Sensory Play
Exploring Sensory play in the outdoors
There are many benefits of learning in the natural environment. Children need to play to experience space and movement and sensory stimulation for a healthy development.
Branch Out Forest school experience perfectly promotes sensory child-led outdoor play, encouraging and stimulating curiosity, exploration, understanding and self-reflection – and this is true for children of all ages.
Forest School provides a sensory-rich environment with many textures, temperatures, colours, smells and sounds.
The outdoor environment has a great impact on the development of vision, hearing and touch of children, too.
Some of the sensory activities may include, water activities, mud kitchen play, feel and touch of different textures around the woodlands, hearing different sounds from the woods or creatures, growing and eating different types of herbs and tasting vegetables and edible plants.