pre-school age babies and children being held from Monday 21 August to Friday 25 August at Playcentres across Aotearoa.

Playcentre Messy Play Week is a chance for families with pre-school age babies and children to visit their local Playcentre to explore messy play activities that spark creativity and unlock learning.

As Nathan Wallis, neuroscience educator says, “Through messy play, children get to be little scientists, encountering problems and working out solutions, which is the foundation of creativity and innovation.”

Houghton Valley Playcentre sits nestled in the bush of Houghton Valley on the south coast of Wellington City.

We are a friendly, diverse, supportive community of families. We run play-based, mixed age sessions five mornings a week for children from birth to age 6 (although most go to school at five).

We run a Te Reo Māori session on Tuesday and Thursday mornings where parents stay and learn alongside their tamariki. Whānau from other local playcentres are also welcome to enrol in these sessions.

Nau mai, haere mai.