Sensory Playgrounds

The Wheaton Park District in Illinois will be holding a celebration this Wednesday to commemorate the building of the Sensory Garden and Playground initiative project, the Wheaton Patch reports.

The recent dedication for the new boundless and wheelchair-accessible playground at Twin Lakes Park in Hempfield, Pennsylvania, left children from the Westmoreland Intermediate Unit's Clairview School grinning from ear-to-ear, Pittsburgh Live reports.

Tragedy turned into joy in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, when a new playground was constructed for kids of all abilities in honor of a little boy who lost his battle to hyperplastic left heart syndrome, the Courier Post reports.

Leominster, Massachusetts, recently surprised retired Recreation Commissioner Lionel "Sonny" Charpentier with a presentation showing off a new playground that was named after him, the Leominster Champion reports.

The Mauldin Miracle League in Mauldin, South Carolina, recently announced that they've begun fundraising to install a handicap-accessible playground in the town, The Greenville News reports.