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Pop-up Play Days

We organized pop up adventure play days at both indoor and outdoor community spaces like city parks, local farms, schools and museums. We have corroborated with city of Portland with their Free Lunch + Play days and Sunday Parkways too.

PORTLAND PARKS & RECREATION
​Sunday Parkway
at NE Everett x Park Ave.


Again, we joined Portland Parks and Recreation Sunday Parkway. This time it was in Peal district. As always, it was so impressive and joyful to see how many variety of structures, objects , and stories behind them that the children created with the loose parts we provided. 
8.25.2019
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PORTLAND PARKS & RECREATION
​Sunday Parkway
at McCoy Park


We brought tons of loose parts to McCoy Park to be part of Sunday Parkway event organized by Portland Parks and Recreation.
Under the blue sky, with the beautiful live music, so many children (and adults) enjoyed making-destroying-remaking their own structures and playing with them.
​6.30.2019

PORTLAND PARKS & RECREATION
​Free Lunch & Play Program!


Starting in summer of 2017, we have been partnering with the Free Lunch & Play program of Portland Parks to bring Adventure Play opportunities to kids in the lunch program!  We bring the parts and facilitate a creative free play experience for the kids & families who attend.  So far we have visited 5 different parks serving communities of need around Portland.
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ADVENTURE PLAY DAY at the Portland Design Museum!

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As part of the Portland Design Museum's exhibit: Extraordinary Playscapes, we organized this pop-up adventure play day with lots of loose parts and creative chaos! We used the newly revived classic interlocking  Play Panels designed by Richard Dattner to add another dimension the the constructive play!

PUMKIN SMASH PLAY DAY 
at Zenger Farm!

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This was a celebration of the joys of destructive play, transforming the left over pumpkin harvest into mush compost!  With the help of lots of kids and some rubber mallets!
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BUILD IT!
PLAY DAY 

at Zenger Farm

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Back again to Zenger Farm for a day of creative construction and fort building!  We also added Builder Boards to the suite of play materials this time.

MUD PLAY DAYS 
at Zenger Farm!

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Back again with more muddy fun, this time hosted by the amazing Zenger Farm!  We organized two incredible Mud Play Days in August and September of 2016.
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MUD DAYS
at Ivy School!


In celebration of International Mud Day we organized a mud play event at the Ivy School Children’s Garden. We brought in lots of clean topsoil and added water.  What else do you need?

PLAY DAY  
at Sacramento Street Community 
​Corner

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As part of a VBC community building event in this NE Portland neighborhood, we gathered boxes as well as clay, sand, and sticks for local kids to create with!  And of course hilarity ensued.  A cardboard mega-fort was one of the highlights!
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CHILDREN'S VILLAGE
​at the Portland Saturday Market!


This event was held on the grounds of the Portland Saturday Market at Waterfront Park, and organized in conjunction with the Village Building Convergence in May of 2015.  We brought the boxes and tape, and the children arrived!
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FOREST PLAY DAYS
​at Beach Street Community Garden

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The Beech Street Community Garden was the site of a couple of exciting days of play.  We explored the woods the amazing woods they have on site, climbed trees, played with water and mud and tested our limits!
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Our very first Pop-up Adventure PLAY DAY!


This is what started it all!  This one day play event was held atTaborSpace in the spring of 2014.  We gathered junk materials like cardboard boxes, tubes and fabrics and invited kids to come out and play!  Over 100 people attended that first play day event, and fun was had by all!
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