American Association of Adventure Playgrounds

Play scene #452

oh wow! you gotta check out this IPA/USA upcoming virtual SPEAKER SERIES. Some of my favorite international play thinkers and leaders on playwork / adventure play / play equity + social justice / nature play and more

2021 Speakers – IPA 2021 Speakers Click Here for Sessions & Schedule Marc Armitage Marc Armitage is a consultant, researcher, and writer in play, playing, and playwork. He has been a professional Playworker for more than thirty years and freelance since 1989. He regularly travels the world speaking to groups of profess...

Encouraging Nature Play "Dinosaur Train" host, Dr. Scott Sampson, explains the importance of children having time for outdoor, unscheduled play.

Celebrate Mud Day and Help Rebuild Schools for Nepal | World Forum Foundation Recent earthquakes have destroyed schools and deeply impacted the well-being of children in Nepal. On June 29, 2015, our World Forum community will celebrate International Mud Day, a great opportunity to support the families and communities in Nepal in their relief and rehabilitation efforts, as wel…

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here's a nice glimpse of the scene of the famous Glamis Adventure Playground in London http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj80SLO5-Wk&feature=youtu.be&a

The Glamis Adventure Playground- Art & theatre Event A short documentary on The Glamis Adventure Playground (part of Shadwell Community Project), located in Shadwell which is surrounded by 2 powerful financial ...

Wow! A lot of people liked this page yesterday - how about some introductions? Who are you? Where are you? What is your interest in Adventure Playgrounds? (and) How can the new American Association of Adventure Playgrounds best help? (what should our adventure look like?) thanks!!!

For those that are interested today at 12pm, the Kojo Nnamdi Show will be discussing The Atlantic article that came out recently on risky play and overprotected kids. You can listen in on his website and take a poll on whether children today are overprotected.

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2014-03-27/overprotected-kids

Overprotected Kids | The Kojo Nnamdi Show The Kojo Nnamdi Show features two-hours of news, political issues and social trends of the day in a magazine program format. The Kojo Nnamdi Show is produced by WAMU 88.5fm American University Radio.

here's a great study trip of Adventure Playgrounds and more in Berlin

http://www.ipa2014.org/ipa/en-US/call-for-paper

Kids Don't Need Fancy Toys To Have Fun—Just Junk It's only natural that we should want to protect our kids; they seem so small and helpless, so vulnerable to the dangers of the world. But actually being a kid means constantly negotiating danger and, usually, coming through just fine.