Guided Play Reaches Cul De Sac Park

Guided Play Reaches Cul De Sac Park

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

Fun for free is the simplest way to describe Five Stop Park Hops. These events are also a way for families to become familiar with the parks in Vegreville. Cul De Sac Park is in a unique spot on the south end of Vegreville, just like the fun stations which were set-up at the third Five Stop Park Hop on July 26.

Vegreville and Area Parent Link Centre partnered with Vegreville and D i st r ict C h i ld Development Coalition, Mental Health Capacity Building of Vegreville, Community Association for Lasting Success to provide playful learning experiences which focused on this park’s early childhood domain emotional maturity. There was a sensory walk station, water table which had color balls that had faces on them that represented different emotions. There were questions on them like how many blues did the children find and what makes them sad. Another area was set-up with a wheel or emotions board, a mad light board which told a fun story and had different emotional words which included happy, sad, or mad where the children had to fill this out and create a sentence to finish the story. For the younger children, there were emotional faces for this activity. Boxes were available so children could create a fort or invent whatever they wanted to with it. Another station had all the supplies children needed to create their own Zen garden.

Like all park hops, this program ended with cooperative play games, songs, and the children had a story read to them.

Prizes, snacks, and water were available too.