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WHO Guidelines on Exercise for health

This post summarises the WHO Guidelines on Exercise for health in children

12 Benefits of Outdoor Play

12 Benefits of outdoor play and how a Rustics Jungle Gym can help you achieve them

Create an environment for the Imagination to run wild

A well designed Jungle gym will promote the use of a child's imagination and hence improve their problem solving skills

Make Time for Unstructured Play

Filling every minute of a child's day with extra lessons, sport etc, could impede development.

Outdoor Play Teaches Social Skills

The game has no rules, there is no starting point or end point and there’s a jungle gym in the middle of it all. cue social skills

Play Teaches Thoughtful Risk-Taking

Play is not a luxury. Unstructured outdoor play presents children with risks and enables them to learn how to handle them appropriately.