A Quick Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Play Area Designing

When you hear the echoing sounds of kids’ laughter and cheer, you know that summer vacation has arrived! It is a great time for kids to forget their exam woes and engage themselves in free play, which is vital for their overall development.

Play - both indoors and outdoors, gives Children more opportunities to keep themselves occupied in different physical activities.

Outdoor play means more mess – and more mess often means more fun! Whereas Indoor play means less risk, and more creativity.

• Benefits of Playing Outdoors and Indoors
  Children learn on different levels while embarking on adventures when outdoors. They learn to explore different things and discover various types of materials, surfaces and textures. When kids play indoors, they learn quite a few things that they are not able to do outdoors. Their creative juices flow when they play indoors.

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• Lighting in Play Areas aids Curiosity
  Young children move around and experience the world differently than adults. Lighting immediately lifts the mood, adds safety, ambience and drama to the Indoor and Outdoor environment.

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• Outdoor and Indoor Surfaces
  Even the best designed, most expensive and safest playground equipment won’t serve children well if the ground surface doesn’t let them enjoy comfortable tumbles and inevitable falls. Sand and Pea Gravel are the oldest ground covers used in outdoor play areas. Synthetic Turf, Poured-In-Place Rubber, Synthetic Tiles are some of the popular surfaces that are suitable for such areas.

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• Play Equipment
  Kids at learning age are curious about new things, so the play equipment should be a bright color, safe and educational. Roleplay houses, painting, educational play panels, trampoline, ball pool, bridges, slides, net rope, crawl tunnel and soft obstacles are some interesting play equipment.

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• Colour
  High-energy colors and Children’s Playspaces go hand in hand. They actually perceive bold colors better than muted shades. Bright colors provide more contrast and stand out visually, and therefore are more interesting and stimulating.
  

  
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• Texture and Materials  
  For better or for worse, kids love to touch everything, and experimenting with texture and materials through thoughtful play provides a solid educational foundation.Slippery, Grainy, Fluffy, Squishy, Rough, Smooth, Bumpy are all different textures through which a child develops his exploration and prediction skills.
  

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Wishing all the Kids a Happy Summer Vacation! I take leave for now.
Be back in 2 weeks!

PRIYADARSHINI B S

PD DESIGNS