{"id":259,"date":"2017-11-09T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T10:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2017-11-13T16:24:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:24:06","slug":"natural-play","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/?page_id=259","title":{"rendered":"Natural Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our opinion there is nothing more valuable with in a play space than encouraging education through nature;<\/p>\n

Mounding<\/strong><\/p>\n

This could be as simple as mounding, children just love to climb and roll.<\/p>\n

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Textures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bring different textures into your design, grass, textured paving, different surfacing under individual play pieces, (sand, wood chip, grass matting) \u00a0wooden tree slices, tree trunks, boulders etc …<\/p>\n

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Planting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Children love learning about colours and smells, adding hardy plants such as lavender, rosemary, mint can but enhance their experience.<\/p>\n

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Flowers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps include wild flower walk through, dedicate an area and mow a curved strip to create a pathway.<\/p>\n

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Willow Tunnels\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Natural structures that the children can help make form great covered walkways.<\/p>\n

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In our opinion there is nothing more valuable with in a play space than encouraging education through nature; Mounding This could be as simple as mounding, children just love to climb and roll. Textures Bring different textures into your design, grass, textured paving, different surfacing under individual play pieces, (sand, wood chip, grass matting) \u00a0woodenContinue Reading Natural Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":158,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/401"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okehilldesign.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}