Landscaping

Sensory Areas

It is important to provide opportunities for young children to actively use their senses as they explore their world through landscaping services and garden maintenance. This type of sensory play is crucial to brain development, helping build nerve connections in the brain’s pathways. Sensory play allows children to focus on sensory stimulation, which includes touch, movement, balance, sight, and hearing. Sensory activities allow children to process different information as they learn how to respond to different situations.

Natural Playscapes

When children play in natural environments, they are connected to, and contribute to their world. Our expert landscapers can create playspaces in natural environments that include plants, trees, edible gardens, sand, rocks, mud, water, and other elements from nature. Our skilled team provides quality services, from lawn mowing and garden mulching to retaining wall construction and synthetic grass installation, ensuring a one-stop shop for all your landscaping needs.

Creating play areas in your Centres that include natural elements can have many benefits for children. Research shows that children who spend more time outside tend to be more physically active and less likely to be overweight. Also, children who play in natural settings are more resistant to stress and have a lower incidence of behavioural disorders. Our landscaping services and gardening services can help you create these beneficial environments for children across Australia.

Natural play settings encourage children to play in more diverse, imaginative and creative ways. Playspaces that are natural, irregular, and challenging help young children learn to recognise, assess, and negotiate risk and build confidence. Our landscape maintenance and ongoing maintenance services ensure that these spaces remain safe and engaging for children on a regular basis.

Natural play spaces invite open-ended interactions, spontaneity, risk-taking, exploration, discovery, and connection with nature. Kids will foster an appreciation of the natural environment and develop environmental awareness, as natural play areas provide a platform for ongoing environmental education. Our garden clean-ups and garden landscaping jobs help maintain these spaces, promoting a love for nature in children.

Rocks & Boulders

The creative placement of rocks and boulders around a play space can provide children with easy to challenging “routes”. Our landscaping job experts can strategically place these elements to create engaging and safe play areas. Rocks and boulders can be great for learning climbing skills or just good old-fashioned fun. Children almost always gravitate toward rocks and boulders, and they become the immediate favourite place for children of all ages to explore and interact. In addition to defining areas such as a sand area or dry creek bed, rocks and boulders provide opportunities for challenging and fun play and add to the natural materials used in play spaces. Children’s balancing skills are tested when they make their way along a boulder border or use the boulders as stepping stones.

The boulders can also be a good place to sit, rest, talk, or watch. Cleverly arranged rocks and boulders are safe. Children have a healthy respect for the solidity and hardness of rocks and boulders and develop their sense of care, concern, and safety when climbing on them.

Bike Tracks & Courts

Encouraging children to spend more time outdoors and playing together on play tracks and courts will provide countless benefits. Our fully insured team can help you create these spaces, promoting social skills, respect for authority, sportsmanship, physical skills, friendship, self-confidence, healthy habits, and improved mental health in children.

  • Social skills: Sporting activities, particularly those involving teams, teach children how to interact with each other and work together as a team to achieve a goal. Children can learn the importance of communication and teamwork.
  • How to follow authority: Playing team sports on a court often involves rules given by an educator. Children learn how to follow rules and to respect authority.
  • Sportsman behaviour: Getting children to play games that involve rules and an eventual winner teaches children how to both graciously win and lose.
  • Physical skills: Getting kids to play outdoors and be active on the courts builds a child’s physical skills. Being active builds physical fitness and develops hand-eye coordination and fine- and gross motor skills.
  • Friendship: Playing sports with others is a bonding experience. Children on sports teams make new friends and share a common goal, which they work toward together.
  • Self-confidence: Sports allow children to feel successful as a team members and build confidence.
  • Develop healthy habits: Sports form a healthy habit of physical activity to see them right through to adulthood and help them ward off many age- and weight-related ailments.
  • Improved mental health: Taking part can greatly improve a child’s sense of self-worth. Whether it is the satisfaction of mastering a dribble or beating a personal best, sports-related exercise enables children to gain confidence in their skills.

Tunnels & Mounds

Mounds made from soil or wet-pour rubber give a three-dimensional aspect to an area that may be otherwise flat. Children can use their imagination to feel as though they are the king or queen of the castle and view the world from a different level. Our cost-effective solutions can help you create these engaging play spaces.

Mounds can be crawled over safely by babies, can be used to “hide” behind, for sitting or lying on, and can have a wide variety of play items added to them. You can also insert or mount other items on our ‘through’ mounds. This can include slides that are installed on the mound, giving added safety as a fall by a child would be from a reduced height. Mounds can also be landscaped with plants suitable to your area, including small shade trees, shrubs, and native grasses.

At Aaron’s Outdoor, we understand the whole process of creating engaging and safe play spaces for children. From the initial design to the final installation, our team of expert landscapers works closely with you to bring your vision to life. Contact us today for a free quote, and let us help you create a natural play space that will inspire and engage children for years to come. Our head office is ready to assist property managers, educators, and parents across Australia in creating these valuable spaces for children.

Sandpits

Sandpits are the perfect accessory for your Early Learning Centre. Sandpits are a great way to encourage children to develop their imaginations. Because playing in the sand is open-ended, young ones can not only play with toys in the sandpit but can also create anything they can imagine – whether that’s buildings, castles, or towns. A child playing in a sandpit will get the opportunity to interact with other children. Together, they can discuss what to build and what area of the sandpit to play in and use their problem-solving skills to answer questions they want to explore. Playing together in a safe and monitored space is a great way for young children to develop these important social skills.

While playing in a sandpit, children will often undertake tasks such as digging and scooping, as well as running, squatting and kneeling. This all helps to develop physical skills such as hand-eye coordination and muscle control.

As young children play and explore in the sand, they learn and internalize many new concepts about the world around them, including ideas from maths, science, and ecology and they are out of fresh air and exploring their natural world.

Garden Beds, Planter Boxes & Vegie Gardens

Gardening engages all the senses, making it ideal for young children. Gardening also encourages healthy eating as they become involved and invested in growing the food they eat. Scooping up dirt, planting seeds, and pouring water all take fine motor control and strength. These important motor skills help children with their academic skills such as writing, cutting, and typing.

Gardening also introduces children to scientific concepts from many areas, like botany, biology and earth science. Without even realising it, kids are learning the basic steps of the scientific process while gardening. Gardening is also a great way to teach kids about responsibility. Kids learn that they have to take care of their seeds each day in order for them to become healthy plants.

Gardens will make your play area look more aesthetically pleasing, not just for children but for adults, too. The introduction of beds and boxes adds colour and depth to your play area, enhancing its appearance.

Paths, Walkways, Bridges & Creek Beds

A path or creek bed can turn a bland or boring area into one of imagination and adventure for young children. These natural elements encourage imaginative play for children, add depth to your outdoor space, and create defined areas in which to encourage different types of play. A dry creek bed can bring fun, natural elements to your play area and create a space for children to explore, create, and interact.

Aarons Playscapes specialise in the installation of creek beds. We can install a creek bed to be either dry or wet so you can enjoy the look of a creek without having to worry about installing and maintaining water if that’s your preference.

Paths are another way to add natural elements and define spaces within your outdoor play area. Paths are also wonderful for helping navigate people around the outdoor area you have created. We have many designs to suit your needs, and we carefully incorporate natural elements to enhance the look of existing areas as well. Paths also enhance outdoor playscapes by encouraging imaginative play.

Seating Areas & Outdoor Classrooms

Whether it is raining or sunny, outdoor seating areas have all-round benefits. Apart from being a place to meet, sit, relax, chat, eat, or read, they are great to use as an outdoor classroom, extending your learning spaces and providing the opportunity for more hands-on learning. Studies have shown that many children have increased concentration and are more motivated, inspired and willing to learn when they are outdoors.

Splash/Water play

Splash pads are quickly becoming popular recreation additions within ELCs, especially in the warmer climates of Australia. They offer a fun water experience while requiring a relatively small financial investment. They are scalable, allowing them to meet wide-ranging service and budget levels. The jets and sprays offer an endless combination of choreographed movements, intensity, and sizes of water. Splash pads offer to encourage interaction. Children can play impromptu games and anxiously stand together in anticipation. The versatility of splash pads with their multiple spray zones appeal to all age groups. Additionally, well-designed splash pads offer universal accessibility for all types of physical abilities.

Aaron’s Outdoor offers premier landscape design, construction, and maintenance services for residential and commercial properties in Melbourne. Our experienced landscapers provide landscape designs, retaining walls, soft landscaping, water features, plant selection, and more to transform any outdoor space. We specialize in garden design, front and back yard landscaping, pool landscaping, front garden designs, and commercial landscaping.

With excellent attention to detail and quality work, we can completely transform your garden into a beautiful new space. Our landscaping company handles every part of the process, from initial consultation and design concepts to project management and landscape construction. We work promptly and efficiently to save you time while exceeding expectations.

Contact Aaron’s Outdoor today to discuss your landscape design and construction needs. Our Melbourne landscapers deliver amazing results you’ll love. We do excellent work, provide great advice, and ensure top quality from start to finish so you get the beautiful landscape design and garden you deserve.

Animal Enclosures

Having a pet to talk to and touch can be a great benefit to children in child care, especially shy youngsters. Children will enjoy watching animals play and eat and children will develop a caring and responsible attitude and learn how to handle animals correctly and animal care skills such as cleaning and feeding.

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