A picture is worth a thousand words.
Encouraging children to spend more time outdoors and away from technology aids their physical well-being and helps them improve their emotional and intellectual health,
… feeding the fish at the river.
The outdoors offers limitless potential to young children. It becomes a place where they can relax their mind, be inspired, and deep dive into the world of imagination. It’s a place where they can design, create and explore. The possibilities are endless ~ Angela Hanscom
“Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement, we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.” – Maria Montessori.
Sand play is very tactile and helps children learn about textures and develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Creativity skill-building: Moulding shapes and objects, making patterns, raking, drawing designs in the sand with a stick, building roads and play spaces for trucks and toys.
“Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.” – Thomas Berry.
Mother nature is the best classroom. Bring all your senses along for learning, dearest child.
Children can be all thumbs at times, but we can nurture their green thumbs by making gardening fun, getting their input on the garden spot, and planting their favourite trees. Our little gardeners with their healthy growing sunflowers!
“Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together make this world a beautiful garden.” “A sprout is like love. Water it and watch it grow” growing tomatoes with care and love.
Did you know eggshells can be used as fertilizers for plants? TSP children were pounding eggshells for their little garden. Regrowing plants from scraps is another way for children to appreciate the mother of nature, too.
