We recently discovered a beautiful booklet titled The Wisdom of Nature - Out My Back Door, a collaboration between Community Playthings® and World Forum Foundation. The focus is on helping children explore nature, reminding us:
"Once upon a time in the not-so-distant past, many children left the adult world on a daily basis and entered an outdoor world filled with fantasy and improvisations. Using sticks, branches, logs, sand, dirt, water and other natural materials, they built castles, houses, ships, rockets. As they ran, jumped, dug, climbed, slid, twirled and whirled, their imaginations took them across the prairie in covered wagons, up the tallest mountain, into outer space, and on high sea adventures. At the end of the day, they returned indoors dirty and tired but feeling happy and confident, competent and full of stories."
With warmer weather upon us, we encourage not only children, but the child in all of us, to get outside and play!
To "...help children learn to love the earth before we ask them to save it" check out The Wisdom of Nature-Out My Back Door by clicking here. You will then be able to browse a .pdf file or order a copy.
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