10/2012 Update to this post: Thank you Danny and Jil Rodgers for building and delivering us a beautiful wood picnic table. The children got to carve out a pumpkin on it to break it in! We know we will all enjoy it and so appreciate your time, financial assistance and effort on providing it for us! God is good and has worked through you. We love it! (See picture of our new picnic table at bottom of this post).

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Now that the playground courtyard used by Asha’s Refuge preschoolers is clean and neat, the children are enjoying it so much. It is a joyful thing to see them playing on swings and coming down the slides. This is truly a treat for them since they have little opportunity to play outside. While out there the other day, I noticed two additional things that would make it just about perfect. The first is a covered sandbox so the children can enjoy playing in the sand. I looked around and found a DIY link for just what was in my imagination: http://ana-white.com/2011/10/plans/sand-box-built-seats It has two built-in seats that turn into a cover when closed. That would keep the sand clean and dry for them. If any of our handy friends would like to try their hands at building such a sandbox, your work would be rewarded by a bunch of giggling 3 and 4 year olds.

The other thing that would be so helpful for the playground is a picnic table for the teachers. It would give them a place to sit while watching children as well as an outdoor space for teaching and projects such as painting that are messy indoors.

If you would like to donate one of these items, or you have a team that would like to build one, please let us know. Your donations of time, supplies and know-how would be greatly appreciated.