play and talent can come to full expression, where children at their will can make a mess, jump, run and hide, where they can whistle, shout and explore the details of this beautiful natural world. A variety of important factors usually determine the quality of a school playground for the young. These include design specifications of the play area, safety related issues, playing equipment, accessibility of the playground and adult supervision, which is mandatory. There is a captious need to develop an inclination for outdoor physical activities in our children. School playground activities should not become academic and teacher controlled. There are two significant reasons why playground activities are critical for children. Firstly, many of the important developmental tasks that young children must learn like risk - taking, exploring, gross motor - movement skill development as well as absorption of vast amount of knowledge is done on the playfield. Secondly, our new age culture is taking outdoor activities away from children in the form of excessive computer and television use. Unsafe neighbourhoods, busy schedules and tired parents are all contributing to children shying away from playing games. In this world of excessive competition, children are being forced to give too much weight to academics thus resulting in unhealthy and obese kids.