Outdoor play activities celebrated in Doncaster
11/08/2009 Youngsters celebrated National Playday in Doncaster by taking part in a time travel-themed experience.
Children visiting the Doncaster Dome were able to enter the junk orchestra time machine, where they followed clues to a land from the past, and took a challenge to reach the future then rode the water slide back to the present, reported the Star.
Play Ranger project manager Margaret Dunn said: "Play, especially outdoor play, gives children the chance to be active, explore, challenge themselves, experience success and failure and develop skills to manage risk and conflict."
She went on to say that the organisers wanted to give the youngsters an environment where they can experience new challenges in a way that their parents would have done when they were younger.
Research shows that being outdoors is essential for children's development of language skills, memory, brain function, concentration, imagination, social and physical development and they are ill less often too, Ms Dunn told the news provider.
The Playday 2009 campaign theme was Make time! and it aimed to highlight that all children have the right to play and need time and space in which to do so.
Children visiting the Doncaster Dome were able to enter the junk orchestra time machine, where they followed clues to a land from the past, and took a challenge to reach the future then rode the water slide back to the present, reported the Star.
Play Ranger project manager Margaret Dunn said: "Play, especially outdoor play, gives children the chance to be active, explore, challenge themselves, experience success and failure and develop skills to manage risk and conflict."
She went on to say that the organisers wanted to give the youngsters an environment where they can experience new challenges in a way that their parents would have done when they were younger.
Research shows that being outdoors is essential for children's development of language skills, memory, brain function, concentration, imagination, social and physical development and they are ill less often too, Ms Dunn told the news provider.
The Playday 2009 campaign theme was Make time! and it aimed to highlight that all children have the right to play and need time and space in which to do so.
