6 – 18 Months
Sensory Discovery
Smooth wooden teethers, soft silks, heuristic objects and texture-led invitations for the earliest stage of exploration.
Cape Town's Premier Family SupportReclaim your
Reclaim your
weekends.
More than a nanny. A monthly retainer of uninterrupted weekend hours of curated developmental play, sensory exploration and home restoration — Saturdays, Sundays or both — while you breathe, rest and reset.
What We Solve
We give parents back their time, their sanity, and a calmer home.
Developmental Play
Curated sensory invitations for ages six months to six years — movement, stories, creativity and quiet focus, never screens.
Domestic Harmony
While the children explore, we restore order — tidying, dishes, laundry folding and nursery reset. The cleaning never becomes secondary.
Peace of Mind
A vetted, trained weekend professional. No daycare illnesses, no rotating faces — the same trusted nanny, every weekend.
Why It Matters
The quiet power of developmental play.
Sensory-led play isn't just entertainment — it's how young children build the brains, bodies and hearts they'll carry into the rest of their lives.
Cognitive Growth
Sensory play builds neural pathways, sharpens focus and lays the groundwork for language, problem-solving and early literacy.
Fine & Gross Motor Skills
Pouring, threading, climbing and clay-work develop dexterity, balance and the small muscles needed for writing and self-care.
Emotional Regulation
Tactile, rhythmic play calms the nervous system — children learn to self-soothe, share, and move through big feelings.
Creativity & Curiosity
Open-ended materials invite imagination, storytelling and a lifelong love of discovery — no two weekends look the same.
The Sensory Play Kit
She arrives with everything your child needs to grow.
Every weekend, your nanny brings an age-specific kit — packed with activities, games and songs chosen for your child's exact developmental stage. Nothing to buy, nothing to set up, nothing left behind.
Stage-Specific Activities
Heuristic play, threading, clay-work or open-ended building — every invitation calibrated to your child's developmental window.
Songs & Story Rituals
A repertoire of action rhymes, lullabies and read-aloud titles that build vocabulary, rhythm and shared connection.
Sensory Games
Water play, scent jars, texture trays and movement games that engage every sense — packed up and tidied away by the nanny.
How It Works
A standing reservation for the most precious days of your week.
Booking a Developmental Nanny is the natural next step — four calm, considered moves from first hello to a weekend rhythm that finally feels like yours.
01
A Private Consultation
We meet with you to understand your family's rhythm, your children's stages and the quiet needs of your home.
02
We Match Your Nanny
You are paired with one of our trained specialists — the same dedicated face, every weekend of the month.
03
Weekends, Restored
She arrives with her sensory bag, leads uninterrupted hours of developmental play, and quietly returns order to your home.
04
A Standing Reservation
Your retainer renews monthly. Consistent care, no scrambling, no last-minute searching.
What's Included
Everything a weekend should be.
One flat monthly retainer covers every weekend day you choose — a complete family support service, not a piecemeal arrangement.
- 01Uninterrupted hours of developmental, sensory-led play
- 02A curated sensory bag tailored to each child's stage
- 03Nappy changes, feeds and consistent gentle routines
- 04General tidying, dishes, toy-rotation and laundry folding
- 05One trained, vetted nanny — the same face every weekend
- 06Quiet, premium presence in your home — no daycare exposure
The Sensory Bag
A bespoke toolkit of wonder, every weekend.
Every nanny arrives with a curated bag of natural materials chosen for your child's exact stage. Heirloom-quality, never plastic, never disposable.
2 – 4 Years
Creative Expression
Gathering materials of varying feels — tin foil, sandpaper, feathers, cotton balls — that allows your 2–4-year-old to glue them to a piece of cardstock to create a sensory texture collage.
4 – 6 Years
Complex Narratives
Building blocks and story cards that grow imagination, language and cooperation.
Our Nannies
Trained specialists. Quietly extraordinary.
Every Play & Grow nanny is hand-selected, ECD-aligned, paediatric first-aid certified and reference-vetted for the most discerning Cape Town households.
Senior Facilitator
Kim Mfunani
ECD-trained with seven years in private Cape Town homes. Specialises in early language and sensory art.
Movement Expert
Memory Simango
Paediatric first-aid certified. Leads movement, music and outdoor sensory play with calm warmth.
Creative Lead
Mercy Muza
Montessori-aligned practical-life expert. A favourite for sensitive sleepers and busy households.
A Note from our Founder
Built by a mother, for mothers.
I founded Play & Grow because I lived the quiet, exhausting blur of modern Cape Town motherhood — the burnout, the guilt of missed developmental play, the slow loss of the home I had carefully built.
Family is often far. Daycare brings the sniffles every fortnight. Casual help rarely understands what your child actually needs to grow. There had to be something between a babysitter and a school — a calm, trained partner who values your child's development as much as your own restoration.
Play & Grow is that partner. Every detail — from the weight of our wooden blocks to the cadence of our nannies' weekend routine — is designed so you can exhale.
Tina Serfontein
Founder, Play & Grow Nannies
Membership Request
Reserve your weekends.
We maintain a deliberately limited roster. Tell us a little about your family and we will be in touch to arrange a private consultation.