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Hi Jonah,

You may want to talk with Karen Bertschi at OMSI who has prototyped a sand
and water-play activity.  Very dangerous combo!  Bay Area has a wonderful
gravel play area if your interested.  Last though is to talk to talk to
folks who do playground design about sand-play.  Literature from the
European adventure playgrounds is good for both sand and soil play.  Roger
Hart from CUNY has some older articles on that.

Best,

Sara



Sara DeAngelis
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Brooklyn Children¹s Museum
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Brooklyn, NY 11213

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> From: Jonah Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 13:37:14 -0500
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> Subject: Sand Play Areas
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> I've been doing some looking into water play areas, and in a presentation at
> last year's ACM conference, came across this tidbit from the San Jose
> Children's Discovery Museum (home of a slammin' water play area - I am WAY
> too amused that they have a component named "the ball-cano"):
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> "Water Play is one of the most open-ended and appropriate play [types] for
> children (along with clay and sand play)"
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> I've seen many water play areas, and I've seen many individual exhibit
> components that use sand... but I don't recall ever seeing a "sand play"
> area comparable to a water play one. Anyone know of any?
> 
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> 
> Jonah Cohen
> 
> Outreach & Public Programs Manager
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> Science Center of Connecticut
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