Daycare outdoor spaces

2. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- The desire to play comes naturally to all children.
“Play is the child's work”
- Playing increases a child's self-esteem, opens a young mind to
new possibilities, and develops social, verbal, and problem-
solving skills.
- Play areas has developed dramatically from ‘ isolated metal
pieces’ to ‘Composite structures of imaginative play
activities’.
- The goal of designing play spaces (indoor or outdoor) is simply to
create an environment that that enriches their ‘work of play’.

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Main Design Principles:
# Safety:
- The main issue in designing play areas is to provide challenging and fun
activities while also providing for the Safety of the children.
- Playing zones and equipment appropriate to the age of the children.
different play areas zones for different age groups.
*Separate areas should be
developed for the play needs for
toddlers (age 1 to 3 years)

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Main Design Principles:
# Safety:
- Design Standards, measurements and the choice of different surface
materials and finishing for spaces and equipment must assure the safety of
children.
- Soft rubber surfaces
- Artificial Grass
- Wood chips
- Rubber mulch
- Engineered Wood fiber
- Plastic

5. Day Care Out Door Spaces
Main Design Principles:
# Safety:
- Design Standards, measurements and the choice of different surface
materials and finishing for spaces and equipment must assure the safety of
children.
- Soft rubber surfaces
- Artificial Grass
- Wood chips
- Rubber mulch
- Engineered Wood fiber
- Plastic

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Main Design Principles:
# Age Appropriate Equipment and Zoning
- Day Care Entrance
The entrance of the day care center always gives the child the ‘First
Impression’ that will always stick within his mind…. So it has to be the
best !!!!!!!!!

7. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- Day Care Entrance
The entrance of the day care center always gives the child the ‘First
Impression’ that will always stick within his mind…. So it has to be the
best !!!!!!!!!

8. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- Day Care Entrance
The entrance of the day care center always gives the child the ‘First
Impression’ that will always stick within his mind…. So it has to be the
best !!!!!!!!!

9. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- Day Care Entrance
The entrance of the day care center always gives the child the ‘First
Impression’ that will always stick within his mind…. So it has to be the
best !!!!!!!!!

10. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- Day Care Entrance
The entrance of the day care center always gives the child the ‘First
Impression’ that will always stick within his mind…. So it has to be the
best !!!!!!!!!

11. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- Day Care Entrance
The entrance of the day care center always gives the child the ‘First
Impression’ that will always stick within his mind…. So it has to be the
best !!!!!!!!!

12. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- Day Care Entrance
The entrance of the day care center always gives the child the ‘First
Impression’ that will always stick within his mind…. So it has to be the
best !!!!!!!!!

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- Activity Zoning
Based on the different learning methods and the different activities that
children choose to engage in … the outdoor playing area have to offer
different zones of ‘play’.
The design of Different zones depends on ‘ locating activities that
generate similar noise levels:

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- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Transitional Zone: This zone serves as the "front porch" to the
playground. It is located at the entrance(s) to the playground. This
area allows the child to make self-directed decisions about when and
in what manner to enter the playground.

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- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Transitional Zone: This zone serves as the "front porch" to the
playground. It is located at the entrance(s) to the playground. This
area allows the child to make self-directed decisions about when and
in what manner to enter the playground.

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- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Transitional Zone: This zone serves as the "front porch" to the
playground. It is located at the entrance(s) to the playground. This
area allows the child to make self-directed decisions about when and
in what manner to enter the playground.

17. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Transitional Zone: This zone serves as the "front porch" to the
playground. It is located at the entrance(s) to the playground. This
area allows the child to make self-directed decisions about when and
in what manner to enter the playground.

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- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Water Play Zone: This zone can be furnished within a wide range
of possibilities from a water table that features a small basin that
is refilled daily with water to a large whole-body water play element
(pools)

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- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Sand Play Zone: Playing with sand helps build finger and hand
strength and dexterity, an especially important task for young
children learning hand control for the use of pencils, crayons,
scissors, and eating utensils.

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- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Dramatic Play Zone: Role-playing is particularly useful for
developing social and verbal skills in young children. This zone
provides backdrops that encourage and facilitate children to imitate
adult roles by playing house, school, theatre, etc.

21. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Dramatic Play Zone: Role-playing is particularly useful for
developing social and verbal skills in young children. This zone
provides backdrops that encourage and facilitate children to imitate
adult roles by playing house, school, theatre, etc.

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- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Comfort/ Social Zone: For the comfort of both the
caregivers/supervisors and the children while they are at a
playground.
- Furnishings may be located throughout the playground and may
include shaded sitting areas, tables, water fountains, and
restrooms.
- It is especially important to create comfort zones in locations
where the children can be visually supervised as they play on the
playground.
- Seating areas enable children to interact with adults.
- Areas that support socialization among children should also be
provided, some small enough for only two or three children, and
others that will accommodate larger groups of children.

23. Day Care Out Door Spaces
- Activity Zoning
I - Quiet Zone
- Comfort/ Social Zone: For the comfort of both the
caregivers/supervisors and the children while they are at a
playground.
- Furnishings may be located throughout the playground and may
include shaded sitting areas, tables, water fountains, and
restrooms.
- It is especially important to create comfort zones in locations
where the children can be visually supervised as they play on the
playground.
- Seating areas enable children to interact with adults.
- Areas that support socialization among children should also be
provided, some small enough for only two or three children, and
others that will accommodate larger groups of children.

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- Activity Zoning
II – Intermediate noise level Zone
- Swing Zone : Although they are the most popular activity on the
playground, swings should be separated from other activity areas for
reasons of safety.

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- Activity Zoning
II – Intermediate noise level Zone
- Hard Surface Zone : This zone typically consists of a concrete slab that
provides a surface suitable for sidewalk chalk games and ball bouncing games
such as four square and hoops. It can also be designed to provide an accessible
route to the various activities throughout the playground.
- For safety reasons, it is critical that no climbing equipment be installed over a hard
surface.

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- Activity Zoning
III – Noisy Zone
Natural Zone: Open playing fields offer children a chance to run at full
speed, play ball games, and create their own means of play.
- Trees and vegetation provide shade, places to socialize, and natural
boundaries between play areas.
- Protected areas for planting or just digging in the dirt may be provided in
supervised playgrounds. Care should be taken that new trees and shrubs
are mature and sturdy at the time of planting.
# tree climbing is not recommended on public playgrounds, select trees
and maintain tree branches in a way that does not facilitate climbing.

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- Activity Zoning
III – Noisy Zone
Natural Zone: Open playing fields offer children a chance to run at full
speed, play ball games, and create their own means of play.
- Trees and vegetation provide shade, places to socialize, and natural
boundaries between play areas.
- Protected areas for planting or just digging in the dirt may be provided in
supervised playgrounds. Care should be taken that new trees and shrubs
are mature and sturdy at the time of planting.
# tree climbing is not recommended on public playgrounds, select trees
and maintain tree branches in a way that does not facilitate climbing.

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- Activity Zoning
III – Noisy Zone
Big Loose Parts Zone: This zone provides children with an
opportunity to 'create' their own play equipment by taking loose parts
made of wood or plastic that can be joined together to create an
infinite number of play experiences.

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- Activity Zoning
III – Noisy Zone
Gross Motor Play Zone :This zone contains the play equipment that offers
opportunities for physical activities such as sliding, climbing, reaching, and
crossing.

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