Updated March 8, 2025
There are fantastic choices to make playgrounds and recess a great experience these days. As parks and schools recognize the increasing needs of their communities, they often look Fit and Fun Playscapes to help them create a colorful, engaging painted play space that is economical, easy to complete, and comes with the resources and support they need to complete the project with success. Here are the top 10 most popular stencils that communities across the globe love the best:
1. Recess Classics Reusable Playground Stencil Package
Our Recess Classics Reusable Playground Stencil Package is, by far, one of our most popular playground stencil bundles. The playground stencil package consists of some extremely popular recess games like Hopscotch, Four Square, Basketball, and Kickball. But it also includes a maze and circle for group meet-ups. This collection is a timeless package of games that all kids love!
2. Fitness Activity Circuit Reusable Playground Stencil Package
Similar in concept to our Nature Motor Sensory Path Package, our Fitness Activity Circuit Reusable Stencil Package is an alternate version of our most popular reusable stencil package with an exercise-based twist.
The Fitness Activity Circuit provides people, usually older children, adults, and seniors, with the opportunity to do squats, jumping jacks, side-to-side jumps, lunges, and sprints - ensuring a life-long assortment of activity options that help with balance, endurance, core strength, and agility.
3. Nature Motor Sensory Pathway Reusable Stencil Package
The best outdoor sensory path playground stencil option you can find, our Nature Motor Sensory Pathway package is exactly what the name implies: an outdoor version of sensory pathway stickers with a focus on motor sensory skills including hopping, skipping, crossing midline, vestibular and proprioception.
The Nature Motor Sensory Pathway comes in three different sizes and provides a wide variety of sensory-based activities for children to learn from and features our famous Daisy Hopscotch®. Additionally, this outdoor set provides motor skills-based exercises like an elephant walk, leap frog activity, side-to-side jumps, a painted agility ladder, and much more. Developed with an adapted physical education specialist and occupational therapist!
4. Wellness Stations Reusable Stencil Package
Wellness activities for everyone! Our Wellness Stations Reusable Stencil Package includes a combination of physically demanding calisthenic exercises and mindful yoga poses to promote wellness in both body and mind.
Some of the included activities are yoga favorites like Tree Pose, Downward Dog, and Star Pose, but also "the Big Four" bodyweight favorites: push-ups, sit-ups, lunges, and squats.
5. USA Map Reusable Playground Stencil (Small or Large)
Kiddos love maps of the good ole' U.S of A., so why not paint them a HUGE one?
Our USA Map Reusable Stencil comes in two sizes, small and large, so it can fit in just about any outdoor play area you can think of. Each of the 50 states comes with their capitals marked with a white star, which provides elementary-aged children with an awesome game: can you name the 50 states?
For a little more of a challenge, try to name all the capitals too! It's more difficult than you might think.
6. Peace Path by Soul Shoppe® Reusable Playground Stencil
Kids sometimes have disagreements on the playground, which is why the Peace Path by Soul Shoppe® Reusable Stencil is an awesome, independantly-used tool to solve those issues.
Developed by the wonderful folks at Soul Shoppe®, the Peace Path is a guided conflict-resolution tool meant to be used between children in conflict. The path provides prompts for the children in conflict to work through with one another, resolving conflicts before they boil over. It really is a fantastic tool that teaches kids to stop and think before they act. The stencil comes with a basic guide that frames how the tool when and should be used, but it is advised to check out the full program available at Soul Shoppe.
7. Alphabet Snake Reusable Stencil
When teachers ask us about some of our most recognizable playground stencils, the Alphabet Snake is certainly one of the first stencils we mention.
The Alphabet Snake Reusable Stencil is a bright and colorful way for your elementary-aged children to learn the English alphabet. It's a wonderful addition to your already painted playground or blacktop area - or, if space is an issue, the stencil works amazingly on its own too!
Teaching in an ESL-focused classroom or at an international school? Our Alphabet Snake can be modified with the alphabet of any language you choose!!
8. Bullseye Reusable Playground Stencil
The potential uses of a bullseye stencil on the playground are virtually limitless, so we're not going to even try to list even a fraction of the games you could play. Suffice it to say, there are a lot of mathematical concepts that can be reinforced with this game. No wonder it's such a popular playground stencil!
The Bullseye Reusable Stencil is an excellent way to develop hand-eye coordination skills like throwing, tossing, and catching when used in tandem with bean bags.
9. Copy Cat Reusable Playground Stencil
The Copy Cat Reusable Stencil is one of the most popular playground stencils we offer. It can be played with 2 or more people and is a wonderful social game enjoyed by all ages.
How do you play? Simple: children have to mimic one another's foot patterns, sort of like the popular dance games you might find at an arcade. The Copy Cat Reusable Stencil works memory and gross motor skills, all while having a ton of fun!
Additionally, the Copy Cat Reusable Stencil comes in sticker and portable versions too.
10. Daisy Hopscotch® Reusable Playground Stencil
Our Daisy Hopscotch® is probably one of the most recognizable playground stencils we have in our lineup, so it's no surprise it's one of our most popular, too!
The Daisy Hopscotch® is a daisy-themed version of the classic recess game hopscotch, with bright green leaves and sunny petals and all! Just like our Copy Cat playground stencil, this hopscotch comes with sticker and portable versions.
Updated 6/21/2022
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