Chidren's Play Area Ideas

[sarahcollyer123]

Dear parents,

Here at Birmingham Airport we are looking to refresh and relaunch our airside children's play area called 'Sky Zone'.

The area is aimed at 3-6 year olds. It currently features interactive zones with touchscreen tables, musical light beams, talking telephones, trumpet steps and mirror tents.

A short video showing the features of the current play area can be found here:
birminghamairport.co.uk/at-the-airport/terminal-facilities/sky-zone/

We are looking for your advice as parents as to what you feel is important for an indoor play area in an airport for this age group. Have you seen something at another airport play area which has been great? Have you used our play area and have some ideas to make it better? Are there features in our play area that you really like and think we should keep? Do you feel the name of the area should be changed too? We want to hear from you!

Any ideas or feedback is much appreciated.

Thank you
Sarah Collyer
Press Officer at Birmingham Airport
Tel: 0121-7677374
Email: [email protected]

[TheOddity]

Chairs for parents. A very visible departures screen and preferably in an eye glance of coffee!

If it is interactive and relies on IT stuff working, having a service level agreement of getting things fixed within an hour or something so it's not useless when broken. Or better still, quality real toys that can't break down.

My kids do love those floor projectors where you have to pop bubbles though!

[FanSpamTastic]

Our local hospital kids a&e (where we have spent hours over the years with 3 kids) has one of those projector into the floor things. That seems to pass time for the kids. Even those who are ill, hurt etc.

They also like a house corner - with pots and pans and little kitchen.

I have also seen at In-tech near Winchester - a desk top thing where you put blocks on the table and it creates different kinds of music. As you move the blocks around the music changes.

Other places have seen floor piano (think Tom Hanks in Big!).