Marin students craft eco-friendly preschool playscape project

A group of Marin high school students is taking outdoor children’s play to another level.

About 30 juniors in the Marin School of Environmental Leadership at Terra Linda High School built a low-tech, eco-friendly play area that encourages children to interact more with the natural world using their own imagination and creativity.

The playscape, which the students designed and built from scratch, includes a 10-by-7-foot outdoor reading nook, two mud “kitchens” with running water,...