Kidsfirst Kindergartens Maniototo is a kindergarten at 28 Welles Street in Ranfurly, in the Maniototo Plains of Central Otago. The kindergarten sits beside the Area School, and its website describes it as celebrating rural life. Its learning is built around the rural setting, with a Musterer's Hut and a large sandpit that give children space for imaginative play.
The kindergarten's spaces are described as bright and welcoming, with natural light throughout. Its rural identity shapes the learning, so children explore country themes through play, and the Musterer's Hut is the feature that sparks much of the imaginative play. The kindergarten is part of the Kidsfirst Kindergartens network. The setting is a rural one, and for families in the Ranfurly area that is the main thing that sets it apart from a town kindergarten.