Overview of game children's complexes: choose equipment depending on the age of the child. Options for placing the site in the country area.
"Swimming" in a dry pool is a good massage for the whole body and just gives children joy and pleasure
(Kettler,
270200180cm) Includes swing, cable mesh and cliff for lasagna
Two ways to install support for swing:
A- concreting pillars to the ground;
B- mount to the concrete base anchors
("Vivan")
Balances help develop a sense of equilibrium
Around each projectile on the site leave free space is the so-called security zone: at least about 2m in each direction
Lazay on rope complexes, children develop dexterity, flexibility and strength, learn to keep equilibrium in various positions
For children's complexes choose bright, juicy colors
Traveling - good training for the vestibular apparatus. To avoid falling on the ground, it is better to protect the protective nets, such as in the catalogs of almost all manufacturers
Rami. Glasses are calculated automatically, the rules of the game are programmed. There are dozens of game options.
Wooden labyrinth-game simple, but to spend the ball to the center, you need a dexterity of hands
A simple house, supplemented by accounts, will become "smart"
Play outside the walls of the house - in the yard, on the lawn lawn, in the garden, children begin early, barely learned to walk. First, for fun can be sufficiently brought from the house toys or a sheet that fell from the tree. But it takes time, and the games are complicated. Already at 2-3, the guys needed sandboxes, swings, sports shells, houses, slides and separated from other areas the territory for the game - its children's playground.
It is necessary to equip the playground so that the child can play here and alone, and together with adults, and in the company of other children and sisters, guests. It is only to play, but to actively move: climb, pull up, tumbling. There is a more or less standard set of equipment for playgrounds: a slide, swing, a house with benches, sandbox. However, even such a "classic" platform will be the original, if you turn it, for example, in a pirate island or Berendevo Kingdom. It is possible to move away from the canons and independently choose the equipment - the fact that more corresponds to your daughter or son's hobbies. The area of the kindergarten can be different: and 4-5m2, and 20-30m2, and more. It should always be remembered that the game for a child is not only fun and pleasure, and also knowledge. Playing, he learns to use various items, communicate with other people, produces certain skills, experiencing emotional experiences. Playing the symbolic language of self-expression. Manipulating toys, the baby shows his attitude towards people near him, to the events of their own life, to itself. Ocher in the game it is easier to do so with the help of words. It is important that adult "read" these messages.
Play everything!
Up to 3 years, the child usually plays under the guidance of adults: Mom or teacher sets the game script and leads it. There is an acquaintance with the form, invoice and appointment of surrounding things, as well as the development of a variety of movements: the baby learns to jump, run, hang, keep equilibrium. In combination with peers, he still needs little: psychologists believe that the duration of the joint game with another child at this age is usually about 3-5 minutes, after which the attention switches to another little comrade. K5-6 years this time is extended to 40-50 minutes.
The main type of game for children with 3-4 years old to school is role-playing. Day after day, the child is gaining in a variety of roles, reincarnated from Carlson to a tigerka or elephant, from an iron woodcutter - in a knight or pirate, from a bus driver - in a hairdresser or cook. Mother's daughters, the seller and the buyer, the driver and passengers of the train, the doctor and the patient - with all the variety of plots the topic remains the same: human activity and the relationship of people in society or the relationship between animals or fabulous characters. "Alchemy" of children's fantasy turns ropes into a liana, a knuckle, a horse or a rifle. Very important willingness to the senior support role-playing game. After all, when the girl cooks from the sand of a semolina porridge for dolls and a bear, and the boy from bricks builds the castle - this is a game. Inland adults, almost the same, but these actions are both will perceive and act as work. It is in modeling future adult life and is one of the meanings of the role-playing game.
The necessary tools will help to stimulate the child to this pastime. SMOBY (France) produces a set of gardener: in it includes a garden car, rake, lawn mower and a shovel - they all, of course, toy. Cost- 500 rubles. Schfer (Germany) offers an excavator on wheels with two control levers (the housing is made of the beech array). Plastic bucket rotates as well as in the present: it can be raised and lowered. There is such a machine about 4.5 thousand rubles. Many manufacturers produce houses for role-playing games: "Kitchen Snow Whole" and "Gardening House" - Smoby (2; 4; 11.5 thousand rubles); "Cuisine Grill" - STEP 2 Company (USA), 10.9 thousand rubles; "House with a paneliary" and "Spring House with Calling" - Feber (Spain), 15 and 18 thousand rubles. All these houses have a similar case design: they are easy to assemble and disassemble (parts made of plastic), you can move in the garden, and for the winter it is possible to drive from the street to the house. Height - 120-160cm.
Focusing on the role-playing character of games, the basis of architectural solutions of children's street complexes of the company Quite often laid fabulous motifs - "Robin Hood" and "Lancelota Castle" ("Odadoy", Russia), houses and arbors "Live Lukomorye", "Teremok", " Dragon's dream "(" Svidel ", Russia). Prototypes serve Karavella Columbus, a pirates vessel or fire truck-complexes of AVEN (Russia). The area of complexes may be small, 5-10m2.
C6-7 years old are becoming more complex and prolonged, with pre-established rules. At the same time, physical education (motor games) deliver to the child no less pleasure. The complex can be supplemented with new elements, such as complex rope shells. Higher horizontal barns and slides will be required. If the slide height is for 2-3-year-old, 1m, for 3-4-year-old, 1.5m, then after 6 years, children easily conquer two-meter structures; The maximum allowable height is 2.7m.
A house on a tree
If the carcass of the house is fixed directly to the trunk and branches, use thick, soft and durable ropes, nails or special fasteners, not damaging wood. In one case, when the building relies on several neighboring trees, you can build an intermediate platform and put a house on it. On the perimeter of the security platform, it is recommended to equip the enclosing handrails with a height of 80-100 cm. If there is no durable tree on the plot, the platform is not installed on the trunk and branches, but on stationary supports fixed in the concrete foundation. Such a house is also placed next to the tree, and a small space is left for the free growth of the branches between the house and the platform: after some time the feeling appears that the house "sits" on the tree. Thinking the system of lifting into a house or rope staircase, even a lift with a basket, - you need to provide reliable mounting. In the whole structure should be as few sharp corners as possible. Well, internally, invent with children, using for decorating dry branches, multicolored textiles. If outside and inside organize lighting, you can be in the house and in the evening.
Abroad, such structures have long been upset not only for children: adults with enthusiasm build small mansions and whole high-rise locks in crowns of trees. Perhaps the reason for the desire to "climb higher" is that the house on the tree is the embodiment of the idea of unity with nature, environmentally friendly housing, return to the origins.
Maxim Ardatov, Landscape Architect of Arteza
Sandy country
Sand-comfortable building material. It is bulk, and if you welt it, it becomes more supplied and convenient for "construction". Games in the sandbox not only develop tactile skills, fine motility of hands, but also train the spatial imagination: in the sandbox, the child becomes the Creator of his own world. The sandbox is the simplest: four boards bonded with each other. Such a frame simply limits the platform. The boards must be smooth, carefully polished so that during the game accidentally did not stick to the zanoz. Selectable designs have plastic collapsible sandboxes (square, five and hexagonal), which are collected from bright multi-colored slats. Planks are universal: with their help build models of various configurations. Manufacturers: 2KIDS (Russia), Kettler (Germany). The cost of one element of the company 2kids is 1250rub. This sandbox does not necessarily fill the sand - from it you can make a dry pool, for which special balls fall asleep.Plastic options in the form of God's cow, crab, frogs produce Step 2 Company, in the form of hippopotamus and apple- Starplast (Israel). All of them are small, designed for one or two small children aged 1-4 years. The dimensions of the "ladybug" (STEP 2 Company) are 928831cm, the model accommodates 45kg sand. Cost- 3150rub. At the time of the rain, all these structures are closed with covers. The folding SMOBY sandbox in the shape of a butterfly consists of two small tanks interconnected by a bench. Water from them is recommended to pour sand, and to another water. The size of this structure in the unfolded form-2111811113cm, in the folded - 11611336 cm, mass is 5.5kg. A wooden sandbox with two sections (also for sand and for water) manufactures Schfer. Section for water-retractable. There is a protective canopy of polyethylene. Sandboxes - tables produce Smoby, Starplast, Step 2 Company; Sandboxes with small houses - "Pix" (Russia), Schfer; Sand towns - "Teremok" (Russia).
Buckling above a her
Fly, cutting air, and catch wind-faster, faster! It seems that one of the most magical states. To swing the child got used from infancy - on the hands of mom, in the cradle and stroller. To set the swing in the country, there are not so many places: it is believed that the zone of a non-danger is equal to the length of the suspension plus 2m in the direction of movement. Country swings can be different. For kids, they usually put a low P-shaped support, and the seat with armrests, the back, front protective bar and the footnote, are attached to it on metal rods. There are models with double seats - "gondolas" (for example, in the assortment of Kettler). Frames for swing are on one leg, two, on four. Supports are installed in one of two ways: either concrete pillars into the ground to depth 60cm, or they are attached to their anchors to an existing concrete base. The seats for older children are manufactured without a protective plank and footboard; Material plastic or rubber. The latest is the safest: they are softer than, say, the seats are made of wooden board, and in the event of a fall, it is not so much. Can be flat or "anatomical"; Also they are made from the usual car tire. Seats suspend on chains or ropes. Such a free suspension makes it stronger to swing and change the trajectory of movement: swing "by oblique", spin. Madetteels "Boat" (LAPPSET, Finland) The seat is a braided circle in a rigid frame (diameter-140cm) - on it can simultaneously accommodate two or three. Costs - from 32 thousand rubles.
The pleasure is delivered not only swing, but also the so-called rocking schools. A similar device consists of a seat (in the form of a horse, giraffe, dogs or aircraft, machine), fixed on a spring support. Sitting on a rocking chair, the child swings to the right and left, back and forth- Like rides on a donkey or pony. Almost all companies producing equipment for playgrounds, produce rocking hours: Kompan (Denmark) is single Crazy Nellie, Crazy Horse and Crazy Dragon (elephant, horse and dragon), double you and me. Models lappset- in the form of a horse, dogs, camel and motorcycle; "Ladybug" is represented in several versions: for one, two or eight people. Rockingings have a limit on the weight of the "rider" - usually no more than 50 kg. Avot Rock`n`roll (Lappset) - entertainment already for teenagers. The powerful vertical pole 2.3m height rotates and leans from the side to the side. The diameter of the installation site is 4m.
Two more types of devices - Balancer and Carousel. Both are intended for group games, teach interaction with other children: its own movements here always depend on the actions of the partner. Balancing board with seats at the ends and support column in the middle. Each swing alternately turns out to be at the top, then below. Spatial movement for the baby is fascinating in itself, and the older children cause competitive excitement. The lower position, with a support, is considered strong: it is sitting below that the partner controls the partner. The same who hovers upstairs with chatting legs is dependent. For a successful swing, the length of the lever of the swing, weight and dexterity, the ability of the child to own their body is important. However, it should be remembered that larger children can use (sometimes even unconsciously) this game in order to approve their seniority or superiority. IO price: For example, the Swing Balancir "Bear" ("Pix") cost 10.5 thousand rubles.
When riding a carousel, the vestibular apparatus of the child is experiencing an even more intensive load than on the swing. However, almost all children have such workouts that sometimes reach dizziness are even useful. From the ability to interact with comrades, the speed and the duration of rotation are also dependent. Polka Quadruple Carousel (LAPPSET) is designed for children from 3 years. Its departures are directed up at an angle, metallic arcuate seats are installed at the ends. The height of the carousel - 1m, diameter - 1.4 m, the diameter of the installation site is 5.4 m. On the Carousel Waltz (Lappset) you can rotate and balance on opposite seats. It is designed for children over 6 years old. Four departures are fixed on a central post 2.3m high and aimed down. The diameter of the carousel - 3,1m, the diameter of the installation site is 7.2m.
Ground Barcas
Marina Selezneva, project author
Joy of movement
Physical exercises - pull-ups, climbing on a rope, movement with the help of hands alone, all this for children is not so much sports activities, how much game activity. They conquer the cable labyrinths and imitate rocks on wooden walls, with excitement and for the sake of pleasure that you get when moving, drive your body. These games are called motor.
Children 5-6 years old and older are eagerly engaged in such sports shells, like a log, horizontal bar, stairs, knots (with straps or rings), balancing. The latter can also be different: it is either a mobile strap on the "feet" - for example Argo (kompan), or a log, suspended on the pillars - "Rouh" ("Palisad", Russia). Corocord (Germany) manufactures gaming nets from reinforced ropes connected by steel fasteners. Figures from nets are different. "Sunny" resembles a web with a circle in the center and threads diverging from it (diameter-5m, for children from 3 years). "Malaya Pyramid" and "Big Pyramid" are rope pyramids built around the vertical supports. They are intended for lasagna, training coordination of movements and the vestibular apparatus. The diameter of the rope-19-23mm, children's hand is comfortable to capture them. The design of all structures is such that at any level the child will always find a point of support for hands and legs.
Training coordination will also help trampolines. For kids, inflatable shells are released (manufacturers "otda" IDR.). Trampolines for school children are an elastic cloth stretched into the frame. Diameter cannons - 1-4m. These are products of Berg Toys (Netherlands), Jumpking (CDR) IDR.
"I also want to play"
Yulia Mikhailova, new horizon advertising manager
Street puzzles
Games contributing to the mental development of children are called intellectual, these are tasks for the development of logic, memory, imagination. Equipment manufacturers for playgrounds usually offer individual "intelligent" elements, they can be brought to the game zone. For example, Tick-Tock and Daffodil (KOMPAN) are designed for children of very small, aged 1-3 years. They are equipped with a multitude of handles and buttons (which rotate and pressed), holes, through which curious to look, and a daffodil-toy pylon pipe. For children of 3-4 years and older, Lappset complexes are complemented by the games "Cross-Noliki", "Sea battle", "Labyrinth". Rules of the game in "Cross-Noliki" and "Sea battle" are the same as in the paper version. That's just the gaming space is not drawn, and volumetric - from plastic and wood. In the "noliki cross" these are three rows of cubes or pyramids rotating on hinges. Three Cubes are located in a row, on their grafs, crosses and zealics. The panel for the "sea battle" is two-way, a classic markup is made on both sides. Participants install special flags on the fields, denoting the location of the ships. "Sted" ships flags from the field removed. In the "labyrinth", the ball is placed in the labyrinth field. Tilting and rotating the pad in different directions, you need to overtake the ball from the end of the field to the center.Smartus (Lappset) is an interactive game complex. It includes a touch pad drawn for several games (Igrid) and reacting to the movements of the legs placed on the playing device (IPOST) and the central control panel with the monitor (ISTATION). The inventory set includes four games: Conquistador, Point Collection, Speedgame and Animalpuzzle. According to the rules of Conquistador, moving through the cells, the participant must capture "his country", as the conquistadors did. Speedgame- game for the rate of reaction, developing and sense of rhythm. Alphabet letters are alternately displayed on the monitor in different order. The child must come on the cell, where, in turn, the same letter was highlighted as on the monitor. WanimalPuzzle, jumping from the cell on the igrid platform cage, children create funny characters from the world of animals. Putting the player has a personal card with a built-in antenna (ICARD), on which it is electronically in the IPOST items writes information about its achievements in the game. All SMARTUS sites are connected to the Internet: each child can see its own results on the home computer and compare them with the results of other participants from all countries where there is a Smartus, as well as download new games.
"Adults" Care
The issue of placing the playground is one of the most important. There are two opposing solutions inherently. The first option is to place the platform next to the house, for example, opposite the kitchen window or another room, where the hostess spends a lot of time. Thanks to this, everything that happens will be under the control of adults. The second option is the opposite, away from the residential building. So they argue those who believe that in the house and next to the nymine silence, and the place for noisy games - somewhere in the depths of the garden. Whatever position you occupy, remember that in any case the area for games should be removed from a potentially dangerous zone, well, an IDR access road.
To the fun not turning the trouble, take care of security. All structures - without protruding sharp corners. Places of seams and compounds are carefully cleaned and ground. Slides, swings, carousels and other devices should be periodically checked for strength and stability, ensure that burrs do not appear or different irregularities that can be broken. If rust is formed, urgently paint the surface of fresh paint.
Planting playgrounds should not be asphalt or concreted. Any smooth and soft surface is suitable. This may be the usual lawn grass, in the other rubber coating or bulk, from the gravel of the shallow fraction.
The editors thanks the company AVEN, Vivan, "K2 Group", "Game World", "My City", "New Horizons", "Pix", Arteza, Kettler for help in the preparation of material.