Kids Toys

When you start looking at all the available swing sets for your yard, you could actually find yourself becoming discouraged by the immense range of options. These sets are made predominantly of three types of materials, namely wood, metal and plastic, and there are many choices within each of those types. But once you decide [...]

One might use the phrase, “This isn’t your father’s swing set,” to describe the newest incarnation of both swing sets and their accompanying accessories, because these are certainly nothing like what you or your own parents played on as kids. The old outdoor swing sets with the metal frames and the basic swings and slide [...]

Most swing set manufacturers see toddler swing sets as a very small subset of their larger product line. In fact, not many companies even make separate swing sets for toddlers. Perhaps they feel that since it’s inevitable that toddlers will quickly outgrow this stage, they would do better to concentrate on the regular children’s swing [...]

It’s no longer really the basic swing set that is the thing, it’s the swing set accessories that are important. There are so many of them now, and they add so much to the original swing set design. These play areas are no longer just your basic metal swing set with an attached slide that [...]

There’s one swing set accessory that you can hardly think of as an accessory at all, really, so integral has it become to the very idea of the swing set through its modern history. That structure is the slide, which has accompanied the outdoor swing set through many alterations and new designs. Whether it’s a [...]

Playground swing sets have come a long, long way from the popular sets of the 1960s and 1970s, when they were dominated by a tall metal slide, a large metal frame with swings that had heavy wooden seats, and the traditional wooden teeter-totter and merry-go-round. In those days, the contrast between the backyard swing set [...]

After President and Mrs. Obama installed a swing set for their girls in the yard around the White House, they made it clear to people all over the country just what their priorities are. A settled family life was not about to be sacrificed for some supposedly “higher purpose,” not even the highest job in [...]