May 9, 2018 | box, children, community, family, fire, loose parts, PDC, photos, play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, risk assessment, Zan
This is part 5 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...
Mar 5, 2017 | campference, children, connections, fire, photos, play, play advocates, playwork, Santa Clarita Valley Adventure Play, weather, Zan
By ZanThe five of us sat smiling at one another as we reaffirmed for the umptheenth time that organising our first ever conference would be a fabulous idea. It was a year before the proposed date and our many play connections combined with our passion for play could...
Dec 4, 2015 | adventure playground, children, community, fire, play, playwork, playworker, Pop-Up Adventure Play, stories, tour, UK, world
By MorganWe are standing in a circle, facing a fire in the perishing cold. My face is hot and dry while sleet seeps through ill-considered jeans and trickles into my shoes. On a hill, with a steel slide to one side and a view of brick houses and a huge, grey sky. With...
Sep 23, 2015 | adults, Blackpool, box, child-directed, children, dens, fire, photos, play, play advocates, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, robot
By ZanAfter a glorious fire and den building session in Blackpool, we were invited back again to host a Play Advocacy Day. It was a particularly blue-sky day as we approached the LeftCoast office to talk to about 15 adults from different Blackpool services who all...
Aug 16, 2015 | Andy, children, dens, fire, food, photos, playwork, playworker, tree climbing, UK, weather, Zan
By ZanWe were invited by the wonderful folk at LeftCoast to run a couple of Fire and Den Building sessions in one of the residential areas in Blackpool, UK. On this occasion Pop-Ups Board Member, Andy, came to assist on the session as we playworkers never work alone,...
