Active Play For Children

The best physical activity in children is ‘PLAY’. Play is a method through which children learn.  Play involves so many things at the same time like thinking, imaginative expression and feelings, and physical demands. Children learn about relationships with peers, adults, and the world around them and how to act with them.

Advantages

Our busy lifestyle leads us to be satisfied entertaining our kids with electronic media like tablets or television.

Play and engagement in different healthy activities contributes to the cognitive, social and emotional well-being of children and improves their strength, liveliness, and fitness. Outdoor sports are essential for physical growth and development of children. Taking part in outdoor sports helps to reduce laziness in children. Encouraging outdoor play in children will help to prevent disorders like obesity in children.

How to encourage your Children

Parents should help their children to make their playtime enjoyable, creative and safe by providing attractive and clean play area from any dangerous debris or any other things that may harm your child. If you take your children to a park, stay close enough to keep an eye on them, yet far enough to let them play, explore or just enjoy on their own. Try to give your child a space while playing so he or she can explore the world around them and learn as much as possible.

Try to give toys with play value that can be used in many ways for learning purposes as well as develop skills important for further learning and a sense of mastery.

Outdoor play and innovative ideas in different activities

By Encourage a balance in play activities you can reduce or eliminate screen time. Try to motivate your children for outdoor play that is very important for perfect physical development as bones and muscles become strong by running and jumping. To develop interest of your children in physical activities try to give them best and innovative play options or new activities such as art, music, building or science or interesting physical games options like bouncy castle or new games etc. Always self directed play should be encouraged for learning of the children.

Effective Tips To Use Bouncy Castle Safely

Want to add a wow factor to your party by hiring bouncy castle? Good idea indeed. Bouncy castle is kids’ hot favourite amusement device at every function whether it be birthday party, fundraising event, school fun day or BBQ party. But you should not ignore the fact that there are some safety issues associated with bouncy castle. If you want to hire bouncy castle for your function then you have to take into consideration risks associated with bouncy castle quite seriously so that you can make them as safe as possible for kids’ usage.  For your help and guidance, we are presenting effective tips to use bouncy castle safely.


Always hire bouncy castle from a well- known and reliable bouncy castle rental company.

Ask the rental company to provide the staff to set up, operate and supervise the bouncy castle at the event.

Manage the bouncy castle by yourself only when the rental company has provided with you written safety instructions and operating manual.

Select the type and size of bouncy castle according to your event, location and the people who will be using it. This will help you to choose the right bouncy castle for the users.

Check the label on the bouncy castle to make sure that it is manufactured in the light of British standard requirements.

If the bouncy castle was manufactured a year or two ago then make sure that it is tested by someone registered with PIPA Inflatable Play Inspection.

Do not allow kids to use bouncy castle in high wind or wet weather.

Make sure that the pathway to bouncy castle is safe and clear.

Keep the bouncy castle away from fences and overhead power lines.

The distance between blower and bouncy castle should be 1-2 meters. Hitting to the blower unit can cause serious injuries. Therefore, location of the blower should be out of reach of guests.

Select an even and flat surface for the placement of the bouncy castle.

Make it responsibility of someone from your event management team or rental company to monitor kids playing on a jumping castle in order to avoid any accident. The person monitoring kids playing on a bouncy castle must make sure that the bouncy castle is not overcrowded with kids. He must try to stop an unruly behavior that can result in injury.

The number of kids using the bouncy castle at a time should not exceed the limit set by the rental company.

Do not allow any kid to play in the jumping castle whose age is not suitable for it.

Don’t allow kids to eat while jumping on the bouncy castle.

Shoes, pens, buckles, jewellery and other hard objects should not be allowed in the bouncy castle.

Hiring A Reliable Company

Due to rising trend of bouncy castle hire there is a lot of competition in this business but before hiring any of company and availing the services make sure that the company and their services are reliable and their products are safe to play for the children.

Here are some main points that should check and keep in mind while hiring a company:

Certification

All the equipment should be PAT certified. Mostly well known companies are members of the British Inflatable Hirers Alliance who help the industry to provide a better, safer service.

 Risk assessments

The company should conduct regular risk assessment on every bouncy castle. This follows advice from the Health & Safety Executive.

Maintenance

The company should be responsible of good maintenance and all equipments are in good condition, reasonably practicable and safe in use to maintain relevant standards. The inflatable and all bouncy castles need to be properly maintained. All inflatable are safety checked and a copy of the certificate will be in your hirer pack having RCD protected cables.

ELECTRICAL SAFETY

All of electrical equipment should be PATS tested annually to make sure the safety.  All inflatable should be supplied with crash mats to make sure the safety.

Guidelines

The company should supply guidelines including ‘Rules of Play’ which help you make your event safe and fun.

Insurance

The company should have Public Liability Insurance. 

Inspection

The company should have regular inspection include prerequisite and supervision of a blower unit as specified by the manufacturer, or to provide adequate pressure to allow the inflatable to be used safely.

The proper safety measures are very necessary in order to fully enjoy the event without any mishap.