Rustics Jungle Gyms, designing, building & installing quality Jungle Gyms

specifically for the South African environment since 2006

Welcome to our August newsletter.

 

We continue our focus on how a jungle gym can help teach vital soft skills by following our newsletter on leadership skills with our latest on developing problem solving skills. 

 

We hope you enjoy reading it - if you have any feedback on this newsletter, or have suggestions for topics for future newsletters, please do not hesitate to contact us

 

Creative Thinking in the Playground

Soft skills are essential for success in the work environment and children with exceptional soft skills are more likely to grow into adults with exceptional soft skills. As parents and teachers, it is crucial that we encourage our children to become the best that they can be. By exposing children to outdoor play and thoughtfully designed playground equipment, we provide the environment for those soft skills to develop.

 

Outdoor playground equipment creates an environment in which children learn to use their imagination to solve problems.

 

This develops out-of-the-box thinking abilities for use in later life, in academic or work environments

 

When children are faced with real or imagined obstacles while playing, they are required to use their cognitive skills to know how best to overcome them.

 

If there's an imagined massive gorge that they must cross, which could be on flat ground or on the playground equipment, they will stop and figure out the best way to get across. Do they go around, build a bridge, or throw an imaginary rope across and swing? Or do they have a wizard who can create a bridge for them or cast a spell of flight, so they can fly across?

 

Given the opportunity, children will come up with some of the most inventive and out of the box solutions to a problem.  In doing so, they are learning how to solve puzzles and problems. These skills will help them attain higher grades in school and will serve them well in the workplace.

If you learn how to think outside the box early, you won't be tempted to stay in it as an adult.

 
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