Who didn’t love a good ball pit as a kid?
Aside from the climbing areas and the slides, I adored the ball pit. You can find best way to jump and swin in an Indoor Playground adn Soft play areas in a ball pit.
Why a Ball Pit
In short: Ball Pits are a great therapy tools in Indoor Playground and Soft Play areas. Using balls of multiple colors can help with visual sensory stimulus and they can be used to build early speech skills like color identification, counting and more in Indoor Playground and Soft Play areas.
Activities and games can also be created based on the child’s age and goals in Ball Pits in an Indoor Playground.. For example, one game is a sort of tiny basketball. A therapist can ask the child to find a red ball and then a blue ball and shoot them into a hoop. Doing this works on color identification receptive language, multi-step directions, and the fine motor skills of finding and grasping the ball, motor planning to throw the ball into the hoop, and so on. Indoor Playground and Ball Pit has important roles not only amuse, but also educational.
They are fun, great for sensory and body awareness therapies, and I had this deep personal bias that it would just be so gosh darn fun to have one, even if just a temporary one to pull out as needed.
when you try to open an Indoor Playground or Soft Play are with a ball pit,
It needed to be cost-effective
- Safe
- Easy to clean
- Possibly temporary
- It needed to fit into the weird space between the right climbing tower and the art station
The Pieces.
- A soft base
- A way to keep the balls in
- The balls (of course!)
- Extras (inflatable toys, things to search for in the pit, etc)
A ball pit is surrounded by metal walls which are softened with foam. Inside you can find different types of small balls which you can find in Indoor Playground and Soft Play area.
You could also use an inflatable mattress, pillows, a really thick comforter, etc. Whatever you have around the house on hand. Just make sure it is soft enough to provide some support. The floors of our sensory gym are padded in foam to protect little feet, hands, knees, shoulders, elbows, etc. but your floor at home might be tile, hardwood, and so on. Think about how hard your kiddo will be playing and pick your base from there. In our case, the “pit” we chose has no padding on the bottom, so making sure everyone is safe and comfortable is a priority!
In a ball pit, you can also full your pool with different types in an Indoor Playground.
You could put:
- Stuffies
- Foam blocks
- Balls
- Pillows
- A crash pad
With all of this, you can find limitless joy. Ball pits are the most important equipments in Indoor Playgrounds and Soft Play Areas
