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Build a Playground
Our Dream Playground
Our new step-by-step project planner offers the money and know-how to make your playground dreams come true.
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
Build a great place to play for your community with the help of your neighbors, friends, KaBOOM! and our Funding Partners.
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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.
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An arbor is a latticework bower which you can intertwine with climbing vines and flowers. It's a great project for beautifying your playspace. These plans build a 4-foot-by-6-foot arbor.
An arbor is a latticework bower which you can intertwine with climbing vines and flowers. It's a great project for beautifying your playspace. These plans build a 2-foot-by-4-foot arbor.
A community bulletin board allows the community a space to post information about the playspace, upcoming community events, photographs, sign-up sheets, messages, etc.
A chalkboard gives children a space to be artists! Children can collaborate to make murals, play chalk games like tic-tac-toe, and use the chalkboard to keep score for field and asphalt games.
An outdoor classroom is a great way of encouraging schools and other organizations to take advantage of their outdoor playspace and turn the entire area into a learning environment.
Shade is a very important topic for many communities when it comes to their children. The structure not only provides a bit of relief from the sun but also adds to the aesthetic quality of the overall playspace.
A stage enhances the play area by giving children a place to put on skits and plays, and serves as a space to hold other community events as well.
A stage enhances the play area by giving children a place to put on skits and plays, and serves as a space to hold other community events as well.
A stage enhances the play area by giving children a place to put on skits and plays, and serves as a space to hold other community events as well.
Building with sand is great for children's healthy development. When closed, the lid can serve as a stage – and adults seem to really enjoy the seating around the perimeter.




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