#EveryKidInAPark Backed by the White House, the Every Kid in a Park initiative encourages children and their families to visit and enjoy the beauty of America’s unparalleled outdoors in celebration of the 100th birthday of the National Park Service in 2016. With more than 80% of American families living in urban areas, this inspiring initiative promotes kids of all ages to reconnect with nature and our parks. To read more, click here!
Creating & Promoting Active Play February is American Heart Month, which put’s an emphasis on living a healthy and active lifestyle. The theme of an active lifestyle can almost always be found in a play area, with kids and adults climbing, running, spinning and exercising their cardiovascular systems. With childhood obesity doubling in children and quadrupling in adolescents in the past thirty years, it is essential to continue to design and create interactive and challenging play spaces that engage users in active participation and fun. Continuous and active play was the foundation of Landscape Structures’ back in 1971 and has since spawned the concepts we see in today’s modern, interconnected playgrounds. This concept where play components are inter-linked to provide a variety of play challenges through a modular structure is now an industry standard. As children enter one part of the structure, they develop motor skills, planning skills and sensory skills, exercising and developing mental and physical muscles - a truly active experience. Physical activity does not have to be limited to just a play structure within a play area. Interactive water features and splash pads, likes those from Vortex Aquatic Structures Intl.,
“Playground and Park Design: Getting Our Children to Exercise” via The Atlantic
“Things to be considered, according to a new study: confined play spaces, need for parental supervision, organized programs and games” (continued) promote continuous activity by sequencing features and using interactive elements to keep users moving within the splash pad space. According to the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, children should participate in sixty minutes or more of physical activity each day. This doesn’t have to be all in one play session or in one location. Whether at school or at a park within your community, active play can be achieved and can help lead to healthy living; and it can start right on the playground or splash pad! Wondering if there is a great park or play space near you? Visit Landscape Structures updated playground finder here!
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