Launchpad Playful Preschool

Launchpad serves children ages 3 – 5 years-old.

The preschool is located on the third floor of First 5 Fox Valley’s Family Resource Center (111 W College Ave), which is right across the street from the Building for Kids! Please enter through the back door of the building according to this map.

Launchpad is now in session, but we will accept enrollment on a rolling basis. You can choose to attend 5, 3, or 2 days per week. Schedule options include:

• Monday – Friday: 8:30 – 11am
• Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 8:30 – 11am
• Tuesday & Thursday: 8:30 – 11am

Afternoon schedules will be available pending interest. Please fill out the following form if you are interested in an afternoon option:
Launchpad Playful Preschool: Afternoon Interest Form

Tuition for Launchpad is billed monthly at:

• $600 per month for 5 days per week
• $360 per month for 3 days per week
• $240 per month for 2 days per week

Launchpad focuses on the power of open-ended, child-directed play to help prepare kids for kindergarten and beyond. Through playful exploration, Launchpad learners build critical cognitive, emotional, social, physical, and creative skills in their early years.

Launchpad enrollment also comes with a 2-person membership to the BFK, so your child can continue learning through play beyond the classroom!

Launchpad’s care and learning philosophy is inspired and informed by years of building playful experiences for children and their grown-ups at Building for Kids.

• We believe in play for all by fostering a playful culture that starts with our care team. Our children learn and develop critical skills through play. Our care team provides their best level of care when they can be playful with the children and each other.
• We believe in laughter as a form of connection and communication. Our care team is trained in improv, so they are ready to embrace uncertainty with joy and confidence.
• We believe that the skills children build through play prepare them to experience life. Instead of emphasizing academic learning goals, our care team observes children for the development of holistic skills like creative, social, and emotional. These skills prepare children for navigating every stage of their lives.
• We believe that when our care team is well, our children are well. Our space is designed to meet the unique sensory needs of our care team and children and allows for the freedom to move from higher sensory input activities to lower sensory input activities as needed.
• We believe in the power of immersive themes that allow for deeper, more engaged play. Instead of daily lesson plans, our care team cycles through immersive themes in which children get to explore, create, and learn. These themes are intentionally designed to lead children to develop cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and creative skills.