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FIRST of THREE GOLDEN RUNGS FOUND!

The first of three secretly planted Golden Rungs was discovered on the weekend in Bennett Springs, Western Australia, when the Stingers family installed The Gorilla by Funky Monkey Bars to surprise their four kids with an early Christmas present before Dad had to leave for his shift as a fly-in-fly-out worker.

COME DOWN AND HANG OUT WITH OUR FIT FRIENDS AT OUR OPEN DAY IN PERTH

We love to show-off our Funky Monkey Bars in all 16 fabulous variations, in eight magnificent colours because we are super proud of the products we make right here in Yangebup, Western Australia.  Come on down to the Funky Monkey Bars Open Day, Saturday November 10, 11am to 4pm and see for yourself, buy and pick-up or have delivered ready for the best family Christmas.  

UNWRAP ONE OF THREE GOLDEN RUNGS TO WIN A FULL REFUND ON YOUR FUNKY MONKEY BAR

In the spirit of Roald Dahl, Funky Monkey Bars is repeating its hugely popular Golden Rung Giveaway and has this year planted THREE golden rungs in boxes being delivered to three lucky customers before Christmas.

If you unwrap a golden rung you receive a full refund on the purchase price of your Funky Monkey Bar and in the words of Willy Wonka himself, “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ...

Winners are Grinners in the Hunter Valley

The kids of this happy family in the Hunter Valley are smiling because they’ve won The Orangutan with a Floating Flying Fox in Funky Monkey Bars most popular giveaway ever. 

Funky Monkey teams up with Telethon to Auction The Gorilla

Funky Monkey Bars is a proud Western Australian, family-run company that’s been bringing fun through outdoor play to kids since 2011 and we are super excited to donate our most popular backyard playground, The Gorilla by Funky Monkey Bars valued at $2,310 plus delivery, to support Telethon in 2018.  

Funky Monkey Bars is NOW OPEN in New Zealand

Funky Monkey Bars has opened an outlet in New Zealand making its fantastic outdoor play and fitness equipment more accessible to Kiwi kids and reinvigorating classic outdoor fun in the land of the long white cloud.

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.