Barts and The London Children's Hospital | Activities for children | Play areas
Play areas
Play areas within the children’s hospital have a range of toys and books to keep our patients occupied. For our adolescent patients, there is a dedicated room with a television, DVD player (with a selection of DVDs) and a karaoke machine.
Our high-tech multisensory room provides children with a therapeutic area to assist their recovery. It is particularly beneficial to patients with special needs, as the equipment stimulates the different senses. For example there is an acoustic chair where deaf children can sit and feel the vibrations of music being played in the room. The room also has a voice activated fan-light that glows when children speak or sing into a microphone, a fluorescent chalkboard that glows in the dark and a large projector that can create a different theme in the room, such as sea-life or messy paint. There is also a soft play area filled with plastic balls where patients can exercise weak limbs.
