No drills, no lineups, no refs, no scoreboard, no trophies. Just play.
Letting the game teach. Little ones (4+) welcome on the nicest backyard in the neighborhood: a beautiful, bright patch of grass. Open to all: kiddos, sisters, brothers, friends, moms, dads, grandparents. Celebrating your first kick or your first goal. (Invariably) falling & getting lifted up to try all over again.
Sundays 8-9:15AM, Thursdays, 4:30-5:45PM.
$10 per player ($5 for 12 & under)
Every dollar goes to food security where we live.
One of our most beloved games in the seasons before the pandemic was our Sunday morning family pickup ⚽️. Three teams of 7 players rotating onto the field for 6-minute games where we don’t keep score. I would try to describe the joyful vibe to folks … “kinda like backyard soccer – just on a really nice backyard.” Each game usually ended with a “game-face” photo.
We received this school essay from a mom. Her son wrote it about Sunday mornings at the Fieldhouse. It says it all ♥️
Toddlers take the field
My two toddler grandsons rambled joyfully on our field this past week. One just loves to run anywhere, a young Forest Gump. The other, pushing a toy mower, just loves “getting to work”. (But he also loves falling down so that his “waylo” could pick him up.)
Witnessing it confirmed a long-held dream for our field on cold winter mornings … pre-schoolers running and playing as if it is spring, summer, and fall. Our weekday mornings are almost always free. This idea has been brewing for a decade. It took a giant step a year ago with our more grasslike field v2.0.
Like any good idea, it will need to become the vision of others – way smarter than me. Please reach out at ✉️fhcanaan@icloud.com if the idea intrigues you. We’d love to walk our field and noodle this idea with us – maybe as your toddlers are running around.🙏🏽
