Rustics has been designing and building outdoor play systems since 2005. Naturally, over this time, we have built up an arsenal of standard designs that has been perfected and tested over the years. But that’s not all - we can also apply our expertise to design play systems to suit your specific requirements. Have a weird shaped space? Have a theme you want to create? Want to unleash the potential of previously unused spaces? If the answer is YES to any of these, we can help! Here are a few of our more interesting designs

The game has no rules, there is no starting point or end point and there’s a jungle gym in the middle of it all. This is an ideal environment for children to develop their social skills. Creating a game in this environment requires sharing ideas, expressing feelings while negotiating and reaching compromises, setting rules, managing conflicts, listening to others’ points of view and seeing things form another’s perspective. All of these develop assertiveness, communication skills, and a healthy leadership style. These social skills that will help children thrive in all aspects of their lives, can all be learnt with a Jungle Gym and a few friends To read more on the "Three Skills Children Learn when Exposed to Outdoor Play" see Mariana Plata’s article on the Psychcentral website. (Last updated: 24 Sep 2017) To access the social benefits of a Jungle Gym, please give us a call on 043 748 5880, send us an email

Play is not a luxury. Unstructured outdoor play presents children with risks and enables them to learn how to handle them appropriately. According to clinical psychologists Drs. Susan Davis and Nancy Eppler-Wolff (Children Who Soar: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Children Take Good Risks (2009)):“Risk is inevitable, and without learning the skills of good risk-taking, our children will be more apt to take impulsive and poor risks. Through the development of thoughtful risk-taking, children will be better equipped to leap at life’s opportunities, and to rebound from life’s disappointments. Learning to take smart risks early on prepares them to recognise and think through issues of safety and danger. They will have had experience identifying the challenge and the risk, and have worked with parents and teachers on how to proceed to the next step, using their intellect and emotional skills. They are also better able to struggle more tenaciously through failures because they have experienced small setbacks.” Unstructured outdoor play presents them with these learning opportunities – throw in a Jungle Gym with monkey bars, swings and slides, to hang off, climb up and swing from and the opportunities for developing risk assessment and management skills are immeasurable. To access the physical, creative, cognitive, social and emotional development benefits of a Jungle Gym, please give us a call on 043 748 5880, send us an email

When faced with the challenge of keeping their ‘fur kids’ entertained during the day while the humans were at work, they came up with quite a creative solution – a Doggy Jungle Gym. According to Louise, “One weekend, at our niece's birthday party, we saw all the kids playing and running around on the jungle gyms and thought our ‘kids’ would love this! We just hoped we could find a jungle gym designer and manufacturer who would not think we were crazy for wanting one for our dogs. “Rustics Jungle Gyms were amazing – they were very excited about the prospect of designing a new jungle gym for dogs. Toni threw herself into the research and sent us a design. We loved it and two weeks later it was built. "Our oldest child was the first one up there. The dogs love sitting at the top because they can see all around them. Our dogs are now the nosey neighbours!”

On his birthday, Rory came home from school to find the Rustics Jungle Gyms' team busy in his garden. They were building him a jungle Gym! You can just see the excitement on his face! He just couldn't wait to invite his brother and friends to join him when it was all finished later that afternoon.