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Build a Playground
DIY Project Planner
Our step-by-step Project Planner equips you with all the know-how you'll need to build a playground—in one day!
Tools and Resources
Get funding, learn the nuts and bolts of building a great place to play, and improve your local playground.
Become a Community Partner
Our Community Partners are child-serving organizations in high-need communities that want to provide their children with a great place to play.
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Take Action for Play
Save Play in Your Community
Get tips, ideas, and inspiration for making your community more playful.
Playful City USA
Our Playful City USA program recognizes cities and towns that embrace play as a priority.
KaBOOM! Community
Connect and share with other folks who are trying to bring play to their communities.
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The Map of Play
Playing Near You
Find, add, rate, and review playgrounds in your community.
Play Deserts
Where are playgrounds needed most and what happens when kids have nowhere to play?
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About KaBOOM!
What We Do
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit dedicated to saving play for America's children.
Who We Are
We are peppy, purple-adorned people who passionately promote the power of play!
Partner With Us
Our partners help us to create new playgrounds and to spread the word about the importance of PLAY.
What do you find to be the most challenging step in the process of completing a playspace project?
NShillington
12 days
later
I need help ...Where can you perchase the black borders to hold the mulch in....I tried Home Depot and they do not have it?
lian
13 days
later
Hi NShillington,
Usually the playground manufacturer that you choose for your playground equipment will provide the borders for the mulch. Have you already placed your playground order, or do you have an existing structure? You will want a border that is at least 12" high so that you can make sure it will contain the required amount of engineered wood fiber as required by safety standards. Hope this helps, and good luck!
lanak
about 1 month
later
If you are using a community build model to complete your playground project, it is often very difficult to get all of the tools (and the appropriate quantity) you need for building the playground, moving the mulch, mixing concrete, etc. It is important to keep a detailed list of the tools that you have, tools that you have secured through donations/lending, and tools that you still need. You want to ensure that you have plenty of tools and that they are proportional to the amount of volunteers that you are expecting. Happy tool collecting!
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