Participatory Design – Working with Children to Design Play
One of the core beliefs of the Children at Play Network is – children have a right to be included ...
Children Help Design Future Play Areas for Portland Museum
Bernheim’s Children at Play Network was invited to help host an opportunity for children to weigh in on the design ...
Children at Play Network Training: What About the Babies? Using Loose Parts for Infants and Toddlers
Join the Children at Play Network (CAPN) for professional development opportunities relating to play and healthy child development. This virtual ...
Play Workshop at Playcosystem for Second Presbyterian Weekday School
The entire staff of Second Presbyterian Weekday School (Louisville KY) visited Playcosystem recently to take part in a six-hour teacher ...
Teasing Apart Play from the Evidence Left Behind
If you are an early childhood educator there is a good chance you have had some exposure to theories of ...
They Hardly Hit the Ground Before Forts Were Built
Today we added 125 clean milk crates to Playcosystem. (A donation from Against the Grain Brewery) We pulled the truck ...
Children Have a Right to be Included in the Design of Play Spaces
One of the core beliefs of the Children at Play Network is that children should have agency over their play ...
Pandemic Play Week – Lots of Loose Parts
As we enter week seven sheltering at home during the COVID pandemic, outside of electronics, you may find your child’s ...
Olmsted Parks Opens the Door for Free Play Days – Next Up July 20th at Bingham Park
The Children at Play Network and Louisville’s Olmsted Park Conservancy(OPC) have developed a partnership for play. In the spring, CAPN ...
California Shelter Building – Report from Afar
Photo by Michael Arthur Frick A Parent and Child Moment in Nature Shared One of our favorite things is when ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Free Play Skills – Joinery
The Power to Make Materials Do as You Please – Mastery Play Claude Stephens One of the things I most ...
Loose Parts – The Top Five All Stars
tree cookies Gathering Loose Parts for Free Play Unlike many forms of play, free-play demands that the play environment itself ...