Play Today

Your favorite dangerous playtime activities

Kerala_Taylor — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:02:26 +0000

Kerala Taylor

Would you let your kid climb a tree? What about jump off a roof?

Over the weekend, in light of our recent conversation about risk aversion, we asked our Twitter followers and Facebook fans about their favorite “dangerous” playtime activities growing up. There was a lot of gleeful jumping, climbing, and (almost) falling involved. Here's just a sampling:

Where are all the kids?

administrator — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Jaime Greenberg

In November KaBOOM! launched its first guest blogging contest, asking parents to muse about their experiences with play. We received lots of entries, and while it was tough, managed to narrow it down. Over the past ten weeks we've been publishing the top ten, and we hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did! Congratulations to all of our winners. In 1st place is Jaime Greenberg from Boca Raton, Florida…

Encouraging risk in a risk-averse world

administrator — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Danielle Marshall

This story originally appeared in the Altruim Institute’s Health Policy Forum and has been adapted for kaboom.org.

Help make Pawnee playful

administrator — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:56:53 +0000

Stephanie Bowen

Urge NBC’s fictional town of Pawnee to become a Playful City USA!

You may remember the NBC episode of Parks and Recreation that featured KaBOOM!. We’ve been following the show closely ever since and are thrilled that fictional City Council candidate Leslie Knope thinks there should be a playground in every park, school yard and residential block.

Wordless Wednesday: Imagination Playground in York, PA

jcooper — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Jason Cooper

We love Imagination Playground. Whether in a cart or in a box, we love how Imagination Playground helps children enjoy self-directed, unstructured, and creative play.

You can imagine how delighted we were to receive a large pile of pictures from a recent Imagination Playground unveiling at York Academy in Playful City USA community of York, Pennsylvania.

Let's play, South African style!

administrator — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Fezeka Saige

In November KaBOOM! launched its first guest blogging contest, asking parents to muse about their experiences with play. We received lots of entries, and while it was tough, managed to narrow it down. Over the next ten weeks we will be publishing the top ten, and we hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did! Congratulations to all of our winners. In 2nd place is Fezeka Saige from Roswell, Georgia…

Relax... It's okay to get a little dirty!

administrator — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Angie Six

In November KaBOOM! launched its first guest blogging contest, asking parents to muse about their experiences with play. We received lots of entries, and while it was tough, managed to narrow it down. Over the next ten weeks we will be publishing the top ten, and we hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did! Congratulations to all of our winners. In 3rd place is Angie Six from Indianapolis, Indiana…

"No climbing!"

"You'll get dirty!"

White House looking for Champions of Change

administrator — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:52:30 +0000

KaBOOM!

Do you know someone who's been working hard to get the children in their community up and active? If so, the President's Council, the White House Office of Public Engagement and the First Lady's Let's Move! initiative would like to hear about them!