Contact information, map and directions, contact form, opening hours, services, ratings, photos, videos and announcements from The Movement Bothy, Childcare service, Aberdeen.
We are a not for profit organisation set up to ensure that children have the opportunity to access quality movement education and a wide variety of sports encouraging them to discover a life long love of physical activity.
30/07/2026
Woohoo! Have we got an epic day planned for you! Thanks to funding from sportscotland we have a day full of movement and family fun! Including family parkour sessions, skateboard classes, bike skills classes, parkour displays, bike challenges, BBQ and refreshments AND a balance bike safari.
The full timetable and how to book activities will be released this Saturday in the meantime please save the date and spread the word!!
28/07/2026
We are on the hunt for some unwanted stuffed animal toys (the larger the better!!) for a wee project we're working on. Classic us leaving things to the last minute we need them in the next 5-7days. 🤦🏼♀️
So if anyone has any animals (any variety) ready for a new life please let us know. (Or if anyone sees any in any charity shops that could work too)
Thanks
🐱🐶🐺🐻🐻❄️🐻❄️🐼🐹🐵🐯🦁🐸🐊🐢🦄🐗🐽🐷🐮🦊🐰🐭🐄🐎🐈🐈⬛🐁🐇🐕🐎🐖🫏🐩🐏🦓🦏🐪🐅🐒🦙🦒🐿️
22/07/2026
🌟 Wisdom Wednesday | Neuroplasticity & Why It Matters 🌟
Your child’s brain is built to learn, grow, and rewire itself—for life. That ability is called neuroplasticity: the brain’s lifelong power to adapt by forming new neural connections through everyday experience.
✨ From a young age (especially the first 3–5 years), the brain creates millions of new connections as kids learn sensory, motor, and language skills, making movement a powerful “brain builder.”
🏃♂️ Sports & movement turbo charge this process by strengthening neural networks. The more varied the movement, the more the brain builds a stronger, more flexible “movement vocabulary.”
🐒 Tough Monkeys at The Movement Bothy (Ages 2–12)
Our Tough Monkeys programme helps kids develop a wide range of movement skills, so they become coordinated, confident individuals in sport and everyday life.
When children (and adults) can control their bodies, for example balancing, and coordinating themselves to use multiple movement patterns simultaneously, they tend to navigate new situations with more confidence, learn motor tasks faster, and adapt more easily when challenges change. That confidence also supports focus and emotional regulation, because their body feels capable.
💪 Key Pillars We Train (Because Brain + Body Grow Together)
*Balancing: core stability and body awareness in space
*Multi-planar movement: coordination, strength, and cognitive gains
*Crossing the midline: boosts fine motor skills (great for writing!)
*Heavy work(carrying/pushing/pulling): regulates the sensory system
*Climbing & scrambling: builds strength and stability to help prevent injury
🧠 The “Golden Age” (For Ages 5–8)
This is where the brain is extra receptive. Rapid myelination helps improve coordination, balance, and reaction time.
That’s why we focus on fundamental movement skills (not just sport tactics). Variety now = versatility for years.
📍 Join The Movement Bothy and let your child build the brain-ready movement foundation they’ll use for life.
19/07/2026
**THIS WEEK AT THE MOVEMENT BOTHY**
Along with our sold out Action Camp for Adventurers we have lots of great opportunities to learn and develop new skills from bike skills to skateboarding and Tough Monkeys for Tots too!!
All booking can be done online at www.movementevolution.org/book-now
17/07/2026
The final day of Adventurers Action Camp this week and what a day it was the Tough Monkeys Obstacle Course, measured challenges and plenty of fun and games!
We hope you all had a fantastic week!