Climbing Frames: Creating adventure and development in your Children’s Setting

If there’s one thing kids love, it’s the excitement of climbing, swinging, and exploring. Climbing frames are a great way to transform any outdoor space to accommodate adventurous play for your little ones. But a climbing frame isn’t just about fun and excitement; it’s also about promoting growth, learning, and development through play. From helping to develop fundamental gross motor skills to encouraging imaginative role play, climbing frames are an essential part of any child’s outdoor play area.

How can these custom-built climbing frames come to life and why are they beneficial for your child’s development? Let us explain…

A bespoke, handcrafted playground

Each child’s setting is unique, and in turn, so should be their climbing frame. That's why each climbing frame we create is bespoke and handcrafted to fit your space, needs, and your children’s imaginations. Whether you have a large garden, a small courtyard, or a more challenging layout, we design the climbing frames to complement your surroundings using creativity and our wealth of experience.

From slides to climbing walls, ladders to monkey bars, we can create a one-of-a-kind playground designed just for you and your requirements. Every part of the climbing frame is crafted to ensure it’s not only exciting but also safe and built to last. Our skilled team use pressure-treated timber, so your climbing frame will withstand the elements and the test of time, yes, even with the British weather!

Your journey: From enquiry to installation

Creating a climbing frame is exciting, and it begins with you and your needs. When you first reach out, we’ll start with friendly chat, to make sure we understand your space, and what you want to achieve. Whether you want a jungle gym with climbing elements, or a more structured play area with different levels, we take all of these details into account before moving to the next stage.

From here, we’ll schedule a visit to look at your setting and make sure we can design the perfect frame for your space. We will take measurements, look at the best positioning for maximum safety, the part we, at Elegon, understand is the most important, and discuss any special requirements you may have.

Once we have all the information we need, we’ll design your custom climbing frame. We’ll provide you with design sketches, so you can visualise what the final product will look like. And if any tweaks are needed, we’ll make sure everything is just right before we move to the building stage.

We build your bespoke frame on site, which means we can always adapt to unexpected hurdles. We will create your climbing frame to the contour of your ground, creating maximum stability. This means we can also build around trees or other objects - when we say bespoke, we really do mean it! What’s best - because we create your structures in your space, the children in your settings can watch it come to life, and might even find ‘dinosaur bones’ within the holes of the ground as we go. 

Built to last with Quality Timber

Just like our mud kitchens, our climbing frames are made using high-quality, pressure-treated timber. We ensure that the frame is durable enough to withstand daily use - we know little ones put climbing frames to the test - but here at Elegon, we make sure it’s built to last. This not only means less maintenance for you, but also peace of mind knowing that your climbing frame will be safe for years to come.

The benefits of climbing frames: encouraging play

While climbing frames offer endless hours of fun, they also provide a wealth of developmental benefits for children. Here's why they’re a must-have for your Children’s Setting:

1. Promotes Calculated Risk play

Climbing frames help children assess and take on age-appropriate risks, which is crucial for their development. As they climb, slide and swing, they learn to judge distances, understand their limits, and challenge themselves in a safe environment. This type of calculated risk play boosts their confidence and helps them develop resilience when things don’t go as planned.

2. Enhances Gross Motor Skills

Climbing, swinging, and balancing all require the use of muscle groups, which is why climbing frames are a brilliant way to develop gross motor skills. As children use their arms, legs, and core muscles to climb, swing and crawl, they improve their physical strength, coordination, and balance. These skills will be used in many activities in their day-to-day lives. 

3. Progresses imaginative Role Play

Climbing frames offer a perfect setting for imaginative role play. Whether they’re pretending to be pirates on a ship or firefighters helping those in need, climbing frames encourage children to use their imagination, developing and fine-tuning their skills in interaction and creative thinking. 

4. Boosts social development

When children climb and play on Elegon climbing frames, they learn valuable social skills such as sharing and communication. They’ll take turns on different parts of the frames and help each other as they negotiate their way around the frame. These social interactions build fundamental skills for day-to-day life such as teamwork, how to celebrate together, and how to understand the importance of sharing and helping one-another. 

Elegon provides more than just fun

Climbing frames aren’t just about giving your children a place to get rid of some of their excess energy, we want to offer your Children’s Settings the ability to provide the skills and experiences that will help them grow, ready to take on challenges and experiences they will inevitably face in their future. From promoting physical health, to helping build essential social skills, climbing frames offer an excellent option for your spaces that align with the goals we all have for our children.

By choosing a bespoke, handcrafted climbing frame from our trusted team at Elegon, you're giving your child a lasting, engaging, and educational outdoor play area that will provide hours of fun while helping them learn and grow.

Get in touch if you’re ready to transform your Children’s Setting into a playground of adventure, let’s chat about creating the perfect climbing frame for your little ones.