Children and adults engage in a nature-themed craft activity at a table outdoors, surrounded by art supplies, leaves, and ribbons.

Child wearing a homemade robot costume made from cardboard boxes, standing on grass with trees in the background.

Three children play on a wooden structure in a forest, with two jumping onto blue mats below and one climbing ropes.

Clay hedgehog sculpture with wooden sticks as quills, googly eyes, and a small yellow flower and green buds attached to its back.

A big thank you to @arnoldclark.bsky.social and the #ArnoldClarkCommunityFund for supporting our #NationalPlayday event this summer! Bringing families from across West Leeds together for a fun-filled community day #ThankYou

Play Day 2025 – A Celebration of All Things Play – Coram's Fields

A very special day and a huge well done to the organisers for making the event such a success.

Take a look at some of the photos from the day. ➡️
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#InclusiveCycling #NationalPlayDay #FamilyFriendlyLondon

Celebrating National Play Day at London Zoo with John Lyon’s Charity | Children’s Commissioner Never work with children or animals , goes that old saying. This week I was fortunate enough to mix the two with a fantastic afternoon at London Zoo hosted by John Lyon s Chari

How do you celebrate play? Join us at London Zoo with 500 kids from local charities for National Play Day! #NationalPlayDay

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Language used by mothers affects oxytocin levels of infants Infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling, have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

It's #NationalPlayDay! 🛝 🤹
UCL PALS research has found that when mums talk about their baby’s thoughts & feelings during interaction such as play, it boosts oxytocin, the “bonding hormone", in infants.
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Our Kurdish youth group gives young people who have been displaced somewhere to find connection and fun.

Play helps children process difficult emotions, build trust and feel more confident.

On #NationalPlayDay, we’re grateful for everything they teach us about resilience, creativity and joy.💜

Collage of white bindweed (Calystegia sepium) flowers. Left panel shows a 16th-century botanical illustration from ‘Grandes Heures d’Anne de Bretagne’ by Jean Bourdichon, depicting the twining plant with white trumpet-shaped flowers, heart-shaped leaves, a beetle, and a butterfly. Right panels feature close-up photographs of bindweed in bloom, highlighting the flower’s flaring trumpet shape, green sepals, and twisting stems set against lush green foliage.

Bindweed was once a favourite in childhood games. Squeeze the calyx, and the flower leaps off—cue the rhyme: “Granny, granny, pop out of bed!” In Dorset it was “fairy trumpets,” in Norfolk “devil’s guts” and in Shropshire “thunder flowers,” said to bring storms. #NationalPlayDay

Lola Pugh-Cordero with Pink Squig at the Make No Bones BA Fine Art Degree Show 2025, University of Leeds. Photo by Andy Lord.

BA #FineArt (International) graduate Lola Pugh-Cordero is taking part in #NationalPlayDay

📅 6 August

📍 Artspace, Leeds Art Gallery

Families are invited to explore art through touch, movement & a shared imagination, through Lola’s soft, tactile sculptures:

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Craft supplies and emotional regulation toolkit from Barca-Leeds, including crayons, stickers, a pen, coloring sheet, and booklets.

Goodie bag production line is in full swing, drop by our National Playday event on Weds 6th August collect one 🛍️

Event details: www.barca-leeds.org/news/national-playday-20...

#NationalPlayday #FunForAllAges

It's National Play Day! Celebrate by heading over to #ClimaxeThrowing and throwing some axes, playing cornhole, or shooting darts. #NationalPlayDay #axethrowing

Be sure to celebrate #NationalPlayDay with us!
-Wilbur & Ernie
Day 19
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Day 19 #NationalPlayDay and I am playing with my fish 🐠. #DailyAnipalPhotoJul25

Go on, get playful! 🤸‍♀️ Happy #NationalPlayDay! Put down the to-do list and pick up a game, a sport, or just goof around.

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Today is National Play Day! Celebrate by unleashing your inner child, sparking your creativity, and remembering why play is an important part of living a happy life.

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#NationalPlayDay #PlayDay #Today #NationalDays #Holidays

JULY 19 NATIONAL PLAY DAY
Summer is in full swing on July 19 and the perfect the day celebrate National Play Day!
#July19 #NationalPlayDay #creativity #enjoyment #problemsolving

It's National Play Day, and the Play Pavilion at the Serpentine South gallery is now open — a dynamic public art installation designed by architect Peter Cook in collaboration with the LEGO Group.

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#nationalplayday #photography #photocall #lego

#NationalPlayDay #boardgames What @nathanrlong.bsky.social and I have been playing a lot of, lately. On the table + digital.

#NationalPlayDay #cats Play with your cat. Written by Dr. Mikel Delgado.

#NationalPlayDay #dogs Play with your dog. Inspired by The Play Way seminar by Dr. Amy Cook. PLAY is a conversation.