What happens when you take a bunch of cardboard boxes, garden hoses, pipes, and other miscellaneous household items and give them to children? Ramshackle Play gives you that answer. Amped2Play created a new pop-up play space at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre that lets kids and their imaginations run wild with neutral items found in many Cochranites homes. 

Brandi Heather, Co-Founder of Amped2Play says that Ramshackle Play is exactly how it sounds “It’s taking things that are kind of ramshackle and in our world, we have a lot of pieces of things that we throw out every single day. So if it’s been a long time since you made anything out of an old garden hose, cardboard, and some old buckets that’s what ramshackle play is all about.”

“We see a process that happens, and that is that people will start in safe spaces that they understand and then they will get more creative as the day goes on.”

Ramshackle Play runs on Family day down at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm and the drop-in rate is five dollars.