Summer Play Dates

Every summer we open up our amazing playground to our friends and community for play dates. All ages of children come and enjoy the beautiful and fun play spaces our co-op community has built. Last week I got out our fairy and pirate outside dress up box. It was interesting to see how a group of children of varied ages and in different stages of development shared their imaginations and joined in the play.

An older boy, age 6, played he was a monster, and he played it very respectfully with the younger children. He was not aggressive or too scary. Nonetheless, the younger children, while thrilled with the play, also did some processing about how it was just pretend. There's just something about being chased, or hiding, or sneaking up on someone that is so age old and so much fun!