Children and Physical Play

Physical play includes activities that use physical movements to allow children to use their energy, giving children the chance to develop gross and fine motor skills, learn new things and socialize. Physical play also benefits a child’s health and understanding the importance of physical play is vital to your child’s development.

Ideal physical play incorporates play with social interactions and problem solving. Physical play provides various health benefits. It promotes early brain development and learning in infants and young children and decreases the risk of developing health conditions like coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, obesity and many other chronic health conditions.

Most children naturally develop the ability to run and walk. However, they require practice and instruction to develop hopping, galloping, sliding, catching, jumping, throwing, kicking, bouncing and striking skills. Children incorporate these skills into sports, games and dance. 

Playgrounds are perfect places for a child to develop mental connections, socialize and develop fine and gross motor skills mentioned before.

Although those who are parents now may have spent spent most of their childhood riding their bikes and playing games like baseball or football on side streets, many children today spend much of their time indoors, playing games on their tablets or watching television. Research has found that unstructured outdoor play is critical to the health of children. However, many have experienced a marked decline in the time they spend in free play.

Parytrap's Summer Club holds strong to the importance of physical play. It not only offers structured outdoor games but also opportunities for the children to explore and have fun in the sunshine of the great outdoors.


Written by Margaret Said, Partytrap Summer Club Coordinator

We're getting older, but we're not teenagers yet!

Last Saturday I popped by at a party to check if everything was going according to plan! Just a few minutes after I arrived, I bumped into another well known client of ours. The conversation that followed made me realise how fast time flies by!

This client's daughter is now 12 years old, and yet I remember clearly her party when she turned 5! At that instant I felt a mixture of feelings... 'older' was one description that fitted quite well, although I prefer picturing myself as 'more mature'. 'Satisfied' and 'fulfilled' were some other words which sprang to mind. 

themed party at Palazzo Parisio, Naxxar

However, it mostly made me feel proud of our team's efforts. It's great to look back and remember the hundreds upon hundreds of children and the way we helped put a smile on their faces, on their special day. My appreciation goes to each and every animator and service provider who has pitched in throughout the years, and to our loyal clients, who push us to deliver even better services over the years.

We are now very much looking forward to November 2015 where we shall celebrate our own 10th birthday party!! 

...let's partytrap!!  

Welcome to our blog :)

For a long time we have felt that even though at Partytrap, interacting with people is key, we wanted to further this into new directions and engage with people on different levels. Welcome to the Partytrapper's Blog. I hope that this page will be both informative, fun, friendly to use and interesting.

As an animator, it is often frustrating going home after a party or event; children full of energy and bursting with smiling faces, make us feel young again and sometimes we really forget that we would be at work! As a team we regularly meet up and the common pastime among us animators is reminiscing on the fun we would have had with the children, their energy and enthusiasm as well as the funny moments that are found in any good event. I look forward to being able to blog about these moments, the exciting things that happen and of course about the warmth a child can bring to any one that crosses his/her path.

Also watch out for blogs containing delicious recipes we would have tried out, cool craft ideas and practical tips on ways of enhancing creativity and confidence in your children :)