Review of the Adventure Playground
Jun. 13th, 2006 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Went here today. Right by the Met.
Ana had great fun - she played in the sand, mostly, but she did do a few "adventurous" things. She braved the rope swings, for example, with help from me. Well, that was about it. She didn't, oddly, gravitate towards the tire swings, nor the slides. I suppose it's just been a while since she's had a big sandbox to play in.
Pros - it's a huge sandbox. Even though it's geared for older kids (though all the standard swings are baby-swings, oddly), you can bring a younger child there just to play in the sand.
It has a lot of toddler/infant sized slides. You don't have to clog up the bottom quarter of a normal slide for your kid to have fun, and the younger slides are non-steep enough that you don't have to hold the older babies, really (unless they want it).
It's huge. Lots of room to run around.
Cons - it's a huge sandbox. Gritty pants, anybody? And most kids got into the sand before taking off their shoes. Why do kids do that, anyway? I remember doing that!
The more fun parts can be hard for younger children to do - the rope swing, the climbing areas.
It's huge. Even though there appears to only be the one gate, if your kid is prone to wandering off, it's hard to keep an eye on them. Ana's starting to really grasp "Don't leave this area", but she's only three. I still want to at least be able to see her - and with a giant structure in the middle of this playground, it can be kinda hard.
Like a lot of older playgrounds, there's a lot of asphalt in the non-sand area (hardly any of it, when I put it that way) - and with the trees, it's getting a bit buckled. Whether this is good or bad depends on your view of childhood, but I'm going to stick it here.
My thoughts: I liked it. I think I remember going here as a child, even - nostalgia value :)
But I think next time I go, I'll go on a special trip with Ana and a friend, and either leave the baby at home, or have another adult so that one of us watches the baby while the other watches the bigger kids. Or I could wait until Ana's older, but I want to do this every-playground thing yearly :)
Ideally, the playground works for ages 5+, I should think - though other than the rope swing, none of it is all that exciting for the daredevil types.
Ana had great fun - she played in the sand, mostly, but she did do a few "adventurous" things. She braved the rope swings, for example, with help from me. Well, that was about it. She didn't, oddly, gravitate towards the tire swings, nor the slides. I suppose it's just been a while since she's had a big sandbox to play in.
Pros - it's a huge sandbox. Even though it's geared for older kids (though all the standard swings are baby-swings, oddly), you can bring a younger child there just to play in the sand.
It has a lot of toddler/infant sized slides. You don't have to clog up the bottom quarter of a normal slide for your kid to have fun, and the younger slides are non-steep enough that you don't have to hold the older babies, really (unless they want it).
It's huge. Lots of room to run around.
Cons - it's a huge sandbox. Gritty pants, anybody? And most kids got into the sand before taking off their shoes. Why do kids do that, anyway? I remember doing that!
The more fun parts can be hard for younger children to do - the rope swing, the climbing areas.
It's huge. Even though there appears to only be the one gate, if your kid is prone to wandering off, it's hard to keep an eye on them. Ana's starting to really grasp "Don't leave this area", but she's only three. I still want to at least be able to see her - and with a giant structure in the middle of this playground, it can be kinda hard.
Like a lot of older playgrounds, there's a lot of asphalt in the non-sand area (hardly any of it, when I put it that way) - and with the trees, it's getting a bit buckled. Whether this is good or bad depends on your view of childhood, but I'm going to stick it here.
My thoughts: I liked it. I think I remember going here as a child, even - nostalgia value :)
But I think next time I go, I'll go on a special trip with Ana and a friend, and either leave the baby at home, or have another adult so that one of us watches the baby while the other watches the bigger kids. Or I could wait until Ana's older, but I want to do this every-playground thing yearly :)
Ideally, the playground works for ages 5+, I should think - though other than the rope swing, none of it is all that exciting for the daredevil types.
