horizontal sundials

Very instructive as children can observe the changing height of the sun throughout the year.

These walk-on sundials are easy to construct, very durable and vandal-proof. They can be set into grass or painted onto tarmac. The child walks to the month marked on the central row of pavers and his shadow tells the time on the rings of pavers.

Playground sundial
Playground sundial
Two sundials commissioned by the Petts Wood and District Residents' Association, London Borough of Bromley.
Children from local primary schools provided the designs which were then carved into the stones.

Holt primary school playground sundial

This dial is at Holt Primary School in Wiltshire where the children entered a competition to design the numerals and decoration.

A millennium time capsule was buried beneath the sundial.

Detail from the Holt primary school playground sundial

 

3 dimensional climb-on sundial model

A model of a 3-D climb-on sundial for a park

   
   
   
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