I think this is a great idea. It is great way to make the process more active as well. We have yet to have our design day but we may give this a try.
Chris
I uploaded some photos of our Design Day to our web site. You can see them at
http://projects.kaboom.org/windsorgreen/Photos/tabid/29138/Default.aspx
That's a very cute idea. In the Kaboom tool kit they gave fun ideas on games that the kids played at our design day- they loved it. We also had kids voting. We had 6 areas where the kids could vote between 2 options of play equipment. We had them bring pennies to vote so we raised a little money as they cast their votes.
Flowrbill1952 (or anyone else out there . . .), do you know exactly what the rules are about requiring permission for photos? So we have a little newsletter, it's just a neighborhood thing, and we put kids photos in from things like soccer games at one of our parks - it's a pretty distant shot, I don't know if anyone could even identify any of the kids; anoher time recently we had a story about tennis lessons at another park and we put a photo in of the kids practicing - should we be getting permission for all this? Wow, we'd really have to re-think how we go about this! But thanks, I'm looking forward to what people have to say about this.