Elm Grove Elementary School

Video features a Landscape Structures playground Elm Grove Elementary School in Kingwood Texas.

[video: scene fades into a close-up view of a realistic carved mouse peeking through a hole in a concrete log. Camera focuses on a realistic looking ladybug on a concrete rock. Camera focuses on a realistically carved butterfly on the outside of a concrete log. Camera focuses on a realistic carved dragon fly on the side of a concrete rock. Camera focuses on the face and body of a realistic carved squirrel holding onto the outside of a concrete log. Camera focuses on a realistically carved chipmunk in the crevasse of a concrete rock. Camera switches to a small panel incorporated in the side of a concreate log with the shape of a butterfly. A gear at the bottom allows a rainbow-colored panel behind the butterfly to spin changing the color of its wings.]

[video: scene fades into a pan from left to right of a small play structure with a large concrete log tunnel, and rock climbers. White text fades in on the bottom of the screen reading “2-5 Play Area”. Children play all over the play structure and log tunnel. The scene switches and focuses on the play structure as children climb up a climber designed like a stack of cut logs, while other children climb up piped ladders. A girl jumps in front of the camera excitedly smiling and beginning to do a funny dance. The camera zooms in towards a girl as she stands on the log tunnel smiling. A boy jumps down onto his hands and knees crawling into the concrete log tunnel. The camera switches as two girls crawl of the two separate openings of the concrete log tunnel. A girl slides down a slide with hear arms raised in the air. Scene switches as children climb and play on the concrete log tunnel with the small play structure in the background. The camera focuses on the side of the realistic concrete log tunnel with a spiderweb sky light incorporated into the side. Children’s feet can be seen crawling and walking on the top of the log tunnel. Scene switches as children’s feet step up the climber designed like a stack of cut logs. Scene switches as a girl speaks into a talk tube incorporated into the concrete log tunnel. She speaks gibberish into the talk tube. Scene switches to a boy talking into the other talk tube somewhere else on the playground. He growls like a dinosaur into the talk tube. Scene switches to a view into the concrete log tunnel. A girl crawls towards the camera while smiling. Scene switches to a outside view of one of the exits of the crawl tunnel where to color spinning butterfly panel is incorporated. Children climb on the top of the log tunnel. The camera focuses on the color spinning butterfly panel. A girl spins the gear making the rainbow panel changed the color of the butterfly’s wings. Scene switches to a top-down view from the play structure of the concrete log tunnel. A boy crawls out of on of the exits as a girl steps up onto a nearby concrete mushroom stepper.]

[video: a group of children spin together on a large green circular seat spinner. Scene fades out and into a full elevated view of a larger play area with the playground surfacing designed with flowers, leaf’s, ponds, and rivers. White text appears on the bottom of the screen reading “5-12 Play Area”. Scene switches as the camera pans down a play structure designed like a tree house. A girl spins in a chair spinner. A girl climbs down a slanted rope ladder. The camera focuses on the girl’s legs as she climbs up the opposite side of the rope ladder. Scene switches to a top-down view of the roof peak of one of the playground towers. A realistic sized concrete eagle sitting in its nest sits at the top of the roof. Scene switches to a view across the playground of children climber on a large concrete rock climber. The camera focuses on a full side standing concrete black bear with it’s paws on the concrete rock climber. The camera backs up showing the entire rock climber and concrete bear as children interact with the bear and climb on the rock. Scene switches as a girl climbs up a playground climber onto the playground decking. The girl points to the letters on a playground panel with different animal tracks.]

Girl: C, A, M, N, A.

[video: the girl turns to the camera after listing the on the panel. Scene switches to a panning view around the entire large play area as children play at all the different activities. Scene switches to a girl as she spins on a stand-up spinner with vertical rope handles. Scene switches to three girls as they sit on the top of a rock climber, they speak to the camera about the playground.]

Girl: My favorite thing on the playground, it would probably be up there, and also the swings. Oh yeah that thing right there, it makes people dizzy.

[video: a boy spins his friend in a seat spinner. Scene switches back to the three girls as another one begins to talk about the playground.]

Girl 2: I’m seven years old, my favorite thing is that thing over there it makes me really dizzy.

[video: a by spins the girl in the chair seat spinner. Camera switches back to the third girl as she talks about the playground.]

Girl 3: Really a lot of people, they get a lot dizzy over there.

[video: three children spin in slow motion on a stand-up spinner. Scene switches to a side view of the two towers of the play structure connected by an elevated perforated crawl tunnel. The camera focuses on the crawl tunnel as children crawl from one tower to the next. Scene switches to a view down the perforated crawl tunnel. A boy crawls away from the camera down the tunnel. The camera focuses up to the large perforated circular slanted roof of one of the structures towers. Maple leave cut outs decorate the lime green roof. Scene switches to a boy as he plays with a marble play panel inside of one of the playground towers. He then spins the handle of a rainbow wheel color panel. With a top-down view, the boy climbs down two ladders in the center of the tower floor down into a concrete tree trunk. Scene switches to a view of to arch posts meeting connecting to the top of a stand-up spinner. Children climb on a rock climber in the background. Scene switches to a full view of the large nature themed play structure as children climb, slide, and play all around. Scene fades out and into a group of children walking across a belted bridge in slow motion. Scene fades out and into three girls spinning in slow motion on a stand-up spinner. Scene fades out and back into a group of girls hanging out on the top of a large rock climber. They smile and wave to the camera in slow motion. Scene fades out and back into two girls standing on the play structure smiling and waving to the camera. Scene fades out and back into a panning view around the large play structure filled with children. The screen fades to white. A black vertical line appears in the center of the screen. The Lone Star Recreation logo slides out to the right of the line. Then the Landscape Structures logo slides out to the left of the line. Text fades in below both logos reading: For a better tomorrow we play today. Screen fades to black and video ends.]