The Top Children’s Gyms in Newark Delaware and Vicinity
1. Olympiad Gymnastics: This gym is located in People’s Plaza Shopping Center in Newark, Delaware. The facility teaches gymnastics to children from age 2 years to 17 years old and includes instruction on balance beam, uneven parallel bars, trampoline, mini-trampoline, vaulting, and tumbling. The teachers are enthusiastic and fun and make the classes and parties exciting. Classes are formed based on age and skill level of the students. They also offer private lessons upon request. Olympiad Gymnastics will form classes for any group over 7 children, which can include Homeschooled Children, MOMs Clubs, and Daycares, to name just a few. In addition to regular classes, Olympiad Gymnastics offers birthday party packages. Packages include an hour in the gym plus 45 minutes in the party room for refreshments and opening presents.
2. North Shore Gymnastics is located in Elkton, MD, only 5 minutes from Newark, Delaware. Many of the students at this facility are from Newark, Delaware since it is such a close drive. North Shore Gymnastics offers gymnastics classes for children age 3 and up. The facility is only 2 years old and boasts a foam/spring floor throughout the gym/workout area. They offer a set of uneven bars, a vault horse, 2 balance beams, parallel bars and rings in addition to a wide variety of mats and shapes to assist with skills and different tricks. The highlight of the gym is a floor level trampoline that is built in and leads to a soft foam filled pit. My daughter loves the “pit” area and the trampoline and would play on these two activities for more than the entire hour if she was allowed to. The teachers that we have had experience with have been fun though some are more fun than others. All work the children hard and keep safety in mind at all times. Parents can observe their children from the waiting area over a half wall that separates the gym area from the parent waiting area. North Shore Gym also offers birthday party packages which include everything except the cake and drinks. They also offer Parents Night Out one Saturday per month where parents can leave their children at the gym for 2 hours to play and eat pizza and they offer Open Gym Night one Saturday per month where students can use the gym for one hour. Parents pay separately for these two events but Open Gym Night can be used to make up a class that a student has missed without a fee.
3. The Little Gym in Middletown, DE is only about 10 minutes from Newark, Delaware. This is a new facility with all new equipment. The facility is bright and cheerful. Parents can sit in the spacious waiting area and watch their children through the glass windows without disturbing them. The Little Gym offers programs for infants from 4 months through children age 12. Programs for students up to 3 years old are parent/child programs. All programs are all developmentally appropriate for the age group being taught. Gymnastics skills are taught on even and uneven bars, balance beam, trampoline, many mats of different sizes and bright colors and much more. In addition to gymnastics, The Little Gym in Middletown, DE offers Sports Skills classes and Karate classes. Most classes at the Little Gym are one hour long (the exception is that the youngest students’ classes are only 45 minutes long and some of the invitation only teams meet for differing times). The Little Gym offers birthday parties that include an hour in the gym plus 30 minutes in the party room. You supply the cake and they do the rest.
All three gyms have websites that can give you more of an idea about their facilities, including pictures in some cases. The tuitions at all three gyms are within a close range of about $15 per class. I have had personal experience at all three gyms and have found all three to be fun, exciting places to learn and play. I have also attended birthday parties at all 3 locations and have found them all to be exceptional parties for a good value (Remember, you don’t have to do any clean up either before or after the party if you have it at one of these gyms!)
Here are website links to all 3 gyms:
http://www.gymnasticsforme.com/
http://www.northshoregym.net/
www.tlgwilmingtonde.com
