Artfully designed wooden playgrounds with topsy-turvy angles.
courtesy: Monstrum Playgrounds

These playgrounds blend in well with Denmark’s urban and natural landscapes.
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While honoring the natural hillside park setting in its design, this ingenious and imaginative Japanese playground stimulates the senses with both indoor and outdoor play settings. A giant, white, moon-like trampoline covers a portion of the hillside.
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A rainbow mesh nest allows kids to climb into a unique environment and turn their world literally upside down. Costing 1.5 billion yen to construct and taking two years to complete, the park — with no shortage of play areas — features an array of unique light, sound and motion sensory experiences.
courtesy: Karim Chakroun

Once meant for an electric train that never arrived, cement columns and pass ways high above Lima’s crowded roadsides stood ugly and abandoned. A group of artists named Basurama revamped the scene into one of the most vivid and colorful play settings for old and young alike, using trashed and recycled items.
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Zip lines and climbing walls adorn the old cement columns and many swings, some in the shapes of horses, litter the playground instead of the trash that once stood there.
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Created by the Brazilian artist Roberto Burle Marx, this playground sits amidst an expansive park in the shadows of the tallest twin towers in the world. The vibrant colors and patterns of the two acre playground reflect the rich Malaysian culture, while the green garden spaces incorporate a peaceful, natural setting within a hectic city.
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The park is host to a mosque, large water park, pool and paddle area and a playground. With children’s safety and comfort in mind, it has trees shading the play structures and one of the first rubberized floor playgrounds.
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In the midst of high rise buildings on the outskirts of a cosmopolitan area, lays a hidden gem. Designed for disadvantaged families to have a safe play space, the locals now call it their “backyard playground,” due to its charm and at-home feel.
courtesy: Fernando de Sousa

The kids lose themselves amidst the trampolines, recycled tire swings and even climb atop a flying fox! Colorful and unobtrusive, the park also hosts chickens and a tea and coffee brewing station to envelop all of children’s imaginative interests.
courtesy: Fernando de Sousa

The unusually fanciful structures in this playground resemble creative, imaginative creatures out of an Eastern European fantasy tale.
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Here kids’ minds and bodies can roam wild.
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Located in a park with fascinating displays of nature, science, technology and imaginative arts (constructed in honor of French philosopher Jacques Derrida), le Jardin du Dragon is an impressively large dragon slide.
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With 85 feet (26 meters) of slide on the dragon’s tongue alone, it is decorated in artistic metalwork that captivates the imagination.
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Parque Gulliver is designed in homage to the book, Gulliver’s Travels (by Jonathan Swift) that not only won imaginations as soon as it was published in the early 18th century but has since never been out of print.
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The play structure is set to scale so that children will feel like real life “Lilliputians” who have anchored Gulliver to their own sandbox—they can climb into his sleeves, up his legs and slide down his hair.
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Specifically designed with children with disabilities in mind, this park is truly innovative. Colorful, rainbow themes decorate the four outdoor spaces, surrounding a centerpiece carousel, spread across two acres.
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The park is equipped with a “liberty swing” designed for use in a wheelchair (complete with a ramp), wheelchair racing strips, quiet zones for autistic children’s needs, wheelchair sliding ramps, low hanging monkey bars, and a flat and wheelchair friendly terrain, which allows kids of all abilities to roll, run, climb and play.
courtesy: Don Sweeney

The Britzergarten is 90 acres of gardens containing several playgrounds. Playspaces include a labyrinth, a giant world map, “One World,” which kids can play and walk on, water play and a striking cob (clay and sand) structure in an imaginative country-meets-the-sea folk story theme.
courtesy: Rainer Warzecha

Children can even create their own cob structures in a hands-on workshop. Or kids can also splash in the water garden where cobblestone-lined paths run alongside creeks and water areas, perfect for little children to safely play.
courtesy: Rainer Warzecha