A Pottsgrove Playground where ALL children can play together!

A variety of tactile inputs helps children organize sensory information from the world around them. Manipulative media like sand and water pair creative play with an ideal sensory experience. And because they’re fun, tactile play elements often help solo play progress into cooperative play.

All children desire to climb, which stimulates the tactile, proprioception, vestibular and visual senses. Each system learns about textures, muscle activation needed to pull against gravity, and integrates with what the child sees while climbing. This allows kids to effectively relate to objects and navigate in the world.

Sliding integrates multiple senses, including vestibular, tactile and proprioception.

It’s important to create opportunities for all levels of social interaction. Imaginative play is where children get to “try on” the many roles and activities of life. This helps develop “whole child” learning.

Multidimensional movements like spinning and rotating supply children’s brains with valuable, complex vestibular and proprioceptive information. This connects input from head and body position in space, helping children maintain proper body posture and balance while they play.

The back-and-forth movement of swinging provides a child’s nervous system with a wealth of visual, vestibular and proprioceptive stimulation as they learn how their bodies move in space and how much effort it takes to increase or decrease their speed.