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Why your Neighbourhood Needs an Indoor Play Area

Playgrounds and indoor play areas are more than just fun spaces where children can spend their free time. These venues are designed to help kids learn and develop a variety of critical skills. Medical experts around the word recommend at least 60 minutes of physical activity or play for young children.

However, in most cities in India, children are deprived of regular physical play because of soaring temperatures or heavy rains that dominate 6 to 8 months of the year. Furthermore, in many locales, the lack of or safety in public parks is a concern among parents.

Hence Indoor play areas offer an ideal solution to address these problems.

The Benefits of an Indoor Play Area in your Neighbourhood:

Play is known to stimulate and encourage social, emotional, cognitive and motor growth that is essential in the early stages of development. Having an indoor play area in your neighbourhood helps your child achieve the following:

1. Brain Development

Good Indoor play areas are designed to help boost brain development, especially in the early years. The various activities presented in a play area like activity play panels, help stimulate brain development, that eventually facilitates cognitive growth.

2. Movement

An indoor play area encourages children to be active. Being able to use world-class and safe play equipment with a close group of friends on a regular basis makes physical activity fun and enjoyable. Allowing the requisite 60 minutes of play every day also enables children to maintain a healthy weight and, also feel great.

Overhead equipment and swings help with the child’s balance and visual perception. It improves spatial awareness and, works the muscles so that children grow, strengthen and develop as they should. Activities such as gripping a chain or bar, pumping the legs to swing higher help hone fine and gross motor skills along with coordination. Well designed Indoor play areas also offer climbing equipment that improves balance and, encourages foreseeing and problem solving.

3.Intelligence, Imagination and Language

The presence of an indoor play area in your neighbourhood encourages parents to regulaaly visit the venue. Whether it is for a casual evening of play or whether you choose to use it as a birthday party venue.

A lot of the social and cultural rules are made and learned in play areas. The more regular you are the more opportunities your child gets to make new playmates, eventually helping them develop their social skills. Kids can communicate and interact with other children, allowing them to express how they feel, make new friends and share ideas.