Sep 29, 2017 | Canada, children, loose parts, photos, play conference, play frames, playwork, playworker, Pop-Up Adventure Play, presentations, tour, video, workshop
By Morgan9 weeks.10,000 miles.18 stops.The Pop-Up Adventure Play team has met and played with literally thousands of people, from coast to coast, in big cities and small towns, on mountains and in prairies, in parks and schools and lecture halls, with new friends and...
Aug 21, 2017 | adults, Andy, Canada, children, families, photos, play, playworker, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, tour
By AndySince we started our Canadian tour just over a month ago, we have started each day full of curiosity as to what the next location will bring. Our only disappointments have been in not yet seeing a moose, and hearing that our chances get slimmer the further west...
Aug 4, 2017 | Andy, Canada, children, photos, play, play advocates, playful, playworker, Pop-Up Adventure Play, tour, workshop
By AndyAfter a series of unfortunate mechanical happenings, were arrived in London ON from Ottawa ON, just before midnight. We were kindly greeted by Alan, our local contact and play advocate who had started a conversation about this very visit many months ago.Our...
Apr 2, 2017 | adventure playground, energy, junk, Junkyard, loose parts, musical, playworker, Zan
By ZanSitting in my seat next to Andy, I felt really excited. I hadn’t thought about the set for Junkyard the Musical and now that I was looking at the silhouette of it on the stage before the show. It had real pallets, and barrels, and planks and...
Nov 22, 2016 | adventures, loose parts, moments, play, playworker, Playworking Auntie
By Pop-Ups ZanShe noticed the fallen leaves on the ground and crunched over them as we walked along. Then suddenly she stopped dead and picked one up by the stem. She studied it briefly before picking up a second by the stem with the other hand. Waving them about like...
Oct 18, 2016 | adventure playground, Andy, photos, playworker, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Santa Clarita Valley Adventure Play, vote
By Pop-Ups AndyAfter an epic 12 year playwork journey from an un-sure 17 year old volunteer, through the stages of front-line playworker, playwork graduate and Children’s Centre Manager in the UK, I have landed here, starting a new adventure with the fine people of...
Oct 7, 2016 | adventures, Andy, photo, playful, playwork, playworker, Pop-Up Adventure Play, team, Zan
By ZanIt is with great joy that we’d like to introduce you all to a new member of Team Pop-Up Adventure Play: Andy Hinchcliffe!Here he is with Morgan when we were in Costa Rica. As usual, I am taking the photo so I’m not in this wonderful pic.Andy has been...
Sep 20, 2016 | campference, playwork, playworker, press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 9/20/2016Val Verde, CA – February 16-19, 2017 – UK based Pop-up Adventure Play is teaming up with Santa Clarita Valley Adventure Play to host a first time Playwork Campference in Val Verde, CA February 16-19th 2017. The...
Aug 7, 2016 | children, niblings, play, playranger, playwork, playworker, Playworking Auntie, Zan
By Zan*****She ran straight past me and launched her 14-month-old self up the playground slide. This is not the first time she has done this, but apparently the excitement and freefall of going down the slide wasn’t quite enough so ever since she could walk, all...
Feb 20, 2016 | adventures, children, play, playworker, Playworking Auntie, reflection, Zan
By ZanLast year was a busy year. Not only was I buzzing around the world with Morgan, I was also preparing my heart to have an upgrade in status: I was no longer in the youngest generation within my family. Yes, 2015 was the year that I became an auntie to two...
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 3, 2015 | children, guest writer, loose parts, parents, photos, play, play types, playwork, playworker, Pop-Up Play Shop, toolkit
By Millie Boswell and Gareth Stacey, CVSC Play Development Team ConwyThe Play Development Team at Conwy first approached us at Pop-Ups HQ a few months ago, explaining how they wanted to open their very own Pop-Up Play Shop. This was a wonderful moment as it meant that...
