Potential Key Features Of the Playscape

Ecology/Stewardship

  • Trail-walk with interpretive signage
  • Labeled native plant areas / specimen plants or trees
  • Native habitat hedgerow garden
  • Bird blind
  • Statuary or graphic indicators of local fauna
  • Identification and incorporation of local flora shapes and names in play features
  • Rain garden / vernal pool /  frog pond play features

Child Dev./Education

  • Sledding/ sliding/ rolling hill
  • Outdoor classroom
  • Stream / creek that can be re-directed and manipulated
  • Rocks to climb on or jump off, stepping stones
  • Climbing trees
  • Fairy rings and  magical birch forests
  • Performance circle with movable wooden stump seats
  • Willow hut / woodland tunnel

Universal Accessibility

  • Sensory garden
  • Raised garden features
  • Textured path / manipulatives /walls
  • Swings that allow for group play
  • High contrast visual markers
  • Small, safe hiding spaces / transition spaces
  • Ramps
  • “Run” line / zip line 
  • Spinner                              
  

 Community

  • Performance  circle / yoga space
  • Bird blind
  • Outdoor classroom
  • Shade structures and benches
  • Family picnic tables
  • Trail head access
  • Low-ropes course
  • Chess tables
  • Accessible and interpretive loop trail
  • Stroller and tricycle track