Playground Essay

The playground I went to was from my hometown. It was located at an elementary school. The playground layout was above your typical swings and a slide. Majority of the playground was made out of wood. The setup was quite interesting.  The playground was built like a little castle so their was many open small hallways and small areas that children could play in. The ground was covered in wood chips which made it a little safer for the kids. Their was a contraption which was a platform that swung. You could fit half a dozen kids in their and it looked like a lot of fun once the swing got going. Hopefully none of the kids would fall under it. Their was a tether ball poll but it looked like none of the kids used it.

There was many interactive equipment spread about the playground for children to use. One example was a horse with a spring at the bottom. Children could ride on this horse which may seem kind of boring but with an imagination can be pretty fun  for a kid. Their was a lot of wood towers where kids could look out from. I believe I saw would telescope type contraption where kids could look out from. It really had no magnification but personal I don’t think the kids cared. One bad thing about the play ground was the extremely small compartments below it. It looked almost like crawl spaces under the playground which may seem pretty fun but I witnessed a couple kids accidentally smashing their heads up against it. The space in my open is too small for kids to play it.

This may seem contradicting to the last statement about safety in the playground but I going talk about it anyway. Their was this big pine tree at the end of the right side of the park which dropped many pine cones. It was a prefect setup for a pinecone war. You had two covered areas with the tree in the middle. A few kids where throwing pine cones at each other. It seem like their were having a blast even though they were getting cut up by the pine cones. Of course someone’s parent broke up the war after a child got jacked in the face and started bleeding. I guess it was pretty dangerous but I did a lot of fun things as a kid that seem pretty dangerous.

It was a pretty big playground perfect for a game of hide and go seek or tag. Which in fact was what a group of children where playing. The design was very unique and you probably won’t find another playground like it unless the same builders do the design somewhere else.