A Roaring Good Time
Monday, June 07, 2010
Looking for an new adventure with the little ones? Aspetuck Land Trust opens the area’s first hands-on "natural playground" Saturday, June 12. The playground is designed for children ages 3-7 and built by volunteers with natural materials found on the preserve. The new spot sounds like it will hold tons of fun for the little ones...
When:
Saturday, June 12th
10:00AM-12Noon
Where:
Aspetuck Land Trust’s Leonard Schine Preserve in Westport, located at Glendenning Place off Rte. 57 (Weston Road)
Visit www.aspetucklandtrust.org for more information
In Their Words:
The playground, which comprises approximately 10,000 square feet in a meadow in the Leonard Schine nature preserve in Westport offers its youthful visitors places for fort-building, digging, tower-climbing, trail-walking, stick-stacking and arts and crafts, to name a few. There’s an even an “elvin village,” where younger visitors can play with pine cone “dolls,” honing both their imaginations and their fine motor skills.
“An innovative playground like this creates the basis for a lifelong relationship with natural spaces,” says David Brant, director of the Aspetuck Land Trust. “Since young children often don’t have opportunities to explore nature in their daily lives, we wanted to create a special place where they could do just that.”
The Aspetuck Land Trust is a member supported non-profit organization which preserves open space and the natural resources of Easton, Fairfield, Weston and Westport.
When:
Saturday, June 12th
10:00AM-12Noon
Where:
Aspetuck Land Trust’s Leonard Schine Preserve in Westport, located at Glendenning Place off Rte. 57 (Weston Road)
Visit www.aspetucklandtrust.org for more information
In Their Words:
The playground, which comprises approximately 10,000 square feet in a meadow in the Leonard Schine nature preserve in Westport offers its youthful visitors places for fort-building, digging, tower-climbing, trail-walking, stick-stacking and arts and crafts, to name a few. There’s an even an “elvin village,” where younger visitors can play with pine cone “dolls,” honing both their imaginations and their fine motor skills.
“An innovative playground like this creates the basis for a lifelong relationship with natural spaces,” says David Brant, director of the Aspetuck Land Trust. “Since young children often don’t have opportunities to explore nature in their daily lives, we wanted to create a special place where they could do just that.”
The Aspetuck Land Trust is a member supported non-profit organization which preserves open space and the natural resources of Easton, Fairfield, Weston and Westport.
