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Thrive seeks to help parents and early years educators of children aged 2-8 to engage with the great outdoors in winter. Opportunities for learning are integrated into each experience with examples to extend learning in a fun engaging way.
Thrive seeks to help parents and early years educators of children aged 2-8 to engage with the outdoors in summer. Opportunities for learning are integrated into each experience with examples to extend learning in a fun engaging way.
Thrive seeks to help parents and early years educators of children aged 2-8 to engage with the great outdoors in spring. Opportunities for learning are integrated into each experience with examples to extend learning in a fun engaging way.
Thrive seeks to help parents and early years educators of children aged 2-8 to engage with the great outdoors in autumn. Opportunities for learning are integrated into each experience with examples to extend learning in a fun engaging way.
Introduce your little one to the wonders of nature with 100+ outdoor learning activities! Give your child all the benefits of nature with this activity book designed for children ages 2-5. Whether you’re planning an afternoon in a local park, a day in the backyard, or a morning hike in a nature preserve, you and your child will find more than 100 ideas in these pages for observing, exploring, creating, and playing in nature. Nature Activity Book for Little Ones features: • 100+ outdoor activities for kids ages 2-5, geared toward their interests and developmental milestones—with little or no preparation required • Bonus activities for additional learning, including numbers, letters, shapes, and colors • School prep: the activities teach problem-solving, communication, and responsibility, important skills for school succes • Less screen time and more nature time together to fuel your child’s curiosity and creativity and help them build an early connection with nature Best of all, this entertaining book provides more than a hundred ways to keep your child moving and occupied and for you to bond with your child, all in nature!
Klein argues that adult success is often established in the developmental preschool years. She shares advice for parents on how to promote such success-driving positive attributes as resilience, self-regulation, and empathy.
It's time to rewild the child! This book of outdoor activities, crafts, nature information, and inspiration ties into the burgeoning interest in forest schools and "rewilding the child," with the aim of reconnecting children to nature and the outdoors. The book is divided by season, providing a year-round resource for families. While all crafts and activities are designed to be carried out outside, these are interspersed with factual pages about forest flora and fauna, which can be enjoyed at home or used as a field guide while out and about. A beautifully illustrated and informative title to spark children’s imagination and free-thinking. With forest school-themed crafts and activities for all seasons, outdoor exploration can be enjoyed twelve months of the year, always with something new to see.
“The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.” —Richard Louv, from the new edition In his landmark work Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv brought together cutting-edge studies that pointed to direct exposure to nature as essential for a child’s healthy physical and emotional development. Now this new edition updates the growing body of evidence linking the lack of nature in children’s lives and the rise in obesity, attention disorders, and depression. Louv’s message has galvanized an international back-to-nature campaign to “Leave No Child Inside.” His book will change the way you think about our future and the future of our children. “[The] national movement to ‘leave no child inside’ . . . has been the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grass-roots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a ‘green hour’ in each day. . . . The increased activism has been partly inspired by a best-selling book, Last Child in the Woods, and its author, Richard Louv.” —The Washington Post “Last Child in the Woods, which describes a generation so plugged into electronic diversions that it has lost its connection to the natural world, is helping drive a movement quickly flourishing across the nation.” —The Nation’s Health “This book is an absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe Now includes A Field Guide with 100 Practical Actions We Can Take Discussion Points for Book Groups, Classrooms, and Communities Additional Notes by the Author New and Updated Research from the U.S. and Abroad
Nature is a destination, but you don’t have to travel anywhere to find it. Just open the door and step outside. A fun, hands on approach to getting involved in nature, The Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book is a year-round how-to activity guidebook for getting kids outdoors and exploring nature, be it catching fireflies in the cool summer evenings; making birdfeeders in the fall from peanut butter, pine cones, and seed; building a snowman in 3 feet of fresh winter snow; or playing duck, duck, goose with friends in a meadow on a warm spring day. The Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book includes 448 things to do in nature for kids of all ages--more than one activity for every single day of the year. Each of the year's four seasons includes fifty checklist items, fifty challenge items, three each of projects, destinations, garden recipes, and outdoor games. Throughout the book, you'll also find fascinating facts, useful tips and tricks, and plenty of additional resources to turn to. Complete with whimsical, vibrant illustrations, this book is a must for parents and their kids.
