I have been lucky enough to know Shoshana from Aspiral Designs for many years now, frequently working together through the City of Gold Coast’s Active and Healthy school holiday program. My Pop-Up Playgrounds engage the kids physically with a variety of event activities, and her Tie Dye Workshops inspire them creatively. She does all the Tie Dye – not me… So Contact Her! Shoshana:
On the 11th of March 2017, the Nature Play QLD Symposium, ‘Just for the Fun of It!’ was held on the Gold Coast. The goal was to look at the importance of Unstructured Outdoor Play in Children’s Lives. The premise was that unstructured outdoor play – nature play – is fundamental to a full and healthy childhood. We explored the degree of fun and
Having worked with thousands of children throughout South East Queensland in non-traditional settings, I enjoy exploring the concepts and applications of Nature-Based Play and Learning. The most formal qualification I could find was training to become a Level 3 Forest School Leader, which I have now done. Making the contact through Nature Play QLD, through whom I am an approved Activity Provider, I was
Besides; “Clean up your room” and “Do your homework”, “Go Outside and Play” was one of my mum’s favourite sayings. She gave no insight into what it was that I should do while I was outside, because the ‘play’ part was my responsibility. In all of its varied forms ‘Play Time’ for a kid of my generation was considered to be constructive time well
I’m over 6 feet tall. When I hang on the monkey bars, my feet drag on the ground. I hope you can picture me hanging there with a sad face. “Why oh why don’t they build playgrounds for big people? Just because I’m tall doesn’t mean I don’t want to have fun!” I like to build sand castles at the beach and fight the
I’d catch the bus home from school, eat a piece of toast, and run back out the front door with mum yelling from inside, “Be home when the street lights come on!” That was the way of my world. Each and every day, there were hours of unsupervised and unstructured play that my friends could control. We would slide under the fence of the
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Our Pop-Up Playgrounds offer engaging activities for all ages. We tailor the kit for each event, and are flexible to the available space, surface, expected numbers and demographics.
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We zoom all over South East QLD, with events on the Gold Coast, Logan, Brisbane, Ipswich and Redlands.
