Brilliant park with a waterside view, with a really cool Snakes and Ladders theme. 🐍🪜 There are lots of slides and ladders and little wooden bits that stick out of the ground. 🛝 Lovely park for young children to play and also for families to have picnics by the beach. ☀️ …
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Snakes and Ladders Park
Bramley Drive, Farm Cove, Auckland 2012
Why these ages?
Ladders and stepping stones on a hillside board-game structure need coordination past most 2-3yos, but an infant swing keeps a small toddler zone. Mudflats exposed at low tide + high-tide paddling directly adjacent with no fence between play and estuary — a wandering toddler has direct water sightline. Novel concept scores well with primary.
Access notes
Description states the equipment sits on a bark surface with no Access and Inclusion notes at all, and the core game concept requires climbing numbered stepping stones and ladders to the top, so wheelchair users cannot participate in the main play feature.
The week ahead
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Equipment
Snakes and Ladders Park turns a hillside in Farm Cove Reserve into a life size, walk through board game: kids become the counters, spinning a giant dice at the bottom before climbing numbered stepping stones and ladders to the top, then choosing a snake shaped tube slide for the ride back down. Four slides and a set of stepping beams and ladders recreate the game across a medium sized site.
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