Seat
Social-Emotional
possibility for being seated adds ease to shoveling, making it a controllable experience
The Excavator is a magnet for construction play. It attracts builders in a wide age span to dig, transport and turn sand. It will absorbe children in play, again and again. When digging, the children need to navigate the handles and shovel. This is a huge task on coordination as well as logical thinking skills. When the sand needs to be re-located, the children will have to use their feet to turn the Excavator up to 360 degrees, to the desired destination. The fine motor and gross motor skill training going into this is considerable. The Excavator can accommodate solitary as well as social play, such as turn-taking and negotiation. These skills can be hard to teach, but children acquire them when they do construction play. These skills are fundamental for the ability to form friendships.
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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 thus gives the play item holding power. Play value can be described very precisely in developmental terms, looking into the human physical, cognitive, social and emotional developmental stages.
Handhold
Physical
the vertical handgrips ensure a firm grip at different heights, necessary for rocking intensely. This trains hand and arm muscles.
Shovel module
Physical
cross coordination to control the shovel thereby developing cooperation of left and right brain half which is necessary for academic skills such as reading.
Cognitive
navigating the shovel, filling and emptying it takes refined logical thinking.
Creative
sand and construction play is encouraged, leaving your mark on the playground.
2+ Years1 Users
Length
124 cm
Width
23 cm
Height
80 cm
Specifications
The Excavator is a magnet for construction play. It attracts builders in a wide age span to dig, transport and turn sand. It will absorbe children in play, again and again. When digging, the children need to navigate the handles and shovel. This is a huge task on coordination as well as logical thinking skills. When the sand needs to be re-located, the children will have to use their feet to turn the Excavator up to 360 degrees, to the desired destination. The fine motor and gross motor skill training going into this is considerable. The Excavator can accommodate solitary as well as social play, such as turn-taking and negotiation. These skills can be hard to teach, but children acquire them when they do construction play. These skills are fundamental for the ability to form friendships.
This product, Excavator (NRO524), is provided by KOMPAN Singapore.
Quality that lasts
All Organic Robinia products by KOMPAN are made of Robinia wood from sustainable European sources. On request it can be supplied as FSC® Certified (FSC® C004450).
The stainless-steel activities are made of high-quality stainless steel. The steel is cleaned by a total pickling process after manufacturing to ensure a smooth and clean gliding surfaces.
Handholds are made of UV stabilised conditioned injection-moulded polyamide (PA6) a great protection to all weather conditions. The ergonomically shaped handles guarantee a good and pleasant grip for all users.
CO₂ emission
Our product and sustainability data validation help customers make informed sustainable buying choices based on methods validated by Bureau Veritas.
NRO524-0801
250.37
Total CO₂ emission (kg CO₂e)
3.76
CO₂e/kg (kg CO₂e/kg)
48.44%
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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