The Play Safety Forum has produced Managing Risk in Play Provision to help strike a balance between the risks and the benefits of offering children challenging play opportunities.
Exploring Nature Play: Waterville Primary School
This case study was produced as part of Play England’s Exploring Nature Play project, which worked across three adventure playgrounds in London, North Tyneside and Torbay, as well as with schools and environmental organisations, to explore different ways of increasing children’s understanding of nature through play.
Exploring Nature play: Links we like
There is a huge treasure trove of nature play ideas and things to do and discover on the internet, but sometimes they can be hard to find.
Exploring Nature Play: Growing butterflies
Learning about the lifecycle of earth’s creatures at Shiremoor Adventure Playground, North Tyneside
Exploring Nature Play: Searching for a Geocache
DATE: September 2013 Searching for treasure at Shiremoor Adventure Playground, North Tyneside
Exploring Nature Play: Weaving the willow
DATE: September 2013 Making and building with natural materials at Shiremoor Adventure Playground, North Tyneside.
Exploring Nature Play: Building scarecrows
DATE: September 2013 Making and building at Shiremoor Adventure Playground, North Tyneside.
Exploring Nature Play: Pot noodles
Cooking and communities at Fort Apache Adventure Playground, Torbay.
Exploring Nature Play: Treasure hunts
Searching for treasure at Shiremoor Adventure Playground, North Tyneside
Exploring Nature Play: Wild food walk
Learning about nature’s food source at Fort Apache Adventure Playground, Torbay.