Ball pits keep kids occupied, but they also deliver a healthy dose of germs and bacteria. A recent study of ball pits in medical clinics found bacteria similar to those in other common play areas. But ...

Pre-pandemic, ball pits were a thing. Filled with colorful plastic balls and teeming with kids, they were a staple of fast-food play areas, birthday parties and fun centers. Hip Instagrammable ...

There’s a reason the famous Christmas song “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” includes the line, “Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.” It’s not that we don’t love ...

DAHLONEGA, Georgia - Ball pits have been enticing children to jump in since they started popping up in restaurant chains in the 1980s, but a new study found that kids are basically jumping into a sea ...

Researchers at the University of North Georgia looked at six ball pits used for physical therapy in kids and found they contained 31 species of bacteria and one species of yeast, several of which can ...

FOX NEWS - Ball pits are colorful, fun and ... crawling with germs, according to a study published late last month in the American Journal of Infection Control. To conduct the study, researchers with ...

The findings are "potentially representing a broader need to clarify and establish standards that reduce the risk of transmission," said one researcher Despite their colorful atmosphere and beckoning ...

Kids can be kids and adults can be kids at a gigantic ball pit which will soon be located inside a Downtown Detroit high-rise. The same people behind Downtown Detroit’s indoor skating rink, Library ...

BOSTON (CBS) – Does your child just love to romp around in a pool of colorful balls? A new study finds that ball pits can be riddled with germs. Researchers at the University of North Georgia looked ...