Dec 31, 2014 | Adventures, Beaches Resorts, Book, Morgan, Play, Playworker Development Course, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Pop-Up Play Shop, Reflection, thank you, Tour
It was time to say so long to another year – and what a year it had been! Thank you, everyone, for helping to make new adventures possible for children all around the world, whether you lead a pop-up adventure playground, helped fund our tour, or joined...
Dec 23, 2014 | Cardboard, Child-Directed, Children, Guest Writer, loose parts, NYC, Play, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Reflection
Pop-Up’s friend Alexander Khost is a parent, educator, painter, and web developer living in Brooklyn, NY with his two children, James and Oliver and his partner, Amanda. Alex has been active in mutual respect, child-led learning environments in various ways,...
Nov 14, 2014 | Children, experience, junk, Morgan, PhD, Play, Playwork, playworker, Playworker Development Course, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Reflection, right to play, stories, training
Anyone who’s spent much time playing with children has had practice believing two seemingly-contradictory things simultaneously. This is a stick but also a sword for killing zombies. This is a striped grey rock but it’s also a prized treasure. There are a...
Oct 29, 2014 | blog, Book, Children, Morgan, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Tour, US
Over the last few years, you’ve seen us grow. You’ve probably read about the projects we’ve done and seen guest posts highlighting the work of independent pop-up adventure playground organizers around the world. Perhaps you’ve been moved to...
Sep 5, 2014 | adults, box, Children, Guest Writer, parents, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Seattle
By Sara Mirabito Sara left an urgent message on our guest book a couple of weeks ago when she found out that she was helping to run a Pop-Up Adventure Playground for Hopscotch CD festival. She had never heard of Pop-Ups before and needed a little help. After we talked...
Aug 4, 2014 | Adventures, blog, Children, Guest Writer, parents, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Wendy Garcia We’re delighted to have Wendy guest write this blogpost, giving us the highlights of a Pop-Up Adventure Playground she hosted on 19th July in New Haven, Connecticut. Wendy approached us to help her run a Pop-Up and we provided her with guidance...
Jul 25, 2014 | Children, Photos, Play, Playwork, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Zan
It has been some time since I hosted a Pop-Up in my community so when my church friends approached me to help out with a cafe style event, I jumped at the idea of having a Pop-Up Adventure Playground. It’s new and unfamiliar territory to these folks, but I...
Jun 8, 2014 | Children, Global Network, parents, Playwork, Playworker Development Course, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Tour, US
By Morgan If you’re a regular reader here, you’ve been hearing quite a bit about our recent US tour (blogposts here and here). It was an amazing way for us to meet many of the people we’ve been corresponding with for years – independent...
Jun 3, 2014 | 2014, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, special guests, thank you, Tour, video, Zan
By Zan It has been over 6 weeks since we finished our Pop-Up Adventure Play and Special Guests 2014 Tour, and I have been very careful not to constantly talk about the adventure. I really can’t help it though, because the scale of our adventure and the things we...
May 8, 2014 | box, car, connections, donation, girl, hosts, Morgan, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, thank you, Tour, workshop
By Morgan Thank you to YOU We’ve been so grateful for the opportunity to do this tour, and to be a part of this movement in support of play. It was hard work, but also in many ways an absolute luxury to dedicate two whole months to meeting other people who are...
Jan 25, 2014 | Anna, Beaches Resorts, downtime, Jamaica, Play, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Sesame Workshop
We were thrilled to announce agreements with Sesame Workshop and Beaches Resorts. We supported child-directed play and learning at their Luxury Included Resorts in Jamaica and Turks and Caicos. Temperatures dropped quickly in Boston, but my balcony at Beaches Resort...
Jan 10, 2014 | Adventures, Child-Directed, fund raising, Play, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Tour, US, workshop, Zan
Here’s an update on the Pop-Up Adventure Play and Special Guests Tour 2014. Also to tell you about our Indiegogo campaign. I’m going to make use of some driving puns to help me along the way too. I might spin my wheels a little, so I apologise in advance....
