Budgets need to be stretched further and further - here are a few fundraising ideas to ease the strain of your new playground on your budget

Merrifield School chooses Rustics to build a ‘hideaway in the trees’ for their Grade 3's .. and they love it!

There are many physical and mental benefits of climbing. Rustics has just the right equipment to get your children climbing safely!

Climbing is a risky play activity but the many, many benefits for children of all ages, easily balance any risks. Read about them here.

Exercise to boost your brain - kids score higher on math and reading tests after exercising for 20 minutes, Get a Rustics jungle gym

We know that there are many benefits of getting children outside and physically active but Sometimes, they just need a bit of encouragement

Sometimes relocation of a jungle gym is unavoidable – maybe you are moving house or, you are redesigning your playground to add new and...

In the last of our 5 part series on the physical benefits of playing on a jungle gym - we discuss flexibility and joint health

Part 4 of a 5 part series discussing the physical benefits of playing on a jungle gym - Gross Motor Skills.

Physical development - part 3 Developing core strength

Rustics jungle Gyms has recently installed a history-inspired, ship-shaped jungle gym at Yellow Sands Family caravan park, Eastern Cape

Part 3: Lower Body Strength. Lower body strength is needed to stand, climb stairs, walk and run. Learn how to develop it.

Upper body strength is important for a child’s coordination, posture and development.

We recently visited a jungle gym which was beautifully designed and perfectly built find out why it was breaking after only three years.

St Joseph's school in East London chooses Rustics Jungle Gyms to supply its new playgrounds - read what have to they say about the team.

a playground can reduce the anxiety of starting in grade 1, beginning a new phase or moving to a new school.

They say that leaders are born, not made. But leadership is a skill that can be learned as early as childhood.

Beware of playground equipment not built to the relevant South African National Standards.

We need to teach our children that screens only mimic real life and that real life is much more enjoyable when it is experienced.

When is the last time you allowed yourself to play? Generally, somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we stop playing. But why? Pla