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Playwork Campference 2019 – Save The Date!
By Zan We are super excited and slightly giddy to be announcing the next Playwork Campference. Ladies and Gentlemen, we will be working with Jill Wood of Adventure Play at The Parish School in Houston, Texas, to host the second Playwork Campference on a...
Popping Up in the Community: A fusion of playful adventures
We explore the vibrant world of pop-up adventure playgrounds, illuminating how communities come alive through play. This adventure embodies the heart of our play-based approach and how we employ our resources within local communities. Stepping into a familiar...
Popping Up in the Community 2018: Morgan
This is part 3 of a multi-part blog series about the pop-up adventure playgrounds we create in our own communities throughout the year. This is an example of how our pop-up adventure playgrounds work, and us using our namesake model and our own resources to work...
Past, Present and Future: The Pop-Ups Story
A conversation on Facebook recently veered into the weeds, as they sometimes do. We reflected on the back and forth of digital text and decided it was time to bring the conversation out of bubbles and into whole paragraphs. Asking us directly about who invented the pop-up adventure playground model highlighted some confusion among folks who are new to the field, and some who have been around for years.
Your Favourite Open-Ended Object For Play
We have a slow but steady trickle of requests coming in from other organisations. They want to use Suzanna's photographs of children at play, get a quote or opinion. It's very rarely promoting something specific, and usually about creating shared content we all need...
STUDY: Playground With Hammers and Nails 4x Safer Than Playground with Swings and Slides
I am really excited to be writing this blog post. It celebrates a publication written by fellow playworkers Jill Wood and Morgan Leichter-Saxby. Acknowledging my bias, I am always proud of everything that Morgan does (she is my work-wife after all!). But seriously,...
PRESS RELEASE: Prioritising Play Conference in Urbana-Champaign, IL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Prioritising Play Conference gathers international experts in child-directed play and welcomes local settings to learn essentials of play and Playwork practice. Urbana-Champaign, IL - Non-profit group KOOP Adventure Play has been delivering...
Popping Up in 2018
By Morgan Where will we be this year? As I write this, Suzanna and I are both close to home. I'm teaching in Middlebury and she's keeping our social media a fire where others can warm up. I'm planning the first pop-up adventure playground in my own community for...
New Pop-Up Year: New Pop-Up Tagline
There's a small thing that's irked us for ages. It's probably a common feeling to folks in playwork, given how we struggle to explain this work to outsiders. As an organization that positions itself as a kind of 'welcome mat' for adventurous play, we always wanted a...
End of Year Reflections – So Long, 2017
Since founding Pop-Up Adventure Play, we've worked in two main arenas. Firstly, to share playwork ideas as widely as we can. Secondly, to help both new and dedicated playworkers connect with one another. This year, those efforts felt at times more important than...