Thirdly, when people volunteer together amazing things happen. Fourthly, by using local talent your playscape will take on a life and character all of its own. This depends on the size of the project. From design to build, a project often takes six to eight months. This includes the planning and preparing for the big community build.
Groups often begin in the fall, plan during the winter, and build in the spring.
A typical build will take 4 days - usually thursday through sunday. Some groups do it in 2 consecutive weekends. They love them. The environments are always changing and hold something new everyday. We've seen children bathed in flower petals and leaves, nibbling on mint, finding frogs in water features, digging and creating in sand, zooming around tricycle tracks and exploring the seasonal changes of plants.