Handhold
Physical
the vertical handgrips ensure a firm grip at different heights, necessary for rocking intensely. This trains hand and arm muscles.
The Forest Ant with its chunky, rocking body attracts toddlers for shorter or longer rides, again and again. Apart from its appealing shape, the Forest Ant offers tactile variation with its steel hand hold, rubber foot support and smooth, wooden body. Tactile richness is a main motivator, especially in younger children. It supports their understanding of material characteristics such as weight, smoothness, temperature and flexibility. This is important in for instance risk management. The spring ensures hours, years and decades of fun. The soothing, rocking movement of the Forest Ant trains the sense of balance and the spatial awareness. These are crucial for body confidence, e.g. in avoiding falling. A good sense of balance is essential for the ability to sit still and concentrate. So this is much more than a mere fun ride.
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Play Value
Play value is the value gained from play, the value that makes the child “want” or developmentally “need” to undertake the activity and because of this children will want to return to the item over and over again. Play value can be described very precisely in developmental terms, looking into the human physical, cognitive, social and emotional developmental stages.
Foot support
Physical
the possibility of footrest supports intensive rocking. Rocking stimulates the senses of balance and space that are fundamental in managing the world securely.
Theme
Cognitive
suggests a theme and supports dramatic play, which stimulates language and communication skills.
Rocking spring
Physical
response to movements adds to spatial awareness and sense of balance. These are fundamental motor skills that help the child's ability to sit still on a chair which takes a good sense of balance.
Cognitive
trains the understanding of cause and effect: when I move my body, the spring responds with movement.
3+ Years1 Users
Length
77 cm
Width
48 cm
Height
73 cm
Specifications
The Forest Ant with its chunky, rocking body attracts toddlers for shorter or longer rides, again and again. Apart from its appealing shape, the Forest Ant offers tactile variation with its steel hand hold, rubber foot support and smooth, wooden body. Tactile richness is a main motivator, especially in younger children. It supports their understanding of material characteristics such as weight, smoothness, temperature and flexibility. This is important in for instance risk management. The spring ensures hours, years and decades of fun. The soothing, rocking movement of the Forest Ant trains the sense of balance and the spatial awareness. These are crucial for body confidence, e.g. in avoiding falling. A good sense of balance is essential for the ability to sit still and concentrate. So this is much more than a mere fun ride.
This product, Forest Ant Springer (NRO119), is provided by KOMPAN Ireland.
Quality that lasts
All Organic oak products by KOMPAN are made of oak wood from sustainable European sources. On request it can be supplied as FSC® Certified (FSC® C004450).
The paint used for coloured components is water based environmentally friendly with excellent UV resistance. The paint is in compliance with EN 71 Part 3.
Handles and footrests are made of high-quality stainless steel and equipped with moulded on PUR handholds and footsteps. The PUR footrests are designed with groves to make the surface slip resistant.
KOMPAN Springs are made of high quality spring steel according to EN10270. The springs are cleaned by phosphating before they are painted with an epoxy primer and a polyester powder coating as top finish. The springs are fixed by unique anti pinch fittings for maximum safety and long lifetime.
Robinia products are available in three different wood treatment options: Untreated Robinia wood or brown painted with a pigment that maintains the wood colour and coloured version with paint of selected components.
CO₂ emission
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NRO119-0421
84.3
Total CO₂ emission (kg CO₂e)
2.23
CO₂e/kg (kg CO₂e/kg)
30.82%
Recycled materials
The overall framework applied for these factors is the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), which quantifies "environmental information on the life cycle of a product and enable comparisons between products fulfilling the same function" (ISO, 2006). This follows the structure and applies a Life-Cycle Assessment approach to the entire Product stage from raw material through manufacturing (A1-A3).
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