Monthly Archives: November 2012
Today’s Playground- Not Your Grandmother’s Swingset
Current child development research attributes great importance to the role of unstructured play. Consequently, the contemporary playground has taken on a new role. Playgrounds are designed to function as classrooms of a sort for social and physical development. A sampling of playgrounds around the country will give you a sense of the many different types of playground environments for your landscape design. Although each is unique, they all have one common characteristic—kids love them.
• Battery Park City’s Rockefeller Playground
Located in New York, this playground has structures that grow increasingly challenging and ambitious as kids move from one end of the park to the other. And for kids of all ages, a pedal powered carousel makes an old classic a new opportunity to teach cooperation.
• Mission Park Playground
This playground in San Diego, California, offers cool breezes for parents and cool interactive structures for kids. Dinosaur slides, obstacle courses, pirate ships and sand pouring tunnels get kids’ creativity cooking.
• Fantasy Landing in Dallas, Texas
Incorporating pull bars and transfer platforms into most structures, this playground design has elements that help children with visual impairments use much of the equipment independently. Integrated accommodations allow children to focus on their abilities rather than on their disabilities.
• Stapleton Central Park
Located in Denver, Colorado, this multisensory experience has purple mountains for climbing, clouds that rain on command, wind chimes, drums and sand sculpting. It’s no wonder its designers call it a playscape.
• Lincoln Glen Park
Located in San Jose, California, this park provides opportunities for every possible kind of physical challenge. For climbers ages 5 and up, there are ropes, ladders, rock walls and many other climbing features. When it’s time to head back to Earth, kids can descend via slide, pole, rope, ladder or climbing wall. For a great chance to build confidence and coordination, this public playground park has it all. Toddlers can try out their skills in an area specially designed for their developing gross motor coordination.
• The Crispus Attucks Playground
In Boston, this school playground creates an oasis of nature in an urban setting. Preschool children’s development is enriched by the modern playground equipment set among fields and trees with a nature center and student gardens.
• Antioch Playground
In Kansas City, Missouri, state-of-the-art play equipment is located next to Old Dodge Town Play Area for a convenient combination of physical activity and historical enrichment.
Playgrounds today are much more than a set of swings and a sandbox. They turn play into an enriching and engaging developmental experience—but kids still just call it fun.
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DIY Mosaic Garden Stepping Stones
Mosaic stepping stones are a great way to jazz up your landscape. They provide a simple path through your garden so you don’t have to step on your flowers anymore. Designing your own mosaic pattern with shimmering glass pebbles allows you to give your garden a creative touch. It’s an easy project that is fun for the whole family!
Landscaping Design Software
Landscape design software is a tool through which one can make an impeccable landscape design. It is meant for a professional landscaper or anyone who intends to create a design and implement it within his house. Landscape design software saves a lot of time and money and the amount of work involved and helps you to remove any inconvenience as well.
The landscape design software consists of many features that include templates, element manipulation, seasons, editing and design layering respectively. The templates will help a person to make his own plan and design for his yard. They can also be customized according to the individual’s needs and requirements. The element manipulation is a feature though which a person can move and place several landscape elements within and outside his virtual design. The elements may include shrubs, trees, flowers, gazebos and water features respectively. Moreover, an individual can modify and changes the seasons within the virtual yard as well.
Through he seasons feature, a person can apply a specific season to the virtual yard and see how it looks like. Not only this, this feature replicates the crops that grow throughout the year. A person can view various seasonal changes as well like leaves falling off during fall, trees shedding leaves during winter time, as well as leaves turning green during spring time respectively. The editing feature will enable a person to alter his landscape design according to his requirement. Lastly, the design layering feature will help a person to retain the whole design or an image in its place respectively. Furthermore, one can specify only object that needs to be changed and keep the rest of the design as it is.
Therefore, landscape design software is great tool to create a three-dimensional landscape design which can be modified to result in a better and modern design as well. A person can download it for free or else buy a pay for package respectively.
