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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Exciting New Playscape in Lancaster Ohio
plan detail AHA! A Hands-On Adventure, A Children’s Museum in Lancaster, Ohio is hard at play creating a new nature ...
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Lexington Plant and Play Nature Playspace – Draft Plans
Draft Plans are Coming Together for a New Nature Play Environment in Castlewood Park in Lexington, Kentucky. Draft Plans by ...
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Prioritizing Play Conference – May 3-5, 2018 in Urbana-Champaign
Sharing Opportunities to Learn the Essentials of Playwork Practice The Children at Play Network is pleased to help promote this ...
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Muddy Boots in 2018
From late summer frolics to chilly winter hikes that end round a crackling fire, the children who participate in Muddy ...
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Nature Play at Castlewood Park in Lexington
Planning for Nature Play is Best Done in Community The CAPN is excited about participating in the planning and construction ...
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2017 CAPN Recap
When your work is play, there’s never a dull moment and plenty of fun. The Children at Play Network (CAPN) ...
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Invite an Elm to Play
American Elm Tree becomes Play Equipment American elm (Ulmus americana) Bernheim only removes trees after careful deliberation. We recently removed ...
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Idea Festival 2017 Video
This short film will give you a good idea of the Children at Play Networks participation in Idea Festival back ...
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ColorFest 2017 Free Play Day III
No Two Days of Play are the Same Each play day unfolds in its own unique fashion. The tone of ...
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ColorFest 2017 Free Play Day II
Exploring Free Play at ColorFest 2017 (Part II) The boxes have been mostly claimed, reclaimed and reclaimed. The cypress tree ...
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ColorFest 2017 Free Play Day
Fall weather makes for great free play opportunities. These photos are from the first hours of the ColorFest free play ...
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Highlights of PLAY at Idea Festival – September 2017
Psychologist Peter Gray At this year’s Idea Festival the Children at Play Network hosted a keynote lecture by Peter Gray, ...
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Peter Gray – Author of Free to Learn presenting at IdeaFestival
Psychologist Peter Gray Thought leadership requires thought leaders. The Children at Play Network is pleased to host Peter Gray, a ...
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Play at CONNECT – August 19th – 6:29 to 10:29 p.m.
CONNECT is a collision of art, science, nature – AND PLAY The ninth annual CONNECT event at Bernheim takes place ...
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Imagining What’s Possible – Hawthorne Elementary
Melissa Rue and Todd Bluechel contemplating the play future at Hawthorne Elementary. Todd Bluechel, a parent at Hawthorne Elementary school ...
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Bridge Kids at Play – July 22, 2017
Bridge Kids International offered a Well Living Fest at Ben Washer Park on Saturday, July 27, 2017 and the Bernheim ...
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New Book on Play Features Bernheim Children at Play Network
Since 2012 Bernheim has been hard at work exploring ways to connect children to nature through play. Understanding that children ...
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Testing the Tree
On Friday, April 28, kindergarten students from North Park Elementary in Hardin County, Ky. visited Bernheim for programs with our ...
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