Best Adventure Themed Playground Markings For Schools
Updated on: March 12, 2024
Our adventure themed playground markings for schools and nurseries are hugely popular because they promote imaginary play as well as physical activity. Storytelling is of enormous importance to children’s development because it’s how they learn about their world.
Through imaginary characters and worlds, pupils can explore experiences, concepts, and their own creative thinking as they make sense of the world and people around them.
Adventure playground markings support children to dream up exciting and creative narratives whilst transforming your school or nursery playground into an exciting play space.
Here at Fun and Active Playgrounds, our adventure playground markings for schools and nurseries are made from high-performing thermoplastic. Thermoplastic enables us to provide you with the safest, most hardwearing type of playground marking for your outdoor spaces.
Thermoplastic adventure playground markings are non-slip and weather-resistant with vibrant colours that won’t fade over time.
Why Storytelling Is Important For Children’s Development
Our adventure playground markings provide children with familiar and fresh ideas that inspire them to think up all sorts of brilliant stories as they play and learn.
These stories are about more than imaginative thinking. According to The Rt Hon Nick Gibb, former Minister of State at the Department for Education, ‘storytelling stretches children’s vocabularies, expands their horizons and extends their ability to learn’.
As children create stories they’re learning about:
- having empathy for others,
- how to solve problems,
- the patterns and sequences of everyday life,
- analytical thinking,
- different types of values and concepts,
- how other people live,
- different places around the world,
- the enormous range of possibilities that fantasy and fiction provide,
- how to regulate their emotions,
- the wonders of reading and more.
Meanwhile, as children play and make up stories together, they’ll be building communication skills and their ability to use language to express themselves.
All these enriching experiences make adventure play invaluable for children.
Let’s take a look at some of our top adventure themed playground markings for schools and nurseries.
Best Adventure Themed Playground Markings For Schools
1. Top Trail Adventure Playground Markings
Trail playground markings are a fantastic way to ensure children get lots of energetic exercise as they engage in imaginary play.
Our trail adventure playground markings are compact designs which allow children to explore different ways to travel without taking up too much space.
Markings that inspire children to run, hop, jump, skip and more, help to ensure school and nursery pupils are getting plenty of vigorous exercise in line with NHS guidelines.
Fitting easily into any space, our adventure trail playground markings, such as the Under the Sea Trail, feature colourful themed designs to support children’s imaginative thinking.
Using a familiar context of the sea, the Under the Sea trail will inspire pupils to construct creative narratives about journeys under and over the sea as they play.
Meanwhile, the Space Trail marking appeals to children’s natural interest in the solar system. Vibrant images of stars, rockets, spaceships, shooting stars and more, provide familiar starting points for fantasy play.
2. Phonics Adventure Playground Markings
Our collection of phonics adventure playground markings are a great way to make phonics learning more enjoyable.
Each themed marking gives children well-known, real-life, and imaginary contexts to use for fun role play and storytelling.
The Jurassic phonics playground marking for schools and nurseries features colourful phoneme dinosaurs and volcanoes. The playful images will encourage children to explore their own learning about dinosaurs, volcanoes and more, as they recall phonemes from a particular phase.
For adventures on water, the Under the Sea Phonics marking begins with a porthole in which different types of phoneme fishes, sea plants and an octopus reside.
From pirates to voyages, seaside trips and fishy tales, the Under the Sea adventure marking allows children to draw on a range of sea-related concepts, stories, and experiences as they play.
3. Maze Adventure Playground Markings
From modern computer games to ancient Greek myths, mazes have a long history in storytelling.
Our maze adventure playground markings give children space to travel within a small area, making them ideal for nursery and school playgrounds of any size.
Prompting children to make links between their play and the popular contexts of computer games, dinosaurs, time travel, science fiction and more, the Maze playground marking will help children to create exciting stories as they play.
Science fiction narratives are a brilliant way for children to explore complex language and concepts with peers, making the marking great for peer education and language development.
4. Hopscotch Adventure Playground Markings
Our innovative design team have given traditional hopscotch a new lease of life with the Rocket Hopscotch Playground Marking.
The imaginative design will inspire children to dream up brilliant stories of unseen lands as they play. Rockets have universal appeal because they leave every possibility open for creative thinking.
From science to fantasy, superhero stories and alien adventures, rockets are a timeless device for children’s tales. View the Rocket Hopscotch
And that’s just a few of our bestsellers. See the full range of adventure themed playground markings for schools and nurseries.
Jess Sparks
Jess is deeply committed to supporting our mission of positively impacting UK outdoor play environments to promote healthy lifestyles in children.
With a CIM Level 6 Diploma in Sustainable Marketing, Jess channels her passion for sustainability into her marketing role, using her skills to promote eco-conscious practices and raise awareness for our initiatives.
Jess’ experience within the industry is instrumental in driving engagement and supporting connections with those who require ultra-durable, high-grade playground markings both locally and internationally.