http://www.aliciakachmar.com/blog/craft/safety-cone-to-the-rescue/ Safety Cones are ubiquitous in New York and serve various purposes: to divert traffic, to warn people of potholes, caved-in asphalt, uneven sidewalks or slippery floors and to block off streets due to television/movie filming, just to name a few.They even block off areas where you are not allowed to park--just like on Park(ing) Day! Sometimes they are seen doing sillier things, like holding doors or sitting on top of cars (spotted in Tribeca!) Other times there are a bunch of them clumped together, also known as a not-covert Safety Cone party. I happen to crochet Safety Cones with smiley faces, and one in particular wears an ear-flaps hat and goes on Safety Cone Adventures, where he tries to have fun, all the while being safe and protecting others as much as little crochet Safety Cone can. Some of his adventures are documented here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coolness/sets/72157610917076864/ They include: investigating cheese curds, going down slides, reading Leo Lionni books, biking to Cone[y] Island and traveling to a "Build It!" exhibit at a Connecticut children's museum. For our park, we will have "real life" Safety Cones (the orange rubbery ones) as well as crochet ones hanging out, homemade Safety Cone-shaped cookies and Safety Cone-orange punch. We will offer up free crochet lessons all day to anyone interested in learning this craft, and each lesson will be centered on making a little crochet Safety Cone of your own. For those looking for a quicker Safety Cone craft, there will be some Safety Cone fabric cutting and paper-folding/origami...and whatever else we can think of! Additionally, there will be a Tribeca Scavenger Hunt, possible to-look-for items being a gazebo, a footbridge, a compass embedded in the sidewalk and some photo bonuses such as, "take a digital picture of as many Safety Cones grouped together as you can find." The prizes? Crochet Safety Cones of course! And Safety Cone prints and stickers. Lastly, we will have a photobooth-style backdrop for photo opportunities with your handmade Safety Cones. The fun will continue post-Parking Day when we upload all the photos taken, including Scavenger Hunt finds to a Flickr Set.