Patent ID: 8038581

Claim:
A climbing wall assembly comprising: a) a plurality of fixed wall panels arranged in an adjacent wall panel configuration, each said wall panel having an exterior wall surface adapted for educational purposes and further having a plurality of apertures therethrough for providing means to create a plurality of climbing paths, each said aperture having a fastening element embedded therein and integral the wall panel; b) a plurality of handhold structures each having a body with a curved grabbing surface and an aperture therein for having a fastening element extending there-through to cooperate with said embedded fastening element in said wall panel for mounting said hand holds to said wall panels; c) said exterior wall surface comprising a paint/aggregate layer on said plurality of fixed wall panels, said paint/aggregate layer composition comprising approximately 3-40 weight percent aggregate particles; and d) a plurality of educational elements including numbers, letters, words and geometric shapes, said educational elements removably cooperating with said wall panel and having a property selected from the group of properties comprising a metallic property and a magnetic property, said property cooperating with said metallic or magnetic property of said climbing wall so that the educational elements are readily attached to and removed from said exterior surface of said climbing wall panel.