Community Playthings Listening Cube

Self-selected reading is key to literacy development. The Literacy Cube, reduces distractions, gives a sense of seclusion while still enabling supervision.

Books at floor level with plenty of room for audio devices encourages reluctant readers to immerse themselves in books.

The Roomscapes post and panels system, delivers more than enough strength for a reader to lean against a wall and stretch out.

Dimensions and Details

Design for a Lifetime of Child Care 

Community Playthings (CP) furniture and toys are purpose built for early years classrooms with predominantly natural materials like maple hardwood. They are designed to realize an open-ended play-to-learn educational goals.

• CP furniture is built using mortise and tenon joints — one of the strongest in woodworking.
• Maple hardwood construction.
• Protective finish is infrared bonded – does not wear off no matter how often you clean.
• Backed by Louise Kool with a Lifetime Warranty

It is not unusual for Community Playthings products to last decades and even generations.

Designed for Child Care Safety

Community Playthings products do not just comply with regulations: they are designed with children’s health and safety as a core principle. Utmost vigilance is maintained to ensure all known or suspected hazards are eliminated from the product line.

• Pinch free hinges
• Childproof latches
• Rounded edges

Community Playthings’ rigorous design process, including failure mode and effects analysis, reduces the risk of equipment-related accidents and are a natural result of child-centred design.

Environmental design for your centre and the world

Rather than awaiting regulation, CP’s product developers closely monitor scientific research, moving early to eliminate potential chemical hazards. While other manufacturers may insist that endocrine disrupters and phthalates are harmless, but CP’s green chemistry policy requires greater responsibility. All Community Playthings furniture products are made from low emitting materials -- safe for your children and staff.

• Certified to meet LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) credit standards.
• BPA and PVC free. Parents can be assured that there is nothing safer on the market; Community Playthings is BPA and PVC free.