Your sports or play area deserves a unique playground design that is exciting and fits in with the surrounding area. A themed playground with a colourful bright design helps generate buzz around a new or refurbished play area. Get your local community interested in visiting this summer with a creative and safe space to play.
Playground Design as an Expression of Your Unique Playground Identity
A centrepiece to bring your playground design together is a great way to express the value your site brings to your local community. Themed playgrounds can bring history and imagination to life. While 3D elements provide tactile stimulation to enhance play for all ages! Mounds of coloured rubber mulch can be shaped into simple or intricate designs by our expert installers. Therefore, your parks can create central attractions with unique play features or 3D decorations.
JungleMulch is a vibrant and non-toxic sustainable flooring material that uses recycled tyre material. PlaySmart can install this material as a flat surface, with textured parts, or mounds. JungleMulch has a less disruptive installation process and a lot of flexibility in how and where you can lay it. Therefore, incorporating this bonded rubber mulch is the best safety surface for engaging, fun playground designs. Additionally, the rubber material is resistant to weathering and erosion.
Textured playground flooring is also a brilliant way to build the value of inclusivity into your playground design. We often install Jungle Mulch pathways alongside other surfacing or with raised bumps and bright colours. This is because these techniques provide accessibility for the visually impaired on pathways and playgrounds. Express how important having a safe space to play is for everybody by incorporating accessibility into your playground design in unique ways.
Practical Playground Design with Mixed Surfacing Options
PlaySmart offers a variety of playground surface options because we know that each playground has specific needs. The best surface for children’s play areas may not be the same as the adjoining sports surface or even the accessible pathways incorporated into the site.
Combining playground flooring can meet the variety of needs your playground has, especially in multi-use or smaller sites. Your playground surface options should adapt to the requirements of your geographies and what your users are looking for. More complex patterns can be added to existing wet pour surfaces such as our colourful RubbaSmart wet pour, with EDPM rubber mulch or Jungle Mulch overlay designs that continue to provide safety surfacing protection while looking amazing!
Are you looking for affordable sustainable flooring options for the majority of your playground? Then Corkeen cork flooring is a great choice! For more on Corkeen you can read our Guide to Corkeen. However, for areas with special considerations for critical fall heights under equipment, you may require rubber grass mats to keep your play area safe.
Mixed flooring playground designs provide fully functional sites for varied uses easily. Our team applies modular grass mats such as EcoSmart on any grass surface next to another flooring material. Whereas Corkeen, when installed by our professional playground installation team, has clear edges that provide smooth transition between different surface materials.
Natural or Bright, you need Colourful Designs that last!
Different playground themes require a unique blend of colour and patterns. Playgrounds should consider this in order to turn your play area ideas into a reality and attract more visitors.
Our installation team works with you, your time-frame, and your budget to choose the right playground design for you. For example, creating unique designs and colour combinations in your mixed flooring design. Additionally, we can help you choose from our wide range of options and colour blends to suit your playground project. Autumnal colours, bright blends, or unique blues and greens are ideal for application over large areas to suit any playground. While we recommend more unique designs for particular focal areas that draw in your users to certain parts of the site.
Naturalistic colours are great to create unobtrusive pathways and natural play areas that match the surroundings of your outdoor area. Bright colours create the best surface for children’s play areas. They are particualrly suited for nursery or primary school playground ideas. This is because younger children and infants see brighter, primary colours more clearly. Therefore, nursery children find designs using them more interesting and exciting! Jungle Mulch and EPDM Mulch use all-natural, non-toxic colourants to create our unique, durable colour blends.
Some of our Favourite Themed Playground Projects…
Interested in Expressing Unique Play Themes in Every Part of your Playground Design with PlaySmart’s Design and Installation Team?
Are you looking for advice and playground design? PlaySmart can help you find the right playground surface option to make your dream play area idea a reality. Get in touch with our handy contact from at the top of our page. Alternatively, you can call us at 01564 742811.