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Spotlight: Kids Critters – Animal-Assisted Therapy and Education

Tiffany is one of the world’s best humans. A beaming smile, enthusiasm and energy that buoys you into her world and a profound understanding of what it is to find everything overwhelming, she will welcome you and your little (or bigger) person into a magical world of critters large and small.

She is the founder of Kids Critters, delivering a range of services based around her extended family of reptiles, amphibians and insects, happily joined by the labrador, cats and chickens ambling around the garden. Tiffany offers counselling, play and creative therapy as well as invaluable educational input covering a wide range of issues that empower children and young people and help them find the confidence to take their next step forward.

My personal favourite of Kids Critters has to be Poppy – a beautiful (male) tortoise who got his name a little earlier than mere humans could detect his sex. Poppy wears his name with pride when he isn’t trying to escape the garden and go on wider adventures!

While offering bespoke provision for children in need of additional support or whose education must be delivered outside of a school setting, Kids Critters also offers birthday parties, school workshops attended by Mini, the bearded dragon and Toffee, the hognose snake among others, and holiday camps.

It can be incredibly difficult to find accessible activities for our SEND children during the holidays and I’m delighted to see that Tiffany has once more planned wonderful activities for the half term (fingers crossed for spaces as that’s next week!) and the summer holiday.

Hurry over and book a space – and enjoy browsing the Kids Critters website here. It may well have an answer to your child’s more holistic needs.