Cobblestones

We had just moved to watertown so I decided to drive around the neighborhood and see what’s nearby. Boy am I happy I did that because otherwise I would not have found cobblestones, as they have q very unassuming front façade.
This is owned by 3 wonderful women, all very involved and all with early childhood backgrounds (each with their specialty, ie speech). I personally have had the most interaction with Nicole, as she has led both of the classes that I’ve registered my daughter for, and I can’t say enough good things about her!
The place is very clean, which from my experience is not easy to find in these type of indoor play spaces. They’re open play hours are somewhat limited, but if it works with your schedule, it is a great option to take your little ones, especially on a cold day.
They’re classes are also wonderful, very stimulating and fun for the little ones. My daughter is 10 months old, she really loves all the sensory activities every week (every week these change, we may do an art project one week, play with corn meal or with frozen corn meal, or with oats dyed in different colors, or with homemade play dough) and she loves the «circle time», which is the fun part of the class, where we all sing songs. She gets especially excited when Nicole takes out the parachute! Now in the older play group we also have «snack time» and it’s awesome because she gets to nibble on Cheerios while us adults get to talk about various topics that are crossing our minds that week.
I’ve never written such q long review, I hope this is helpful to some of you reading this because I can’t stay enough good things about this place. I would drive 20 minutes to get here if needed, I’m just super lucky that’s its a couple of minutes from my house!

I’m so thankful we found Cobblestones! The teachers and coordinators absolutely are fantastic. We started our almost 3-​year-​old daughter in the Lil’ Preschooler’s Playgroup because it was clear that she was not ready for a full-​time preschool. She has flourished in the small playgroup!
The group sizes are small and the teachers really spend extra time working to individualize their daily activities for each child. For example, our daughter has been quite shy, but each week they try to spend time coaching her to use her «big voice» and interact with her peers. We could not be more pleased with what she is learning. Even though she will be «too old» for their little preschooler program next fall, I’m hopeful that they will open a 4 year old’s playgroup! I just can’t say enough great things!

We are extremely happy with Cobbletones. We moved to West Newton a few months ago and this has been a gem for my almost 2 daughter. The playspace is clean, beautiful and well thought out with developmentally appropriate materials and toys. We just signed our daughter up for the first play group class and it was just lovely. Highly highly recommend. Very reasonable price, active engagement from all three women all with education/​therapy backgrounds. Wish my older son got to experience the same thing!

My son has a speech delay but not enough that we qualified for EI (for which we are grateful). Our insurance doesn’t cover *any* speech services whatsoever, so our choices for speech therapy are pretty limited by our budget. HOWEVER, Cobblestones is not just affordable, they are FANTASTIC. They are only about 25 – 30 minutes from Boston (just down the road from Russo’s on River St). We worked with Lisa Saimos in particular, as she is their speech language pathologist, but everyone we might there is absolutely fantastic. My son was shy for the very first session and then warmed up to Lisa very quickly. She was very eager to follow our lead as far as how much work we wanted to do – since insurance doesn’t cover anything, we are free to make our own schedule and aren’t limited by insurance requirements — and was very happy to meet us at our comfort level as far as how much to do with our son and how quickly. Our son began speaking A LOT more within just a few weeks of meeting with Lisa, and I really do believe that a lot of it had to do with how comfortable she made him feeling trying out new words and sounds and how well she communicated to ME about how to provide a good home environment for him to continue practicing at home with us. I cannot rave enough about the services we got at Cobblestones and would recommend them to anyone who needs speech therapy for their children. They have other developmental specialists there as well, as well as group classes that focus on childhood development and regular playgroups. They have a bright, clean, welcoming space and a staff that is truly excited and committed to working with children. We LOVE Cobblestones and are so happy to have found them!