Early Childhood
Early childhood playgrounds allow young children the ability to actively explore and safely build their skills. Explore our playgrounds designs for toddlers, and find out how our developmentally optimized, sustainable, and inclusive play environments will enhance your space.
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Encourage Exploration
Toddlers are brimming with curiosity and wonder, but they are still developing the strength and coordination needed to play on more challenging equipment. Early Childhood playgrounds (toddlers to age 5) are different from building a school-age playground for older children. Early childhood playgrounds allow young children the ability to actively explore and safely build their skills.
Support Development
When it comes to developing emotional, sensory, and gross motor skills in preschool aged children, our early childhood playground equipment has your needs covered. We offer an extensive product line with young children in mind, including fun animal themes, bright contrasting colors, and age-appropriate music equipment. Explore our playgrounds designs for toddlers, and find out how our developmentally optimized, sustainable, and inclusive play environments will enhance your space.
Inclusive Design
Our Early Childhood product offerings make it easy for you to choose complimentary products to fit in your play space. Additionally, many of our products are designed to be inclusive, catering to children of all abilities.
Age Appropriate Equipment Design
Northwest Playground Equipment designs early childhood playgrounds using equipment engineered specifically for children 2 to 5. We have a variety of structures, movement, and sensory equipment to help create the perfect play area:
Safety Surfacing
Safety Surfacing can become part of the play experience for the 2 to 5 age range. At Northwest Playground Equipment we are the experts in safety surfacing and can help you understand the options, benefits, and budget expectations to ensure you achieve the perfect solution for your play area:
Site Furnishings
Additional site amenities can help provide the finishing touch that makes a playground complete. Adding benches, tables, and trash receptacles can make a park more comfortable for users and provide additional social opportunities for kids:
Covered Play + Shade
Offering a cool or shaded space allows for children to stay outside longer and protects them from the elements. Whether you're looking for a weatherproof shelter or pockets of shade for the Summer months we can help:
We help our customers find the funding they need.
We work with communities and organizations at every budget level. If you’re looking for a fundraising partner or grant program, we can help! Contact us to learn about our Ultimate List of Playground Grants and Fund Raisers.
How we support you during the Planning and Design Phase
Every project starts with a dream, and at Northwest Playground Equipment it's our calling to make that dream a reality.
Give us a call and let our expert Parks Consultants help be a resource to guide your project wherever you are in the process.
- Site Visits - The first step of almost any project is arranging a site visit with our local Parks Consultants. During our first meeting we'll discuss the project goals, understand any site specific conditions, and develop a scope of work to get us started on putting together designs and budget estimates.
- CAD + Renderings - After our initial site visit we'll take our understanding of your site and work with our in-house Designer to develop detailed CAD drawings and 3D renderings of initial concepts.
- Fundraising Support - Are you looking to raise money for a project? At Northwest Playground Equipment we keep up to date on the pulse of national and local funding opportunities to help supplement your project project budgets.
- And It's All Free! - Being a resource for park planning is a service we take pride in so much so that all of our front end planning efforts are a no-cost service that we provide to help make your project a success. It's as easy as giving us a call or e-mail to get started!
From park benches to splash pads and everything in between, we represent the highest quality manufacturers in outdoor park amenities.
- Exclusive Products - Most of our lines are exclusive across our territories meaning we are your one stop shop for all your park amenities!
- Leading Manufacturers - We represent more than a dozen leading manufacturers who share our passion for building community through their park solutions. Our catalog of manufacturers is made up of manyof the leading experts in their respective fields, and includes coveted award winners of the GOOD DESIGN Award and the Red Dot Award.
- Extraordinary Selection - Have an idea for an outdoor space but don't see an example on our website? We can help! Just give us a call to let our expert Park Consultants be a resource for helping to identify a solution to any problem.
We can help take your project all the way through from design to construction with full installation for all of our park equipment amenities. It doesn't stop there, need additional site work completed as part of the project? Just ask and we can oversee as much or as little of the project as you need.
Full installation and site work services are also available through our many Cooperative Purchasing Contracts for all of our public-sector customers.
- Certified Installation - Everything we install comes backed by our team of Certified Installers who ensure that each and every component is installed per Manucturer recommendations and we are compliant with all current safety standards.
- Site Work Management - Does you new Shelter need a concrete pad and walkway? Or would you like a vinyl-coated fence around your future play area? If you have a site work need associated with your park project let us know and we can help manage that portion of the project. Even available through our many Cooperative Purchasing Contracts!
- On-Site Supervision - It's always great to get the community involved in a project, and if that's your goal we can help provide an experienced on-site Supervisor for the duration of a weekend volunteer build.
Building Community Through Play isn't a short term mission, it means that each and every project we're a part of forms a relationship that lasts for the life of that park or amenity.
Our Team is here to support you through it all!
- Dedicated, Family-Run Business - We take pride in having a strong history as a local family owned and operated business since 1996. That history extends to each and every one of our customers who together become a part of the larger Northwest Playground Equipment family.
- Replacement Parts and Service - We're here to support you in good times and bad, and understand that sometimes there's nothing more frustrating than a broken or vandalized piece of equipment. If you're having an equipment issue just contact your local Parks Consultant who can help identify a solution to get your park back up and running in no time.
Our Partners
Unitary Surface. Cork.
Unitary Surface. Poured-in-Place.
Unitary Surface. Poured-in-Place.
Loose Fill. Cedar. IPEMA Certified.
Unique Wood Features.
Themed Play. Custom Solutions.
Park Quality Furnishings.
Hand Crafted Streetscapes.
Unitary Surface. Rubber Tile. Lifetime Warranty.
Leading Playground Manufacturer.
Beautifully Themed Concrete.
Interactives. Technology + Play.
Natural Materials. Custom Solutions.
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