The playground resource centre
Better Ideas for Better Playgrounds
Practical guidance for planning, updating and caring for paved playgrounds.
Practical guidance for planning, updating and caring for paved playgrounds.
Four guides that cover the questions we're asked most — budgeting, choosing games, running the project and designing for every child.
What drives price, typical ranges, and how to plan a budget for your space.
Read the guide →Match games to developmental stages from early years through upper grades.
Read the guide →A step-by-step path from first idea to finished, freshly painted yard.
Read the guide →Practical ways to make painted play spaces welcoming to every child.
Read the guide →Six topics we write about. Categories with guides published are linked; the rest are being written now.
Pricing, timelines, project planning and choosing games.
2 guides →Connecting playground games with learning and movement.
1 guide →Creating more ways for children to participate.
1 guide →Advice supported by Topline's pavement maintenance expertise.
Coming soonCompleted project stories, testimonials and transformations.
Coming soonProject walkthroughs, painting time-lapses and game demos.
Coming soonOccasional playground planning tips and new resources. No more than once a month.
Discover our catalogue of games for learning, movement, cooperation and imaginative play.
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