Playground Monkey Bars

Playground monkey bars are important for academic performance

Our civilization has developed into a progressively more complex society, but there continues to be a need for children of all ages to experience outdoor activities on for example, playground monkey bars while engaging in unstructured play. The challenge to make it across the horizontal steel tubes of playground monkey bars, trying to keep their balance on foot bridges, or pulling themselves up onto platforms with ropes, require planning, foresight, strength and excellent motor skills.

These are characteristics and abilities we want our children to have. Overlooking the developmental roles of unstructured play on playground monkey bars refuses children the right and chance to increase their creative thinking skills beyond the limitations of the classroom and indoor activities.

The playground monkey bars are the ideal outdoor equipment for reducing stress caused by classroom work. Movement and outdoor unstructured play improve children’s ability to concentrate and help overactive children to get rid of excess energy. The Jungle Gym World playground monkey bars have been designed to provide adequate stimulation for growing children while giving them the opportunity to interact with their peers through imaginative play.

Since safety issues are always a concern where several children have to share equipment, Jungle Gym World commits its resources and people to the manufacturing of age-appropriate, durable and high quality playground monkey bars, also known as playground gyms.

The following safety features are included in the steel and wooden outdoor equipment:

• The wooden poles used in the wood based outdoor play equipment are all treated to prevent infestation from termites.
• We use H4 treated poles instead of the H3 poles normally used in designs. The H4 poles have a much longer lifespan than H3 poles, which means that children can play longer without fear of splinters and weakening of the structures.
• None of the wood sealers and coatings used contains lead. Since so many children have been exposed to lead poisoning through equipment designed for them, it is of the utmost importance to always check with manufacturers whether coatings contain lead before you buy play apparatus.
• All of the wooden poles are SABS approved. This means that the quality standards of products used in the design of wooden play gyms are high. This minimizes avoidable injuries.
• There is also a two year guarantee on the wooden play gyms to provide you with further peace of mind.
• Only A Grade steel is used in the manufacturing of the steel parallel bars, jungle gyms and fantasy play equipment.
• All welds are checked to ensure that there are no sharp edges where children can accidentally cut themselves.
• The steel is treated to withstand rain and other weather conditions. A one year guarantee against rusting is provided.
• Several safety nets and fencing options are available to prevent injuries as a result of falling. These options include: the horizontal safety pole, safety nets on the wooden bridges, lattice fences and cross hatching.

The Jungle Gym World playground monkey bars range includes several types of wooden and steel framed jungle gyms and combinations. Fantasy play equipment is ideally suited for pre-school kids and junior primary school children. Ample space is available to prevent cramming.

Three products that have extremely high developmental value are worth mentioning:

The feet bridge stand is made of tubular steel and contains steps. Instead of hanging onto parallel bars, children practice their balancing skills by walking on the tubular steps over a small and low bridge. Children can follow each other and don’t have to worry about height since the structure has a little platform with railings.

Another extremely safe, but useful structure, is the balancing snake made from steel. It provides children the opportunity to learn balancing while still being near the ground.

The balancing bridge is slightly higher than the feet bridge stand and combines the balance snake with climbing and descending a small slope. The railings help children to stay on the balance beam.

Apart from these, there are several larger outdoor play gyms with bars that can be used by small groups of kids in the preschool and the junior phase of primary school. The variety of climbing, crawling, balancing, swinging, sliding and imaginative play activities offered by these playground monkey bars make them the number one outdoor physical and mental developmental apparatus.