Playground Magazine

Forgive me if my mind is more on football this time of year than on playgrounds. Where I live, the playgrounds are all buried under mounds of snow right now,…

When children step foot onto a playground prepared for a fun-filled hiatus of climbing, jumping, and swinging, they don’t give much thought to how those hours…

The school playground in my neighborhood was a place to play before, during and after school. If you weren’t there, you were square. Although we didn’t have…

Heightened awareness of playground safety has progressed rapidly in just the last 20 years. Among equipment manufacturers, safety awareness is evidenced by…

An injury on North American public and private playgrounds is thought to occur every two minutes.  Readers of Today’s Playground know that one of the best…

Large cities have many amenities. Shops, museums, and opera houses provide an infinite amount of entertainment for people living in a big city. But, let’s be…

As children, most of us looked forward to those carefree summer days where we would hang out at the park and eat ice cream to our heart’s content. We would…

In 1989 three members of the National Recreation and Parks Association, (NRPA) Fran Wallach, Ken Kutska and Monty Christiansen, along with the NRPA Executive…

It’s a time you’ll always remember, the start of a new school year. The smell of glue in the air, the sight of children dressed up in their new clothes and the…