"I have my kids take their water with them and I tell them if it's too hot that we don't play on that equipment." But when the equipment gets too hot, some parents have their kids take a break. "We always have a backpack full of snacks and sunscreen and water, usually juice, and then stay like this in the shade," local mom Mikayla said. Sometimes, playground equipment can get so hot children can get first or even second degree burns from playing on it. We measured the temperature of various pieces of playground equipment earlier Wednesday.