Surely, it is difficult to find a child who would not dream of growing up soon. Be like dad and mom, like a cool cop uncle and a beautiful TV presenter aunt. Children's "cities of professions" have become popular in the world for a reason.
This is an excellent opportunity to feel like an adult, independent, get an idea of existing professions and try yourself in them. And also - to realize, albeit not yet completely, that you are not just an individual, but a small particle of a society where everything is interconnected and it depends on you, like on thousands of other people, what this society will be like. I think understanding this is extremely important for our children. It would be superfluous to talk about how such a “real” game in the profession and adult life teaches kids and teenagers responsibility for their choice and future, educates self-discipline and explains a simple scheme: to be successful, you need to study, choose a thing you like and do it well .
While visiting the town, I was pleased to watch my son Timothy, his enthusiasm, passion and hard work. Surprisingly, he enjoyed making "money" at various stations much more than spending it on the goodies and entertainment on offer like the XBOX. It remains only to cross our fingers so that over the years the son does not lose this interest in work. And, I am sure, it will be so if he listens to himself and chooses a profession, guided by the call of his heart, and not by fashion trends and salary levels.
City of professions "KidsWill" is located in the shopping center "ART MALL" (Zabolotnogo St. , 37). Regular free minibuses belonging to the shopping and entertainment center go there from the Vydubychi and Teremki metro stations.
By the way, this store is worth visiting not only for the sake of professions: there is also the largest Lego art factory in Ukraine, the famous Danish Legoland in miniature, where you can endlessly play with your favorite designer, build your own little masterpieces, control robots created from Lego, and consider a huge town from the details.
And in ART MALL there is an amazing play area with moving attractions like dancing balloons, the idea of which was invented in Japan, and there are only 400 of them in the world. There is a ski club where you can ski and snowboard from a snow hill not only in winter, but also in summer; there is a contact mini-zoo, a mirror maze, a rollerdrome and other locations for unforgettable family leisure. To get around and try everything, it seems that you need to settle there for a week or two. Timothy would definitely be happy!
To get around at least "KidsWill", you need to arrive as early as possible: the city is open from 10.00 to 21.45.
Here everything is like in adults: in particular, the administration. Periodically, a new mayor is elected by popular vote from active child visitors over 9 years of age. An election campaign with a program, ideas, innovative solutions from candidates - everything is real. Thus, the city is developing all the time: for example, the current candidates propose to hold a carnival in the town and open the profession of an astronaut. The newly elected mayor, along with the honorary position, receives the right to visit the city of professions for free for a whole month and give the opportunity to free entry to two of his friends.
The city has its own laws that cannot be violated. So, adults have the right to enter the territory exclusively accompanied by a child, and they are strictly prohibited from entering most gaming stations. For violation, naughty moms and dads can even end up in jail!
When visiting the town for the first time, each child receives a citizen's passport and a start-up capital of 100 pounds. Further, at the disposal of the children - 27 stations and fifty professions. On most of them, boys and girls are paid a salary for completing a task.
So the work day begins. First we get to the construction site, where Tim and his friend Vlad enthusiastically join the team of masons, tilers and painters. Brick by brick, there will be a new house soon.
At the fire station, the children will have to go through a briefing: watch a video about the rules for handling fire, learn how firefighters work, and then, having heard the alarming howl of a siren, quickly run to put out a fire in one of the buildings, directing a jet of water at it. Everything is very realistic.
Next up is the Danone Yogurt Factory.
What is typical for “KidsWill”, the stations here are not nameless plants and factories, each bears the name of a brand promoted in Ukraine, well recognizable by children.
Here Tim, Vladik and other guys first delivered milk in small cans to the station from the farm (more on that later), they were explained the processes of pasteurization and fermentation of milk in an accessible form, they were allowed to look at bacteria under a microscope and, most importantly, the children prepared yogurt on their own by adding yoghurt culture to milk.
Ready-made yoghurts were brought to the supermarket by our employees.
Here you can both spend money on purchases and earn new ones by getting a job as a cashier or consultant.
The boys first were in the role of buyers. A unique opportunity: put everything you want into the basket yourself, you do not need to ask permission from mom and dad.
And then the guys sat down at the cash registers and learned the secrets of the supermarket from the inside.
Full of surprise - to watch how children sell and buy goods, but how interesting it is!
The farm is a zone that is also suitable for the youngest, free, visitors to the town - up to 4 years old. Here, work does not stop for a minute: workers take care of animals, milk cows, collect chicken eggs, pack them for delivery to the store, plant and dig up crops ...
Then our desperate boys ran to serve in the police. They were given equipment and weapons and, having given the necessary briefing on the methods of detaining criminals, they were handed identikit malefactors. The task is to find them on the territory of the town and bring them to prison. By the way, you can also get a job here as a prison guard, but this responsible job is for older children.
Timofey and Vlad quickly got on the trail of the criminals: one of them skillfully disguised himself as an animator-designer in the Art Workshop, and the second as a chef in a pizzeria.
By the way, Timofey liked the hospital so much that he went there for training three times - he surprised me! It seemed to me that with his dislike for injections and procedures, my son would bypass this station on the tenth road.
First of all, little doctors are told about the structure of the human body and introduced to poor Yorick.
With the help of an ultrasound machine, the children learned how to examine the internal organs and heard how their heart beats.
After a course of study and skills development on baby dolls, you can enter the medical service: check the sanitary condition of the "KidsWill" institutions and fine the workers of those stations where unsanitary conditions are allowed.
In the town, as in life, there are stations where money is paid, and there are those where they need to be spent. Among the latter, for example, VOLVO Driving School. Having paid 25 pounds for training, you need to pass an exam, get a license - and after that young drivers can go to the Autodrom.
But Timofey is practically indifferent to cars, but he is not indifferent to airplanes. We went to the Aviation School. To become a member of the air crew, the guys will have to carefully listen to the course on the types of air transport, on the structure of the aircraft and safety precautions. Then - to work out skills during a training flight. And after that, you can make the first passenger flight, parents are also accepted on board. Very interesting sensations: you go into the plane and see the changing landscapes in the windows, you feel the movement of this huge aircraft, a complete imitation of the flight.
Since Tim is a big fan of cooking, we stopped by the Pizzeria. Here, children are given a culinary master class, they tell a lot of interesting stories about the iconic Italian dish, and the culmination is the preparation of their own pizza with a choice of toppings.
Timokha and Vladik decided to eat pizza with corn and cheese.
But life is not only work, after all, you need to allocate an hour for fun. Among the entertainment locations where you can lower your honestly earned money are robot football and a dynamic modern XBOX station. If you are not aware, in this game, children use their own body instead of a joystick, and a special sensor device reads every movement.
I'm sure Timokha would really like it in the most creative locations of the town: in the Art Workshop, where you can draw in different techniques and make crafts; in the Photo Studio, where they learn to take beautiful pictures and pose for the camera; at the TV Studio, where children create TV programs as a cameraman, announcer or talk show host; at the Theater, where the acting troupe puts on a performance in the shortest possible time and demonstrates it to the audience.
There is even a Tourism station with traditional campfire gatherings and mapped routes. In general, there will be enough locations and professions for more than one visit. But I deliberately first of all took Timokha to master those professions with which he was not familiar, postponing for the next time the classes that he encountered in real life.
And finally, about prices. On weekends, the cost of visiting for children 4-16 years old is 210 UAH, for citizens of the town (who have issued a passport) - 180 UAH. On weekdays: 160 UAH and 130 UAH.
Cost for parents: 90-100 UAH.
This is very adequate money for such an amount of positive and pleasure. If you want to have a fun and useful time - come to "KidsWill"!
What does your child dream of becoming?
This is an excellent opportunity to feel like an adult, independent, get an idea of existing professions and try yourself in them. And also - to realize, albeit not yet completely, that you are not just an individual, but a small particle of a society where everything is interconnected and it depends on you, like on thousands of other people, what this society will be like. I think understanding this is extremely important for our children. It would be superfluous to talk about how such a “real” game in the profession and adult life teaches kids and teenagers responsibility for their choice and future, educates self-discipline and explains a simple scheme: to be successful, you need to study, choose a thing you like and do it well .
While visiting the town, I was pleased to watch my son Timothy, his enthusiasm, passion and hard work. Surprisingly, he enjoyed making "money" at various stations much more than spending it on the goodies and entertainment on offer like the XBOX. It remains only to cross our fingers so that over the years the son does not lose this interest in work. And, I am sure, it will be so if he listens to himself and chooses a profession, guided by the call of his heart, and not by fashion trends and salary levels.
City of professions "KidsWill" is located in the shopping center "ART MALL" (Zabolotnogo St. , 37). Regular free minibuses belonging to the shopping and entertainment center go there from the Vydubychi and Teremki metro stations.
By the way, this store is worth visiting not only for the sake of professions: there is also the largest Lego art factory in Ukraine, the famous Danish Legoland in miniature, where you can endlessly play with your favorite designer, build your own little masterpieces, control robots created from Lego, and consider a huge town from the details.
And in ART MALL there is an amazing play area with moving attractions like dancing balloons, the idea of which was invented in Japan, and there are only 400 of them in the world. There is a ski club where you can ski and snowboard from a snow hill not only in winter, but also in summer; there is a contact mini-zoo, a mirror maze, a rollerdrome and other locations for unforgettable family leisure. To get around and try everything, it seems that you need to settle there for a week or two. Timothy would definitely be happy!
To get around at least "KidsWill", you need to arrive as early as possible: the city is open from 10.00 to 21.45.
Here everything is like in adults: in particular, the administration. Periodically, a new mayor is elected by popular vote from active child visitors over 9 years of age. An election campaign with a program, ideas, innovative solutions from candidates - everything is real. Thus, the city is developing all the time: for example, the current candidates propose to hold a carnival in the town and open the profession of an astronaut. The newly elected mayor, along with the honorary position, receives the right to visit the city of professions for free for a whole month and give the opportunity to free entry to two of his friends.
The city has its own laws that cannot be violated. So, adults have the right to enter the territory exclusively accompanied by a child, and they are strictly prohibited from entering most gaming stations. For violation, naughty moms and dads can even end up in jail!
When visiting the town for the first time, each child receives a citizen's passport and a start-up capital of 100 pounds. Further, at the disposal of the children - 27 stations and fifty professions. On most of them, boys and girls are paid a salary for completing a task.
So the work day begins. First we get to the construction site, where Tim and his friend Vlad enthusiastically join the team of masons, tilers and painters. Brick by brick, there will be a new house soon.
At the fire station, the children will have to go through a briefing: watch a video about the rules for handling fire, learn how firefighters work, and then, having heard the alarming howl of a siren, quickly run to put out a fire in one of the buildings, directing a jet of water at it. Everything is very realistic.
Next up is the Danone Yogurt Factory.
What is typical for “KidsWill”, the stations here are not nameless plants and factories, each bears the name of a brand promoted in Ukraine, well recognizable by children.
Here Tim, Vladik and other guys first delivered milk in small cans to the station from the farm (more on that later), they were explained the processes of pasteurization and fermentation of milk in an accessible form, they were allowed to look at bacteria under a microscope and, most importantly, the children prepared yogurt on their own by adding yoghurt culture to milk.
Ready-made yoghurts were brought to the supermarket by our employees.
Here you can both spend money on purchases and earn new ones by getting a job as a cashier or consultant.
The boys first were in the role of buyers. A unique opportunity: put everything you want into the basket yourself, you do not need to ask permission from mom and dad.
And then the guys sat down at the cash registers and learned the secrets of the supermarket from the inside.
Full of surprise - to watch how children sell and buy goods, but how interesting it is!
The farm is a zone that is also suitable for the youngest, free, visitors to the town - up to 4 years old. Here, work does not stop for a minute: workers take care of animals, milk cows, collect chicken eggs, pack them for delivery to the store, plant and dig up crops ...
Then our desperate boys ran to serve in the police. They were given equipment and weapons and, having given the necessary briefing on the methods of detaining criminals, they were handed identikit malefactors. The task is to find them on the territory of the town and bring them to prison. By the way, you can also get a job here as a prison guard, but this responsible job is for older children.
Timofey and Vlad quickly got on the trail of the criminals: one of them skillfully disguised himself as an animator-designer in the Art Workshop, and the second as a chef in a pizzeria.
By the way, Timofey liked the hospital so much that he went there for training three times - he surprised me! It seemed to me that with his dislike for injections and procedures, my son would bypass this station on the tenth road.
First of all, little doctors are told about the structure of the human body and introduced to poor Yorick.
With the help of an ultrasound machine, the children learned how to examine the internal organs and heard how their heart beats.
After a course of study and skills development on baby dolls, you can enter the medical service: check the sanitary condition of the "KidsWill" institutions and fine the workers of those stations where unsanitary conditions are allowed.
In the town, as in life, there are stations where money is paid, and there are those where they need to be spent. Among the latter, for example, VOLVO Driving School. Having paid 25 pounds for training, you need to pass an exam, get a license - and after that young drivers can go to the Autodrom.
But Timofey is practically indifferent to cars, but he is not indifferent to airplanes. We went to the Aviation School. To become a member of the air crew, the guys will have to carefully listen to the course on the types of air transport, on the structure of the aircraft and safety precautions. Then - to work out skills during a training flight. And after that, you can make the first passenger flight, parents are also accepted on board. Very interesting sensations: you go into the plane and see the changing landscapes in the windows, you feel the movement of this huge aircraft, a complete imitation of the flight.
Since Tim is a big fan of cooking, we stopped by the Pizzeria. Here, children are given a culinary master class, they tell a lot of interesting stories about the iconic Italian dish, and the culmination is the preparation of their own pizza with a choice of toppings.
Timokha and Vladik decided to eat pizza with corn and cheese.
But life is not only work, after all, you need to allocate an hour for fun. Among the entertainment locations where you can lower your honestly earned money are robot football and a dynamic modern XBOX station. If you are not aware, in this game, children use their own body instead of a joystick, and a special sensor device reads every movement.
I'm sure Timokha would really like it in the most creative locations of the town: in the Art Workshop, where you can draw in different techniques and make crafts; in the Photo Studio, where they learn to take beautiful pictures and pose for the camera; at the TV Studio, where children create TV programs as a cameraman, announcer or talk show host; at the Theater, where the acting troupe puts on a performance in the shortest possible time and demonstrates it to the audience.
There is even a Tourism station with traditional campfire gatherings and mapped routes. In general, there will be enough locations and professions for more than one visit. But I deliberately first of all took Timokha to master those professions with which he was not familiar, postponing for the next time the classes that he encountered in real life.
And finally, about prices. On weekends, the cost of visiting for children 4-16 years old is 210 UAH, for citizens of the town (who have issued a passport) - 180 UAH. On weekdays: 160 UAH and 130 UAH.
Cost for parents: 90-100 UAH.
This is very adequate money for such an amount of positive and pleasure. If you want to have a fun and useful time - come to "KidsWill"!
What does your child dream of becoming?
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