What fun! After skipping a year because of Covid I reconvened with a favorite local Ithaca elementary school to build “phase 2” of their outdoor classroom project. The first year was conceptually designing areas of their woods with an enthusiastic...
[portfolio_slideshow] Gotta love it: learning about the world by being in the world. Up close and personal style. After all the years of dreaming and designing children’s spaces I finally have a child of my own: Julian James Keeler, born Jan 8, 2012. yay!...
Here’s one way to do it. During a natural playscape build at Faith Childcare and Nursery School in Rochester, NY we had a big space designated as “log climbing area”. Great. But then we needed to get some logs to fill it. We put the word out...
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...
