Here we go friends….. The Hands-on-Nature ANARCHY ZONE at the Ithaca Children’s Garden! Woohoo!! I am super excited to be teaming up with US Fish and Wildlife Service, Cornell University, the Ithaca Children’s Garden, Pop-up Adventure...
You could simply call this “play”, or you could also call this “building, engineering, balancing, experimenting, splashing, and focusing”– all in the Mud at the Ithaca Children’s Garden’s Hands-on-Nature ANARCHY ZONE. Mud...
OK, my absolute new love is ADVENTURE PLAYGROUNDS. You know about these, right? Started after WWII – children playing with loose parts, rubble, scrap building materials to build their own play and playgrounds. The phenomenon caught on first in Europe and is...
Here’s a glimpse at some of the funky fort building happening at the Hands-on-Nature Anarchy Zone at the Ithaca Children’s Garden. Notice the negotiation between the girl in white and her mom to stay (inside the den) a half hour longer. At around 1:40 of...
Here it is! One of our new Earthplay Water Features: the WATER TOWER! For the past year I’ve been working to create simple, durable water play items that people can add to their natural playscapes. I have a friend with a large stand of Black Locust trees...
Friends and I have been dreaming of starting an adventure school and this week we began the first Tuesday of the Adventure School Group’s 2012-13 school year. Yay! Inspired by forest schools and nature kindergartens we are starting with a one-day-a-week morning...
