Getting children out to play

Social life and everyday flow of chores are more and more concentrated indoors, and people take even their jogging rounds in the rooms of gym centers instead of out in the woods or parks on the running tracks. Television, computers, game consoles, social media interaction, mobile phones and many more big and small factors keep also children rather in their own rooms and indoors than tempt them outdoors to meet each other in real life and play games out in the fresh air.

In the preschools and kindergartens children spend quite a long breaks outdoors and many pedagogical functions happen also outside. When children enter primary school, the time spent outdoors decreases when school lessons replace the outdoor activities. At the same time children enter the world of computer and video games and all the other indoor plays and hobbies. Outdoor activities start to become arranged and organized ones, involving organized sports such as football, horse riding or winter sports.

The spontaneous way of spending time outdoors is actually quite rare especially in the lives of children living in cities. Outdoor sports, such as skateboarding, Parkour, street basket ball, rollerskating and jogging still lure children and youngsters out into the fresh air and keep up the physical conditions.

Lappset Group manufactures playground equipments which are made to attract young as well as adult and old folks out to play and have social interaction across the generations. The company states that it doesn't only make playground areas, but aims to make whole environments playable. Lappset has in it´s product line up equipments for children and seniors alike, and special design has been applied to the products to keep an eye on the special need of each age group and each purpose the equipment is used. Lappset, based in Rovaniemi, Finland, exports products to over 40 countries and has subsidiaries in five different countries.