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...
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...
Feb 22, 2022 | Blog Thoughts, Morgan, Play
Driving in the car, I’m going through my ‘To Do’ list and berating myself. I’m always behind where I want to be, feeling late and worried. I keep putting ‘creative writing time’ on my calendar, but day after day other things get crossed off first. The...
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
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. It was intended as the seed of a blog post on the most recent (and by far,...
