Imagination Playground is now available in the UK from Play Direct. Designed by architect David Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play, the kit was launched in the US in 2007 following five years of research on play and playgrounds.
With its focus on moveable loose parts, the product offers a changing array of elements that allows children to constantly reconfigure their environment, indoors and out, and do what they do best and do what they do best: explore, invent, build and dream.
The kit comprises: two moveable storage carts, 75 blue foam blocks and parts in 15 different shapes, 15 foam noodles, five foam balls, assorted fabric pieces and a play guide.
Given its flexibility, Imagination Playground can ‘transform any size or type of unused space into an instant play space’, says Play Direct and lists among its other benefits, its ability to:
- enhance hidden creativity
- afford a variety of play patterns, from construction to pretend play • promote communication, collaboration and inter-age play
- accommodate up to 20 children with one set • encourage children to exercise problem-solving skills and complex thinking through play, and
- offer fully inclusive play.
It also requires no installation.
