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Climb to greater heights, gaze off to distant lands, and conquer your fears with platforms on the playground. Providing a safe way to spend time up...

Platforms

These woven bridges can be used to connect towers and platforms, providing a physical challenge as they wobble around. Rope bridges are a safe way to...

Rope Bridges

These provide a contained way to incorporate sand into a play environment, helping to keep the sand in one area. Sand makes a great play element since...

Sand Pits

An important part of any play environment, slides can be used to navigate grade changes by being built into hillsides, or incorporated into play...

Slides

What is a sluice? A water channel controlled by a gate. Small scale sluices make for excellent play opportunities on a playground, allowing children...

Sluices

Incorporating sound into play elements adds another dimension to a child’s learning and play environment. This can include things like echo...

Sound Makers

These play elements can be either small spinning discs that you stand on, typically with a pole in the centre to hang onto, or a larger spinning disc...

Spinners

While splash pads are typically found in public parks, a small splash pad can be incorporated into a school play environment. Splash pads provide an...

Splash Pads

A mainstay of playground design for many years, spring riders still offer great potential on a contemporary playground. The upper portion can take on...

Spring Riders

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