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Easy Ways to Add Dynamic Architecture Into Your Playgrounds

Posted on July 17, 2024July 24, 2024 by Luke Overall

A Playground is more than a couple of swings on a metal slide. Those basic amenities can be supplemented with other attention-grabbing features to open up your playground and give it some depth. Playtop Spheres is an easy way to execute this. You can integrate them into a playground to transform the space into a more dynamic and stimulating area, providing visual appeal, decoration, and functional play. Playtop Spheres are attractive and practical, and bring it to life without breaking the bank.

What Are Playtop Spheres?

Playtop Spheres are three-dimensional rubber spheres that come in a variety of sizes and colours. They are designed to be aesthetically pleasing and functional as well as encourage play, physical activity, enjoyment and stimulation both in outdoor parks and informal urban areas. They enhance the look and feel of play areas, whether it be in schools, nurseries, parks, public spaces, playgrounds, sports and leisure areas. Children can play with one, two or more spheres, standing on them, sitting on them, rolling, turning or jumping around them.

Adding Visual Appeal

Vibrant Colours and Sizes

Playtop Spheres are offered in three sizes (350mm, 450mm and 600mm diameter) and a whole range of colours, allowing visually captivating patterns and colours that appeal to children. Whether you choose a colour palette, theme or employ a variety of hues, your imagination is the limit. The spheres will be eye-catching, bringing children into play.

Architectural Dimension

Using Playtop Spheres adds an architectural dimension to your playground design and differentiates it from conventional play areas. The three-dimensional form adds a sense of depth and interest, breaking up the flatness of typical playground surfaces. The addition of an architectural dimension to your design not only makes the play space more attractive but also encourages children to use the environment in new ways.

Enhancing Play Value

Versatile Play Opportunities

Playtop Spheres can be used in many different ways, opening up so many play opportunities. The Spheres might include using them as stepping stones to create an impromptu obstacle course for balance and mobility training. As the Spheres can also come in different sizes, it can provide various challenges for children of different height, ages, maturity and fitness levels. It can also be great for sitting on the tops of the spheres, and recharge their batteries for further playtime – or chat, dream and ponder, or wherever their imagination takes them.

Safe and Durable

Safety is an important factor to consider when designing playgrounds to ensure the well-being of children. Playtop Spheres are made from a top-quality rubber material, thus creating a soft yet cushioning surface that is safe for children to play on. Since the material is resistant to wear, Playtop Spheres can prevent injuries arising from falls, which of course, is one of the common risks of children playing on playgrounds. Due to their durability, these spheres can last long, saving maintenance expenses for playground owners.

Installation Options

  • Ground Anchoring: With a ground anchor, Playtop Spheres is installed upright, creating a sturdy, immovable and secure fixture within the playground. It is the most secure method of installation – especially for public playgrounds and high-traffic areas.

  • Surface Mounted Plates: For more flexibility, Playtop Spheres can also be installed on surface-mounted plates. Installation on surface-mounted plates makes for easy relocation and reconfiguration of the shapes and is a popular feature in temporary installations or spaces that may require frequent reconfiguration.

  • Half-Sizes for Versatility: In addition to full spheres, Playtop has the option of buying spheres half the size, unanchored, so that they can be utilised in many more different ways, from integrated into play structures to use as standalone features.

Creative Ideas for Incorporating Playtop Spheres

Themed Play Areas

Playtop Spheres can be used in different themes, such as spaceships, planets, dinosaurs, jungles, etc., to encourage imagination and imaginative play. Themes like space can be created by using spheres painted with colours that look like planets. The possibilities are endless and can be used in any other theme and provide a wonderful experience for children.

Interactive Pathways

If Playtop Spheres are placed in a line along pathways, children can use the brightly coloured spheres to hop from one to the other as they explore interactive trails that promote movement. This increases the play value of a playground for children while developing their balance and coordination in a fun way.

Rest and Social Spaces

Install Playtop Spheres with a larger diameter as a place where kids can relax and play. These structures could be useful anywhere, for instance, as a seat in rows, scattered throughout the playground area. This encourages children to take a break and socialise. Rest spaces make a playground more appealing to use.

Art Installations

Playtop Spheres could also be used to create art installations within play spaces. They look visually stunning when organised to form patterns or geometries. Representing elements of local culture or styles of art – can also become focal points within the play space and a source of pride.

Make Your Playgrounds More Dynamic

Playtop Spheres offer a quick and easy way to enhance the aesthetics of your playground while offering multiple possibilities for play value. Available in many shapes, colours and sizes, it can be mounted to virtually any existing or new playground equipment or structure.

Playtop Spheres could potentially become a centrepiece addition to any play space or playground, get in touch with us today to find out more about install Playtop Spheres in your playground.

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