CREA Brings Tech-Enabled Play Space to Brooklyn

If you—or your kids!—think you’ve outgrown indoor play spaces, we found an out-of-the-ordinary new indoor play destination to change your mind. CREA Interactivity is a tech-enabled, multimedia play space for kids unlike any we’ve ever visited.

Step inside to experience a futuristic obstacle course that gets kids running, jumping, and climbing with obstacles designed to breed collaboration. With activities geared toward kids ages 3-12, it’s perfect for mixed-aged siblings and the best part is, it’s not for parents. So, plan to drop your kids off and enjoy the amenities and attractions in Industry City while they play.

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CREA Interactivity is a new play space in Brooklyn’s Industry City. 

Interactive Experiences at CREA

Each CREA Interactivity experience revolves around an exciting, themed quest, including Save the Ocean, Protect the Rainforest, and Mission Hero Space Exploration. Two new experiences launch later in the year, giving kids something new to explore with each visit.

Kids are grouped into teams before setting off to conquer the course. Kids are directed through the experience by following a light-sensor pathway. Obstacle stations feature motion-controlled games, glowing stackable LED cube puzzles, a rotating rock wall, a physioball pool, and even a calming meditation area. The themes can be rotated at will, so each visit is a chance to experience a new course. 

Kids begin by running around a pathway encircling the entire futuristic space. As the kids run, they reach down to tap colored lights every few feet making the challenge even more physical and magical.

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Games at CREA Interactivity get kids moving, playing, and working together to solve each puzzle. 

My daughter played the Mission Hero Space Exploration course and adored jumping to tap the asteroids for points with her team in one game and throwing bean bags at the wall in another.

A Mindset game combined digital projections with large, lit colored blocks, which the kids used to solve a digital puzzle. I’ve never seen anything like it! But, just as engaging as the digitally enhanced games are the non-digital stations like the rotating rock wall, and section with a large yellow climbing structure and floor obstacles, where kids conquer a Floor is Lava game. The physioball area, dubbed Bounce Cloud, and hammock-filled meditation zone are also tech-free. Tech or not, my daughter enjoyed them all!

Ways to Play at CREA Interactivity

CREA Interactivity offers a variety of ways to experience this innovative indoor play space. It offers drop-in sessions, after-school game design programs, summer and school break camps, and date-night drop-off programs. You can even schedule a birthday party, special event, or field trip at CREA Interactivity.

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Kids climb, jump, run, and use their brains and bodies to solve the quests at CREA Interactivity, a brand new indoor play space in Brooklyn’s Industry City. 

Know Before You Go to CREA Interactivity

• Drop-in classes are hosted daily, Tuesdays excepted, for 6-12 year olds. Book online in advance.
• If you plan to visit often, class packs are available and provide a discount to the drop-in price.
• Date night drop-off sessions are offered Friday and Saturday nights for ages 3-12—kids must be potty trained—and pizza is served.
• Pack a water bottle; this is an active experience.
• CREA Interactivity is located in Industry City’s Building No. 3. It is on the second floor.
• The Industry City parking lot is reasonably priced on the weekends. The nearest subway station is the D, N, R trains at 36th Street.

Photos by the author