Thank you to everyone-more than 200 of you!-who came out for Sunflower's Ice Castle Festival and Play Day. It was an amazingly FUN day!!! Highlights included a nature scavenger hunt, obstacle course, giant bubble fort, mini Shakespeare festival and-of course- the famous Sunflower Ice Castle, constructed of over 3,000 pounds of ice. [...]...»

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We're working hard to shift the conversation regarding child safety to include risk as a conduit for learning, rather than a situation that must be avoided. When adults who design childhood play spaces have the ability to assess risk and see risk as a benefit, children become competent risk takers and better understand through experience [...]...»

Sunflower Managing Director, Jennifer Ligeti, and I recently attended the US Play Coalition Conference on the Value of Play at Clemsen University. We came back with heads full of practical information from the leading thinkers and advocates in the world of play. Here are some highlights from the conference. Good News: We're all on the [...]...»

Jennifer Ligeti and Jaime Greenberg at the US Play Coalition Conference on the Value of Play in Feb.

I spent my first week in Växjö, Sweden, pedaling the hundreds of bike paths strewn across the county. One especially sunny weekday afternoon I was speeding around the lake enjoying the feeling of being thousands of miles from home. As I rounded a bend, the trees opened up to a gorgeous view of the lake [...]...»

Mom Ami Polonsky shares a story about Susan's grandkids, Ben and Ella, who live in a suburb of Chicago.

One late afternoon over winter break, my husband and I were in the kitchen listening to our kids (Ben 5, Ella 3 ½) as they talked in the other room. The conversation we overheard went something [...]...»