Let Play Lead The Day!
Resources to share with parents and carers to support play at home.
Play Animation
We are excited to bring you this inspiring short animation designed to support families with play.
Tapestry teamed up with award-winning PlayworkerAmber – aka Amber Ogunsanya-William – to collaborate on this project championing children’s freedom to play. The animation shares Amber’s story, and highlights provocations for play at home.
Play is where we build our brightest selves. My own childhood was spent leaping between bold colours and sky-high towers in a vibrant, wild adventure playground. That joy still lives in everything I do. (Amber)
Amber’s Dad has run an adventure playground for many decades, championing imagination, joy, and community – a life led by play.
It was her experiences in the adventure playground that inspired Amber to be an advocate for play.
Many brilliant organisations who are advocates for play supported the project. Thank you everyone for all the work you do to enable children to play!
Thank you to the wonderful animator, Maddy Salgado. You can find her at @elestras
And thank you to the brilliant sound designer, Henry Stuckey
Play Resource for Parents
Amber has created a fantastic resource for parents to accompany the animation. It’s packed full of reasons why play is important, how play changes as children develop, plus practical and fun provocations for play at home.
You can download the Let Play Lead the Day resource to share with families in your setting or school here:
