Colourful slides and metal monkey bars are the mainstay of local playgrounds. But look around and you’ll notice a growing trend for natural elements in children’s play spaces, So, which is better for ...

Today, Zbar — Clif Bar's energy snack bar brand for active kids — announced a $1 million partnership with the nonprofit KABOOM! to help communities nationwide build nature-based play spaces for kids, ...

These inspiring trips introduced me to some of the incredible work happening in the rapidly growing ecological schoolyard and natural play space movement. Since then I have visited several natural ...

Although nature-based play spaces for children that include plants, trees, and rocks are growing in popularity, there is relatively little empirical evidence to support anecdotal claims that playing ...

The Rocky River Nature Center, 24000 Valley Parkway in North Olmsted, recently added an oversized sculpture of a male wood duck to its natural play space. The sculpture was built by the park’s ...

New nature play space opens in Denver's City Park News The Nature Play space is now open in Denver's City Park near the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. FOX31's Dan Daru takes a tour of the new play ...

People who attend an open house from 7 to 8 Thursday will help plan a natural play space for Belmont Park. A natural play space can feature tall prairie grass, big rocks and wetlands and is a place ...