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Adventures
Latest
Adventures
Latest
Adventures
Latest Adventures
On The Road 2014: USA Tour
Greetings from the Pop-Up Adventure Play and Special Guests Tour! We're thrilled to share the highlights of our journey across the USA, a trip filled with passion for play and exciting encounters. In March 2014, we embarked on a remarkable adventure, crisscrossing the...
A Big Thank You
The indiegogo campaign that we set up to fund our Pop-Up Adventure Play and Special Guests Tour 2014 was a huge success. Although the site shows that we only got $4531, we had a not-so-secret donor in the form of playground builders, KaBOOM who took the final amount...
Pop-Up Adventure Play Goes to the Beach!
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...
Driving to Success: Pop-Up Adventure Play and Special Guests Tour 2014 Update
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. Let's bring...
A Happy Pop-Up Year
It's been a great year at Pop-Up Adventure Play. We just wanted to take a few moments to reflect on the year and to look back on where we were last year to fully appreciate what we have achieved in the last 12 months. This year as a team, we have travelled to 5...
Pop-Up Playwork on the High Street
By ZanWe have been working very hard with Adrian Voce to bring Pop-Up Play Shops to the high streets of the UK but we need your help. A few months back we were able to gain Big Lottery funding to work on an exciting project to find out how much demand there is in the...
Our Very Own Pop-Ups Tour
Our mission has always been to provide opportunities for child-directed play within a supportive community of adults. This means offering support and training to parents, professionals, and community members around the world whenever they reach out to us. After a few...
Guest Writer: First Mini Pop-Up Los Angeles!
On Sunday, September 29, Anna's friend Jane ran a Mini Pop-Up in Los Angeles, CA. She had just over a week to plan, collect materials, spread the word, and make it happen. As far as we know, this was the first LA Pop-Up and we were excited to share Jane's story and...
Playing and Learning for Parents and Professionals
We've been making pop-up adventure playgrounds, and helping others make them, for 3 years now. Our original idea was that they be a lightweight model for community-based playwork, focusing on playing and learning for parents and professionals, that they could invite...
How Play Development Shapes a Child’s Voice
It must be summer: Long days, humid nights, more bug bites than we can count and lots of great stories. I had the pleasure of snuggling with my 4-year-old daughter, Eliza, in her bottom bunk while reading one of our favourite books, Falling Up by Shel Silverstein. On...