Horizontal Log Borders
$33 – $926
Age Group: All Ages
Log borders are a natural way to separate your surfacing while providing balancing opportunities for children. Nature’s Instruments log borders are sold by the linear foot and are available in cedar and hardwood. Barrier-free log borders are also available to allow for accessible entrances between your surfacing.
CAD Drawings
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NI-PG-605-01 12″ Diam Softwood Horizontal Log Border (per linear foot)
NI-PG-605-02 12″ Diam Hardwood Horizontal Log Border (per linear foot)
NI-PG-605-07 18″ Diam Hardwood Horizontal Log Border
NI-PG-605-05 12″ Diam Hardwood Barrier Free Log Border (3′ opening)
NI-PG-605-06 12″ Diam Hardwood Barrier Free Log Border (5′ opening)
Item Details
- 254mm (10”) fasteners
Sensory Processing: Tactile, Visual, Proprioceptive, Vestibular
Motor: Core Strength, Balance, Coordination, Motor Planning
Cognitive: Problem-Solving, Focus, Attention
Social/Emotional: Parallel, Joint or Cooperative Play, Turn-Taking, Self-Regulation
Communication: Expressive and Receptive Language
This component offers motor planning, balance and vestibular opportunities. Children can take their shoes off and engage in a tactile, sensory experience. Children can jump off the log providing proprioceptive input to their muscles and joints. In a child’s imagination the log border becomes a snake, dinosaur or a magical hideaway. Its open-ended, suggestive nature lends itself to work with the children’s interests.
Age Group: All Ages
Each love seat is completely unique – hand carved from large tree stumps as one solid piece, adding a sense of awe and amazement. If you are interested in this type of furniture as an art piece that is larger than the available options, please contact us for pricing information.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: All Ages
One of our most popular products, our milled log bench sits flush with the ground and offers a fantastic organic seating and play option for young and old alike. Milled for a flush, stable surface.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: Infant/Toddlers
If you ask children what they want in their playground, they’ll always include a slide. Nature’s Instruments Hill Slides are the perfect way to give them what they want, while eliminating the fall height of a traditional slide. The 2′ easy install hill slide is a great addition to a natural playground for pre-school children.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: All Ages
Nature’s Instruments planter boxes keep plants safe from trampling, and allow gardening at a height that is accessible for children of different ages and stages. All edges are rounded to prevent splinters, and there is no exposed hardware.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: All Ages
Our amphitheatres come with all of the logs pre-mitred and sanded, as well as Durolawn mats to ensure a successful installation. All logs are mitred and all ocular hazards are removed.
Please note, this product is not available outside of Canada. If you would like to receive this in the United States, please contact us for more information.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: All Ages
Each chair is completely unique – hand carved from large tree stumps as one solid piece, they give children the sense of sitting in a throne, adding a sense of awe and amazement. If you are interested in this type of furniture as an art piece that is larger than the available options, please contact us for pricing information.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: All Ages
Nature’s Instruments Wacky Posts are irregularly shaped posts hewn from trees with large knots and twists, and encourage creative and dramatic play. With the imagination and creativity of children, these simple posts are transformed into store fronts, forts mazes and frames for leaf or snow forts. This item requires installation.
Please note that only NI-PG-601-02 and NI-PG-601-03 Hardwood Wacky Posts are available outside of Canada. Customers in the USA will receive Wacky Posts with the bark removed.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: All Ages
Each couch is completely unique – hand carved from large tree stumps as one solid piece, adding a sense of awe and amazement. If you are interested in this type of furniture as an art piece that is larger than the available options, please contact us for pricing information.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: All Ages
These logs become balance beams, dinosaurs, airplanes, serpents, locomotives…anything children can imagine. The logs are carefully chosen by species to be both non toxic and resistant to rot. Over time they become opportunities to learn about the cycle of life and their lifespan in the natural playground is the same as a traditional play structure…at 1/100th the cost. This product ships with all ocular impact hazards removed.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: Infant/Toddlers
Perfect for infant and toddler playgrounds, the Log Tunnel is made from a solid hardwood log and ships at a 30″-36″ diameter at a length of 30″-36″. We offer a public and private installation versions of this component. Larger tunnels are available as a custom item, please contact us for pricing information.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: All Ages
Sideways trees are used as climbers, and are a great way to add a natural artistic feature to your playground. This item requires installation and will require an impact rated safety surface.
AVAILABILITY: In stock
Age Group: School Age
If you ask children what they want in their playground, they’ll always include a slide. Nature’s Instruments Hill Slides are the perfect way to give them what they want, while eliminating the fall height of a traditional slide.
AVAILABILITY: In stock