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Build a Playground
Project Planner
Our step-by-step Project Planner equips you with all the know-how you'll need to build a playground—in one day!
Tools and Resources
Get funding, learn the nuts and bolts of building a great place to play, and improve your local playground.
Become a Community Partner
Build a great place to play for your community with the help of your neighbors, friends, KaBOOM! and our Funding Partners.
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Take Action for Play
Save Play in Your Community
Get tips, ideas, and inspiration for making your community more playful.
Playful City USA
Our Playful City USA program recognizes cities and towns that embrace play as a priority.
KaBOOM! Community
Connect and share with other folks who are trying to bring play to their communities.
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The Map of Play
Playing Near You
Find, add, rate, and review playgrounds in your community.
Play Deserts
Where are playgrounds needed most and what happens when kids have nowhere to play?
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About KaBOOM!
What We Do
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit dedicated to saving play for America's children.
Who We Are
We are peppy, purple-adorned people who passionately promote the power of play!
Partner With Us
Our partners help us to create new playgrounds and to spread the word about the importance of PLAY.
Profile
- About Me
- Play & Park Structures was established in 1976 with the mission of designing and manufacturing the highest quality playground products at the most competitive prices. Through our products, unique programs, and partnerships, we strive to do our part to make an impact on how our world plays. Play & Park’s outstanding product development and engineering team is dedicated to continuous improvement of our product offering as we strive to enhance classroom learning through standards-based outdoor play curriculum, reconnecting children with the natural world, providing inclusive play opportunities for children of all abilities, and promoting physical activity on the playground. Play & Park Structures offers creative learning experiences and is devoted to helping children meet national education standards by providing fun ways to maximize the value of your playground!
- My favorite piece of playground equipment
- The Avalanche slide is by far the most exciting and engaging slide on the playground. With more drops, twists, turns and awesome color combinations than ever, this triple sectional slide is a thrilling and essential addition to a Play & Park Structures playground. Another favorite is the Tilt 'N Twirl spinner which uses a child's body weight and pitch to create a spinning motion, sure to elicit squeals of delight.
- Playspaces I've helped build
- Two major playground projects of distinction come to mind in our local community here in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The first one, a much needed new playground for a local school, Rivermont Elementary, was a collaborative effort with PlayCore employees, the North River Rotary Club, and Boy Scout Troop 191. We are also very proud of our most recent collaboration in Chattanooga with Signal Centers, where we installed a Level III NatureGrounds playground demonstration site, the first in our area to integrate the living landscape with manufactured play equipment.
- Skills I can contribute to a playspace build or campaign for play
- We offer extremely valuable services when it comes to playground planning, building, and support of the play environment. Here is a condensed list of our FREE services: Project site evaluation and inspection, play space design recommendations, proposal and presentation materials, risk management consulation, budgeting and fundraising ideas and support, curriculum-based products that enhance outdoor learning, inclusive design options allowing children of all abilities to access the play space, and installation and maintenance services.
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- @playandpark
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