by Beverlie Dietze | May 29, 2023 | Outdoor Play, Play Ideas
A tree house, a free house,A secret you and me house,A high up in the leafy branchesCozy as can be house.A street house, a neat house,Be sure to wipe your feet houseIs not my kind of house at all –Let’s go live in a tree house. ― Shel Silverstein, Where...
by Beverlie Dietze | Jan 20, 2023 | Outdoor Play, Play Ideas, Science in the Outdoors
One of the gifts of COVID-19 has been the freedom to explore higher education in outdoor play. COVID-19 has offered educators the opportunity to rethink where and how learning occurs. One such strategy that is gaining attention, in an array of higher educational...
by Play Outdoors | Dec 22, 2022 | Outdoor Play, Play Ideas
Winter often gets a bad rap where I live! Because of the cooler temperatures and icy winds and frozen precipitation, most days children are restricted to indoor play. During the spring and summer, children have many opportunities to become familiar with their...
by Play Outdoors | Oct 22, 2022 | Outdoor Play
It has long been recognized that children who are curious experiment with ideas and materials in their environment, resulting in innovation and learning in various ways. A child’s brain development is influenced by the types of play and experiences that they are...
by Play Outdoors | Apr 19, 2021 | Beyond the Fence, Outdoor Play, Play Ideas
How children see their space and place is always intriguing to me. Recently, as I was walking in my neighbourhood, I stopped to observe two children who were about four years of age, exploring a pile of rocks that were adjacent to a path just outside of the family...
by Play Outdoors | Mar 4, 2021 | Outdoor Play
Examining our Outdoor Pedagogy and Philosophy Values and Beliefs There are many perspectives in the literature and in practice on the meaning of the term play-based programming and learning. How early learning professionals define play-based influences what they...
