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A CLOSER LOOK: First step toward the majors
Inventor mom gets financial backing For parents with active young children who like to go to parks and playgrounds, encountering an improperly sized … Click for complete story.
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£40000 make-over for school playground
The Ryleys School has injected over £40,000 into transforming its outside play areas for the children. Encompassing three different play spaces, the … Click for complete story.
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Play isn’t cheap
Owin Sinnott and Fosiyo Kharad play on a piece of playground equipment in Charlottetown. The capital city has budgeted $175,000 for playground … Click for complete story.
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Suspicious fire damages Palmerston North playground
Play equipment on the Fitzherbert Ave side of the playground was damaged. A plastic tunnel was melted and part of the structure was damaged. Click for complete story.
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Open spaces served as playgrounds in 1940s
Those open spaces served as playgrounds for the children of the respective localities. The load of schoolbags and study was also lighter those days. Click for complete story.
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Slate on Twitter: “Why are we so nostalgic for the hypermasculine playgrounds of yore? http://t.co …
@Slate ‘hyper-masculine’? I had no idea that was a male slide. And the swingset went both ways? So much hidden meaning we must’ve missed! Click for complete story.
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Lebanon summer playground program starts Monday
The City of Lebanon’s playground program, sponsored by the Lebanon Valley Family YMCA, opens Monday at Progressive Playground, First and … Click for complete story.
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Leadership Spearfish Class of 2015 fundraises for all-inclusive playground at Salem Park
The Leadership Spearfish Class of 2015 chose as their year-end project to assist with fundraising efforts for the all-inclusive playground planned to … Click for complete story.
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UFC 188 Embedded Ep 6: Playgrounds & Staredowns
Episode 6 of UFC 188 Embedded and guest fighter Andrei Arlvoski bumps into team AKA. Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis is a little bit blown away by … Click for complete story.
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ESSEX COUNTY EXECUTIVE DIVINCENZO ANNOUNCES PLANS TO DEVELOP PLAYGROUND …
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. announced plans to develop a new playground by the Cherry Blossom Welcome Center in Essex … Click for complete story.
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Local playgrounds, City Beach open Monday
LOCK HAVEN – The summer recreation program of the Keystone Central School District in conjunction with Clinton County, the Clinton County … Click for complete story.
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Tulsa Daycare Wants Playground Suited For Special Needs Children
When it comes to playgrounds, all kids aren’t always on equal ground. One Tulsa daycare is hoping to change that for the 40-plus children they serve, … Click for complete story.
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The schools that had cemeteries instead of playgrounds
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released its findings into more than a century of abuse in Indian Residential Schools. Between … Click for complete story.
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Playground concept reconnects kids with nature
Vittoria firefighters have donated $400 toward the construction of a “natural playground” at St. Michael’s School in Walsh. The money has been spent … Click for complete story.
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Mitchell’s Place in running to win new playground equipment
Mitchell’s Place could win funds to purchase playground equipment designed especially for children on the autism spectrum, and it needs community … Click for complete story.
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8-Year-Old Boy Builds Playground After Friend with Cerebral Palsy Dies: ‘Our Hearts Are Too …
Eight-year-old Connor Herrero of Pelham, Alabama, is honoring the memory of his best friend, Connor Jacobs, who had cerebral palsy and died … Click for complete story.
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New playground gets built in six hours
You have to remember that this was a playground that they couldn’t use in the past, because it was condemned. So for them to come out and see this, … Click…
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Why Are We So Nostalgic for the Hypermasculine Playgrounds of Yore?
One of the most commented-upon shifts in the culture of childhood over the past few decades has been the dramatic changes in playgrounds. Click for complete story.
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Yesterday at 6:56pm
read that you are creating playgrounds for seniors. Great idea. Click for complete story.
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Playground Rebuild Date Changed To June 20
BERKELEY – A rescheduled date to rebuild a bayfront playground is due to a delay in new play equipment production, officials said. Volunteers will … Click for complete story.
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Brutalist playgrounds, straw bears and Bridget Riley’s intoxicating curves
It’s fun and games as a brutalist playground opens in London and Dreamland reopens in Margate. Bridget Riley took the edge off the awful Fighting … Click for complete story.
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James Mollison photographs playgrounds around the world
Each of these images is a composite of moments that Mollison captured during a single break time – “a kind of time-lapse” technique, he says. Click for complete story.
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Mon, Jun 15th, 2015
We were even lucky enough to have Randy Haakenson bring his boom truck down to the playground parking lot to shoot an aerial video of the crowd … Click for complete…
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Shell Sea Illustration
The ice cream cone made me think of sea shells.. This shell is called the Fusinus Severnsi. Try saying that five times fast! I’m slowly catching my … Click for complete…
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Take off the bubble wrap and let kids be kids, researcher says
They showed that play areas with risks, such as backyards and playgrounds, increased play time and improved social interactions, creativity and … Click for complete story.
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How Hong Kong’s stress on safety has made children’s playgrounds a bore
Can the loss of a playground slide make a difference? It certainly did for some parents. When officials removed a 14-year-old slide from Hong Kong … Click for complete story.
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Inspired playgrounds around the world
With their rubberised paving and standard slides and climbing frames, many modern playgrounds can seem dreary. But there are many inspiring spots … Click for complete story.
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I-Team: Playground Surfaces May Put Kids At Risk
BOSTON (CBS) – Material designed to make playgrounds and turf fields safer for children, may actually be putting them at risk. Scientists at Yale … Click for complete story.
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City leaders speak on how to reduce shootings in city parks, playgrounds
(KMOV.com) – News 4 has been tracking a growing and disturbing crime trend, more and more shootings in parks and playgrounds with children … Click for complete story.
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Gallery: Assemble’s Brutalist Playground Opens at RIBA
An exploration of “post-war design for play,” The Brutalist Playground by Assemble and artist Simon Terrill has opened to the public at RIBA’s … Click for complete story.
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