The Brief
The BriefBridge House Marina approached Creative Play as they had decided to provide a play provision at their caravan park following their recent expansion. Bridge House Marina had already seen a variety of Creative Play’s equipment and particularly liked the look of our rustic Woodlander tower systems, as well as our swing sets.
The Design
With a blank grassed area as a starting point, and Bridge House Marina looking for an impressive tower system packed with play features, it was decided to incorporate the highest amount of play value possible.
Together with Bridge House Marina, we decided that our Jigsaw range would be ideal. Being a completely component-based range, we could customise their tower to ensure a high number of exciting play opportunities that children would love would be included. A 3 tower design, with 3 different platform heights, we were able to create a great challenge for children traverse across and conquer.
Alongside this, we included our popular Basket Swing and several pieces of trim trail to provide additional pieces for the children to access and enjoy on site.
The Installation
One of the best types of installations is working with a completely blank area such as the project at Bridge House Marina Caravan Park. This allowed us to provide a whole new facility to a site as well as completely transform an existing empty space.
With many different products to install, we worked closely with Bridge House Marina to ensure the installation went smoothly and caused as little disruption as possible to the running of their business, and they are more than happy with the final results!
Hinderton School is a SEN primary school that specialises in children on the Autistic spectrum and with social communication difficulties. From the get go, it was acknowledged that there was two different areas to be re-developed; KS1 and KS2.
For the KS2 area we created a challenging Trim Trail circuit, along with Rubber Mulch Safety Surfacing to ensure the whole play space met all BSEN 1176 and 1177 safety standards and allowed for all-weather use. Trim Trail items such as our Crawling Net and Tyre Crossing were incorporated to ensure balance, co-ordination and climbing skills were targeted while still focusing on more traditional physical play aspects.
Wanting to provide a large number of fun physical play opportunities for its KS2 pupils, Christ the King Catholic Primary School got in contact with Creative Play in regards to transforming two existing empty play areas.
Along with their MUGA, we transformed their adjacent tarmac area with our popular Jungle Climber Midi climbing structure, as well a number of trim trail items and classic hopscotch 
Our Lady and St Edward Catholic Primary School had recently purchased an old children’s centre over the road to the existing school. This premises was acquired to create an 
Our Lady and St Edward Catholic Primary School wanted to incorporate a mixture of play equipment ensuring all areas of learning were covered. To do this we created different sections within the outdoor play space. In one section we added one of our new Jigsaw 
Blehheim Primary School got in touch with Creative Play in regards to updating their existing KS1 and KS2 outdoor play areas.
We included two structures in the KS2 area to provide a wider variety of play opportunities. Again a bespoke Jigsaw Play Tower was created in collaboration with the school, this time a 1.5m high one-tower design, along with our popular Jungle Climber Midi. Together these two play structures are ideal for providing physical play in the playground.
Looking to develop their KS1 playground, The Castle School got in contact with Creative Play in regards to creating a fun sensory-focused area. Catering for children with a variety of complex learning difficulties, it was essential that we worked closely with the school to include a variety of equipment that all ability levels could enjoy.
Wanting to incorporate a variety of water, musical and creative play opportunities into their KS1 area we included popular sensory items such as our Water Wall, Glockenspiel and Chalk Board. We wanted to include a large number of play items to ensure everyone had a play station to enjoy. A number of playhouses, such as our Cambridge Shelter, Den-Making Teepee and Mound Tunnel, were also added to the design to provide more secluded zones in the playground. Along with input from The Castle School we also included a storytelling area, comprising of our Teacher’s Storytelling Chair and six Mushroom Seats; that could also be utilised for both play and lesson times. The whole development was then finished off with Artificial Grass Safety Surfacing to provide a high quality, tactile all-weather play surface.
There are many educational benefits to sensory play, but one area that it can help develop greatly is a child’s creativity. Children are constantly learning to create throughout their childhood, something we at Creative Play are passionate about supporting and helping to cultivate. While problem solving and decision making are often seen as the most obvious cognitive skills to be developed and fine-tuned by sensory play, linguistic experts are also quick to sing the praises of a more sensory approach to early years learning.
Messy Play Table
Water Wall (EYFS) 
Timber Sandbox
Nursery Play Boards