Best Five Playground Line Markings For Schools

By installing playground line markings in your school, for sports, educational or recreational use, it is a great way to not only transform the appearance of your school playground, but also to utilise the existing tarmac to create a fun and exciting space with playground markings.

What Are School Playground Line Markings?

Often made using Preformed thermo-plastic line marking materials, school playground markings are used to transform the look and functionality of a school playground. Often taking the shape of various designs, educational themes and patterns, including:

• Playground games, like ‘Snakes and Ladders’ and ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’
• Shapes, numbers and letters
• Sports court line marking
• Weather icons
• Mazes

Most school playground markings are designed in bright colours and are evenly spaced throughout the playground, so children of all ages and abilities can enjoy them.

Benefits of Installing Playground Markings

Installing playground markings to a school playground, either a nursery, primary or secondary school, comes with a wide range of benefits for both the schools and its students, including:

• Installed using preformed thermoplastic commercial line marking materials which have low-slip, long-lasting and UV-resistant properties
• Playground markings can encourage students to socialise with one another
• Markings that are designed around sports or problem-solving help to encourage team building in students
• Transform the appearance of your tarmac with vivid colours and fun designs
• Playground markings can be used for educational purposes and teachers can incorporate them into the school curriculum
• Good for physical and mental health and wellbeing in children as they encourage activity and movement

Find out more about the benefits of installing playground markings, in our blog post, ‘Top four benefits of school playground markings’.

The best playground line markings to install

With over two decades of experience in installing cost-effective, attractive and long-lasting playground markings for schools across the country. We’ve highlighted some of the BEST playground markings that you could install in your playground, including:

Activity Trails

Activity trail playground markings; a series of playground markings that create various challenges for children. Similar to a trim trail, but instead of being playground equipment that is expensive to install and takes up a lot of space in your playground, activity trails will include several features, including:

• Hop scotch
• Balance beams
• Racing lanes
• Jumping sections (frog jumps, long jumps etc)
• Your imagination is the only limitation

Activity trails encourage children to follow instructions and move in different ways. Activity trails can also be designed to move around existing playground equipment and fill existing space with ease.

Playground games

There are 100s of playground marking games that can be installed on playgrounds of all sizes, including:

• Snakes and ladders
• What’s the time Mr Wolf?
• Bean bag throw
• Hop scotch
• Simon says
• And so many more

Playground games are a fantastic way to encourage children to use their imaginations and socialise with other children of varying ages and abilities. All of our QMS playground games can be designed around your requirements, with different games for KS1 and KS2, colours tailored to your school and more.

Maze playground line markings

Maze playground markings are another firm favourite with schools and students up and down the country. The mazes can be made as intricate or as difficult as needed, in various shapes, designs and sizes. These are perfect for helping students problem solve, follow directions and enhance memory skills.

Road or track lines

Transform your playground with road or track line marking solutions. Installing roundabouts, pedestrian crossings and ‘driving’ lanes on your playground is a quick and easy way to up-scale the appearance of your playground. While also teaching students about road safety.

Students will be able to race one another (either on foot or on play cars or bikes) around the playground, helping with their social interactions, physical fitness and spatial awareness skills.

Road safety line marking

When you choose QMS playground marking solutions for your next school project, we install FREE ‘highway safety’ markings at the entrance and exit of your school. To help encourage a positive attitude to road safety. These markings can be tailored to your school, with branding colours, size and location.

Install playground line marking with QMS

Book your free, no-obligation site visit today and see how we can help transform your school. Get in touch with our friendly team of line marking superheroes today at info@qms.uk or by calling us on 01626 836 777.