About Klockownia – Blocks Fun and Learning Center in Warsaw, Wrocław, and Gdańsk

Klockownia is an exceptional play & learn place for kids that combines the advantages of a joyful indoor playground and the education center. It is a space specially designed for developing social competencies and collaboration, creative spatial thinking, logic, imagination, concentration or small and large motor skills. Playing with blocks, kids experience their first own successes and achievements, they can discover, make mistakes while unconsciously and constantly learning. Such fun is an easy and safe way to help children build their self-confidence and maintain their curiosity.

“In Klockownia we give the kids thousands of blocks of unique shapes, different sizes, multiple structures. They were chosen in such a way to play with them for a long time without getting bored, practically never building the same structure twice. Children love to turn the world upside down and create their own rules and unique paths. Klockownia was made to give children what they want – a space to realize what their imagination tells them and shape the world as they see it.“

Play areas in Klockownia:

‘Little Fingers Area’: the area dedicated to the youngest guests (children from 9 months to 5 years old). You will find there large, soft, plastic, and magnetic blocks – just right for a toddler who begins his/her adventure with playing. This zone supports the development of learning about the first shapes, colors, relationships between them, concepts like inside and outside, open and closed, near and far, searching for similarities and pointing out differences. For such small children, playing with blocks expands productive thinking by activating their memory. It also has a big impact on the development of speech because the child is trying to name what he/she has built. Playing with mum or dad also helps to strengthen deep emotional relation and self-confidence of a child.

‘4 Hands Needed’: the area dedicated to everyone who can manage to pick up, move, and stack large blocks. Playing with blocks shapes the child’s personality and supports its social skills. Especially large blocks – carrying and arranging them require the collaboration of two or more kids and encourage immediate exchange and communication. The sets of blocks in Klockownia are deliberately chosen in such a way that children are more willing to help each other. Social challenges, valuable collaboration lessons and group activities are built directly into the experience of playing with large blocks designed for kids 7+. Kids can take the leadership roles, responsibility for their participation in the work and they make their independent decisions on solving conflicts and setting new goals on their own.

‘Hocki Klocki’: the area dedicated to children aged 3+. Younger children can play in the area exclusively under the constant supervision of parents. The multiplicity of shapes and infinite configuration possibilities make the blocks a tool for supporting the quick development of the intellect and maintaining the continuous mental activity. Without instructions, building with blocks develops imagination, creative thinking, planning, and implementing your own ideas by filling the space with fantastic constructions. Thanks to that, the child turns his/her creative potential into playing, learning and understanding many areas of life in an easy and pleasant way. It is a very important element of learning how to combine new facts, reproduce and consolidate the acquired knowledge, shape the ability of analytical and synthetic thinking.

‘Foreman in Action’: the area dedicated to everyone who can manage to pick up, move, and stack large blocks. Playing with blocks encourages kids to practice problem-solving skills, logic, and complex thinking. The building has a real impact on acquiring mathematical and physics knowledge: classification, scheduling, size, shape, counting, height, width, area calculation as well as results of forces activity. In the area of large bricks, before a stable structure is created, the child’s imagination must have a picture, design, architecture, and plan of future execution. The work that children will do before the visible effect arises, is the unconscious effort of all areas of development: emotional, intellectual, social, and physical.

‘Demolition’: the area dedicated to everyone who is spontaneous and likes fun. Big blocks from the ‘Foreman in Action’ or ‘4 Hands Needed’ zones require full body movements, which helps to develop motor skills and muscle strength. Demolition is the culmination of all the effort: the joy of demolishing, turning everything upside down, building from scratch. Playing in this zone is the expression of emotions, kid’s true face, stimulates action and teaches the kid the courage to start all over again and never give up.

“Additionally Klockownia creates one of the few opportunities to play together for kids of all ages. Children can play in the same zone side by side, each creating structures on their level of development. This type of play is most often the experience of siblings but in Klockownia it can become an adventure for the whole family by involving parents, grandparents and many kids around.“

Workshops dedicated to preschools, schools, and private customers in English or Polish:

‘Architecture for Kids’: dedicated to kids aged 7-12. Children learn about the characteristics of particular periods in art and architecture. By building and playing, they will be able to name the elements of buildings and historical constructions
‘Math and Geometry’: dedicated to kids aged 6-9. Kids will love to study math in Klockownia. Having blocks as a basic tool for solving math and geometry problems is the infinite play with constant education
‘Speak over Brick’: English workshops dedicated to kids aged 4-5 and 6-9. Learning English while playing with blocks is an exceptional experience as the kid has to play many roles
‘Emotions Lab’: dedicated to kids aged 6-9. In the Emotions Lab, we experience playing the role, creating stagings, practicing different attitudes towards various experiences and most importantly – having fun together!
‘Before the Kindergarten’: dedicated to kids aged 2,5 – 4. Active sensory games and social practice

“Teaching and learning should be joyous! In Klockownia, we believe that more free play gives the advantage to learn more and that is how our workshops are created.”

Klockownia’s locations in Poland:

Warsaw: Galeria Renova (Shopping Center), Rembielińska 20 Street (Bródno), 1st floor

Wrocław: Arkady Wrocławskie, Powstańców Śląskich 2-4 Street)

Gdańsk: Galeria Manhattan, al. Grunwaldzka 82 Street

“Playing with blocks allows kids to focus their attention in order to achieve a certain goal, to implement the plan they created. Nowadays when almost all workshops are guided by instructors, experiencing free play without the interference of adults is extremely important.”

Other information:

Klockownia’s professional staff includes speech therapists, pedagogy students, special needs education students and teachers. It makes Klockownia a special place also for kids with special education needs
Klockownia is a member of SPIN Organization associating science centers, museums, institutions in Poland (e.g. The Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw) whose goal is to promote knowledge and creativity
Klockownia’s team speaks English and is very friendly to international families living in Warsaw. Contact Klockownia with questions in English or Polish: +48 533 334 090, renova@klockownia.com
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