Mindful Playful · 17th Avenue SW, Calgary

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We built this room by room, on purpose. Everything here is at a child’s height and reachable without asking an adult first. Have a look before you visit.

Plates: 26
Chapters: 5
Ages served: 19 mo – 12 yrs
Photographed: 2026

A Mindful Playful classroom seen from the doorway: low white shelving, pale work tables, and a wall of windows. — FrontispieceA room before the day begins

01Classrooms01
02Art & Music Studio09
03Arrival & Cubbies14
04The Kitchen19
05Outdoors22

Plates 01–08

Classrooms

Where the day happens

From chairs to bookshelves, all furniture is tailored to be reachable and aligned to a child's eye line.

A classroom reading corner with a pale rug, a wooden book trolley on casters, and windows running the length of the wall. — 01The reading corner

A bright classroom with low white shelving and a full wall of windows looking onto trees and neighbouring buildings. — 02Daylight windows

Open classroom shelving holding activity trays, a globe and pots of coloured pencils sorted by hue. — 03Provocation shelf

Pale wooden child-sized desks and white chairs arranged in small clusters across a classroom. — 04Work tables

Cubed white shelving used as a low room divider between two work areas of a classroom. — 05Open shelving

A wide view of a classroom with several clusters of child-sized tables and chairs beside a window wall. — 06Room for everyone

A tidy classroom with cleared table tops, pots of coloured pencils lined up on a shelf, and framed prints on the wall. — 07Ready and in order

A calm classroom with pale walls, uncluttered white shelving, framed animal prints and child-sized tables. — 08Quiet by design

Plates 09–13

Art & Music Studio

A hundred languages

Provocations are set out before the children arrive: paper, pencils, clay, loose parts. The piano stands in the same room, uncovered, so a morning can just as easily begin in sound as on paper.

A studio table covered in paper with a hand-lettered card on a small easel reading 'What can you do with the line?', beside a compartment tray of pom-poms and beads. — 09

A wooden compartment tray of pom-poms, beads, buttons and stones resting on paper marked with drawn lines. — 10

Two studio tables covered end to end with paper the children have drawn on, with child-sized chairs and a bowl of natural materials behind. — 11

A wooden bowl and basket of pinecones, bark and seed pods on a studio table, with coloured pencils on the shelf behind. — 12

An upright digital piano with its music stand raised and keys uncovered, standing at the edge of a classroom. — 13

Plates 14–18

Arrival & Cubbies

The first ten feet

Each child has their own child sized wooden cubby for their indoor shoes, jackets, backpacks, and accessories. The first ten feet provide a routine to allow children to settle and prepare for class.

A cubby room lined on both sides with solid wood cubbies and coat hooks above dark commercial carpet. — 14The cubby room

A close view of wooden cubby compartments with black coat hooks and name labels set at child height. — 15One hook, one name

Wooden cubbies along a wall above dark hard-wearing carpet, with a bench edge in the foreground. — 16Boots off

Two low basins set side by side into a counter with soap dispensers, and a taller basin on the return counter. — 17Child-height sinks

A childcare washroom with counter-mounted basins at child height along the wall and a deep stainless utility sink on castors. — 18

Plates 19–21

The Kitchen

Cooked on site

From snacks to full meals, our licensed kitchen is where all food will be prepared and served.

A commercial kitchen with two full ranges beneath a stainless extraction hood. — 19The commercial kitchen

Stainless steel ranges and counters in a commercial childcare kitchen. — 20Cooked here

A kitchen prep area with white cabinetry, a dishwasher, deep sink and counter space. — 21Prep and pantry

Plates 22–26

Outdoors

Weather is not a reason to stay in

A large, fully fenced yard with all-weather turf and open-ended materials to promote creative play and fun! A variety of special toys and equipment are also rotated throughout the year to keep the space engaging and offer children new play experiences.

A fenced outdoor yard with all-weather green turf, loose tyres and a small climbing structure. — 22The yard

A long stretch of green turf in a fully fenced yard, with a wheelbarrow and play equipment at the far end. — 23Room to run

The turf yard seen from one corner, with the building along the far edge and wooden fencing closing the remaining sides. — 24Enclosed on every side

Planter boxes of soil with young seedlings, lined up on a timber ledge against a fence. — 25The planters

Two planter boxes on a timber ledge with rows of lettuce and herb seedlings coming up through the soil. — 26

Colophon

Photographs only get you so far.
Come stand in the room.

Tours run during office hours, Mon–Fri: 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM. Book one and we will walk you through every space on this page and answer the questions a photograph cannot.

Until then, read what these rooms are for: our teaching philosophy and the programs that run in them.

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Address: Second Floor 2711 - 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3E 0A6
Hours: Mon–Fri: 7:30 AM – 5:45 PM
Telephone: 403-404-9871
Email: office@mindfulplayful.ca

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