Children at a local creche and kindergarten are having a blast on their new, redeveloped playground.
The Rotorua Community Creche and Kindergarten had the blessing and opening for their new playground earlier this month.
Teacher Janette McKnight says the planning kicked off in April 2015 and they had consultation with playground specialist Playscapes NZ, families and the children.
She says their bike track was one of the main things the children wanted.
It took a year to apply for funding and then the work started this July school holidays, with the space getting dug right down to the dirt, and was finished the first week of Term 3, she says.