Playground Jumping Day - by Wendy T

Need something to occupy your active children for the day. Well try a 'Playground Jumping Day!' It's a fun day that doesn’t cost any money.

Make a list of the playgrounds in your town or area. You can just include the school playgrounds or the town playgrounds, or both. Bring a timer. Tell the children that they have a certain amount of time to play at each playground (10, 20, 30 minutes, you decide). Go to each one on the list.

Then end with a picnic lunch or go for Italian ices or ice cream and talk about which playgrounds were best and why. If you have older children, make a sheet that they can rate each playground. Then discuss the results at the end. (Ex: only a few still have see saws, not many have swings, which has the best monkey bars, which had shade, which one had the highest slide, which was the best overall, etc.)

So head to the playgrounds and have fun!!