When you bring your kids to Barney’s Backyard inside Universal Orlando, you’ll be doing more than just letting them run out some energy on the indoor playground. You’ll actually be further enhancing their development through the use of sand, music, water, exploration and so much more! Located inside the attraction A Day in the Park with Barney or through the Barney gift shop, Barney’s Backyard focuses on several different forms of play that will help your child develop fine motor skills, dexterity, creativity, hand-eye coordination, enhance memory and much more. As you wander through the different pretend play areas here are some of the benefits of each play area: Sand Play: helps develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills; promotes creativity and allows for play by oneself, next to another child or with others. 
Water Play: helps develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills; gives kids feelings of pleasure, accomplishment and relaxation; and enhances sense of touch with sensations of wet, warm and cool. 
Fun with Music: promotes discovery, creativity and manual dexterity through the manipulation of musical instruments; encourages the release of stress through listening and dancing and enhances memory and verbal skills through rhythm, rhyme and repetition. 
Exploration: encourages problem solving and allows for discovery; promotes balance and coordination and helps exercise and develop muscles. 
Climbing: helps develop large muscle groups; encourages pretend play and promotes balance and coordination. 
Pretend play: Kids will be able to climb aboard the train that hangs out in the area and take a trip to Barney Station where Barney himself will be waiting for a photo op. Pretend play promotes social development, imagination, and dramatic play. When your kids are done enhancing their developmental skills make sure you catch Barney and his friends in the live show, A Day in the Park with Barney. This sing-along, clap-along musical takes place in a peaceful park where the characters come to dance and sing their most popular songs. As you watch magical surprises happen like leaves fall from the trees and sometimes even snowflakes flitter down from the sky. The show is another great way to get your kids dancing and singing, which we’ve learned promotes discovery, creativity, dexterity, memory, verbal skills and much more! To let your kids use their imagination to boost their development, look for discounted Universal Orlando tickets right here on Best of Orlando. Right now when you buy 2 days you’ll get 2 days free for a limited time! Orlando, FL 11/06/13 | 
