Author: Lucyan Ye Publish Time: 2022-09-22 Origin: Site
Leisure agriculture has a natural connection with children. Children who play in nature will feel relaxed and happy, and if they want to develop leisure agriculture, the parent-child market is a customer group that must be considered.
If the leisure farm wants to attract parent-child customers, it is necessary to design a safe, healthy and entertaining outdoor play space to meet the children's desire to be close to nature and experience outdoor fun.
11 things to keep in mind when designing outdoor designs for kids:
This has been a common topic. Playing outdoors often can improve children's immunity, enhance their physical fitness, and stimulate creativity and imagination. Most importantly, playing outside children engages all of their sense organs, which makes them aware of their own existence.
If you make a list of the benefits of outdoor play, the list should also include: improving children's rational thinking and problem-solving skills, developing children's awareness of respect for nature and other creatures, and so on.
To ensure the safety of the site, first of all, it is necessary to reinforce the children's playground. From the site to various amusement facilities and landscapes, it is necessary to ensure stability and reliability; it is also necessary to stay away from busy roads, whether it is a roadway or a sidewalk; it is also necessary to stay away from dangerous water sources.
However, safety does not necessarily mean a high fence. For children, a sunken garden-style playground may be a better choice than the common hedge or fence.
In order to design a safer and more interesting playground, designers should plan different play zones for children of different ages.
Children of different ages vary widely in various aspects including body size, behavior and cognitive abilities. For example, a place designed for children aged 6 to 23 months should provide auxiliary facilities such as crawling, standing and walking; while a playground designed for children aged 5 to 12 should leave enough space for them Run or play ball games.
A good playground should welcome all groups of children, regardless of their age, behavioral and cognitive abilities.
When designing playgrounds, excellent planners should also provide convenience for children with disabilities, children with sensory and visual impairments, and even children with autism, and feel the fun here. Healing Gardens, for example, are play solutions for specific groups of children.
In order to ensure that children play carefree and do not have to worry about falling and being injured, they also need to pay more attention to the hardening of the play area.
Pavements made of concrete and asphalt are not advisable for children's playgrounds because they do not have any cushioning properties.
Lawn and grass are better, but the cushioning performance is not the best; rubber flooring with good cushioning performance is an ideal choice for designing children's playgrounds, because it is easy to pave, wear-resistant and durable, and affordable. (However, Yidu Creative believes that in parent-child agriculture, grass is a better choice than rubber flooring)
Cobblestone or straw-covered paving is also not a good choice, as curious children can easily pick them off and put them in their mouths, a potential hazard that cannot be ignored.
In hot summer, adequate shade is necessary for children playing outdoors. Therefore, it is necessary to choose suitable vegetation to create enough shade for the outdoor play space.
In order to create shade during the hottest part of the day, designers should try to choose tree species with large canopy and lush foliage, such as Acer spp, Platanus x acerifolia, Liriodendron tulipifera, Fraxinus spp, etc.
Choosing the right tree species can not only provide children with a space to escape the summer when it is hot, but also become a haven for children to shelter from the wind in cold seasons.
In order to play the role of shelter from the wind, designers can choose conifer species with different heights to enhance the ability to resist cold wind. This strong and warm ecological environment made up of a variety of trees will make children enjoy playing outdoors more.
Children are naughty and mischievous when they play outdoors, and they can get hurt all over unintentionally. For the sake of health care, direct drinking water facilities should be set up close to the play area.
Water has a natural attraction to children. Although it is legal to use non-potable water to create landscape effects, such as musical fountains, if such landscaped areas can be easily accessed or walked in by children, it is better to use drinking water instead.
To configure plants for the children's play area, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of the characteristics of the selected plants. Plants with the following characteristics should either take strict and perfect protection measures, or prevent them from appearing:
poisonous plants, or plants that contain poisonous organs or tissues;
prickly plants;
Allergenic plants;
Plants that attract bees easily.
The European Carpinus betulus, cotinus coggygria, Cornus mas, Cornus mas are more suitable plants for children's play areas.
Designers, builders and even operators of children's play areas have certain responsibilities for children who play here, but parents are always the first guardians of children. The thoughtful design and the operator will definitely set up a space near the play area that is convenient for parents to supervise their children.
The distance between this guardianship area and the children's play area is the most difficult scale to measure. It should be close enough for parents to supervise and take care of their children, and far enough to ensure that the children are not affected and play carefree.
Childhood has an almost decisive influence on a person's later development. Therefore, an excellent children's play space must be safe, fun, and entertaining, and can inspire children's learning awareness.
Children are best at learning through play and gain something through play. Children's play space can be equipped with a variety of amusement facilities to improve children's mobility, coordination and physical fitness, so that children can cultivate their ability to perceive in games with light, sound and touch.
Different materials, touches, colors and shapes can stimulate children's imagination and curiosity, and encourage children to constantly explore the unknown.
If our playgrounds keep children curious and nurture their respect for nature and other life, it must be our proudest achievement.
