At Wild Play Woods we get our best materials from things that would otherwise be "trash", and we appreciate help from the community stocking our adventure materials. 🏠 Cleaning out your garage? We'd love to put some of your discarded stuff to good use! 🛞 Love to go thrifting? You can help us out by keeping an eye out for cool stuff!…
We call Wild Play Woods an "adventure playground" because that sounds nicer to grownups. But the original term for this concept was "junk playground", an idea first promoted in the 1930s by Carl Theodor Sørensen, a Danish landscape architect. You know that parental lament about giving your child a fancy gift and they play with the box instead? Sørensen noticed that kids…