Over one million children play on our playgrounds every day. We are grateful for the opportunities we have to touch so many children’s lives in safe, supportive, and joyous ways. We know that an artificially planned play structure on a restricted city lot is only a substitute for the original playscape of the town, the fields, and the countryside where occasions for incidental exploration, in the midst of adult enterprise, made play part of life that was going on all the time.

In our pursuit of giving children as many experiences and possibilities for natural exploration as possible we try to design our playgrounds so that even the planned environment will provide sufficient challenge and space in which to grow. Children are entitled to spaces in which they can -without the pressure of performance and outside judgment – acquire physical, social, emotional and intellectual skills, which are the basis for the development of sound relationships and attitudes towards life.

Playgrounds require the interaction between adults and children as well as the supervision, ingenuity and responsiveness of caring adults. We believe that a playground fulfills it’s mission best when it becomes a catalyst for group cohesion, for a community to get to know itself as it addresses the needs of its families and children.