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National Program for Playground Safety – U.S. clearinghouse for playground safety information; The Overprotected Kid – article about adventure playgrounds in The Atlantic; This new ‘risky’ playground is a work of art – and a place for kids to escape their mollycoddling parents (Sanné Mestrom, The Conversation, November 9, 2022)
A playscape is either a piece of land modified for children's play (a natural playscape), a particular structure on a playground, or a nontraditional type of play environment. Landscape architects and designers are increasingly using the term to express areas of cities that encourage interaction and enjoyment for all ages. [ 1 ]
The skully field of play, or board, is a large square approximately six feet (2 m) a side. This board is drawn on a flat surface, such as the pavement of a street or playground. At each corner and along the edges of the board are drawn 12 smaller squares, called boxes, of about six inches (15 cm) a side each (see diagram).
Feb. 23—For a generation of Bangor-area kids who grew up in the late 1980s and 1990s, Bangor's creative playground at Hayford Park was more than just a place to burn off some energy when school ...
A young girl in Utah is thinking outside of the (crayon) box! Clearfield resident Rosili Olson, 12, used her crayons last year when she was 11 to draw a playground she imagined would be better ...
A typical example of the community-built wooden playground complexes associated with Leathers and Associates. This one was located in Dormont, Pennsylvania.. Leathers and Associates is an Ithaca-based family-owned playground construction company, best known for having coordinated community-led construction of large wooden playground parks in many towns across the United States during the 1980s ...
Everman City Council members passed a resolution to name a new playground after 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez — the local boy who went missing last fall and is presumed dead — the city ...
Magnetix, a popular construction toy selling over 3.8 million units, was recalled after injuries and a fatality when magnets came loose.. Toy safety is the practice of ensuring that toys, especially those made for children, are safe, usually through the application of set safety standards.