The best Parent and Me classes around Shanghai

Want to keep things fresh? This baby and toddlers group mixes things up with its variety of classes that range from focused sessions – like yoga to help your kids relax or baby and toddler ballet lessons that introduce your mini ballerinas to the fundamentals of the dance – to the more general ‘Big Leapers’, that concentrates on developing skills across multiple areas via storytelling, music and movement, art and themed play.

Operating for a decade, Jitterbugs is well known in the community for its fun classes, split across two programmes. Musical Movement offers 45-minute lessons set to energetic songs with movements, games and toys that will have your little one learning in an informal atmosphere – they’ve got classes for pre-walkers (under nine months) all the way to four years old. The Busy Bees programme gives kids aged one to four a holistic early learning experience to increase confidence and independence, build new skills and get them prepped for preschool.

Feel the beat at Music Together’s intro to the musical world where the goal is to nurture babies, toddlers and preschoolers in a constructive way, all while learning about each child’s natural musicality in a playful, musically rich learning environment. This programme differs from other music and movement classes as they focus on getting kids to explore and create music themselves using their bodies and instruments.

An organisation that champions fun, exploration and learning for the city’s youngest minds, Awesome Kids Club teams up with family-friendly yoga studio Dragon Space for special Mommy/Daddy and Me Yoga Classes. A space where you and your minis can stretch it out and unwind, the sessions are also said to help develop physical skills, social awareness and encourage a healthy lifestyle from a young age.