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Mud and workshop zone
The WE01 Eu-Genius Workshop is an outdoor tinkering station with a long worktop on two planes. Bolts, nuts, construction strips and safe tools let children screw, join and build, and the holes in the worktop turn it into a coding board. It works well in nurseries, schools and education centres.
Product description
It all starts with a single nut. The child screws it onto a bolt, then joins strips into a structure that either holds or wobbles. These are small movements made with the very fingertips - and they build the dexterity needed later for holding a pencil. How do we know that tinkering teaches? In the 1870s, the Swede Otto Salomon created educational sloyd at the school in Nääs - learning through handwork: children made real objects not to become carpenters, but so that the hand would become skilful and the mind patient. A hundred and fifty years later, the workshop does the same, only in the open air.
This play is meant to be repeated for years, so every part of the workshop has to withstand rain, frost and heat. The steel frame is galvanised and powder-coated, the worktop has a weatherproof wood-effect finish, and the parts for screwing do not heat up in the sun, so a child can hold them even on a hot day. The workshop works outdoors all year round, winter included, and is covered by a warranty. The manufacturer is EduPlayground, and the workshop is made in Poland.
Two pieces screwed together hold firm; a third screwed on in the wrong place loosens the whole thing. Bolt by bolt, the child checks what leads to what, and looks for the cause on their own when the structure gives way. It is a lesson in logic learned with the hands, not from a textbook.
The workshop does not say what should be made. The child decides whether the worktop is a bridge, a crane or a laboratory today, and a structure taken apart is often the start of the next one. It is practice in inventing from scratch that no ready-made kit with instructions can replace.
Several children can tinker at the workshop at once: one screws, another hands over parts, a third checks whether the structure holds. Separate ideas can be joined into one building at the end, so the children learn to share tasks and reach agreement.
Six elements for building and keeping order, and four ways to use the workshop: coding, puppet theatre, experiments and a balance.
Parts are laid out on the horizontal worktop, and the vertical wall rises behind it. A bolt screws into both surfaces, but not in the same way: into the wall more easily, into the horizontal worktop with more effort. So the same exercise has two levels of difficulty.
There are holes in the horizontal worktop and in the vertical back wall, and the bolts from the set fit them. So a structure is screwed to the table rather than held in place: the base stays put and both hands are free to add more strips.
A nut screwed onto a bolt is the simplest move in the workshop: to the right tightens, to the left loosens. A bolt holds firm because its thread is an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder - the same slope up which it is easier to roll a load than to lift it.
The strips are the parts a building is made from: two screwed together make a frame, more make a tower, a bridge or a crane. The wider the base, the steadier the whole thing stands, because the centre of gravity stays low - a principle the child tests here with their own hands.
The tools are part of the set, so tinkering starts as soon as the workshop is installed, without buying anything extra. They are cut from HPL board: a tool helps to tighten and loosen, but it has no blade or sharp edges.
The small shelf holds what an engineer starts a project with: crayons, a ruler, brushes. The rest of the kit waits on the shelves, so parts stay with the equipment instead of scattering around the playground.
The child screws bolts into the holes of the workshop and joins them with string, so the bolts and string form a pattern.
Children hide behind the back wall of the workshop, and a puppet or a soft toy appears above its edge. A frame for a curtain is screwed together from strips. Role play practises imitation, and improvisation teaches quick thinking and adaptability.
The same HPL worktop on which structures are screwed together also serves as a laboratory table. Here a vinegar and baking soda volcano erupts, rain falls in a glass, a bubble forms inside a bubble, and a lava lamp shows that oil and water do not mix.
The balance is made from two strips: one is screwed firmly to the wall, the other loosely, through the middle hole. Strings with objects hang from the arms, and the arm that drops shows which is heavier. This simple machine teaches comparison: heavy, heavier, heaviest.
Specification
| Catalogue no. | WE01 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | length: 139.5 cm | width: 41 cm | height: 85 cm |
| Safety zone | 4.4 x 3.4 m |
| Children's age | from 3 years |
| Material | Steel frame, wood-effect HPL board, stainless steel parts. Accessories made of HPL board and plastic. Main structural profile made of black steel. |
| Protection | Galvanised, powder-coated frame |
| Colour | Black (RAL 9005), wood-effect finish |
| Installation | Galvanised steel anchors L=25 cm for installation in the ground - bolted connection to the equipment, or on hard surfaces (concrete, paving) using chemical anchors. |
| Safety standard | EN 1176-1 |
| Main category | Mud and workshop zone |
| Country of origin | Poland |
| Warranty | 10 years on the board · 2 years on the whole product |
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Before it is installed
Before the workshop goes into the playground, our adviser will help you plan all the technical details. We are with you at every stage of the project, sharing our knowledge and experience so that the equipment serves children as well as possible for many years.
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Urszula Brzóska (Mrs.)
WhatsApp +48 698 728 005u.brzoska@npz.edu.plWrite to me on FacebookHead of Export Department
Customer service office: office@eduplayground.eu
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