Free Build A Park game for kids

About Build A Park

Build A Park is a free tycoon game for kids where the child picks what to build. The first four parks are Working Waterpark, a hot springs park that grows from one muddy hole into a waterpark, the Ski Resort, which starts with a small bunny hill and a slow rope tow, the Adventure Park, an indoor trampoline park that starts with one court in a little warehouse, and the Outdoor Adventure Park, a river valley that grows from one canoe dock into rapids, a lake, zip lines and hang gliding. Animal guests pay at the window, a question there earns a tip, and the money builds the park up, one lift, trail or pool at a time.

How to play Build A Park

Park builder · numbers and words. Grow your park. At the Ski Resort, climb the lifts from the rope tow all the way to the magic portal; at the Adventure Park, grow one trampoline court into a whole building of zones; at the Outdoor Adventure Park, grow one canoe dock into the whole valley. Keep every guest happy.

1. Pick a park. The first page shows every park. Tap Build! on the one you want. More parks are coming.
2. Open the lifts. Each morning says the weather and the snow. Tap Open the lifts and the skiers drive up.
3. Sell lift tickets. Some guests ask a question at the ticket window. Right first time is a big tip; they buy their tickets either way.
4. Keep the lines short. A guest who waits more than 30 minutes in a lift line may go home. More lifts and more trails spread the crowd.
5. Build. Tap 🔨 Store: new lifts, trails with the groomer, snow guns, a chalet, schools, cabins, a terrain park, and staff.

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What Build A Park practises

Counting, making ten, adding, taking away, times tables, division, first sounds, rhymes, phonics, sight words, spelling and vocabulary, with questions from Pre-K to 8th grade. For ages 6 and up (rated E). Controls: tap or click. Needs a mouse? No: tap. On a school Chromebook, it runs in Chrome; its 3D runs slower on an older one. No sign-up, no ads and nothing to buy.

To print and go with it: a Build A Park score sheet, Kindergarten addition within 5 worksheets, the multiplication chart and decodable readers to print.

The Outdoor Adventure Park is a river valley in a warm, Florida-like climate, open all year from 9 in the morning until sunset. It starts with a canoe dock on the calm river, and the child leases more of the valley: a swimming lake with rope swings and diving platforms, zip lines and a gravity coaster on the hills, ropes courses, a mud run, mountain-bike trails, an Olympic-style whitewater course for rafting and kayaking, and Eagle Peak, 1,200 feet high, with a funicular up its cliff and tandem hang gliding off the cliff edge. Summer storms bring lightning, which clears the water for 30 minutes, and cold winter days keep the crowds small.

The Adventure Park is an indoor trampoline and adventure park. It starts with one freestyle court, and the child adds a toddler zone, dodgeball, slam-dunk lanes, a foam pit with a zip line and a trapeze over it, climbing walls, a ninja course, laser tag, a stunt fall, bumper cars, a ropes course, a sky rider and, at the very top, indoor skydiving. Families buy a 2-hour pass or an all-day pass at the front desk, the arcade pays out tickets for the prize counter, party rooms host birthdays, and a food court and a grown-ups' bar keep everyone fed. The child hires the staff: managers, front desk attendants, party entertainers, court monitors, bartenders and servers.

At the Ski Resort the lifts get better as the resort grows: a rope tow, a T-bar, a double chair, a quad chair, a small gondola, a big gondola, and at the very end a magic portal that pops skiers straight to the top. Each lift opens a bigger hill. On every hill the child builds trails with a groomer, rated the North American way: green circles, blue squares, black diamonds, double blacks and orange terrain parks. Harder trails cost more and bring more skiers, and a trail can be upgraded from green to blue in the store.

Each lift carries so many skiers a minute, so a crowd on a slow lift makes a line. A guest who waits more than 30 minutes in a lift line may go home, so the child has to spread the crowd with more lifts and trails. The guests are winter animals, penguins, seals, polar bears, arctic foxes and more, and each skis at its own level: a beginner keeps to green circles, an expert wants the double blacks. A ski school and a snowboard school turn beginners into guests who visit again more and spend more.

Mother Nature is part of the game. Every trail needs enough snow to open, so a warm spell or rain melts the base and snow guns keep a trail open on thin snow. A blizzard holds the chairlifts until the wind drops, and after a big snowfall there may be avalanche danger, so the steep runs stay shut until the ski patrol does avalanche control. The staff are a ski patrol, an area manager, ski instructors and a rental agent, paid out of each day's takings and never more than the day took in.

Not everyone wants to ski. Beside the village is a lake that freezes and thaws with the weather, and once the ice is 10 centimetres thick, guests can go ice skating on it. The rink starts as a little pond for 12 skaters and grows into a rink with boards and then the whole lake for 60. A skate rental booth brings more skaters, a warming hut keeps them cosy, and a Zamboni grooms the ice smooth twice a day and clears the snow off it.

The questions fit the child, from preschool to about fifth grade: counting, sums, letters, sounds and words, in Mix, Numbers or Reading, or none at all in Just play. Every guest buys a ticket whatever the answer, so a wrong answer only means no tip. More parks are coming to Build A Park: a stadium, an amusement park, a factory and a haunted house.

Questions grown-ups ask

For grown-ups: Mother Nature changes every day: snow, powder days, blizzards, warm spells, rain and avalanche danger. Nothing is ever taken away: a bad day just earns less.

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