Outdoor learning is vital in Early Years education. It promotes risk taking, communication, resilience and develops emotional skills, alongside building a connection with nature and our planet and much more! Here are some ideas as to how to bring education into the outdoor environment.
- Create your own herb/vegetable garden
- Hang wind chimes/wind socks/ CD’s
- Parachute games
- Go on a leaf hunt
- Paint with bubbles
- Paint with petals/twigs/leaves
- Go on a colour hunt
- Sort natural materials into different groups
- Leave ice cubes out to melt
- Collect rainwater and measure the volume
- Put food colouring in puddles
- Make a mud pie!
- Go on a minibeast hunt
- Collect items on a walk and create a picture
- Draw around a shadow
- Create a bug hotel
- Build a den
- Find shapes in the clouds
- Paint rocks
Keep us updated with what you do by uploading observations onto ParentZone!
