As parents, they frequently visited children’s attractions and birthday parties throughout the region, but felt there was room for a different approach.<\/p>\n
“There are quite a few young child play areas, and they all do a great job,” Babbitt said. “But we wanted to create something that felt thoughtfully curated, clean, safe and high-end without the high-end price tag.”<\/p>\n
Unlike traditional indoor playgrounds centered around climbing structures and jungle gyms, Tiny Town focuses on imaginative role play. <\/p>\n
Children can act as firefighters, veterinarians, construction workers, bakers, mechanics, and shopkeepers while interacting with age-appropriate props and activities.<\/p>\n
One playhouse resembles a service station complete with toy tools and a vehicle that children can partially disassemble and reassemble. <\/p>\n
Another recreates a veterinary clinic stocked with stuffed animals. Other structures include interactive puzzles, climbing elements, and slides integrated into the designs.<\/p>\n
Babbitt said the goal is to give children opportunities to become active participants rather than observers.<\/p>\n
“We’re bystanders to so much of what happens in our children’s lives,” he said. “This gives the child an opportunity to not be a bystander, but be the main character.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As parents, they frequently visited children’s attractions and birthday parties throughout the region, but felt there was room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-300311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}