A Study on Children's Play and their Experience from Living Things

Abstract

In this study, we observed the relationship between uraban children's play and the livingthings. We chose a pond named “Tonbo-ike” in Honmoku Public Park as as study area, becase this pond has been in the process of restoration for inhabitant environment of the biota. The result of the study showed that ;(1) children have the latent demands for the livingthings and play in nature.(2) Children who have played at “Tonbo-ike” like the livingthings, go to this park frequency, have participated in the events to come in contact with the livingthings, have the experience of catching Dragonflies, and evaluate this pond as a desirable environment with many livingthings. The “tonbo-ike” bring out Children's latent demands for the biota and its environment, and materialize the demands as actually experiences.