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Perfect Sensory Play Equipment for the Summer
Children love to splash in paddling pools, explore water walls and engage with water tables as unique sensory experiences. Water is an increasingly popular play element that offers numerous benefits for childhood development.
Our mission as a playground equipment supplier is to promote healthy development through fun and inclusive equipment. Water play is a form of sensory play that not only provides a unique experience for play. It also fosters cognitive skills, promotes social interaction, and inspires independence through experimentation.
How can you adapt your playground to make the most of the wonderful ways sensory water play enhances experiences outside? Let our playground design experts give you a run-down of the benefits of water play equipment for schools.
Water Play as a Sensory Experience
Sensory play equipment is essential for any playground, especially for EYFS children. Multisensory environments stimulate healthy brain development for fine motor skills, coordination, and problem-solving.
Water is a great tool that engages the different senses. The trickling sounds, the cold feel and the unique fresh smell of water all contribute to sensory play. A water wall for your school playground is therefore an excellent feature for an immersive and unique environment.
Children thrive with hands-on learning as part of interaction with a water wall, water table, or other sensory play equipment like sand pits or creative play panels. Exploring new sensory experiences helps students understand the world around them with independence in a free-play, open-ended, fun experience.
Water Walls as Unique Educational
Outdoor Play Equipment
For the school playground, play equipment can double up as a valuable educational way for students to experience the benefits learning through play can provide. Water play creates many opportunities for learning and exploration with pouring, measuring, and experimenting with a range of fluid dynamics and physics concepts.
By experimenting with water play, students can appreciate how what they learn in the science classroom impacts their everyday life. Water is a unique play element that can demonstrate gravity, density, and volume to children through play.
The School Playground Company’s water wall sensory playground equipment can be installed and tailored for any size playground. This gives any school the opportunity for a unique, innovative play experience for its students. The wall itself includes multiple angled shelves for plastic half pipes. Students place these in patterns to pour water down between the slopes. Kids can make the water trickle, drip, and flow in different ways, widening their understanding of how physics impacts the everyday world in unique ways.
How Kids Play with Water Walls and Water Tables
The versatility and freedom in messy play with water walls or sand pits are inherently appealing to childhood play. We recommend schools include water play equipment as a key part of a truly creative space for children to explore. Water walls are inclusive for a range of ages and abilities, allowing all children to have fun and learn together.
Providing a safe, intuitive space for free play with inclusive play equipment for a range of age groups and abilities is vital to allow all kids to experience this sort of play.
Through play, children also develop key self-expression and teamwork by encouraging cooperation and experimentation. Friendly splashing on the water table or building sandcastles in sandpits together are popular forms of sensory play that harness the natural impulses children have for unstructured play into safe areas designed for it.
Mud, sand, and water play are a great combination for a designated corner of your playground. A messy play space is specially designed for creativity and fun. These are spaces where children can expend their physical energy outside of lessons, and most importantly, have fun!
What’s better than Water Play in the Summer Heat?!
This summer, why not beat the heat with unique water play setups that provides a cool-down space as well as exciting sensory experiences?
Explore more of our creative, sensory, and imaginative playground equipment to learn more. Or, you can also get in touch and start your journey toward a revitalised playground.