Time travel theme to Dome's fun day for youngsters
CHILDREN celebrated National Playday in Doncaster by taking part in a time travel-themed experience.
Young visitors to The Dome entered the junk orchestra time machine, followed clues to a land from the past, and took a challenge to reach the future then rode the water slide back to the present.
Play Ranger project manager Margaret Dunn said: "National Playday is a great opportunity for us to celebrate play in the borough.
"We wanted to provide an environment where children and young people have the opportunities to experience play and meet new challenges in a way most adults will have done as kids.
"Play, especially outdoor play, gives children the chance to be active, explore, challenge themselves, experience success and failure and develop skills to manage risk and conflict.
"Research shows that being outdoors is essential for children's development of language skills, memory, brain function, concentration, imagination, social and physical development and they are ill less often too."
Dome play rangers worked with artists from Doncaster Community Arts and A-Junction Network North to design the activities aimed at children aged five to 16.
The event was part of Doncaster's BIG Lottery Play Portfolio which is funding two to three years of activity in Doncaster up to May 2010.
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