Articles in This Issue Construction Making Faces Happy Students at the J. Erik Jonsson Community School in Dallas peer out a window as volunteer workers install a new playground on their behalf. It took hundreds of… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine Construction Planning Makes Perfect Park and School planners are adjusting to developing and designing play areas that follow guidelines and rules. Of course, when the Consumer Product Safety… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Curtis Stoddard Inspection A First Priority Hazard? One of the objectives of playground safety audits is to recognize very serious hazards. Generally speaking a "Class ·1 Hazard" has been defined as one that… Updated Oct 25, 2023 Monty Christiansen Loose Fill Putting the Triax 2000 to the Test Triax 2000 inventor Paul Hogan uses the surveyor’s height rod during a test of the device. It's been documented that nearly 70 percent of all playground… Updated Oct 14, 2023 Rolf Huber Climbing Walls Hitting the Wall: A Reflection on BOLDR Back in 2001, after decades of designing playground equipment for companies like BigToys, Iron Mountain Forge, PlayBoosters, and Kompan, I decided to try… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Jay Beckwith Playground Child Socialization on the Playground The Board of the National Program for Playground Safety has taken the position that playgrounds are an environment for the facilitation of physical, emotional,… Updated Dec 9, 2022 Donna Thompson Safety The Wrong Kind of Hanging Around Erica Wheeler is too young for what-if's. At age seven, she has already moved past the playground prank that could have ended her young life. Like most… Updated Apr 23, 2025 Playground Magazine Playground If You Build It... They Will Have Fun When constructing the U.S. Constitution, the Founding Fathers put an awful lot of thought into the first 10 amendments that would collectively become known as… Updated Dec 9, 2022 Playground Magazine Construction Finding a Way in Bay Minette "Let's Build it Together" That was the theme our community selected for the Bay Minette Park Project. Building a kid's park is no easy task, especially for a… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine Playground Member of the Family Soft Contained Play Equipment (SCPE) is no longer the baby of the playground family. The Standard for this equipment was published by the American Society of… Updated Dec 9, 2022 Playground Magazine Spray Parks Rainbows & Kids Toes This Vortex water playground in Florida was designed to entertain children 2-5 years of age. Childhood and water go together like peanut butter and jelly. From… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine Playground Sunshine & CityScapes Florida's share of the Gulf Coast has always been a tourist's recreational playground. But now more than ever, the Sunshine State has lived up to its name for… Updated Dec 9, 2022 Playground Magazine
Construction Making Faces Happy Students at the J. Erik Jonsson Community School in Dallas peer out a window as volunteer workers install a new playground on their behalf. It took hundreds of… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine
Construction Planning Makes Perfect Park and School planners are adjusting to developing and designing play areas that follow guidelines and rules. Of course, when the Consumer Product Safety… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Curtis Stoddard
Inspection A First Priority Hazard? One of the objectives of playground safety audits is to recognize very serious hazards. Generally speaking a "Class ·1 Hazard" has been defined as one that… Updated Oct 25, 2023 Monty Christiansen
Loose Fill Putting the Triax 2000 to the Test Triax 2000 inventor Paul Hogan uses the surveyor’s height rod during a test of the device. It's been documented that nearly 70 percent of all playground… Updated Oct 14, 2023 Rolf Huber
Climbing Walls Hitting the Wall: A Reflection on BOLDR Back in 2001, after decades of designing playground equipment for companies like BigToys, Iron Mountain Forge, PlayBoosters, and Kompan, I decided to try… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Jay Beckwith
Playground Child Socialization on the Playground The Board of the National Program for Playground Safety has taken the position that playgrounds are an environment for the facilitation of physical, emotional,… Updated Dec 9, 2022 Donna Thompson
Safety The Wrong Kind of Hanging Around Erica Wheeler is too young for what-if's. At age seven, she has already moved past the playground prank that could have ended her young life. Like most… Updated Apr 23, 2025 Playground Magazine
Playground If You Build It... They Will Have Fun When constructing the U.S. Constitution, the Founding Fathers put an awful lot of thought into the first 10 amendments that would collectively become known as… Updated Dec 9, 2022 Playground Magazine
Construction Finding a Way in Bay Minette "Let's Build it Together" That was the theme our community selected for the Bay Minette Park Project. Building a kid's park is no easy task, especially for a… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine
Playground Member of the Family Soft Contained Play Equipment (SCPE) is no longer the baby of the playground family. The Standard for this equipment was published by the American Society of… Updated Dec 9, 2022 Playground Magazine
Spray Parks Rainbows & Kids Toes This Vortex water playground in Florida was designed to entertain children 2-5 years of age. Childhood and water go together like peanut butter and jelly. From… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine
Playground Sunshine & CityScapes Florida's share of the Gulf Coast has always been a tourist's recreational playground. But now more than ever, the Sunshine State has lived up to its name for… Updated Dec 9, 2022 Playground Magazine
