Little Tides

08/26/2026

Couldn’t be more excited to make some waves with Safe Haven! 🌊🫧💙 See you Under the Sea! 🐠🐚

🌊 SOMETHING NEW IS MAKING WAVES AT SAFE HAVEN! 🐚🦈

We are SO excited to welcome Little Tides to Safe Haven Play Café for a special Under the Sea Sensory Pop-Up! 💙

Created by an occupational therapist, this experience is designed to let little ones learn, move, explore and create through PLAY. Kids will work on fine and gross motor skills, problem solving, sensory exploration, creativity and more, all while having a blast.

🐠 Little explorers will enjoy FIVE hands-on stations:

🫧 Ocean Foam Wash
🐚 Sandy Shores
🪸 Rescue the Reef
🦈 Feed the Shark
🌊 Tidal Moves

We’ll wrap everything up with bubbles + an ocean song! 🫧🎶

📅 Thursday, September 10
⏰ 8:30 AM
📍 Safe Haven Play Café
🎟️ $25 per child
👨‍👩‍👧 Grown-ups are FREE!

✨ AND your ticket includes TWO HOURS of play at Safe Haven after the class!

So for $25, your little one gets the full Little Tides sensory experience plus two hours to stay and play afterward. 🙌

We absolutely LOVE bringing new classes, experiences and local connections into Safe Haven, and we can’t wait to see our play café transformed into a tiny underwater world for the morning. 🌊🐠

Please RSVP to this event so we can plan accordingly.

Who has a little ocean explorer who would LOVE this?! 🐚👇

08/24/2026

You don’t need a sensory table, a cart full of supplies or an elaborate setup to make play meaningful. 🤍

Some of the best opportunities for little ones to explore, move, problem solve and build new skills are already hiding in your kitchen cabinets, laundry room and living room.

A muffin tin becomes a sorting activity.
A laundry basket becomes a whole body challenge.
A few pillows become an obstacle course.
A bowl of water can keep little hands busy far longer than expected. 🌊

That’s one of my favorite things about purposeful play: simple can still do so much.

Save these 7 ideas for the next rainy day, long afternoon or “what are we going to do for the next two hours?” kind of day. 😅

Which one would your little one choose first?

08/23/2026

🌊 NORTH CAROLINA — WE’RE MAKING WAVES! 🐚🦈

We are SO excited to bring a Little Tides Under the Sea sensory pop-up experience to Safe Haven Play Café in Clemmons, North Carolina!

Created by an occupational therapist, Little Tides sensory play is about so much more than keeping little hands busy. Every experience is thoughtfully designed to encourage sensory exploration, fine + gross motor skills, problem solving, creativity, movement and connection — all through something kids already know how to do best: PLAY. 💙

Little explorers will make their way through FIVE hands-on sensory + movement stations:

🫧 Ocean Foam Wash
🐚 Sandy Shores
🪸 Rescue the Reef
🦈 Feed the Shark
🌊 Tidal Moves

Then we’ll come together for bubbles + an ocean song! 🫧🎶

📅 Thursday, September 10
⏰ 8:30 AM
📍 Safe Haven Play Café | Clemmons, NC
🎟️ $25 per child | Grown-ups FREE
✨ PLUS two hours of free play at Safe Haven included!

Registration will be available directly through Safe Haven.

And to our Rhode Island families watching from up north — don’t worry. 🌊🤍 Little Tides is coming home, and we’re bringing the fun with us. Stay tuned!

We can’t wait to make some waves with you, NC! 🐠🐚

For little ones and those who raise them.

08/22/2026

This morning, Atlas rolled. 💙

Such a small movement, but one that felt so big in our house.

At 9 months old, Atlas has been moving through his milestones on his own timeline. And even when you know better than to compare, it can be hard as a parent not to worry or feel a little sad when things seem to come more slowly for your baby.

For months, we’ve practiced. We’ve encouraged. We’ve celebrated the tiniest bits of progress. And this morning, all of that hard work came together when he finally rolled on his own.

One of the things I hope Little Tides can always be is a reminder that development isn’t a race. Some milestones arrive right on schedule. Some take a little more time, support, repetition, and patience.

And sometimes the smallest victories are the ones worth celebrating the most.

Today, we’re celebrating a roll. 🌊🤍

For little ones and those who raise them.

08/21/2026

There’s a lot happening in those little hands turning pages. 🤍

Books aren’t just about learning words. They’re pointing, touching, turning, noticing, listening, anticipating and connecting.

And sometimes they’re reading the same page approximately 47 times.

That counts too. 🌊

08/20/2026

A mud kitchen might look like a whole lot of dirt, old pots and very questionable soup. 🤎

But to little hands, it’s so much more.

Scooping. Pouring. Mixing. Carrying. Pretending. Problem solving. Getting messy. Starting over.

There’s sensory exploration, fine motor work, coordination, creativity and so much language happening without anyone needing to turn it into a “learning activity.”

Just give them the tools, let them lead and see what they come up with.

Around here, the mess is part of the magic. 🌊

08/18/2026

We’re incredibly honored to share that Little Tides + Healing Hearts are proud sponsors of the 2026 Rhode Island Dup15Q Believe Walk & 5K this October at Goddard Memorial State Park. 💙

This event is especially meaningful because behind it is a local family sharing their story and turning their journey into something powerful for an entire community.

Elizabeth and Kyle’s son, Luke, is 4 years old and was diagnosed with Dup15Q syndrome at age 3. Dup15Q is a rare, lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder caused by an extra copy of a portion of chromosome 15.

Luke’s journey has included developmental challenges, autism and the loss of functional speech, but those things are only a small part of who he is. His family describes him as warm, gentle, affectionate and incredibly happy — a little boy who finds his own beautiful ways to show the people around him just how much he loves them. 💙

Their family created the Rhode Island Believe Walk & 5K to raise awareness, bring families together and support the Dup15Q Alliance, which provides family support while advancing research and work toward treatments for Dup15Q syndrome.

And we are so grateful to be part of it.

Together, Little Tides + Healing Hearts are creating the Calm + Connect Cove 🌊🧸

A sensory-friendly space where children and their families can step away from the excitement of the event to:

🌊 Move
🐚 Play
🌿 Regulate
🤍 Connect

We can’t wait to create a space where Luke and so many other incredible children can simply be themselves.

📅 October 3, 2026
📍 Goddard Memorial State Park

Walk. Run. Donate. Learn more about Luke’s story.

Register, donate or learn more about the Rhode Island Believe Walk & 5K

For Luke. For the Dup15Q community. For every child. Believe. 💙