Young Park Planners - Activities for Summer
Consultation has concluded
Our Ready2Play team created three activities for you to Design - Write - Explore during your summer. These activities are "responsive," meaning that there is an opportunity to share your final work with our planning team! Your shared products from these three activities will help inform DPR’s future planning for parks and recreation in DC and may be used in official DPR publications and featured on DPR social media and websites.
If you would like to share your final work, please take a picture of it or save it in word or PDF (if applicable to the activity) and upload it to the Ready2Play website as indicated in our activities or send it to ready2play@dc.gov.
Stay safe and have fun!
Activity #2: Create a story of your favorite park / open space / recreation center in Washington, DC
Materials
- Computer, tablet, notebook, paper
- Pencil, pen
- Crayons, markers, colored pencils
Description
Write a story about a trip to your favorite park or open space. Use the questions below to help add interesting details to your story! Make sure to describe all of the things you see in the park and what you would do there.
You can also add drawings or pictures to enrich your story.
Directions:
- Select your setting: If you could visit your favorite park or open space, where would it be? (Note: it could be an actual place or an imaginary one).
- Select the title for your story and think about the beginning, middle and end.
- Select the characters that will be in your story and describe them. What are their favorite things to do in the park?
- When does the story take place? What season is it? What time of day? What day of the week?
- Describe the things that you would like this park to include (Playground, courts, green areas, etc.).
- How would you and your characters get to the park?
- What do you and your characters do once you get to the park? (Running, playing at the playground, practicing a sport, etc.)
- Is there a problem or an event that occurs in the story? If so, what happens? How does it get resolved?
- How long do you stay in the park? After you get home, when will you go back next?
- Share your story below or if you wrote your story on paper, take a picture of it and share it with DPR at ready2play@dc.gov!
