Natural Activities
Encouraging Exploring in Outdoor Environments
Forest school is about allowing your children to take the lead in their outdoor education.
Instead of teaching your children about nature and the great outdoors, act as a guide and allow nature do the teaching for you.
In other words, you can use nature as a way to facilitate play rather than teach.
Once play has been initiated, step aside and allow it to unfold naturally. A lot can be done with sticks and stones.
It is important to encourage your children to find their own interests in the natural world. Some may be into dinosaurs or others into wizardry.
As parents and educators, we need to create space for children to discover clues and find the answers to the questions they pose, just initiating digging for dinosaur eggs or making potions can lead to learning in mysterious ways.
