Pictures of Indoor Playgrounds

Hey all this is Joshua, I've been browsing the net for pictures and have come by quite a few good pictures. This are all indoor playgrounds, the type of playground we are going to focus on for this project.
Some Comments:

This playground is very innovative and creative. It suits our design as it is indoor and have a treehouse and natural atmosphere. It has many colourful design and it looks fun for children.

This playground is very innovative and creative. It suits our design as it is indoor and have a treehouse and natural atmosphere. It has many colourful design and it looks fun for children.

Posted by Aaron

I felt that this playground suits the down syndrome children as it have many safety precautions such as the nylon web. This is very similar to our playground as it has many tunnels like features.

Posted by Gavin

The overall of the playground is good as it is interesting and innovative. I felt that the structure is also quite safe as there are padded floor and there is no sharp edges. It is also very colourful to attract down syndrome children and other children.

Posted by Wynner.
The playground has design that are similar to the bridge to terabithia as it has a treehouse. I felt that the playground can improved the skills of any down syndrome as the playground look very interesting and fun.

Posted by Chuan Yin.

One of the best pictures I've come by so far, it shows what an indoor playground looks like, and its theme is a jungle. Its very colourful, but could use a little less brown. They playground design looks rather complicated but it all works out, like a well planned maze.

More Pics Comin Up~Joshua

Requirements for PlayGround!

Requirements. for our play-ground

Playgrounds provide kids with fun and exercise, but they can also pose some safety hazards.
We can make the playground both fun and safe by following a few of this guidelines. Oh yea, and since we're making a playground for children with downs syndrome, There are also additional safety features.

Safety Guidelines

1)Surface

A proper playground surface is one of the most important factors in reducing injuries - and the severity of injuries - that occur when kids fall from equipment.
In other words if we put kids in a playground like a padded cell, they don't ever get hurt. I think.

Here are some things to consider:

• Concrete, asphalt, and blacktop is bad cause its like, HARD.
  
• Playground surface should be clear of any thing that err, sticks out cause it makes children fall, lol.
• NO SHARP/POINTY OBJECTS!
  
• Playground surfaces like those rubber porous stuff are safe, but I fell off the monkey bars (lol i climed onto it) once and rubbed the skin off my nose (which hurt like hell), so, WE SHOULD USE THE SPONGEY MATS( 30x BIGGER!, THE MATS WHERE WE DO SITUPS ON?) FOR FLOOR SURFACING!
  
  Oh yea, and I read something and it says SURFACING DON'T PREVENT ALL INJURIES, and it also depends on how high the kid falls.
  

2)Design

Playgrounds are designed for different age groups. Play areas for smaller kiddies are usually separated from them older kids.
Stuff to make sure that playground of yours is safe

• Handrails/ Protective rails for elevated areas/ ramps/ stairs
  
• Swings, seesaws, and other equipment with moving parts should be located in an area separate from the rest of the playground.
• NO MORE THAN 1 person on a swing at a time.
• Toddlers shuld have their own little play area. AWAY FROM THE BIG KIDZ.
  
• NO Little SPACES WHERE CHILDREN LIMBS/HEADS OR BODYPARTS CAN TO GET STUCK TO~
  
• No areas where kids put their hands/fingers in to get crushed. Like at the merry go round thing.
  

STUFF NOT FOR YOUR PLEYGROUND!

The following types of equipment are not safe for playgrounds:

• Those weird swings shaped like animals
  
• 2 seater swings
  
• Any rope that CAN STRANGLE YOUR KID.
  
• Thse rings-the round ones that men with six packs use for inclined pull ups.
  
• monkey bars(Kids fall off these all the time.)
  
• trampolines(Kids can fall of and hurt themselves)

Oh yea, and since we're so need sensitive... we decided to make an indoor playground (those maze things which kids can explore and stuff).
Cause playgrounds like those aren't really dangerous haha and plus their fun.

So what we first did.

So first we had Aaron bring all the papers and we discussed. We discussed for like, 30 minutes. Then we go pick out down syndrome kids as our topic, as they are cool. no, seriously. And thats cause we thinks that it is easiest to do as they have the least physical/mental/social problems than those other groups of kids.And further mroe we already have a retard(Strawberry Cake) in our class so we could base our designs of the playgrounds on him. we discussed more at the computer lab and i made this blog than we did not have any more ideas so i played computer games in the lab instead of doing work.

to summarize this load of... well stuff...

WE CHOSE THE DOWN'S SYNDROME KIDS TO WORK ON~

Topic: Playground for Down Syndrome Kids

Quoted From the piece of paper that I lost:
"A charitable organization has offered a startup fund of S$999k to any team that is able to come up with an award winning design to build a playground catered to primary school children with special needs. Your playground needs to be inspired by your reading of the novel, Bridge to Terabithia.

You and your team mates (group 5-6) are compassionate budding architects and you have taken up this challenge of designing a creative yet educational playground for these children at your own expense. You may select, from among the following, ONE target group of children to base your design on:

a) visually impaired children
b) physically handicapped children
c) children with down syndrome
d) children with non-contagious, but terminal illnesses
e) abused children with emotional scars

You need to do your research on the respective needs of your target group and design the most creative, yet need-sensitive playground and come up with a proposal in order to clinch the deal.

You need to present your proposal before the Present of the charitable organization (aka your Lit teacher) and fellow rival architects (aka your classmates) by the 6th week of Term 2, in the form of a model, alongside your research, sketches, descriptions of functions, proposed materials and budget, and any other relevant details.

You should incorporate ideas which have been insipred from your reading of Bridge to Terabithia, (E.g. Qualities of the secret 'kingdom' that Jess and Leslie were rulers of, how Jess built his confidence in this playland etc) and explain how your reading of the novel has inspired the design of the playground.

This project is worth S$999k, and more importantly, 100% of your SA1.

All the best!"

Oke so basically what we have to do is design a playground and make a model, and pass up all the design ideas and stuff to Mrs Boi.