Contractors
Contractors looking for way to add natural components to projects or just a single component have a large selection from Nature’s Instruments. As the industry leaders in nature play products and services Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds exists to support your best projects and help to make your vision a reality, to that end we have created a sensory-rich catalogue of nature play components.
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Gross Motor Play
Gross motor skills assist in refining our balance, strength, muscle endurance, coordination, risk assessment, physical literacy and brain development. And our components can be combined and linked together making them the perfect modular solutions to add gross motor development to your space. Our 5-Piece Log Clusters can be combined to create a larger surface for kids to climb and play on.
Our components offer a non-prescriptive environment for children to climb, walk, run and jump while putting their risk assessment skills into practice. The Side-ways Tree allows designers to specify a natural play structure just as easily as a traditional one. And many of our other components, like the wacky posts or boulder climbers, can be linked with rope to make a single play element.
Sideways Tree Climber
Sideways Tree Climbers are a great way to add a natural artistic feature to your playground. Children can climb, hang, balance, jump, and cruise around on this component. This item requires installation and will require an impact rated safety surface.
$21,350.09
Horizontal Log Borders
Horizontal 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.
$35.37 – $981.66
5-Piece Log Cluster
5-Piece Log Clusters are a unique feature that can act as a retaining wall, a path border, a gathering space, and a physical challenge all at once. Built from natural hardwood logs, our 5-piece vertical log clusters offer versatile play opportunities that range from balancing and leaping, to gathering as a team, to quiet exploration of the shapes and textures of the logs.
$967.75
Amorphous Log
Amorphous Logs can be used as climbers or a place to gather, and are a great way to add a natural artistic feature to your playground. Children can climb, balance, jump, and relax on this component. Each one of our Amorphous Logs are difference and offer children a unique sensory experience.
$3,613.55 – $4,499.15
5-Piece Log Cluster
5-Piece Log Clusters are a unique feature that can act as a retaining wall, a path border, a gathering space, and a physical challenge all at once. Built from natural hardwood logs, our 5-piece vertical log clusters offer versatile play opportunities that range from balancing and leaping, to gathering as a team, to quiet exploration of the shapes and textures of the logs.
$967.75
Wacky Posts
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.
$161.66
Gross Motor Play
Clients wanting to add natural climbing and play areas to their projects will have a wide selection of options with our components. Gross motor skills assist in refining our balance, strength, muscle endurance, coordination, risk assessment, physical literacy and brain development. And our components can be combined and linked together making them the perfect modular solutions to add gross motor development to your space.
Our components offer a non-prescriptive environment for children to climb, walk, run and jump while putting their risk assessment skills into practice. Our Amorphous Log can be used as climbers, balance beams, to jump off, or just relax.
Outdoor Play Areas
Clients that want a natural play area for their project to allow children to enhance their mental well-being, develop their sense of self, and feel soothed by nature. Playing outdoors provides opportunities for learning that aren’t available indoors, including physical literacy and spatial knowledge.
Our components allow a wide variety of options for children to play from our sideways trees that allow for intense sensory input to wacky posts that lets children be more creative, and boulder climbers that can become the center of imaginative play. Having a natural outdoor play area will give a place where the children can grow in nature.
Triple Boulder Climbers
are a natural way to bring gross motor play to your spaces. This triple boulder climber can be installed without games strung in between or you can string two nets, two ropes or a net and rope between the boulders.
$35,961.00 – $45,334.08
Sideways Tree Climber
Sideways Tree Climber 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.
$21,350.09
Wacky Posts
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.
$161.66
Durolawn®
Durolawn® is a rubber matting system that is installed on top of grass, and after a few months the grass grows through and the mats disappear. This product protects the crowns of the roots of your grass ensuring its survival. Are you looking for a playground surface that is accessible this product is for you – no more barriers or retaining systems are needed to separate your surfacing!
$192.17 per 16 sq. ft.
5 Foot Easy Install Wave Hill Slide
If you ask children what they want in their playground, they’ll always include a slide. Nature’s Instruments 5 Foot Easy Install Wave Hill Slides are the perfect way to give them what they want, while eliminating the fall height of a traditional slide.
$10,916.37
Wacky Posts
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.
$161.66
Chalk Board
Nature’s Instruments Chalkboards can be placed into sections of fence or against a blank wall to maximise the vertical space in a playground. The simple cedar frame boards are sealed for protection from the elements, and mural paper can be affixed to the wall using simple pins so that the art can be brought inside after completion.
$2,092.93 – $2,093.00
Portable Ball Run
This Portable Ball Run offers so much for every child. This cause and effect game is visually stimulating, and adding metal balls creates an auditory element when the balls clang against each other. Children are motivated to motor plan their actions to keep the balls moving down the track at a fast pace. This movable component is a great way to use your vertical spaces. No Installation required! Great for all ages.
$990.81
Log Tunnel
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.
$8,409.90 – $8,700.62
Post Mount Transparent Acrylic Panel
With our Post Mount Transparent Acrylic Panels our children can paint 4 feet up and 8 feet across. For children with core balance issues, painting on this outdoor panel is a subtle way at supporting their goals. For a more directed approach the large size of the acrylic board can also support children to walk, skip, hop and/or run along the side of the board while chalking providing many types of sensory experiences all in one activity. The acrylic board can be installed as a fence panel or a few feet higher to accommodate for a wheelchair.
$2,401.98
Horizontal Log Borders
Horizontal 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.
$35.37 – $981.66
Durolawn®
Durolawn® is a rubber matting system that is installed on top of grass, and after a few months the grass grows through and the mats disappear. This product protects the crowns of the roots of your grass ensuring its survival. Are you looking for a playground surface that is accessible this product is for you – no more barriers or retaining systems are needed to separate your surfacing!
$192.17 per 16 sq. ft.
Outdoor Learning
Outdoor Learning environments offer sensory engagement on a deeper level than traditional classrooms.And an outdoor learning environment can promote language and communication development, improve memory, increase concentration, nurture social skills, inspire creativity, improve self-confidence and promote emotional development.
Our chalkboards are specially coated steel that resists the elements and facilitates easier graffiti removal, and the outdoor classroom can be expanded with planters and curriculum cabinets for more options.
Outdoor Seating & Gathering Areas
Nature’s Instruments’ hand-carved wood furniture offers the perfect location for children to gather, read, relax, or socialize, and allow parents to sit while their children play. We offer milled log benches, carved log seats and couches, spiral benches and many more components to fit your park space and capacity.
Our seating options allow your clients projects to expand the natural elements because our furniture, while finished, still offers a multi-sensory opportunity with both rough and smooth textures to engage children, even at rest. And they can be combined with some of our other components like our boulder climbers and 5-piece log clusters (among others) are perfect modular solutions to add to any project.
Carved Log Chair
Each Carved Log 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.
$1,737.89 – $3,137.00
Carved Log Chair
Each Carved Log 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.
$1,737.89 – $3,137.00
Log Carved Love Seat
Each Log Carved 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.
$3,320.33
Spiral Log Bench
Spiral Log Benches are a great addition to any park or playground. Not only will children use them for play, they are a great resting and gathering places for adults too. A tree can be planted in the middle of the spiral bench to provide shade and add beauty.
$3,476.43
5-Piece Log Cluster
5-Piece Log Clusters are a unique feature that can act as a retaining wall, a path border, a gathering space, and a physical challenge all at once. Built from natural hardwood logs, our 5-piece vertical log clusters offer versatile play opportunities that range from balancing and leaping, to gathering as a team, to quiet exploration of the shapes and textures of the logs.
$967.75
Stump Activity Table
Stump Activity Tables differ from activity tables but can also be used for outdoor learning environments and activity centres. Not only are they functional for any playground; they double as art pieces as well. Seats are sold separately.
$510.77 – $959.32
Single Boulder Climbers
Single Boulder Climbers are a natural way to bring gross motor play to your spaces. We offer single boulder climbers, double boulder climbers and triple boulder climbers. These climbers to do not come with nets or ship ropes, but are stand-alone boulder climbers. We offer a private use and public use versions of these climbers.
$12,913.98
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