News

Our biggest event of the year coincides with our biggest sale of the year

We are back at the Perth Royal Show, bigger & better this year with a prime new location, a discount offer, a new range of Ninja products for the kids to have-a-go and a guest appearance from our Ambassador and Australian Ninja, Olivia Vivian.

Palmyra kids & teachers super excited by new Funky Monkey Bars playground

So much fun was had when Funky Monkey Bars recently installed a school playground at Palymra Primary School in Western Australia with two classes of enthusiastic five-year-olds watching on. The end result far exceeded the expectations of the teachers and the kids are loving it.

Family with eight kids chooses The Gorilla for backyard fun

When Mum of 8, including two-year-old quintuplets, Kim Tucci went looking for backyard play ideas that would keep them all entertained outdoors, she couldn’t go past The Gorilla by Funky Monkey Bars.

Australian Ninja & Olympic Gymnast teams up with Funky Monkey Bars

Sensational Australian Ninja and Olympic Gymnastics star, Olivia Vivian, has teamed up with Funky Monkey Bars to launch the new Ninja Range and encourage kids to get outdoors and challenge themselves.

Half the price to deliver to lower & south west country kids

We’ve struck a great deal for country kids in southern regions of Western Australia with rural freight company GJ Freight now offering delivery rates at half the price of what we could previously offer to get our monkey bars to your backyard.

Our most popular combinations

One of the best features of a Funky Monkey Bar is that you can continue to add more outdoor play and fitness equipment as your kids grow and the interests of the whole family change.

We’ve put together video clips that demonstrate the most popular add-on combinations to keep your outdoor playground fun and dynamic.

Show-goers claim their prize

Thousands of kids demonstrated just how tough our playgrounds are for the backyard when they visited our Pop-Up Playgrounds at the recent Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show and the Sydney Royal Easter Show.   Two families were particularly happy as the winners of our competitions – each taking away The Original Funky Monkey Bar with add-ons.

Funky Monkey Bars Pop-up @Sydney Royal Easter Show

Sydney-siders we are coming your way and bringing our Funky Monkey Bars Pop-Up Playground to the Sydney Royal Easter Show, March 23 – April 3, 2018.   Let the kids go bananas on our most popular models.

Funky Monkey Pop-Up Playground @Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

Kids of Melbourne are welcome to go bananas at Funky Monkey Bars Pop-Up Playground installation as part of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, March 21 - 25, 2018, in the beautiful Carlton Gardens.

Monkey Bars going back to school at Treetops Montessori

Treetops Montessori School in Darlington installed a massive Funky Monkey Bar configuration during the summer holidays so its students can climb and clamber and build gross and fine motor skills that are so important to the development of children in and out of the classroom.

Video captures the joy!

Funky Monkey Bars had a huge reaction to its 'Share the Joy' competition and took just a selection of the joyous response to pull together this brilliant video compilation.

Tears of joy win Facebook competition

The video of a new Funky Monkey Bar in the backyard on Christmas morning that brought tears of joy and grateful hugs was pure joy and is the worthy winner of our Share the Joy Facebook competition.

Santa Delivered A Golden Rung

It was Christmas morning and Santa had delivered a Funky Monkey Bar package and in the scramble to unwrap the boxes a ‘golden rung’ was revealed, much to the surprise of the three children and an even greater surprise for Mum and Dad.

Share the Joy of Christmas to WIN a $500 Funky Gift Voucher

There is nothing better than the excitement of children on Christmas morning and we’d love to share the buzz as new Funky Monkey Bars pop-up in backyards this Christmas.

Not too late for a Funky Gift Voucher

If you’ve missed the boat for a Funky Monkey Bar delivery before Christmas, give them a Funky Gift Voucher to shop in our online store for the best outdoor play equipment in Australia.

FIND THE GOLDEN MONKEY BAR RUNG & WIN

It's our Christmas gift to you!

We are feeling festive at Funky Monkey Bars so we are refunding one lucky Funky Monkey customer the full cost of their Christmas purchase if they are fortunate enough to unwrap the splendiferous Golden Monkey Bar Rung.

CHRISTMAS ORDERS, DELIVERIES AND PICK-UPS

We want to get all Funky Monkey Bar deliveries to QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC, Tasmania, NT & SA on the road before the end of November so place your order now - Santa’s sleigh gets pretty heavy at this time of year.  

Winner of The Original giveaway competition

We are pleased to announce the winner of The Original giveaway is Samantha Malpass of Victoria. Samantha was a popular choice in our office and with our loyal Facebook followers, many of whom gave their own entry to Samantha in a bid to see her take out the prize.

Funky Monkey Bars to introduce Community Sponsorship Program

Following an overwhelming and emotional response to a competition to win a Funky Monkey Bar for Christmas, where people shared with us many stories of the benefits of monkey bars for play and development, Funky Monkey Bars is looking to introduce a Community Sponsorship Program in 2018.

MONKEY MADNESS AT OPEN DAY 2017

We opened our doors and the small people came, to have-a-go on our fabulous Funky Monkey Bars at Open Day 2017 on Saturday Nov 25, 2017.   Here we share a view of the day’s shenanigans as kids display their talents and the benefits and fun of our backyard play equipment.

Australian-made, quality play equipment

Funky Monkey Bars are rolling off the production line right here in our home, south of Perth in Western Australia.