Do you have fond memories of spending most of your childhood playing outside? Alice Ferguson and Amy Rose wanted to give their children the same opportunities for free play outdoors as they had when they were young, so they started the Playing Out project to create play spaces in their neighborhood. This video captures the joyful play of the children and unexpected benefits for the adults as well in the pilot project on 6 streets in Bristol, U.K.

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  • emanuel boyd

    Lets face it, kids are merely smaller human beings as compared to their adult counterparts.The phenomenon of establishing\claiming turf is very important to we Homocipians. Once turf is truly attained,creativity goes into full bloom.With all this going on,We can visualize other positive human dynamics such as laughter;tollerance;and ultimately allowing social integration to literaly comes into"Play"

  • Minerva Ruiz

    Live it!

  • Sophie Underwood

    Love it! I want to do Street Play in our Street in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia!! It's on my to do list. Thank you Karmatube.

  • Deepak

    Thank You . Freedom for children and their parents .

  • Lisa Hallstrom

    What a breath of fresh air! I love this idea and think we should think about it in the US.

  • Melanie Humphries-Connolly

    This is very cool! Bought back lots of memories of being a kid and playing outside. I love the idea of the road closures and free play is so important for childhood development. great video:)

  • Freja

    oh yeah, what have cars done to our community?

  • leelah

    What inspired you about this video?Tremendous important experience for children - free play, companionship, lots of children, feeling at home with ones peers. LOVE the video

  • leelah

    Tremendous important experience for children - free play, companionship, lots of children, feeling at home with ones peers. LOVE the video

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  • Find out how you too, can make Playing Out a part of your community.
  • Read about the importance of play in promoting healthy child development and maintaining strong parent-child bonds.
  • Try some of these easy ways to help build a relationship with your street and neighbors.

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