Apr 8, 2023 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Zan I remember sitting outside the classroom with the teaching assistant. My pen was poised over an envelope trying to focus all my energies into handwriting my home address in the neatest way possible. I was 7 and we had been learning about letter writing in...
Mar 21, 2023 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
There was a phrase that we had come back to so many times over the years, that Suzanna had developed in response to a trend of particularly worrying adult risky play-enthusiasts. “You can’t go from zero to chainsaw,” she said. It meant: start where you’re at. It...
Mar 7, 2023 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Dear Playwork friends, We’re so pleased to have been nominated and shortlisted as one of the potential recipients of the Altogether Different Award this year! Thank you so much! As one of the 5 awards at the Annual Playwork Awards, we’re particularly...
Feb 8, 2023 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Morgan Leichter-Saxby When I was a kid, I loved to tap out stories on my parents’ clunky beige word processor. I’d illustrate them with colored pencils and make little books. Each one was specific and precious to me and sharing them meant something. It was a...
Feb 1, 2023 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
We have been running the Playworker Development Course for almost 10 years now. It is still humbling to hear about people’s experiences while engaging with the course materials and how they apply playwork theory to real life. This is a guest written post by PDC...
Jun 13, 2022 | Guest Writer, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Pop-Ups Zan was invited by the kind folks of Our Kids Social to host a celebratory pop-up adventure playground in a location that was new to her. She was able to recruit Luke Sutton – one of our PDC tutors – to co-playwork with her and together they...
May 30, 2022 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
There are some questions that we’ve been asked potentially hundreds of times – about risk, conversations with parents and liability. That doesn’t mean that our answers are any more tidy than they were in the beginning! These are good questions, bigger than they seem...
Dec 20, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
It’s been over a decade of Pop-Up Adventure Play and we are thankful to be reflecting on another year of play advocacy. This year, Pop-Up Adventure Play has continued to work on connecting playful folk around the world. This year Morgan and I have been...
Dec 7, 2021 | Morgan, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Pop-Ups Morgan I’ve struggled to write about Campference, both before and after it actually happened. I had ‘wheelbarrows full of potatoes’ written on a piece of card that I carried around for nearly a year, intended as the seed of a blog post on the most recent...
Aug 12, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
There are some scenes I will forever associate with Campference… talking around the fire, watching sparks fly up while people laughed. Pushing wheelbarrows full of potatoes around. Seeing folks who have been emailing for months or years, finally meet face to face. If...
Jan 14, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
We began developing and running the Playworker Development Course (PDC) way back in 2013. It was designed to meet a very specific need: individual play advocates all around the world wanted to learn more about playwork theory and how to put it into action. Since then,...
Jan 1, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Zan It’s 2021 and we rejoice in the start of a brand new year! The unpredictability of 2020 has taught us make some positive and achievable plans for 2021. And having thought long and hard, we’d like to share them with you: As per our announcement, we...
