Why do children need a Jungle Gym?

A Jungle Gym is vital to a child's educational, emotional, social and physical development. Jungle Gyms allows children to enhance their natural skills and creates a confident edge. A Jungle Gym also develops a strong self-image.

The benefits to climbing are endless. Climbing works almost every major muscle group. They increase upper-body strength, using their arms and hands or they work their lower body using their legs. Climbing does more than work the obvious muscle groups. It also initiates good balance and body control. Climbing aides in problem solving and challenges the child to improve their memory, due to the need to remember certain grips and the location of hand and foot holds. It has been found that children more experienced with certain movements were better at recalling those movements later. Climbing also creates an awareness of space and direction by allowing the child to decide the best path to take to reach the intended destination. It improves power (strength to reach new heights), agility (moving from one point to another as quickly as possible), speed, balance (to stay on the path to the top), and coordination (Frost, 2005).