How we can create appealing opportunities for busy little hands to touch, grab, poke, pour, twist and squeeze.
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How we can create appealing opportunities for busy little hands to touch, grab, poke, pour, twist and squeeze.
Here are 3 more ideas for outdoor play equipment that can be cheap, useful, fun and can be played with over and over and over again.
Christmas presents don’t have to be expensive, nor end up in landfill on Boxing Day. Here are 3 NaturePlay essentials that can be cheap, fun, useful and last a very long time!
There are many reasons to include nature in your Christmas festivities - here are 4 easy, Christmas-themed nature activities to get you started!
What shapes can your family find on an outdoor discovery adventure?
Staying at home more than usual at the moment can be both a positive and negative, depending on the day! Here is a couple of things I find act as a reset, or ‘circuit breaker’ as I like to call it, for the days you need to reset the mood and find the joy.
Today’s small joy—-puddles! Jump in and you’ll discover that there are endless ways to enjoy a small pool of water…
Need to give your mind a rest? take a moment to look up and watch the clouds go by…
3 activities to help you and your child embrace and learn more about windy weather.
Helping children to understand why the wind is useful, can help it seem less scary and uncomfortable. Here are 3 amazing ways that the wind helps nature, and us!
Regular opportunities for risky play and the challenges that come with it help children build physical and emotional skills such as fine and gross motor, resilience, muscle strength, problem solving and self-confidence.
Inside babies and children there is an overwhelming desire to play, to experience and to make sense of themselves and their world. They’re all little scientists!
Summer has well and truly arrived, and it’s too nice to be indoors.
Do you ever feel like you “should” be making a “proper” dinner every night? If you have the time and energy every day for this, then that is wonderful, but if you want to cheat a little on preparation time, but not on food quality then read on. I’ll give you some tips to create a nutritionally-balanced, easy-to-prepare meal. It just takes a good balance of a little bit of this and that.
Do you remember sprouting carrot tops as a child? Delight in the wonders of vegetables!! See what you can get growing in your little mini garden and you may be suprised to discover just how much life is still left in boring old vegetable scraps.
Making and playing with Rainbow Rice is a fantastic activity for the whole family!
Small-scale, organic activities can provide the richest, most nuanced experiences that allow our children to grow into adults that feel and appreciate subtlety and deep meaning.
The time has come to face up to troubling waste issues in our communities and around the world. There is rubbish everywhere and it’s all a bit of a mess! Which “R” words should we listen to? What can we do as individuals with our rubbish?