8,760 felt balls?

So i have embarked on the revised ball pit. during a series of long drives to and from work my idea became more concrete. I was thinking about what the ball pit idea means to me and realized that the balls represent the idea of play to me. Play is a big part of my life, i was an avid player as a child (as most) and now with my three year old am immersed in play allll day long. everything is a game and nothing is as it seems spoons talk and inanimate objects have personalities. However wonderful this is i find myself feeling guilty about my sometimes reluctance to play and miss just playing as a child, being able to forget about bills and to do lists. not the kind of play involving an activity like a sport but just quite time lost in my own imaginary worlds. i then began to think about how children play less and less with found objects instead turning to one directional toys, video games, computers, i pod games, back seat dvd players, and of course a huge chunk of each day going to school and structured post school activities. where is the free play in the woods on the block. I started reading a book about this before the beginning of the residency that i decided to re rent from the library called "children at Play: an American history". it is amazing. So i am going to make one felt ball (ball pit size) for each hour of the year (8760 hours/ year) and then color code them for each activity group ( free play, school, organized activity ie sports of cub scouts, sleep, family time, etc) and make one ball for each hour spent doing that activity in a year. the resulting rainbow of balls will be a huge pile on the floor (maybe in a corner) for people to jump in ala leaves or throw, whatever. There is also going to be an audio component of children in their daily life and activities (including play) so that the upon entering the installation you will be hit with the feeling of children but eerily none there. I am also thinking about visually incorporating some interesting quotes i have read by children such as "i like to play inside, that is where all the electrical outlets are" - from last child in the woods.