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Contemplating Play Days – Observations and Questions

Seeing is Believing The Children at Play Network’s Seeds for Urban Play project allows us to work with organizations interested in bringing ...
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Science Is Mostly Play – ColorFest 2018

Learning Science Through Play – That’s Just What Happens We sometimes get caught in the trap of trying to justify ...
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Reflections on Free Play – SEEDS for Urban Play

Adopting Free Play to Serve Urban Families For most of 2018 the Children at Play Network has been working with ...
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Free Play Day – Oct 12, 2018

Seeds for Urban Play – Free Play Day at Brandeis Apartments Friday, October 12 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. 925 South 26th ...
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Free Play, Grass men, Mud and Bubbles – it’s CONNECT

You won’t want to miss Bernheim’s 10th annual CONNECT from 6:31-10:31 p.m. on August 18th where the Children at Play ...
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Inspired Free Play at an Inner City School

In late summer, while visiting Bernheim, my family and I stumbled upon an area that had been set up with ...
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Teacher Training: All Weather Play – July 16th

All Weather Play: learn how to start an all weather play program at your school Workshop Leader: Helen Nonn with ...
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Nature Play Training Institute: Natural Materials and Play Spaces

The Children at Play Network will host a workshop on Natural Materials and Natural Play Environments from 6-8 p.m. on ...
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Spring Play at Bernheim’s BloomFest

BloomFest at Bernheim was a lovely day filled with play between the pines. Children climbed, built, created, collaborated and made ...
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First Free Play Day for Lexington’s Plant and Play Project

The Children at Play Network is a partner with the North Limestone Development Corporation in the Plant and Play Project ...
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Free Play Mash UP for MOPS

The Children at Play Network hosted its first Free Play Mash UP, a combination of a Free Play Day and ...
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Nature Play Training Institute on Loose Parts – May 31st

Stones, sticks, rocks, acorns, sand and toilet plungers. What do all of these have in common? They are all known ...
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CAPN at Morton Arboretum

Outdoor Spaces and Nature-Based Programming in Public Gardens: Building the Evidence for Early STEM Learning Morton Arboretum – May 3, ...
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Teacher Training Workshop – Spectrum of Play – April 24, 2018

The Children at Play Network is hosting a teacher training workshop in support of the Lexington Plant and Play Coalition ...
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Visions For Play – US Play Conference 2018

As part of the Scaling Up: Building Play Networks at the Regional Level presentation by the CAPN at the US Play ...
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CAPN at US Play Coalition Conference – April 8, 2018

Scaling Up: Building Play Networks at the Regional Level Claude Stephens and Melissa Rue presented at the annual US Play ...
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Seeds for Urban Play – A New CAPN Project

Bernheim’s Children at Play Network launched a new year-long effort called Seeds for Urban Play to bring the benefits of ...
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Free Play Day – April 21, 2018

Free Play Day at Castlewood Park in Lexington on 4-21-18 The Children at Play Network is excited about this upcoming ...
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What the Children Taught Me …

Lessons in Den Building By Dustin Pickett, CAPN Play Facilitator A couple of weeks ago I was invited to the ...
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2018 Nature Play Training Institutes

Would you like to learn more about the benefits of free play for children and how to incorporate more of ...
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