Benefits Of Outdoor Play

Active children are healthy children and outdoor activities are especially healthy for them!

Outdoor play has a wide range of benefits to a child's development and well being - it gives them:

A Natural Experience

Children usually have a "natural attraction" to the outdoors, playing outside, and learning about nature.

Being outside and playing outside is vital to a child's growth, and their physical and mental development; we think it's important to allow and encourage our children to spend lots of time in the natural world.

By interacting often with nature, and with other children outside, it can helps to stimulate their curiosity and creativity and also boosts their confidence as they learn new things. We have opportunities to find ladybirds or snails in our bug house, watch the birds feed on the feeders and play with our rabbits.

With a little freedom and independence while outdoors, and a bit of guidance or supervision from an adult, a child can learn a lot and get health benefits from each and every outdoor experience.

They are able to 'connect' with the outdoors and nature by climbing on trees, logs, lying on the grass, inventing games in our willow den, running or rolling down our mini hill or just digging in the sand or mud!
When children are outside they will find a number of ways to play in natural settings.