Playing implement

Claim 1

A hollow body playground apparatus comprising: a. a hollow body in the form of a polyhedron of a size to accommodate a child therein; b. said hollow body being formed of a pair of symmetrical shell halves, each shell half including means for joining said halves together; c. each shell half further having at least one face constructed of a size to permit a child to stand thereon; d. said face on one shell being diametrically opposite said face on the other shell to provide top and bottom surfaces for the apparatus; said faces being concaved inwardly and having a plurality of holes therein, one of said holes being substantially in the center of said face, and the other of said holes being closer to the edge of said face whereby water will drain from the substantially center hole in the top face and from said other holes in the bottom face; e. said two identical shell halves being made of plastic material, each having edges abutting like edges of the other shell half to form said hollow body; f. a set of alternating tongues and grooves along said edges disposed so that tongues of one half shell snugly fit into facing grooves of the other half shell in removable assembled condition of said hollow body; g. cavities across walls of said shell halves registering in pairs when said halves are assembled and fastening means in said cavities for fixing said halves together; h. said body having at least one flat face for abutment against a like flat face of a like body to which it is to be connected and having connection means including an opening through said flat face and a connection element in said opening and in an aligned opening of said like body to removably join said bodies together.