You’d find that often, less is more. You don’t always need extravagant playground equipment to make play for children fun. The right equipment will spark a child’s imagination, and they can be entertained for hours. 3D animals are a great way to encourage children’s creativity and imagination while also helping them identify and remember animal traits, characteristics, and habitats.
The Magic of 3D Animals
Imagine a playground where the kids can climb on the back of a turtle, slither down a monstrous dragon’s tail, or balance themselves on the wide body of a smiling frog. Three-dimensional structures are painted with fantasy and fun, keeping children busy and engaged in bodies of safe structures that make kids sweat and laugh.
Why 3D Animals Are Perfect for Playgrounds
- Imaginative Play: 3D animals enhance children’s creativity, which is exactly why these animals are great for imaginative play. By using an animal to accompany a story or adventure, children can create their own situations and respond with their own thinking skills. Because children have to imagine themselves being present in the scene with these animals, they also practise their sequence reasoning and problem-solving skills.
- Physical Exertion: Climbing, balancing and running around 3D animals offer excellent physical exercise. They improve children’s motor skills, strength and coordination, as well as keep them fit.
- Social Interaction: Playgrounds are social environments, and 3D animals are conducive to multi-child play. Children can play together, which promotes social interaction and teamwork. It also helps them explore communication skills by chasing one another around a crab or cooperating to slide down the neck of a dragon.
3D Animals for the Playground
We know children love to use their imaginations in the playground, and our 3D animals were created with that in mind. Each animal is compliant with European Safety Standard EN 1176, making them fun but safe in any playground or outdoor space.
- Tough and Playable: Each of our 3D animals is covered in a rubber surface, providing deep ridges to scale and clamber up. They are available in exciting colours and are also large-scale, so many children can play at the same time. They come in any shape or size and can be mounted to almost any surface.
- Variety benefits: Children can choose among the set of 3D animals they enjoy most, whether it is a Bee 3D Animal that flutters its wings or a Lion 3D Animal that proudly turns its head. There is a vast range of animals, from a hedgehog to an octopus, as well as insects like snails and spiders.
How to Get Started with 3D Animals
It’s easy to give your playground 3D animals. Here are some tips to bring these structures to your play area.
- Choose Your Place: Find a place where the 3D animals in the playground can shine. Is there enough space for children to jump around your playground?
- Pick Your Creatures: Choose the 3D creatures that best correspond to your playground’s theme, and the interests of the kids who will use it. Dragons? Ducks? There’s something for everyone!
- Set up safely: Make sure the surroundings and the installation area are prepared according to safety standards. Our 3D animals conform to the European Safety Standard EN1176 and are suitable for climbing and playing on.
- Installation: Our painted animals are meant to be installed on almost any kind of surface. Make sure you work with professionals who can secure and install the structures safely and appropriately.
Are 3D Animals Just for Schools?
It’s not just on playgrounds that 3D animals are having an important impact. Here are some other instances:
- Schools: 3D animals are popping up on many playgrounds to help supplement recess and physical education programmes. This 3D intensified landscape helps children be active between their classes.
- 3D animals in parks: 3D animals are great for encouraging outdoor activities among children and parents. These visually attractive sculptors also increase the attractiveness of parks, attracting more families to enjoy and use public spaces.
- Daycares and Preschools: The addition of 3D animals to exterior play spaces in early childhood centres create choices for child protective areas, provide healthy physical exercise, and allow for social interactions and imaginative play.
- Residential Communities: 3D animals are becoming popular in residential areas. These playgrounds turn out to bring families together and help create bonds and community.
Ways You Can Spark Imagination in Your Playground
The design possibilities for 3D animals in playgrounds are endless. You can design an entire playground with a safari theme, including 3D lions, elephants and zebras. Themed playgrounds can help children slip into imaginary worlds, making play a rich immersive experience. Remember that customisation is also possible. We can produce 3D animals for all kinds of themes, opening up the possibility of so much more.
Playing with 3D animals is engaging, dynamic, tactile, physically stimulating, and all at the same time interactive and cooperative. With their excellent quality and wide range of options, 3D animals may be applied as a versatile and colourful accessory in a playground. To explore our range of 3D animals, browse here or get in touch with us today!