Indoor Play in Educational Facilities
Throughout the first years at kindergarten and school, play is one of the most important activities to develop social and physical skills – how can an indoor soft play area create an exciting and safe environment where the play experience can provide challenges which enhance children's development?
- Enhances social skills — indoor soft play areas actively encourage children to develop their social skills, travelling through the play area requires tolerance of other children playing, encouraging their play friends to take on challenges and negotiating
- Increases physical and motor skills — in today’s society children are exposed to less and less physical activity, this play environment is a safe and exciting way to encourage and stretch children’s physical capabilities
- Develops communication and language skills — the variety of play experiences within a soft play area and the stimulation of the shapes, artwork and physical challenges all lead to an environment for encouraging speech and language skills. Stimulating a child’s imagination creates an ideal platform for extending and introducing new language.
- Helps to assist children to access risks and challenges in a safe environment — it provides children with the opportunity to test themselves whilst providing as safe as possible environment. Younger children can follow their peers and attempt challenges that extend their capabilities. Children can work together or singularly, older children can learn to guide younger children
- Creates an environment where a child’s imagination is unlimited — this type of play environment immediately transports a child into their imaginary world, sensory play features also stimulate the child’s imagination, play areas become castles, boys become knights, girls become princesses, slides are the backs of dragons and ball ponds become the sea, there are no limits!
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