What To Look For in Modular Outdoor Playsets and Accessory Kits
Modular play structures are excellent long-term investments, allowing parents to adapt playsets to the needs, interests and play styles of their children as they grow up.
What Is A Modular Playset?
Modular playsets are structures designed with interchangeable components that allow for the playset to scale up throughout childhood. For instance, parents can add more swings, larger slides, picnic tables, sand boxes, monkey bars and even new safety features as their children age.
Benefits of a Modular Playset
Ideally, a high-quality scalable playset can provide more than a few options or additions — the best types of these playsets have a wide range of features that can be tailored to children as they age. Benefits for these types of playsets include:
- Adaptability to developing physical capabilities
- Ability to change along with new play interests
- Updatable safety features (whether for a new child or to ensure safety of older children)
- Increased customization options
The best part of modular playsets, at least in the eyes of those who play on them, is the ability to add new things to do and ways to play. For kids that love climbing, options like monkey bars, corkscrew climbers and climbing walls are perfect. For the imaginative, a ship wheel, chalkboard, sandbox or clubhouse will open up worlds of adventure over and over again. No matter how your children like to play, there’s almost always something you can add to a modular playset that they will enjoy.
Key Features of Rainbow Play’s Modular Outdoor Playsets
Rainbow Play’s various scalable playset structures are designed to be the best of the best and provide years and years of play. So what separates Rainbow Play equipment from other playset manufacturers? We’re glad you asked:
Durability
We use decay-resistant, highly durable cedar wood and commercial-grade hardware for ultimate longevity and stability.
Customizability
Create the perfect playset for your children now and maintain the ability to adapt it in the future with our modular designs.
Built-In Safety
Our playsets are designed to meet ASTM and CPSC safety standards, with features like rounded corners, recessed and capped hardware, structural gaps with zero pinch points and properly spaced railings with vertical spindles.
Lifetime Warranty
We’re one of the only manufacturers that offers a lifetime warranty for all of our playsets.
Types of Outdoor Playset Accessories
There are dozens of different accessories and features that you can add to your playset depending on your kids’ needs and interests. Here are just a few of our favorites:
- Climbing features — Rock walls and ramps are great for developing dexterity and strength while giving little climbers a safe outlet for their fun.
- Club houses — This style of compact playset gives kids plenty of different places to play and options for adding on additional features later on.
- Crawl tunnels — Help kids safely develop dexterity and coordination with a crawl tunnel between multi-platform structures.
- Imaginative play features — From ship wheels to bubble panels, chalkboards, general store or lemonade stands, puppet theaters and more, these elements help spark and grow kids’ imaginations.
- Monkey bars — The first time conquering the monkey bars is a landmark day, opening up new avenues of confidence, strength, coordination and dexterity.
- Sand boxes — Whether with a shovel or their favorite toy truck, sand boxes are a great, tactile place for children to play, imagine and dig to their hearts’ content.
- Slides — From small straight slides to exciting spiral slides, these are great for learning to take on new challenges and are just plain fun.
- Swing beams — Bucket swings, traditional sling swings, trapeze bars, tire swings, web swings, hammock swings and more, there are so many accessories you can add to a swing beam. Plus, they’re simple to swap out!
One of the most adaptable and exciting options Rainbow Play offers are our Penthouses. WIth over 100 variations and plenty of customization options, a Rainbow Penthouse gives kids a unique experience of being (safely) high in the sky while offering plenty of extra space to play. They’re also great for adding bigger slides! Check out our Penthouse designs for yourself to explore how they can provide even more scalability to a Rainbow playset.
What Makes Rainbow Play’s Accessory Kits Great
Rainbow is proud to provide a larger breadth of accessory options, even compared to other well-regarded manufacturers like KidKraft and Gorilla. Because of the wide range of features available, our playsets gain value over time since they do not have to be replaced as kids grow. We also use only the best materials available, including sturdy, weather-resistant cedar boards, HDPE slides and best-in-class hardware. Uneven yard? No problem. Rainbow Play has solutions for uneven yards that means your kids can have the playground of their dreams without compromising their safety.
Check Out Our Playsets at a Showroom Near You!
Give your family the chance to find the perfect playset for your home by visiting one of our 150 showrooms. You can try out all kinds of different features and configurations to find the ideal fit. We can’t wait to see you!