Clock and Compass

An excellent way of enhancing any plain tarmac playground is to add exciting and colourful graphics. Our range of thermoplastic playground markings are an essential addition for any outdoor play area.

This traditional marking combining Clock and Compass enables children to play active and imaginative games independently at play times. It helps them to recognise, name and position the 8 points of the compass, including NSEW and SE  SW NE NW, reinforcing geographical language and great for incorporating into any pirate games outdoors! Children can also be creative and make up their own unique games, learning to take turns and follow rules. A perfect base for playing the phonics game ‘North South East West’ outside, when children run to the correct grapheme card displayed around the playground, representing the correct phoneme that they have heard in a spoken word.

Ideal for children to draw on their own hands using chalk to make o’clock and half past times for their friends to read. Or for older children a way of reinforcing quarter past and quarter to the hour, or using sticks as hands and drawing the matching digital times around the playground or on a Jumbo Chalkboard or Whiteboard.

Physically participating in traditional outdoor games reinforces the children’s understanding of the history of playground games and provides the children with a window to the past, whilst still participating in games that remains fun today.

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