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Surfacing Child Safe Products 645 Broadway Amityville, NY 11701 Phone: 631-841-0363 Fax: 631-841-0562 Child Safe poured-in-place safety surface is an advanced shock absorbing playground system. It is a soft, resilient surface that is tough enough to …

Have you ever been approached about being a parent-group leader or even just being involved in a volunteer organization working with your child’s school? Some people really might wonder why in the world you would do such a thing. Some might just wonder …

Skatepark Components Sk8parks International 660 Van Dyne Rd. P.O. Box 549 Fond du Lac, WI 54936-0549 Phone: 877-891-1283 Web: www.sk8parks.com E-mail: [email protected] As one of the original and most respected skate park brands on the market, Sk8parks …

Related Products BP International, Inc. 510 W. Arizona Ave. Deland, FL 32720 Phone: 800-767-2255 Fax: 386-943-4060 Web: www.bpinternational.com E-mail: [email protected] BP International, Inc. is a Florida-based company with additional …

Aquatics Empex Watertoys 591 Albright Rd. Uxbridge, ON L9P 1R4 Canada Phone: 866-833-8580 Phone: 905-649-5047 Fax: 905-649-1757 Web: www.watertoys.com E-mail: [email protected] Since 1986, Empex Watertoys of Toronto, Canada, has manufactured creative …

Many children who are at risk come into recreation and education programs with environmental conditioning that has them believing they are “damaged goods.” These children may be routinely hit and told they are worthless. Other children in your care, while …

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 elements. Every playground should be approached with an interest in community involvement. …

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 a great climbing tree with plenty of green grass underfoot. In fact, think about it: we probably …

Through years of experience creating habitats in zoos, aquariums, and museum, CemRock has taken another jump into the playground industry to create unique play spaces with its fun and interesting pieces. It can manufacture everything from the giant …

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 playground with spray and splash parks featuring zero-depth fun and a seemingly endless supply …

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 to educators and school administrators, but they are under a lot of pressure with standardized …

Geysers, fountains, gizmos, and gadgets—Children and adults alike delight in the latest concept in community-based programming . . . the water playground! “The inclusion of water playgrounds into municipal parks is on the rise. These interactive areas can …

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 too, when so much effort is already required of them? After all, there are the issues of “getting …

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 city located on the south bank of the Rio Salado Project, which is a nationally recognized flood …

San Antonio, Texas, a fabled playground for the annual and historic Fiesta Celebration, is the perfect home for the Joe L. Frost Children’s Play and Play Environments Research Collection, housed in the J. E. and L. E. Mabee Library in the sylvan, natural …

And it’s a dragon’s lair at that, or Dragon Hollow, to be exact. Set in Caras Park, this is where young and old alike come to play in Missoula, Mont. Many years ago this location was actually the riverbed of the Clark Fork River. But as time changes most …

Once you have an injury accident on your playground, it triggers a series of events and actions that will consume your time, your staff's time, your facility’s reputation and bottom financial line. Here is how it all starts. A child is injured for one …

There has long been a debate about which is better for children—quality time or quantity time. Quality time means a parent interacts with his children for a limited, intensive, specified time. Quantity time means that a parent spends the greater portion …

Playgrounds, by their very nature, are fun—even during construction. But don’t confuse having a good time with being careless. Maintaining a safe work environment requires the continuous cooperation of all persons on the job. Accidents and injuries can be …

Marcissus fell in love with his watery reflection and turned into a flower. Pinocchio escaped the whale but still drowned in the ocean. Jack and Jill tumbled down a hill after fetching a pail. Adults have certainly written enough of these poignant and …