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Topic: Private School

Expert: Michael Wall
Date: 6/29/2008
Subject: Building a school playground w/ very little money

Question
I took the job on this summer to redo our preschool playgeound w/ only 3,000. Any suggestions,grants,wholesale equiment out there?

Answer
Hi Julia,

I have never taken on the project, but I have been a volunteer. The system I have seen would probably not work under a this-summer schedule. I have seen playgrounds built as community projects.

The playground I worked on was a mostly wood structure like this one:

http://www.leathersassociates.com/pop_photo_gallery.php?id=13

If you are willing (and the school or town is), I would think the best way is to have a community-based porject to build the playground. It takes time and work, but the budget problem is reduced, given the sponsorship and volunteer labor.

Here are some links to check out:

http://www.leathersassociates.com/index.php

http://www.kaboom.org/

http://www.kaboom.org/DoItYourselfResources/TrainingOpportunitiesUPlayandWEPlay/...

http://www.boundlessplaygrounds.org

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/06/donations_lead_to_2_hikone_com.html

http://www.kiwanisone.org/Pages/Resources/default.aspx?PageID=48

http://www.learningstructures.com

http://www.ptotoday.com/pto-today-articles/article/283-build-that-playground-you...

http://www.bigtoys.com/community_built.php

http://www.communitybuilt.org/

Best of luck!

Michael

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