Creep up a spider web and spin a yarn from above
This playground is different. All the equipment and amenities are spread around a walking path circling the central pond in the scenic reserve. The challenges relate to all equipment in the loop around the pond. The equipment is listed in order.
Equipment
- Blue hollow circle spinner
- Swings x2
- Slide (blue/green down hill)
- Tyre Swing
- Fort with Rope Swing
- Swings x2
- Jungle gym
- ladder
- Slides x2
- Climbing wall
- Climbing chain web
- Vertical spinner platform
- Stepping stones (suspended)
- Circular basket swing
Amenities
- Picnic table x11 (spread around pond loop)
- Benches x5 (spread around pond loop)
- BBQ facilites x2 (at jungle gym and between pond and carpark)
- Toilets (near carpark)
- Rubbish bins
Challenges
For the walk between play equipment
- Tiptoe over the first bridge, stomp over the second, strut over the third, do your silliest walk over the fourth
- Spot as many different kinds of birds as you can
- Spot a butterfly a bee and another 3 insects
- Take some painted rocks to hide
- Stand on top of three large boulders
- Rub your hands on a bed of moss - describe how it feels
At the playground equipment
- Walk, walk sidways and jog around the edge of the blue holow spinning circle
- Play beneath a huge pine tree near two swings off on their own
- Zip down a big green/blue slide 6x as fast as you can
- Create a slide train of people. How many can you get to go down in a line together
- Swing off the fort on the rope swing
- Chat to a duck
- Stand on the tyre swing
- Shout your best battle cry from the top of the fort
- Share a secret with someone underneath the fort
- Bound on two feet backwards across the black mat beneath the tyre swing. Go across without landing on a crack
- At the two swings, swing on your tummy
- Sit besided the pond and spot 3 different types of duck
- Sidestep and squiggle in a run around the bunch of trees between the swings and the pond
- At the next playground cross the suspended stepping stones
- Climb from the stepping stones onto the platform (through the circle hole)
- Race a friend down the slides
- Sneakily swerve (on the ground) between the suspended stepping stones without touching the chains or balls
- Spin yourself as fast as you can
- climb a wall to peek through a window
- Push through some willow curtains nearby
- When you are in the willow hop between some large boulders in a secret garden by the pond.
