Category: Woods & Parks
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Nature play ideas for Spring in the local park
Playing in the local park and exploring formal gardens. Challenges include feeding the squirrels; playing listening hide and seek; digging in the dirt at Kew Gardens, exploring the Parkland Walk in Crouch End and running away from the responsible adult at Dyffryn Gardens.
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The 1st day of the challenge revisited: The Stick Igloo…
On the first day of the 365 Day Nature Play Challenge it was stormy, cold and rainy… so we play with sticks and make what I would call a den but B calls a stick igloo. Almost a hundred days later we revisit the tree and find the sticks still there, though not so den-shaped……
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Playing at being witches outside…
Fun with B’s ‘potions’ school topic. A long way from Halloween we search for potions ingredients, then do that again with a friend in Spring; get messy with old pumpkins; look for wands in the woods and find some frogspawn.
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Nature play ideas: Things for kids to collect…
Finding things for kids to collect outside and on walks: feathers, twigs, ghost leaves and catkins. Also birds… which may not quite fit!
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Playing with Sticks (342, 322)
The joy of finding a good stick and some ideas on how to use it. Cutting a stick down and seeing what it becomes.
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Playing with trees in winter (354)
Remembering how much fun it is to bounce with trees. B does more climbing practice and we discover mud art.