Act Your Age: Considering age differences in playground selections. Skateparks: Playgrounds for Teens. Florida Deals with CCA-Treated Wood Issues. Articles in This Issue Sports Dodgeball… Taking Some Hits As a small guy, I rarely have seen things from a big guy's perspective. Take dodgeball, for instance. When I look back upon my days of hucking and ducking big,… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Playground Magazine Maintenance Maintenance-Free In my travels, I often talk with people who have recently purchased a new playground and are confused as to their responsibility in maintaining their play… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Curtis Stoddard Safety Study Should Redirect Focus In 1988, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) conducted an in-depth study of playground-related injuries. Published in 1990, it provided… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Monty Christiansen Health Brain Structure and Critical Periods “Play" in many contexts has become a four-letter-word, particularly in educational settings. As a part of school life, which gives priority to academic… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine Loose Fill Engineered Wood Fiber Over the last several years a variety of products have become available for playground safety surfacing. These include poured-in-place rubber, tiles, mats,… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Tom Di Lacqua Maintenance Maintenance Kits A play structure, properly maintained, should last for many years. A set routine of maintenance procedures must be established and carried out by staff… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Curtis Stoddard Skatepark No Longer Forgotten Annette Cottle, the director of Parks and Recreation for the city of Ogden, Utah, first was presented with the challenge of building a skatepark in her… Updated Oct 24, 2023 Playground Magazine Safety Consider the Characteristics Playground planners working within the United States have a variety of in-depth resources, suggested guidelines and safety performance specifications from… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine Wood Wooden Wonderland One Florida official summed it up best when he said, they knew they had a problem, they just didn't know how big or serious it was. He was not, of course,… Updated Oct 19, 2023 Playground Magazine Games A Sport For All Ages and Places Every year in Butler County, Penn., there is a winner crowned. For a year the town that wins the county championship has the bragging rights. It is the… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine Playground Keeping an Eye on Eagle Watch If only a representative from Wrigley's could see this. Like something out of a Doublemint gum commercial, 4-year-old twins Brian and Eric Matthews are… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine Health IPA/USA is Fighting for Play The premise behind the organization is simple. Children have a right to play. In fact, this idea is so fundamental to this group of concerned people that they… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine
Sports Dodgeball… Taking Some Hits As a small guy, I rarely have seen things from a big guy's perspective. Take dodgeball, for instance. When I look back upon my days of hucking and ducking big,… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Playground Magazine
Maintenance Maintenance-Free In my travels, I often talk with people who have recently purchased a new playground and are confused as to their responsibility in maintaining their play… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Curtis Stoddard
Safety Study Should Redirect Focus In 1988, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) conducted an in-depth study of playground-related injuries. Published in 1990, it provided… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Monty Christiansen
Health Brain Structure and Critical Periods “Play" in many contexts has become a four-letter-word, particularly in educational settings. As a part of school life, which gives priority to academic… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine
Loose Fill Engineered Wood Fiber Over the last several years a variety of products have become available for playground safety surfacing. These include poured-in-place rubber, tiles, mats,… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Tom Di Lacqua
Maintenance Maintenance Kits A play structure, properly maintained, should last for many years. A set routine of maintenance procedures must be established and carried out by staff… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Curtis Stoddard
Skatepark No Longer Forgotten Annette Cottle, the director of Parks and Recreation for the city of Ogden, Utah, first was presented with the challenge of building a skatepark in her… Updated Oct 24, 2023 Playground Magazine
Safety Consider the Characteristics Playground planners working within the United States have a variety of in-depth resources, suggested guidelines and safety performance specifications from… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine
Wood Wooden Wonderland One Florida official summed it up best when he said, they knew they had a problem, they just didn't know how big or serious it was. He was not, of course,… Updated Oct 19, 2023 Playground Magazine
Games A Sport For All Ages and Places Every year in Butler County, Penn., there is a winner crowned. For a year the town that wins the county championship has the bragging rights. It is the… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine
Playground Keeping an Eye on Eagle Watch If only a representative from Wrigley's could see this. Like something out of a Doublemint gum commercial, 4-year-old twins Brian and Eric Matthews are… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine
Health IPA/USA is Fighting for Play The premise behind the organization is simple. Children have a right to play. In fact, this idea is so fundamental to this group of concerned people that they… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Playground Magazine
