The Hands-on-Nature Anarchy Zone (or Anarchy Zone, or HONAZ) is an

Adventure playground An adventure playground is a specific type of playground for children. Adventure playgrounds can take many forms, ranging from "natural playgrounds" to "junk playgrounds", and are typically defined by an ethos of unrestricted play, the presence o ...

located in the Ithaca Children's Garden in Ithaca, New York. The Anarchy Zone was created in 2012 with support from Park Foundation through a partnership of the Ithaca Children's Garden, the

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, and EarthPlay. The Anarchy Zone consists of a play-area of a third of an acre with a large mud pit, sand and clay, trees and stumps, and many loose materials: logs, straw bales, soil, cardboard, rocks, and so forth. The Anarchy Zone is staffed by

playwork Playwork is the work of creating and maintaining spaces for children to play. The theory and practice of playwork recognises that children's play should ideally be "freely chosen, personally directed and intrinsically motivated." It is the job o ...

ers.

External links

Mud Constructions at the hands-on-nature ANARCHY ZONE

References

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