ET WT Tf en a TERETE TEETER WE Bee CHILD GUIDANCE Novel Junk-Playground Proved Successful In Denmark By G, CLEVELAND MYERS (landscaped by children, saw some children from 8 to 14 tidying up a house or decorating it outside or inside. A wide variety of free activit- ies were going on in a relaxed perceful atmosphere. A few chil- dren were working in clay or wood with the talented leader Agnate Vestereg. If you would large like a good account of this un- enough for them to get into, We usual playground, send your re-'so, setting the stage so he will, quest, enclosing a dollar address- ed ier 8. Edndrupve) 38. Co penhageén, hTe money Is used tw supplement the limited financial resources PARENTS' QUESTIONS Q. Should we force our child, 3, to share his toys? A. No; but spend much time and effort' on incuding him to do H ¥en respects to playgrounds "In cities. Some consists of ar- s for competitive games, espe-| * elally of soccer, football for the ' and leter teenagers. But baseball is rarely played in Euro- pean countries, a fact which is « apt to amaze us Americans. As in our country, many recre- "ation leaders of European cities are eager to find ways to stimu- late more nonphysical and creat- fve activities in the children who have outgrown swings and slides. While in Copenhagen last sum- mer, Mrs. Myers and I visited an unusual kind of playground called the junk - playground. It was conceived and laid out by C Th, Sorensen, a landscape gard- ener who has laid out a number of Copenhagen playgrounds. He observed that the regular playgrounds do not attract nearly the number of children desired Algo, that youngsters, esnecially those between 8 and 14 had an irresistible interest in' discarded building materials and other junk and often could be found where such things were heaped to gether. ENLISTED AID He enlisted the interest of the biggest housing association of ~ CLEARANGE OF ALL 1958 FRIGIDAIRE MODELS 30 INCH RANGES 249° priced from Copenhagen and so a junk-play ground on a grass site of about au acre or more was laid out he tween two groups of new build. ings. It is surrounded by a six- foot earthen dike, planted with 1 ONLY e030 RANGE $199 wild roses, hawthorn and acacia tress, which form a hedge and 2 windscreen. It was to be a kind of sanctu- ar, where children could dig and play and do many of tha things usually forbidden, with the hope that the building areas might be saved from the kind of devasia tion often caused by children Though supervised at first, it was soon decided to have a jeader for daily supervision Op ened in 1943, it's still going strong During the 15 years since such junk as ramshackle water boats and sailboats, carriages, push- ears and motor bikes have grown less important and dis- carded building materials more important. 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