Maple/Aspen 1994 Space Playground

Fall 1994

This is the first space playground kids ever designed on Earth. Kids in our playground will be weightless and will float around. We are the Maple and Aspen groups at the Santa Cruz Children's School in Santa Cruz, California.

The Kids and their Space Playground Equipment

Major Decisions

• We will have a big playground with a small playground inside it. The big playground will give us room to play, and the small one will feel safer.
• Safety in very important. There will be padding to minimize 'bonks' with things and other people. Things must stick out so you can grab them to slow yourself down. These must be strong enough not to break.
• Tag should be OK with no rule changes, but freeze tag won't work because frozen people will float around.
• We want a circle thing like where the Skylab astronauts played.