{"id":7486,"date":"2011-06-02T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2011-11-07T08:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:47:17","slug":"the-great-playground-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/the-great-playground-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Playground Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/category\/blast-away-boredom\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/boredombanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had so much fun compiling my list of free <a href=\"http:\/\/momstraveltales.com\/houston-staycation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Summer activities for kids in Houston<\/a>, that I started thinking of even more free summer fun.<\/p>\n<p>This might might be obvious, but there are a LOT of fantastic playgrounds and parks very near where I live&#8230; and so often I overlook them.<\/p>\n<p>I asked my kids (ages 5, 7 and 9 years) if they would like to do some playground research this summer and compare a few of the parks near us and decide which one has the best playground.<\/p>\n<p>So we developed the Great Playground Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to visit  five different state, county or city parks near us with playgrounds over the next few  weeks.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re gonna slide, picnic, swing, climb and see which parks and which playground elements we love the best. And the best part is, I know there won&#8217;t be any boredom involved in this process!  This is going to be filled with super fun comparison!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;d like to challenge you to do the same in your area, if you can.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Identify four or five playgrounds near you and embark on a similar challenge. Bring your camera and maybe even a notebook and do some research. You could even bring a stopwatch and time which slides are the fastest!<\/p>\n<p>For the science-minded, you might even apply the scientific method and make a hypothesis as to which park each child thinks he will like the most and why&#8230;  and then go test each child&#8217;s theory.  Whatever decision you reach, you are sure to have a lot of fun sliding climbing and giggling in the process!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>So&#8230; what four or five parks near you will you visit this summer? Are you in on the Great Playground Challenge?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had so much fun compiling my list of free Summer activities for kids in Houston, that I started thinking of even more free summer fun. This might might be obvious, but there are a LOT of fantastic playgrounds and parks very near where I live&#8230; and so often I overlook them. I asked my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[279,315,313,314],"class_list":["post-7486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-for-kids","tag-boredom-buster","tag-family-fun","tag-playgrounds","tag-summer-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9749,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions\/9749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}