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The Bunk Shack – Palettes in their Place!

Nov 28, 2012 | Community Involvement, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Technologies

The focus on palettes continues. I was staying in The Bunkroom Hostel recently which had a tiny social space outside. As with all hostels, this was created on an ad hoc and shoestring budget. Naturally this means lots of potentially transferable ideas to cash-starved...

The Inside-Out Woolly Tree

Nov 25, 2012 | Art & Music Outdoors, Community Involvement

Yarn bombing is a growing world-wide trend with guerilla knitters everywhere taking up the challenge of giving local spaces and places funky feel makeover. Whilst I had seen various photos and videos (Google image the term for a dazzling array) about this new art...

Pallets for Re-Purposing and Play

Nov 17, 2012 | Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Gardening, Technologies

Many years ago, I was fortunate enough to spend the day in the company of Tim Gill who took me on a magical tour of the Kate Greenaway Nursery and Glamis Adventure Playground. Our final destination was a temporary pop up community play space which oozed wonderful wood...

Outdoor Maths: Angles and Numerals

Nov 7, 2012 | Maths Outdoors

This is a very simple investigation using sticks lying around. It works particularly well with twigs or sticks which can be easily broken or snapped to size. The challenge is to create the numerals from 1-9 with sticks. Now that is a nice challenge in the early years...

The Glamis Monster

Nov 3, 2012 | Art & Music Outdoors, Community Involvement, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Early Years Outdoors

One of the most impressive low level features at Glamis Adventure Playground is the monster. This mighty mosaic houses the sand pit and water feature and is an incredibly attractive work of art in its own right. By the looks of things, the monster was created through...