Adding traverse and climbing walls to your schools, parks, or community centres, is a fantastic way to utilise space and provide children and young adults with additional mental and physical challenges.
Climbing plays a key role in a child’s motor skills and problem-solving development. Climbing has also been said to help increase a child’s spatial and directional awareness, as well as boosting hand and foot coordination, agility and balance. Rhino Play has a range of traverse walls that have already been incredibly popular with local primary school children, see our latest case studies to learn more.
Traverse and climbing walls are diverse pieces of apparatus that can be attached to any walls, fence, or some can even be installed stand-alone, so both sides of the wall can be used and enjoyed. The attractive colourful hand and footholds are aesthetically pleasing and eye catching for children and young people. The multi-coloured hand and footholds can be used as part of the climbing experience, where children are only allowed to use one colour to get across the wall.
Each style of our traverse wall products can be used as a low-level play apparatus providing traversing, climbing, core strength, social interactions, balance and hand-eye coordination. Which style of traverse & climbing wall will you opt for?
In 2015 the University of North Florida conducted a study that found that activities like climbing can improve a child’s working memory, which is crucial for children to learn and develop a range of skills such as information processing as well as behavioral and motor skills.
The study found that after only two hours of climbing the participants had increased their working memory by 50%. Working memory is where we store information to assist us in executing cognitive tasks, such as learning the alphabet,how to count, as well as arts and crafts, singing and dance or sports routines- all of which are essential for a child’s mental and physical growth.
So adding a high-quality, engaging and problem-solving traverse or climbing wall to your playground is a fantastic way to encourage children to exercise in different and unique ways, which come with a wide range of benefits including:
It is known that exercise is a beneficial and almost crucial addition to any human day, helping us to increase our productivity. We cover this topic in more depth in our ‘Rhino Play Daily Mile Tracks To Keep Children Active’ blog post.
Split traverse walls are ideal for children of younger ages and who may be lower abled. These walls are designed with a large empty space between the low and high-level climbers, for easy adult supervision.
Angled Bouldering Traverse Walls are a unique and amazing addition to any indoor or outdoor playing space. The angled bouldered wall provides an increased level of difficulty, thanks to the multiple angles and curves the users have to complete while enjoying this designed wall.
Arrow Split Traverse Walls are one of our most popular climbing walls. These fun, challenging and safe climbing walls are often seen and used in playgrounds and are available in a range of different colours, with different sized and shaped cutouts for hands and feet. Speak to one of our sales advisors who will be able to discuss the range of options that comes with the Arrow Split Traverse Wall.
Net Walls combine the traverse walls with netting, creating opportunities for children to apply different upper body strength techniques to their walls. The net walls allow you to create challenging courses which can be used during playtimes or P.E lessons.
Single-Sided Traversing Walls are designed as a set at 5m by 2m. This heavy-duty timber-framed traverse wall has been designed for traversing use only, the gap between the lower and higher resin climbing grips prevents children from climbing too high, therefore this wall does not need any safety surface installed.
All our traverse walls can be installed as a stand-alone play feature or can be included in a larger climbing wall or agility trail.
Rhino Play has a wide range of traverse and climbing walls available in a variety of colours, shapes and sizes and, depending on your requirements, we can create a traverse or climbing wall to suit your needs.
Our traverse walls do not require any additional safety surfaces and can be installed to your individual needs and specifications. Traverse walls can be manufactured to bespoke designs and sizes and can be designed to take up as much or as little space as desired, making your playground space a whole lot more exciting for children and adults alike!
Find out more about our range of traverse climbing walls or get a free quote today by contacting our friendly team at info@rhinoplay.co.uk
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