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The Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito has a fantastic outdoor 
gravel play area. It's used a lot like sand play, but without the risk 
of feral cats using it as a litter box. It's heaven for two-year olds 
and has an average dwell time that is through the roof.

Katherine Ziff
Exhibit Developer
Great Lakes Science Center
Cleveland, OH


Adele Binning wrote:
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> The Minnesota Children's Museum has a rooftop ArtPark that has a sand 
> play area. You can see a not-too-descriptive photo of it here:
>
> http://www.mcm.org/rooftop.shtml
>
> Adele Binning
> Exhibit Developer
> Science Museum of Minnesota
> 120 W. Kellogg Blvd.
> Saint Paul, MN 55107
> (651) 221-9497
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>
> On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Jonah Cohen wrote:
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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"):
>>
>>
>>
>> "Water Play is one of the most open-ended and appropriate play 
>> [types] for
>> children (along with clay and sand play)"
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jonah Cohen
>>
>> Outreach & Public Programs Manager
>>
>> Science Center of Connecticut
>>
>>
>>
>> "Fire up the klezmer music and prepare to become a man, you're in for a
>> truth-mitzvah!"
>>
>>         -Stephen Colbert
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