Barceló Cabo de Gata
Retamar, Spain
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Happy Minds
A happy vacation
Boost the creativity of little ones with Happy Minds
Happy Minds is an innovative children's entertainment program developed by the Barceló Hotel Group and inspired by Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
We offer a diverse program consisting of various thematic packs and face-to-face workshops that are traditional, technological, and ecological and promote fun and learning through knowledge, fostering creativity in children and helping them enhance their different intelligences. This initiative complements the Barcy Club's program of activities, experiences, and children's shows.
Happy Minds:
Happy Minds has a specific entertainment program that covers all age ranges: mini for boys and girls from 4 to 7 years old, and maxi for boys and girls from 8 to 12 years old. For more information, please check the schedule of activities available at each hotel.
Happy Minds, now also at home
Start enjoying the exclusive Happy Minds experience from home now and make the wait for your upcoming vacation an extension of all the fun that is to come—time will fly by!
Up to 4 downloadable challenges for fun-filled learning; be the first to overcome them all.
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Activities to do at home
Download our program of traditional, technological, and ecological activities and challenges that we have prepared for little ones to enjoy the Happy Minds experience at home.
The Barcy characters
Games, riddles, magic tricks for children, and lots of activities to enjoy and learn through the most famous characters in history.
Barcy's experiments
Turn your kids into real scientists with fun experiments to do at home.
Barcy's EcoTips
Barcy will teach little ones how to take care of the planet in a simple and fun way.
Barcy's Eco-Workshops
Very easy and entertaining workshops that you can do with the materials you have at home.
7 packs, for 7 days!
At the Barceló Hotel Group, we offer unique experiences such as our new Happy Minds concept. This is a program for children from 4 to 12 years of age, inspired by the theory of seven multiple types of intelligence. Enjoy a well-deserved vacation while your children learn and have fun in our Barcy Club, including a wide variety of games and workshops adapted to their tastes, skills, and abilities:
- Planet and Defenders: Promote good environmental practices through exploration, adventure, discovery of the planet and care for water as the most precious commodity.
- Hand and Creators: Works on manual skills, painting and everything related to plastic arts.
- Music and Actors: Passion for theater, music, dance, cinema, and everything related to the performing arts.
- Lab and Makers: Construction, research, and scientific experiments with elements from nature such as solar energy, wind power, and the strength of gravity.
- Mystery and Magicians: Magic goes above and beyond with riddle solving, robotics, puzzles, and MaKey MaKey, a kit for creating fun inventions.
- Circus and Artists: A place for the multifaceted and skilled, but who above all like to make jokes, laugh, and arouse the emotions of others.
- Barcy and Friends: Enjoy the "Barcy Rap" with Barcy the mascot, rehearse for the flashmob, or participate in the video editing workshop using our new app.
Workshops
Happy Minds by Barceló includes three types of workshops for all children participating in the Barcy Club.
Traditional workshops Workshops regularly reviewed and updated to achieve maximum learning in a fun way
- Funny vegetables. We will discover local vegetables and plants by giving them faces and creating fun characters.
- Lab experiments. Each afternoon we will carry out an experiment, for example; "How is a volcano formed?" and "What is the law of gravity?"
-Costume workshop. Preparations for the circus show, dressing up and having a good time.
Eco-workshops. In the eco-workshops children can learn in playful way how to respect the environment and learn the principle of the "3Rs": reduce, re-use, and recycle.
-The sea of things: stones and branches invade fish and other marine species.
-Art on the island, César Manrique: design and build a wind sculpture with recycled materials.
-The urban garden. Micro gardening. Preparation of decorative cacti with bottle corks.
Techno-workshops. Workshops that use new technology and art for learning.
-Augmented reality. We have created a Barcy app for children to paint and color our mascot to then convert it into 3D.
- Makey Makey. The invention kit of the 21st century. Convert everyday objects into touch panels. Makey opens the door to imagination.
-Editing workshop. Create a flashmob video.
