New additions to the existing all-ability playground at Wilfred Taylor Reserve – the largest nature-based playspace in southern Adelaide – will delight the senses of people of all ages and abilities.
With various pieces placed at wheelchair height, everyone can enjoy the musical, visual, physical and intellectual fun.
Sensory flowers on curving stems spin and, with a variety of surfaces, invite touch.
The diatonic (7-scale) chime musical panel and the virtuoso shake, rattle and roll wheel are music to the ears, while a low-level distorting mirror panel will have everyone giggling.
A stationary cycler – for arms, not legs – is an invitation to get physical.
For brain work – and those who are just a little bit competitive – there’s a timber-framed matching pairs panel and a noughts-and-crosses game.
An inclusive communication board, with simple visual images, helps those with lower literacy to find exactly what they’re looking for.
Wilfred Taylor Reserve is one of the most accessible play areas for people of all ages and abilities.
The new equipment adds to the playground’s existing all-ability equipment including basket swings, a flying-fox bucket seat, a wheelchair-accessible carousel, raised sensory garden beds, a raised sand play table and a vertical xylophone.
The additions have been made possible through a $100,000 state government grant secured by Nat Cook MP, Member for Hurtle Vale, and donations from local community members, community groups and businesses including Callum Barrott-Walsh, the Kiwanis Club of Reynella, REDARC, the Lions Club of Noarlunga and Morphett Vale, the Rotary Club of Morphett Vale, Fit N Well, and See Differently.
Nat Cook sought input from the community and services groups to inform the design. Project design was completed by City of Onkaparinga staff with construction undertaken by SA Precision Contracting.
Everyone is welcome at the official opening of the upgraded playground – at Wilfred Taylor Reserve, corner of Wheatsheaf and States Roads in Morphett Vale – at 1pm on Saturday 28 June.
IMAGE: KIDDO Magazine (Andrew Smith)