The swing and why it belongs in a good playground
High, higher, highest: the children fly through the air, whooping loudly. When the weather is nice, the swings on the playground hardly come to a standstill. Everyone wants to swing over the heads of those playing and look at the world from above. Swinging is a real pleasure to play and promotes the development of the little ones. What types of swings are there on the playground? Swings were already used by the ancient Greeks. They celebrated their swing festival Aiora at the time of the grape harvest. Young girls were placed on swings hanging in trees and let themselves swing back and forth. Songs were sung in honor of the goddess Erigone and her father Ikarios. Today you can find many varieties of swings in the playground. The best known and oldest is certainly the board swing, which is suspended from two ropes and the child sits on a board made of wood or plastic. In the trapeze swing , the seat consists of a bar. The plate swing, on the other hand, has a round disc that...