“A nonprofit group devoted to creating play areas has awarded $1 million to spur 50 new projects that create opportunities for urban children to play at places like bus stops, barber shops and Laundromats.
Among the winners: a giant solar-powered bubble maker that on sunny days will send bubbles drifting over a busy Minneapolis thoroughfare. The winning projects were announced Tuesday by Kaboom, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that has built 2,700 playgrounds around the country since it was founded in 1996.
Other winners include periscopes built out of PVC tubes at East Harlem bus stops and retractable jump ropes outside barber shops and salons in Richmond, Va. Sidewalks in Detroit will be repainted to resemble sprinting tracks and slides will pop up next to stairways used to commute through the slopes of Knoxville, Tenn.”
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