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Green Hearts Institute

101 Things a Child Can Do in Nature

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Creative Play
Nature Deficit
Early Childhood
Parent Handout
English
Created: 2007
Uploaded: 01/23/2023

For 21st century American children, play time is most often inside time — and if there’s no electrical outlet, all is lost! In truth, the ultimate playground is still the natural outdoors, but that’s unfamiliar territory to many of our kids. Even if they make it to a local park, or to the “back forty” of their farm, or even just to a vacant lot, they may not know anything to do there! Sometimes their parents don’t know, either. This resource offers 101 simple ideas.