Junkyard Sports continues

I've been working on my keynote for The Association for the Study of Play and International Playground Association conference. I was looking around to see if there were any excerpts from my Junkyard Sports book still online. I came across this article on Fredericksburg.com - inspired, apparently, by an article I wrote for Kidscoop.

It's a collection of ideas for Junkyard Sports, contributed by elementary school kids.

Here's one:

Do you like soda? Well, drink a whole can of soda, crush the can, get out some brooms and play "Soda Can Hockey." You play this game by going to a cement or blacktop area, and take a piece of chalk to draw a very large rectangle. Put the can in the middle of the rectangle and then form two teams. The goal is to use your broom to push the can across your opponent's line for a goal. That is how you take some junk and make a junkyard sport.

--Clair Huffine, fourth grade

Mary Walter Elementary School,

Ms. Baker's class

I am delighted beyond measure to have found this. It is exactly the kind of thing I would hope would result from my work.

It is success.

from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith