Playground Magazine

Designing and building a playground is always a unique experience. Each area has an individual character that is defined by any number of manmade or natural…

Things have definitely changed since the first playgrounds came to be. These were long before our time, of course, and they may have involved little more than…

Through years of experience creating habitats in zoos, aquariums, and museum, CemRock has taken another jump into the playground industry to create unique play…

You know you can’t live without water, and what fun is summer without plenty of it? There’s no drought going on here! You’ll find plenty of aquatic fun on the…

While most skin cancers are highly curable, melanoma can be deadly. Here are some things to know about this cancer that kills nearly 8,000 a year and is on the…

Just how important is play, especially outdoor play? It seems we have to lobby more and more for playtime for children. It isn’t that it just has no importance…

Geysers, fountains, gizmos, and gadgets—Children and adults alike delight in the latest concept in community-based programming . . . the water playground! “The…

Why have an “outdoor classroom”? If you already have a well-equipped indoor classroom, isn’t that enough? Why should teachers have to plan for outside time…

In the Fall of 2000, the City of Tempe, Ariz., held an invitational competition to design a children's playground for Tempe Beach Park—the premier park in the…