RIGHT TO PLAY
Right To Play is Pif-Paf’s fantastic touring “Adventure Playground”. It is inspired by the UN Convention on the rights of the child Article 31 – the Right To Play. It aims to inspire us to overcome the barriers to play ourselves and create worlds through play with our families and communities.
Right To Play is currently touring – you can see the places we’ve been so far and will be going to soon on our Dates page.
We can tour to hard standing or grass, with a preference for grass so we can use our wonderful festival flags. We set an 18m diameter circular cordon and fill it with…
– Long Table “Mud Kicthen” a glorious play kitchen with 6 running water taps and just the right amount of play sand and metal crockery for little hands. This tends to be where the under 5’s head – but it’s open to all.
– Balance and Scamper – a colourful clambering frame with wooden boards that can be arranged by families to make ramps, slides and planks. You can practice and develop physical confidence and skill, or just chill in the net if it’s quiet. The Clambering Frame is built a fresh for each audinece. On hard standing or dry hard ground we bring thin mats.
– Den Building – families use dozens of bamboo poles and clever re-usable ties to build structres that they can decorate and inhabit with a boneyard of loose parts. Beautiful fabric coulurs billow in the wind …and.. the tiny puppet mice may turn up and as for a tour of the den.
Right To Play was developed over 2024 as an action research project with commissioners Flux Rotherham and supporters Outside Arts and ACE Lottery Funding. We took developing versions to 15 communities who helped us work out what works best.
The activity is always free to access. We close a gate for a short time if we get too busy.
